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Week 5 - Reading the Image Introduction to Assignment 3 - Urban Landscape

ACM101 – Still Images. Week 5 - Reading the Image Introduction to Assignment 3 - Urban Landscape. Reading the Image. Group Exercise. Form small groups of 4 or 5 Spend 20 minutes looking at the images that have been distributed. Appoint someone to take notes.

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Week 5 - Reading the Image Introduction to Assignment 3 - Urban Landscape

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  1. ACM101 – Still Images Week 5 - Reading the Image Introduction to Assignment 3 - Urban Landscape

  2. Reading the Image

  3. Group Exercise • Form small groups of 4 or 5 • Spend 20 minutes looking at the images that have been distributed. • Appoint someone to take notes. • Be prepared to present your notes to the rest of the group.

  4. Group Exercise For each image ask yourself: • what was the first thing that came to mind upon viewing the image for the first time? • does the image remind you of anything? • what do you think the artist’s intention or meaning was?

  5. Reading the Image What might determine how we interpret (read) an image?

  6. Reading the Image Age? Gender? Religious or political beliefs? Race? Socio-economic status? Level of education? Sexual orientation?

  7. Roland Barthes • Barthes’ project was to subject the image to a spectral analysis of the messages it can contain • Looked at advertising images • Theorist known for his work on semiotics

  8. Semiotics • Semiology is the study of signs • Deals with all processes of information interchange • We constantly produce and interpret signs

  9. Communication Theory • Semiotics belongs under the umbrella of communication theory • Dates back to 1949 - Shannon & Weaver • Mathematical theory of communication/telecommunications industry

  10. Communication Theory

  11. The urban landscape

  12. Photographing the Urban Landscape • Can be viewed both as a series of structures and panorama of social and cultural histories • Challenge for urban landscape photography is to not only record the physical manifestations but to make visible the underlying social and cultural forces which ultimately determine their form and meaning.

  13. Urban Landscape Photography • in some way describe a town or city • represents an attempt to understand our experience of the city • shows a dedication to the subject, expressed through a body of work ratherthan isolated images • concentrates on structures or processes rather than on people • may deal in either details or a broader viewPeter Marshall, 2003 http://www.urbanlandscape.org.uk/

  14. Urban Landscape Photography • Urban landscape is distinct from 'street photography', which looks at urban experience largely through a study of the people who live it, although the two genres may overlap. • Urban landscape photographs often include people, but they are cleary situated and existing in the structures of the town or city. Peter Marshall, 2003 http://www.urbanlandscape.org.uk/

  15. Eugene Atget • French, 1857-1927 • Considered one of the first social documentors

  16. Eugene Atget

  17. Eugene Atget

  18. Eugene Atget

  19. Eugene Atget

  20. Lee Freidlander • Multilayered vision • Challenges photography’s formal conventions through juxtaposition and abstraction • Reflective and semi-transparent surfaces creating ambigutities of space and meaning

  21. Lee Freidlander

  22. Lee Freidlander

  23. Lee Freidlander

  24. Lee Freidlander

  25. Joel Meyerowitz • Considers himself a "street photographer" in the tradition of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Garry Winogrand, although he works exclusively in colour.

  26. Joel Meyerowitz

  27. Joel Meyerowitz

  28. Joel Meyerowitz

  29. Joel Meyerowitz

  30. Joel Meyerowitz

  31. James Wakefield • Social documentary photographer, based in Yorkshire, England. • Urban Exposure website: http://www.urban-exposure.com • Projects under the umbrella of the following themes; the street; relationships; narcotics; urban portraits; not in my name; urban spray and urban rhythms.

  32. James Wakefieldfrom The Street series

  33. James Wakefieldfrom The Street series

  34. James Wakefieldfrom The Street series

  35. James Wakefieldfrom The Street series

  36. James Wakefieldfrom the Urban Spray series

  37. James Wakefieldfrom the Urban Spray series

  38. James Wakefieldfrom the Urban Spray series

  39. James Wakefieldfrom the Urban Spray series

  40. James Wakefieldfrom the Urban Self series

  41. James Wakefieldfrom the Urban Self series

  42. James Wakefieldfrom the Urban Self series

  43. James Wakefieldfrom the Urban Self series

  44. Ann Alt • Amatuer photographer • Photographs the urban landscape of Chicago • http://www.sobs.org/photo/urbanlandscape/index.html

  45. Ann Alt

  46. Ann Alt

  47. Ann Alt

  48. Ann Alt

  49. Ann Alt

  50. Urban Landscape Weblinks Urban Landscapeshttp://www.urbanlandscape.org.uk/Urban Exposurehttp://www.urban-exposure.com/ Joel Meyerowitzhttp://www.joelmeyerowitz.com/Huger Footehttp://www.hamiltonsgallery.com/photographers/foote/hfsmallimages.htmlBruce Davidsonhttp://www.magnumphotos.com/c/htm/TreePf.aspx?E=29YL53IQUP9&Det=TAnn Alt http://www.sobs.org/photo/urbanlandscape/index.html Oculi http://www.oculi.com.au/

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