tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43688198747448171492024-03-12T19:38:54.612-07:00Discourse BlogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368819874744817149.post-54870763038887387582011-08-15T02:48:00.001-07:002011-08-15T03:37:29.265-07:00Semiotics<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Semiotics is basically the study of signs and how meaning is constructed.</div><div class="MsoNormal">We are constantly surrounded by signs whether they’re what we see around us, or </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">what we hear, they’re everywhere, whether we take notice of them, or pretend not to. When looking at the semiotics of an image we are looking at the signs and symbols that constitute the picture, these signs are used to translate what the photographer is saying. It is up to the viewer to interpret what they’re looking at. As we’re all different, and from culturally different backgrounds, we will all interpret an image differently. It is through the use of signs that we share understanding. It is from our consciousness that we decipher how we feel about something or what it says to us. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">It is now that semiotics; in a 21<sup>st</sup> century world that it is used more than ever. In advertising we’re constantly bombarded with signs and signifiers. It is becoming to the point where adverts and marketing are considered evil. Although semiotics is subjective, without it we would have little understanding of the world around us. With the use of semiotics telling us to buy everything, its worth wondering is semiotics used for our universal understanding as a way of helping us communicate in a non verbal sense, or is it being used for evil. As a way to subconsciously speak to us and intern making us do whatever they want.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div style="line-height: 12.0pt;">Irving Penn</div><div style="line-height: 12.0pt;">Irving Penn was an American photographer most notably known for his timeless portraiture and fashion photography. Penn studied at the <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Philadelphia</st1:place></st1:city> school of industrial art which he graduated in 1938. His first job was an art director of the Junior League magazine, later he worked in the same capacity for <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Saks Fifth Avenue</st1:address></st1:street> department store. By 25 he quit his job and used his small savings to go to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Mexico</st1:place></st1:country-region>, where he painted for a year. Returning to <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:state>, Alexander Liberman hired Penn as his assistant, specifically to suggest photographic covers for Vogue. He then began photographing the covers using a borrowed camera, his art knowledge and drawing skills, Penn arranged a still life consisting of a big brown leather bag, beige scarf and gloves, lemons, oranges, and a huge topaz. It was published as the Vogue cover for the issue of October 1, 1943, and launched Penn on his photographic career. He went on to work for vogue for a number of years. In 1953 he founded his own studio where he would invite famous names to be photographed in front of plain backdrops and simple lighting. He created sharp, technically perfect yet stylized images. That set the standard! In 1958 Irving Penn was named one of "The World’s 10 Greatest Photographers" in an international poll conducted by Popular Photography Magazine. In his portrait work Penn uses different devices from time to time. In some portraits he would place to backdrops together to create a corner. He would then have the subject step into. This would have an impact on the sitter, whether it was them feeling trapper or secure, he claims this ‘made them quickly available to the camera’ </div><div style="line-height: 12.0pt;">As a photographer to have technically perfect images is always an aim, But for a portrait photographers there is also bridging the gap between you and the sitter.when we see a portrait we see how the image is portraying the subject. </div><div style="line-height: 12.0pt;"><span><br />
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</div><div style="line-height: 12.0pt;">In this particular image it is more about what we aren’t shown. The shadow down one half of his face, the high collar that covers his mouth, all we are really shown is his piercing eye. I wonder whether this is a reflection of Picasso’s portraits. When I think about his work I think of the classic side profile, distinctive eyes and prominent noses.</div><div style="line-height: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.npg.org.uk:8080/irvingpenn/index.htm">http://www.npg.org.uk:8080/irvingpenn/index.htm</a></div><div style="line-height: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.photo-seminars.com/Fame/irving_penn.htm">http://www.photo-seminars.com/Fame/irving_penn.htm</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368819874744817149.post-50146382508852636102011-08-15T02:11:00.001-07:002011-08-15T03:37:29.270-07:00Feminism<br />
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Feminism is defined as a series of movements still ongoing today that; establish and define the social, economical and political rights and equal opportunities for women. A feminist is a person of whose believes in equality amongst genders. It doesn’t mean you hate men! As men can be feminists too! It’s a myth that feminists are angry lesbians with hairy legs. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Feminism is the recognition and gratitude to generations of women who have fought to have equal rights we overlook. It’s easy to take for granted that women even have the right to vote.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">What is said to be the first wave of feminism was a movement during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region> and the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>. It focused on establishing equal political, contract, marriage, parenting and property rights for women. The second wave being between the early 1960’s and late 1980’s this focused on women cultural status and to question<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: black;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: black;">idealised domesticity, forcing women into a strict housewife and mother role. Establishing unofficial inequalities women experienced in their day to day life. The third wave started in the early 1990’s and is still on going today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368819874744817149.post-33291476294263591262011-08-11T09:45:00.000-07:002011-08-11T09:45:30.629-07:00Zena Holloway<div class="MsoNormal">Zena Holloway was born in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bahrain</st1:place></st1:country-region> (1973) a scuba diving expert turned self taught underwater photographer and director. Zenas work is impressive having worked for major fashion and advertising companies. She has also worked on promotional videos for Kylie Monogue. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Martin Parr was born in a middle class family in Epsom, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Surrey</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Britain</st1:country-region></st1:place>, in 1952. He claims his grandfather inspired him to become a photographer. He later went on to study photography at Manchester Polytechnic. Most of Parr’s early work was black and white it wasn't until 1984 that he begun his produced work in colour. In 1986 Parr produced a series of worked entitled ‘Last Resort: Photographs of New Brighton’<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><st1:city w:st="on"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">New Brighton</span></st1:city><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;"> is a small very run down sea side resort in the <st1:state w:st="on">north west</st1:state> of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">England</st1:place></st1:country-region>. At the time of the photographs Margaret Thatcher was in power, parts of the country were falling apart. Parr documents the decay of the affected surroundings juxtaposed against the people in the images, still living normally, having days out and enjoying themselves. Parr claims he always found traditional aspects of British culture appealing. This type of surrounding was new to him having given his background.<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368819874744817149.post-53930836159251174492011-05-22T15:45:00.000-07:002011-08-14T13:59:15.384-07:00Nan Goldin<div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Born in <st1:city w:st="on">Washington</st1:city> <st1:state w:st="on">DC</st1:state> 1853, shortly after her family moved to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">boston</st1:city></st1:place>. At 14 her sister Barbara committed suicide, it was the disturbance from this unfortunate event that forced her to find comfort in her friends, creating an alternative family. After moving in with numberous foster families, Goldin enrolled in an alternative school called Satya community school, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Lincoln</st1:city> <st1:state w:st="on">Massachusetts</st1:state></st1:place>. It was here that <st1:place w:st="on">Nan</st1:place> met David Armstrong and Suzanne Fletcher, whom she photographed extensively, she did this so she wouldn’t lose her memory of them, as had happened with her sister. Goldin documents the relationships around her. By doing this she is in turn documenting herself, or rather a small part of her life that she sees. Goldin went on to produce an extensive amount of snapshots of her friends which would be presented as slides projected onto a wall at her exhibitions</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Goldin's work is intimate and raw, creating a language between viewer and photographer. Her instamatic photos give familiarity and comfort for viewers, despite their explicit nature in some cases. Her work offers veracity something that even the most skilled photographer find difficult to achieve.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Now both sides to this argument have their pros and cons. Yet when we think about it our whole life revolves around computers, we are apart of a computer generation.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Photographically, computers are the reason photography is so accessible to us as photography students and professionals who need that means. There is unlimited variety of photographic equipment, accessories, programs. The internet also plays a huge role within the photography industry as it is a huge resource for viewing other images, photo-sharing websites, and information on pretty much anything, tutorials, forums, online guides etc.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Having said that, it also makes it easier for anyone to become a photographer overnight and have technically perfect images.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Photography is a dying art! film photography in particular. It is very rare to see someone take a film camera out with them to document a birthday party. The miniature space set aside in Jessop’s, to home a few dusty boxes of photographic film is heartbreaking.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">We forget that technology is created by the brightest minds in the world with only good intentions. (Excuse the invention of the atomic bomb) it is our fault for not utilizing them to their full potential. We take things for granted everything can be edited and manipulated. No real effort is made anymore. More people use the internet for social networking sites than they do for educating themselves.<br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">From what I have gathered through research modernism can be applied to a wide range of topics, religion, politics, architecture, art and so on! Some would say a broader definition is that Modernism is basically ‘modern thought’. It began roughly around the 1850’s up until just after 1945. A period when Freud and Marx where thinking a lot!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Modernists rejected the idea of enlightenment thinking and the existence of an all powerful creator, though not all modernists rejected religion and enlightenment, merely assessing the ways of the previous age. Agricultural elements have a huge impact on social mentality. At the end of the 19<sup>th</sup> century, western society was growing through the age of the industrial revolution<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;">. Some artists were at differences with the ideals it presented such as those of discipline, temperance and structure. It is arguable to think that modernists were a reaction to the harsher reality that had been lived before the industrial revolution. </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Like the majority of people, i too do not know what this means. Although the idea of looking flawless in all my Facebook pictures is appealing, being honest i still just want my phone to text and make calls to people like it did in the old days. </span><br />
<span style="color: black;">It seems that this kind of new technology is an essential<i> </i>part of todays modern culture. Why? because we just can't help ourselves from signing in and seeing what other people have been up to. it seems we're obsessed by other peoples lives, as humans we're always looking for approval and guidance, we get this from our external reality also known as 'material reality'. We only move forward because everyone is a reflection of what they see. The media plays a huge part in this 'evolution' we're always bombarded with advertisements and clever coding convincing us that if we, i.e do or buy something our life will be more pleasant, easier, happier? Who decides this?</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">I have started reading Roland Barthes' Camera Lucidia and although i'm finding it a heavy read in terms of understand his philosohpy i'm begining to question images i'm seeing around me. </span><br />
<span style="color: black;">From reading up on him i ofcourse found a better explanantion of my above topic!</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">'Roland Barthes, 'felt that society is a construction, perpetuated by signs of the dominant values within its culture'.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">I'm an admirer already :) </span><br />
<a href="http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~comm300/mary/semiotics/barthes.theory.html"><span style="color: black;">http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~comm300/mary/semiotics/barthes.theory.html</span></a><br />
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