Space-Framed 2013/14 - Weeks 2+3

This week our discussion has evolved into two groups:
Portrait + Space and the Collective Portrait - Cities and Crowds.

Some of the photographers you will be looking at over the next week are August Sander, Alec Soth, Walker Evans, Candida Hofer, Thomas Ruff, Robert Frank, Lisette Model, Lisa Larsen, Garry Winogrand, Helen Levitt, Harry Callahan, Lee Friedlander and Mona Breede.

Here is the film by Helen Levitt that came up in discussion yesterday. (link )


In the Street (1948) by Lost_Shangri_La_Horizon


Reading for week 3:
Geoff Dyer: The Ongoing Moment (on reserve in the library), first essay.
Susan Sontag: The Image World from On Photography
Peter Schjeldahl: Thomas Struth
Peter Schjeldahl: Reality Clicks from the New Yorker


Assignments:
Each student needs to upload their work to date on the blog as follows:
Week 1: 1 photograph and 50-100 words
Week 2: 3 Photographs and 150-200 words.
When posting, include labels (can be added in column on rhs of posts, and searchable in column on rhs of blog) , links, relevant reading etc so that the blog can be used as a collective resource during the semester

Space Framed 2013 - Week 6

This week we will be looking at the photography of the domestic - 'Home':

Robert Adams - What We Bought, The New West
William Eggleston - Los Alamos
Alec Soth - Broken Manual, Sleeping by the Mississippi, From Here to There.

We will be reading 'The Image World' from Susan Sontag's book On Photography