Photographic Scale #2: The Sea

Just in time for the bank holiday weekend...



Nicholas Hughes, In Darkness visible, Verse 2, Image #7, 2007.




Nicholas Hughes, Edge, Verse 1, Image #29, 2007.




Asako Narahashi, Jonanjima, 2008.
from the Series 'Half awake and half asleep in the water'




Nicholas Hughes, Edge, Verse 1, Image #34, 2007.




Gary Coyle, from the series 'The daily practice of swimming', 1999.




Hiroshi Sugimoto, from the series Seascapes, 1980





Marine Hugonnier, N9, 2001.
From the series 'Towards Tomorrow - International Date Line, Alaska',




Richard Misrach, from the series 'On the beach', 2002-2005

further to Alice's selection, see also Naoyo Hatekayama's series Blast

Seeing the Unseen: Time & Exposure

Niepce, View from the window at Gras, 8 hour exposure - First Photograph, 1826.






Eadweard Muybridge, The Horse in Motion, 1878.




Harold Edgerton, Fencer making the foil blade fly, Stroboscopic Study, 1938





Harold Edgerton, Nuclear explosion photographed with a Rapatronic Camera I millisecond after detonation, 1952.




Hiroshi Sugimoto, Tri-City Drive-In, Exposed for length of film. 1993.






Michael Wesely, 29 July 1996-29 July 1997, Office of Helmut Friedel, 1997.






Ori Gersht, Galicia, Liquidation Series, The Clearing, 2005.





Michael Boran, 3 hours, 2005.






Branislav Kropilak, Landing no. 02, 2006.





Seamus Sullivan, Untitled, 24, 2007.





Ori Gersht, Time After Time: Blow-Up no. 6, 2007

Photographic Scale

Man Ray - Dust Breeding, 1920.




Edward Burtynsky - Tailings #1, Karlgoolie, Western Australia, 2007.




David Maisel - Oblivion 15n.




Bernice Abbott - City Arabesque from roof of 60 Wall Tower, June 9, 1938.




Andreas Gursky - Jumeirah Palm, 2008.



Andreas Gursky - Kamiokande, 2007.




Taryn Simon - Nuclear Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility Cherenkov Radiation




Charles and Ray Eames - Powers of 10

Shinichi Maruyama

Here's a link to Shinichi Maruyama's website. In his series Kusho (meaning sky), he takes high-speed photographs of differently coloured liquids (black and clear) colliding in mid-air. He captures the moment the liquids collide, but before they mix to grey. Its interesting how he uses photography as a tool to capture what we cannot see, but also to record new spatial qualities defined by time and material.

Aneta Grzeszykowska and Jan Smaga , Nadkole Sloneczna, 2003

Andreas Gefeller has been doing something pretty similar. Hard to be an original in photography...

Here's a link to Juergen Chill's website - His series 'Zellen' - digitally assembled collage plans of prison cells taken from above, won the 2007 architectural photography prize.
Here's a link to a video on his working method (in german - but shows how he made the images)

Life magazine has just put its entire archive online here.

PHOTOSYNTH:
Here's a link to the richviewer website - I've put some info on photosynth here. It is worth checking out - particularly in relation to our discussions on Monday.

Mapping the City using Social Photography

Based on our discussions about facebook etc yesterday, here's an interesting study: called “The Geography of Buzz.” (article - NY Times, study paper)
The study involved using thousands of photographs taken from the stock company, Getty images, of social events in LA & NY over the space of 1 year, working on the assumption that because these photographs were for sale, that people were interested in them and what they depicted.
('there is no such thing as objective vision. We choose all the time what we see, and different things make us look' - Hockney)
They then filtered the images into different typologies and used the amounts to map the density of different types of events taking place in the two cities. Their findings reveal a new range of information about the urban space and its planning that can be gained from social sites such as facebook, flickr & twitter etc. It presents possibilities as to how the information traces that you leave behind you online - your data shadow - could be used for future planning of space.
The study was made by Elizabeth Currid, (School of Policy, Planning and Development at the University of Southern California, LA) & Sarah Williams (director,Spatial Information Design Lab at Columbia University‘s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation)

Here's a link to Godard & Gorin's film 'A Letter to Jane' (1972). This film was mentioned in chpt 4 of Sontag's 'On Photography', part of the reading list for this week. The film is a cinematic essay that deconstructs a news photograph of Jane Fonda in Hanoi taken by photographer Joseph Kraft. It provides insight on how to read a photograph and discern both the the intentional and unintentional meaning of its framing, subject, angle, focus, setting and how this relates to the given caption, particularly in parts iii-vi of the video link.
Film Links: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI.

I've added a link to Frank Abruzzese's website, an American photographer who lives and works in Wexford. He is interested in questioning photography's accepted role as a factual document.
He takes some interesting shots of construction sites, revealing them as unearthly landscapes.
Also of interest are the results of a workshop he ran on identity, based on Galton's forays into composite portraiture and profiling.

LECTURE - DARA MC GRATH

WED 15 APRIL, 7PM


Dara will be giving a lecture in the red room, School of Architecture, UCD.
There will be a wine reception afterwards at which the results of the arcsoc photography competition will be announced. Ros Kavanagh is guest judge of the competition.

Helen Levitt - 1913-2009.
Slideshow, Books

TRACERYSCAPE - AKI LUMI

Traceryscape - SH521, painting on gelatin-silver print, 50x60cm

Aki Lumi - Layering of image and surface

LONG EXPOSURES - MICHAEL WESELY


9.8.2001 - 2.5.2003, The Museum of Modern Art, NY.



5.4.1997 - 3.6.1999, Postdamer Platz, Berlin.



5.4.1997 - 3.6.1999, Postdamer Platz, Berlin.

Mikhail Bakhtin used the term 'chronotope' for the spatio-temporal matrix governing the base condition of all narratives and other linguistic acts. It can be translated directly as 'space-time'. Bakhtin viewed time and space as equal and interdependent. One cannot exist without the other.
Wesely's photographs could be read as chronotopes - densely detailed landscapes that allow the viewer to interpret construction through space and time simultaneously, revealing their layeredness and interdependency. In the same vein, but employing different methods, the panoramas posted below allow the viewer to become immersed in the photograph, piecing their way through time and space. The interaction with the viewer employed in these and the discarding of formal photographic structures of linear-perspective/decisive moment is analogous with the growth of non-linear multi-perspectival film-making (link).

SOME PHOTOGRAPHIC PANORAMAS


Eadweard Muybridge, San Francisco 1878


Jeff Wall, Restoration 1993


Jules Spinatsch, Davos January 2003


Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, The day nobody died, 2008

I've added a link to Light & Space& Structure, an architectural photography blog that has some good information on technique (shooting & editing), equipment and further links to American architectural photography.

Monday March 23rd, 2pm, Hugh will give a talk called Nothing Happens, dealing mainly with the work of Jules Spinatsch. Have a look at his very comprehensive website, particularly the Temporary Discomfort and Heisenberg's Offside projects.

This is a a sequence of shots taken by Ronan Kenny of the lower level of the UCD restaurant building over 30 minutes. Ronan is part of Paul Kenny's 4th year module this semester exporing daylight in spaces in and around Dublin.
Part of their work method involves using photography to investigate the daylighting in these spaces and using the data collected to re-create the daylighting conditions under the artifical sky. They are going to make a series of large scale models of the spaces, and then photograph them using the same parameters...looks like very interesting work...watch this space!

barry frydlender