note: this section contains many links that are marked as requiring login through Falmouth University. Readers from other institutions may be able to gain access via their home institution.
note: also references have developed throughout the module and what appears here is a round up of some given references from the module. They mostly appear at the bottom of the page. These become true references when researched and critically linked to my practice. As most of this occurs outside of the list here,
I started to take a more informed view, where like advertisements before I tried to cut out external influences, knowing it was not entirely possible, I’d referred to driving in France and not recognising the branding of a distant store – Carrefour. This observation demonstrates how I am conditioned by my home territory and branding and advertising. There had been an intent to jealously maintain creative originality which I now view as isolating myself from culture. This probably explains why I often think so differently. Confident in my ways I need not be afraid to engage and now in thirst I drink down with vigour.
Two realisations that have built and built that brings me closer to research and the references.
Interconnectedness (a web)
First I imagine my work to be like others work, to be within a web. So I began to reach out and in research and increasingly contextualise and position my work. This rejects denial of influence and sustains cultural growth. Through this module I begin to become cultured in visual arts? I’ve had to have time for this transformation to occur and so as I paused for thought, just as I started to finalise the development of our three assignments, then the realisation took increased force. Such change must become lifelong.
Reason (a way of thinking and doing)
A piece of writing, designed to support our development, I found by serendipity.
Research, Reflection, Criticality (Falmouth log in required)
The advice is from a remote lecturer whom I listened to as Guest Lecturer, met and heard present. This absolutely helps make real. The advice given: reasons why we should, as here write down those fleeting thoughts. and pursue them making them significant if that is where they lead. The article describes in effect the nature of the creative process and departures into new ways of thinking.
TV and Video
Having discovered these library resources earlier in the module (Genius of Photography then) I return to them to refresh knowledge or at least use these to provide a path back into deeper research. I prefer to gain context in a simpler form at the beginning , but mostly here today, after or during reading. Such is the unfolding of events.
Ways of Seeing, 19:30 28/09/2008, BBC4, 30 mins. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/00047517?bcast=30467491 (Accessed 19 Apr 2019) (requires Falmouth login)
John Berger: The Art of Looking, 01:45 03/12/2018, BBC4, 55 mins. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/0DCD3480?bcast=128020945 (Accessed 19 Apr 2019) (requires Falmouth login)
Specifically on Berger, shortly after his death, there was a radio broadcast series presented by his dear friend and that features his voice. It is good to dip into these programmes – BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Episodes 1 to 6
Book of the Week(requires Falmouth login)
Journals
I’ve found my way into the Journals resource via Falmouth University. I was able to pick up the journals on two visits to the Penryn Library. But, obviously my research hadn’t fully extended as far as online EBSCO and other resources. This “find” can be leveraged further in the upcoming modules of the course. For now it is a nice to have feature to browse.
Two journals picked up on EBSCO today are:
American Photo and
Barthes, Roland (1977). ‘Death of the Author’ in Image Music Text. (London: Fontana).
Crimp, Douglas (1980) The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism in October, 15.
De Zayas, Marius (1913) ‘Photography’ in Trachtenberg, Alan (1980) Classic Essays on Photography. (New Haven: Leete’s Island Books).
Fiske, Courtney (2013) ‘Q & A with Martha Rosler’ in Art in America (14th January 2013) [WWW] http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/interviews/martha-rosler-moma/
Fox, Howard (1989) ‘Avant-Garde in the Eighties’ in Connor, Stephen Postmodernist Culture: An Introduction to Theories of the Contemporary. (New York: Blackwell).
Greenberg, Clement (1961) ‘Modernist Painting’ [WWW] http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/wittgenstein/files/2007/10/Greenbergmodpaint.pdf
Grundberg, Andy (1999) Crisis of the Real. (New York: Aperture)
Hodgson, Francis (2012) ‘Quality Matters’ at Fotoboekenmarathon (16th December 2012) [WWW] Fotoboekenmarathon 2012 – Francis Hodgson
Kracauer, Siegfried (1960) ‘Photography’ in Trachtenberg, Alan (1980) Classic Essays on Photography. (New Haven, Leete’s Island Books).
Phillips, Christopher (1989) ‘The Judgment Seat of Photography’ in Bolton, Richard The Contest of Meaning Massachusetts. (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press).
Stieglitz, Alfred (1942). How The Steerage Happened, Twice a Year, 8-9
Strand, Paul (1922) ‘Photography: The New God’ in Trachtenberg, Alan (1980) Classic Essays on Photography. (New Haven: Leete’s Island Books).
Szarkowski, John (1980) The Photographer’s Eye. (London: Secker & Warburg).
Wells, Liz (1997) Photography A Critical Introduction. (London: Routledge).
Zhang, Micheal (2011) ‘Why Gursky’s Photograph of the Rhine is the World’s most Expensive Photograph’ in PetaPixel (14th November 2011) [WWW] http://petapixel.com/2011/11/14/why-gurskys-photo-of-the-rhine-is-the-worlds-most-expensive-photo/
Barragán, Paco (2016) ‘Interview with Martha Rosler’ in Artpulse [WWW] http://artpulsemagazine.com/interview-with-martha-rosler
Berger, John (1972) Ways of Seeing. (London: Penguin).
Brisbane Gallery of Modern Art (2016) Who is Cindy Sherman? [WWW] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8Ttj–2SuU&feature=youtu.be
Cotter, Holland (2016) ‘Cindy Sherman’s Divas, Poised for a Final Close-Up’ in The New York Times (26th May 2016) [WWW] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/arts/design/cindy-shermans-divas-poised-for-a-final-close-up.html
Foucault, Michel (1977) Language, Counter Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press).
Grundberg, Andy (1999) Crisis of the Real. (New York: Aperture)
Meagher, Elizabeth (2002) ‘Will the Real Cindy Sherman Please Stand Up’ in Women: A Cultural Review, 13(1).
Mulvey, Laura (1991) ‘A Phantasmagoria of the Female Body: The Work of Cindy Sherman’ in New Left Review, 188, July/August 1991.
Sekula, Allan (1978) ‘Dismantling Modernism, Reinventing Documentary’ in The Massachusetts Review, 19(4) Photography
Solomon Godeau, Abigail (1995) Photography at the Dock. (Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press).
Sturken, Marita & Cartwright, Lisa (2009) Practices of Looking. (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Critical Research Journal 