Week 3 Notes



  • Vernacular photography - the creation of photographs that take everyday life and common things as subjects.
  • Accidental, snapshots on phone, not seen as art.
  • August Sander.
  • Robert Frank - trying to move away from portrait photography. To portray a 'real America' - art.
  • 'Seeing through his eyes'.
  • Martin Parr - home - different social class homes, common sense - global consumerism.
  • Colin Miller - capturing everyday life - telling a story, not art.
  • Appropriation.
  • Amateur - can create an image that is powerful with no skills.
  • Not learned, folk, popular, the everyday, low, self-taught, traditional.
  • Unaware of the broader context.
  • Outsider vs official discourses.
  • original - almost accidental but of higher value.
  • Facebook vs Instagram - types of photography.
  • The poor image - Hito Steyerl.
  • 3 things affect depth of field:
    • aperture
    • angle
    • focus
  • ubu.com.
  • Walter Benjamin.

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