Paper (Proposed) - Use of the ordinary.
Proposed Paper on the ordinary classification in photographies.
As Photographies are seemingly at (yet another) crossroads, these article(s) propose the undertaking of a ‘stocktake on the medium’, specifically looking at the still image, in an attempt to locate value and place in contemporary society.
This paper will attempt to examine the language of critique in still photographic images, specifically in the possibilities of the use of the word ‘Ordinary.’ There are many applications/definitions of the word ‘ordinary’, I have chosen the following to take forwards into this examination of the field of photographic classification/observation.
Ordinary
Adjective
1.
with no special or distinctive features; normal.
"he sets out to depict ordinary people"
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What happens if you apply this definition to photography critique. Would it be mainly used to describe content, style, implementation, exhibition or the manner of the image? Can a photograph ever be ordinary? Is the sheer act of committing something into a photographic output enough to make it something other than ordinary? How do we receive ordinary pictures in art, in popular and in general?