Semester 3 - Images: Quotes and Reading

Reading, reading and more reading have gone into this MA as you’d expect with level 7 education..

Does raise the question of how does this affect your practice? IMO the readings have easily helped me to grow, have informed me and as I’ve been saying during home-schooling all reading is good.

The level of texts and the way you are close reading sometimes means that you’ve shouting at the texts

“What do you want to me to understand from you????? What you trying to tell me? Or “how can I use this information”

One drawback I’ve maybe experienced is that sometimes I’m guilty of trying to shoehorn a great set of words into a thought or sentence but overall I would say that texts read have been beneficial to the practice, the thought side of image making is increasingly important at this level and something that needs to be worked upon and practised constantly.

Throughout the reading I’ve looked for the quote that will help people understand what I’m trying to say and give them access to the work, as previously mentioned I’ve used one by the original curator of the New Topographics William Jenkins who said

We should look at the spaces in between, the urban,                   suburban and wild.

William Jenkins. New Topographics: Photographs of a man-altered landscape.

So to compliment this I am using one found one written by Marc Augé (via Sally Millar’s great contemporary photography book)

The world of supermodernity does not exactly match the one in     which we believe we live, for we live in a world that we have not        yet learned to look at. We have to relearn to think about space. 

Non-Places. Marc Augé. 1992.

I’m aimed for specific quotes that will compliment the work so each of these quotes fills a gap as explanation to act as a gateway to the work in which hopefully people will find meaning in what I’m trying to communicate with the images.

But as good as these are, i can never really settle on a single quote that is all encompassing, and as this project is adhering to the 3 as the magic number I add one last quote that compliments the work and my meaning.

New ways of theorising and visualising the relationship between     land, power and subjectivity are required by the contemporary era.

Sally Miller. Contemporary Photography and Theory. 2020

I just have to work out the order in which they’ll appear and what I want people to gain from this in relation to the work.