Assignment Four: Tutor Feedback

“Highly engaging and readable stuff, Luke, and I really like the fact that you’ve chosen an image that has clear and obvious connections with some of your own work. Equally, far from seeming like a remote outlier from a very distant age, Beyond Caring seems to have become more relevant with time, especially in an …

Exercise 5.2: Re-situated Art

Question for Seller Recently, I watched Alec Soth discuss his latest project ’A Pound of Pictures’ on his Youtube channel and listed out some notes on the piece https://luke523038.wordpress.com/2022/06/15/a-pound-of-pictures-alec-soth/. Seeing an artist talk candidly about their work is extremely interesting and I love how honest and unpretentious he always seems to be about his work, …

Gregory Crewdson

Waterstones had a very very good sale after Christmas 2020 where for a few days all hardbacks were half price and there seemed to be no restrictions. Needless to say I walked away with many photo books. One of those was Gregory Crewdson’s Alone Street (and I smiled when I saw that we would be …

Exercise 5.1: Martin Scorsese Critique

This is a slightly different exercise where we are asked to watch a famous scene from Scorsese’s film Goodfella’s called ’The Long Take”. We are asked to answer the following questions before proceeding: What does the scene tell us about the main character?How does it do this? I have taken to running through the entire …

Assignment Four: A Pictures worth a Thousand Words

DHSS Emergency Centre, Elephant and Castle, South London, 1984 ©Paul Graham It’s not a pretty picture, but it is an important picture. I could have selected something visually appealing, and until my tutor suggested something like this as a link to my own Food Bank project, I was already thinking about Alec Soth. Originally I …

Research Task: Insomnia

First up, the title of this research task confuses me, as it mentions looking at ”Beneath the surface” on the OCA site, but really it’s ask are more directly related to the essay by Liz Jobey on Diane Arbus’ A young Brooklyn family going for a Sunday outing, N.Y.C. 1966 in Singular Images edited by …

A Pound of Pictures – Alec Soth

I’ve managed to get quite a few of Alec Soth’s books now with the collection consisting of Sleeping by the Mississippi, I know how Furiously your Heart is Beating, A Pound of Pictures (the subject of this post), and most recently, Gather Leaves Annotated, which gathers all of his works except ”I know How Furiously …

Exercise 4.2: Deconstruction Task

I completely failed to take an image from a magazine (or even buy a paper yesterday, or the week before so I tried to look online for any supplements and then images of advertisements. For whatever reason images of watches started popping up and that made me remember that Omega has used James Bond for …

Exercise 4.1: Erwitt Analysis

USA, New York City. New York, 1974. Felix, Gladys and Rover. I had only heard of Elliot Erwitt in passing before this exercise brought him up. He spoke very briefly in one of the street photography documentaries I watched a couple months back and a photographer on YouTube spoke about him briefly and owned a …

Assignment Three: Tutor Feedback

Overall Feedback Three assignments into the unit and you’re making very solid - and always interesting - progress, Luke. The focus of your work so far has encompassed much in the way of diversity, taking in graffiti, sensory issues and this, an arch and very likeable approach to self- portraiture and the world of fast …