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Vivian Maier: The Photographer

Posted on August 4, 2015 by stevemiddlehurst

A few months ago in  Vivian Maier: Commercial Treasure or Artist? I looked at how Vivian Maier’s work became public; subsequently I looked a little more closely in Vivian Maier: Self-Portraits at one selection of her published work; more recently I reviewed the … Continue reading →

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Zen and The Art of Photography

Posted on June 30, 2015 by stevemiddlehurst

In his introduction to Reading Photographs (1) Ainslie Ellis calls for the audience to bring their whole creative attention to a photograph as “then, and only then, something remarkable can happen”. He argues that in a world of mass beliefs, which … Continue reading →

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Selfie or Self Portrait

Posted on June 12, 2015 by stevemiddlehurst

In 1548 Catharina van Hemessen painted herself at her easel, a painting remarkable only because it is considered to be the oldest surviving self portrait of an artist at work (1). The subject of “me by me, doing what I do” … Continue reading →

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Black and White Processing

Posted on June 7, 2015 by stevemiddlehurst

Two ideas came together to help me decide to process the shadow self portraits project in black and white. Tradition Pliny the elder, who died at Pompeii during the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 documented how both painting and sculpture were discovered. In … Continue reading →

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The History of the Shadow Self Portrait

Posted on May 29, 2015 by stevemiddlehurst

Whilst looking for inspirational photographers who have used shadow self portraits I came across an interesting statement on the Lens Culture blog (1) regarding the work of Giacomo Brunelli in which the author suggests that the use of the shadow in self portraits is nearly … Continue reading →

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Shadow Self Portrait

Posted on May 19, 2015 by stevemiddlehurst

Initial thoughts for assignment 3 were to work with reflections, an area I have previously explored with a modicum of success (here), and there did seem to be the opportunity to take this idea further. I briefly researched reflective self … Continue reading →

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Cindy Sherman: Untitled Film Stills

Posted on April 1, 2015 by stevemiddlehurst

Postmodernism and Feminism  Cindy Sherman often uses the word “ambiguous” when describing the intent of her work, so when Elizabeth Couturier describes her as the “high priestess of the conceptual self portrait” (1) we must be careful not to leap to any … Continue reading →

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