Tag Archives: Don McCullin

Avoiding The Fraught Enterprise

Posted on September 6, 2015 by stevemiddlehurst

I have been researching staged photography by reviewing the usual suspects; Crewdson (here), Sherman (here), Wall (here) and diCordia. This quartet is intriguing, in part because their work is so different yet linked by premeditated staging and the appropriation of cinematic processes and … Continue reading →

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Conflict. Time. Photography. Tate Modern: November 14 to March 15

Posted on February 10, 2015 by stevemiddlehurst

Simon Baker, in his essay Armageddon in Retrospect (1),  says that Conflict. Time. Photography “takes as its starting point the necessity and value of the time taken to consider the past.” Time, and our reaction to time, is at the heart of this exhibition. … Continue reading →

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The Influence of Surrealism on British Street Photography

Posted on December 17, 2014 by stevemiddlehurst

What is Surrealism? There are a multitude of definitions of Surrealism but they generally net down to using imagery from the subconscious mind and dreamscape to express an authentic self and thereby visualise a truer reality, the Surreal. This expression of … Continue reading →

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Exercise 1 (b) – Objectivity in Documentary Photography

Posted on November 10, 2014 by stevemiddlehurst

Definitions The Oxford Dictionary defines objectivity as existing independently of perception which, in the context of photography, could be interpreted as an object, or the subject matter, must exist independently of the subject’s perception of it. In Photography (1) Stephen Bull offers … Continue reading →

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