Tag Archives: Late Photography

Assignment 5 Supplication – Rework

Posted on December 29, 2015 by stevemiddlehurst

Notes on Rework This rework of assignment 5 has been modified to remove the bones and skulls which had been included in the foreground of the original. I agree that they were a clichéd sign so whilst the composition is less … Continue reading →

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Assignment 5 – A Supplication for the Beggars

Posted on October 19, 2015 by stevemiddlehurst

Historical Context In 1529 a Protestant lawyer by the name of Simon Fish wrote and distributed a pamphlet, asking Henry VIII  to dissolve the monasteries and to appropriate their lands and wealth for the good of the nation. At the … Continue reading →

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Assignment 5 Concepts

Posted on October 9, 2015 by stevemiddlehurst

Introduction For perhaps the first century of photography’s history documentary photographers very directly addressed their subjects. In his speech to a conference of charities in 1909 Lewis Hine (1) beseeched his audience to get a camera and start documenting injustice because … Continue reading →

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Theatres of the Real

Posted on October 1, 2015 by stevemiddlehurst

Continuing with the theme of staged photography and having already crossed back across the Atlantic with a look at Alison Jackson (here) there are several other British photographers who have made, or are making their name, in this area. Theatres … Continue reading →

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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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Assignment 1 – Invisible People Rework

Posted on March 6, 2015 by stevemiddlehurst

My tutor felt that a number of my compositions for assignment 1 (here) were weak and suggested that I considered reworking some of them. As he pointed out, composition is subjective but I agree that some of the compositions were … 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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Assignment 1 – Self Assessment

Posted on February 5, 2015 by stevemiddlehurst

Demonstration of Technical and Visual Skills It was important to create a bland, ordinary atmosphere around the series, I wanted to encourage contemplation of the landscape from an objective, documentary viewpoint. To achieve this I chose a “dead-pan” approach to both composition … Continue reading →

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Assignment 1 – Invisible People

Posted on February 5, 2015 by stevemiddlehurst

 Preamble Assignment 1 calls for two sets of photographs to tell  different versions of the same story. The aim of the assignment is to explore the convincing nature of documentary by presenting two sets of pictures that are equally convincing depictions of … Continue reading →

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Assignment 1 – Research and Development

Posted on February 1, 2015 by stevemiddlehurst

Initial Ideas Selecting the subject and approach to an assignment is, for me, an organic process with an initial idea evolving in response to the various lines of research and exercises within the course. This part of the course explores the relationship between … Continue reading →

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