Tag Archives: W Eugene Smith

Exercise 6 – The Dad Project and The Country Doctor

Posted on February 15, 2015 by stevemiddlehurst

Comparing The Country Doctor with The Dad Project The fundamental difference between the two photo stories that are described below is the relationship between the photographer, the subject and the work. W.Eugene Smith was the classic “concerned photographer”, he invested … 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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Late Photography

Posted on December 5, 2014 by stevemiddlehurst

Foreword This essay is about how war photography has lost its place as the primary source of visual news images taken in conflicts and how this has contributed to a rise in late photography. In arguing that the war photographer in … Continue reading →

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Critical Debates Around Photojournalism – Rosler and Hine

Posted on November 15, 2014 by stevemiddlehurst

Introduction Martha Rosler’s 1981 essay  In, Around and Afterthoughs (1) is one of those essays that, once you start researching it, is widely quoted, analysed, dissected and regurgitated in one form and another, so like reading Camera Lucida (2), considering her views is part … Continue reading →

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