Tag Archives: War Photography

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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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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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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Exercise 1 (a) – Looking for Objectivity in a Single Photograph

Posted on November 9, 2014 by stevemiddlehurst

Kevin Carter and the Pulitzer Prize Photo of a Sudanese Child Famous documentary and news photographs are there to see in books, exhibitions, or in various places on-line but their context is primarily post production, how they were and are … Continue reading →

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