Thomas Doukinitsas
REFLECTIONS: Photography and Memory Notes

REFLECTIONS: Photography and Memory Notes

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Note: A new post that will be cleaned up, with my personal opinions will be added at a later time...


William Henry Fox Talbot (1844)
May be the person who invented photography as we know it today

Louise Daguerre (1848)
Talbot's Contender
His process had more detail, but the photos were more fragile

Early on photography needed allot of heavy kit, plus you needed to have the chemicals on site

Eadweard Muybridge (1848)
Used multiple photographs to record movement.

Largest Camera Ever Made (1900)
The whole thing was made to promote a train
Was extremely expensive for the time

San Francisco Earthquake (1906) Arnold Genthe
Shows how major events can be memorialized

August Sander (1920)
He wanted to document society in a series of portraits

Look at PHOTOMONTAGE and EXPERIMENTAL PHOTOGRAPHY in 1931

1950
Cameras are turing more towards the consumers, and becomes available to most people.

1960
Vietnam War, famous photography by Don Mcullen

Penny Slinger
An Exorcism (1977)
Photomontage work, and was done as a way for her to explore and get over her fears after a break-up.

Wayne Inghles
Return of the ? Son

Martin Parr
MAGNUM Association of Photographers
The Last Resort

Jo Spence
Suffered from breast cancer, cause she felt powerless due to her illness she made a series of photographs that empowered her.
"A Picture of Health"

Cindy Sherman

Roland Barthes - Camera Lucida (READING LIST)
-Written in 1980, bathes looks through family photos after his mother has dies
-None seem right
-History separates
-Memory triggers - p6
-Fragmented Memory
-Elusive Memory
-The photograph blocks memory
-It becomes a counter memory
-Too fixed - p93
-Destruction of the photograph
-Link to death - p96

ALL OF THESE WILL BE ON myUCA:

Susan Sontag - On Photography (1979)
"...everything today is meant to end up in a photograph."

Paul Edwards
Against the Photograph as Memento Mori
(In History of Photography, vol. 22, no 4, winter98)

Katherine Keenan
On The Relationship Between Personal Photographs and Individual Memory
(in History of Photography, vol. 22, Spring 98)

John Berger - Ways of Remembering
(Published in Camerawork, Issue 10)
Says that photographs can be used out of context, and it's meaning can be destroyed...
Says that photographs are linear, but memories connect to each other radially

FOR THE FINAL PROJECT, THINK OF THE PRESENTATION LAYOUT TOO

Images from Art and Photography edited by David Campany (Phaidon 2003)

Artists:
John Baldessari
Christian Boltanski
Sophie Calle
Donigan Cumming
Max Dean
Annette Messager
Gerhard Richter
Annelies Strba
Andy Warhol

Susan Haller
Rut Blees Luxemburg
Cindy Sherman

Calum Colvin
Doug Hall
Michael Ensdorf
Alain Fleischer
Sylwain Pelly
Matthias Wahner

Unknown

Some say he’s half man half fish, others say he’s more of a seventy/thirty split. Either way he’s a fishy bastard.

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