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Stereotyping As A Signifying Practice – Stuart Hall (1997)
This entry discusses an extract from the book Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. In it, Stuart Hall examines stereotyping and how this practice is employed to construct...
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The Subject As Object: Photography and the Human Body – Michelle Henning (2000)
After finding aspects of Stuart Hall’s text difficult to grasp in parts I turned to a chapter from Photography: A Critical Introduction (edited by Liz Wells) to try and get a better handle on the...
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The Rhetoric Of The Image – Roland Barthes (1964)
Roland Barthes This essay is a classic semiotic text where Roland Barthes analyses an advertising image and uses it as a means of teasing out how different messages are conveyed by a system of signs....
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Why Photography Matters As Art As Never Before -Michael Fried (2009)
I became interested in Michael Fried’s recent tome of photographic art criticism after reading an interview with him in Aperture magazine. I thought it would serve as good overview of the work of a...
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Introduction To The Photographers Eye – John Szarkowski (1966)
John Szarkowski’s book The Photographers Eye was based on an exhibition of the same name held at the Musuem Of Modern Art in New Work in 1964. It featured the work of Friedlander, Evans, Strand and...
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Fire and Ice – Peter Wollen (1984)
Peter Wollen’s Fire and Ice is a meditation on time and tense in photography and cinema. It deals with issues regarding what sorts of temporal experiences can be embodied within both forms and how the...
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Playing In The Fields Of The Image – Abigail Solomon-Godeau (1982)
This essay appears in Solomon-Godeau’s Photography At The Dock collection. It deals with a number of post-modern photographic artists, explaining their work, and situating it in opposition to the...
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The Paradoxes of Digital Photography – Lev Manovich (1995)
In this essay, written in 1995, Lev Manovich explores the ramifications of digital technology and photography. He asks if such a thing as digital photography really exists, and to what extent this...
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Exception to the Norm: Representations of Urban Africa in Paul Seawright’s...
This post is part two of an essay on Paul Seawright’s Invisible Cities project. You can read part one here. Invisible Cities clearly must be considered as part of a tradition of documentary photography...
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Music and Photography Event
Just a quick note here to let you know that I am going to be speaking at an event tomorrow night (Thursday 21st July) at the Centre For Creative Practices in Pembroke Street in Dublin. It’s called...
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