Robert Frank Coloring Book
“Oh, a coloring book!” Oh yes, I thought, a Robert Frank Coloring Book.
Line drawings by Jno Cook from Robert Frank’s photographs published in the book “The Americans”.
Additional articles:
Miller by Scherman
Lee Miller in Hitler’s bath, Munich, 1945 by David E. Scherman.
Miller and Scherman billeted in Hitler’s Munich residence, which had been converted into a command post by the Allied forces.
Wanderings: The Steerage - Alfred Stiegliz
“The scene fascinated me: A round hat; the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right; the white drawbridge, its railing made of chain; white suspenders crossed on the back of a man below; circular iron machinery; a mast that cut into the sky, completing a triangle. I stood spellbound. I saw…
Charlie Rose - Henri Cartier Bresson (thanks Elaine)
Week One List of Texts
Week One Lecture References:
Ian Jeffries - How to Read a Photograph.
Basic Academic Visual approach. Attaching meaning to content in a general way. Discusses basic concepts of composition etc.
Pierre Bourdieu - Photography. A Middle Brow Art.
Sociological approach. Talks about photography as a way of determining social group, and attempts to source meaning as a determinable factor.
Roland Barthes - Camera Lucida
Roland Barthes - Mythologies
Structuralist approach. Splitting the content into Studium (political factors, things that everyone can recognise easily. Things that place the work within a time, place, social milieu) and Punctum (those things which “prick” us, personal associations that we make with certain elements, objects, gestures)
Susan Sontag - On Photography
Late Modernist/Humanist approach. Photography placed along side traditional art forms, and criticized as such.
And the texts that I read from which were less directly related to the topic:
Slavoj Zizek - How to Read Lacan
An introduction to the culturally relevant theories of Jacques Lacan by Slovenian philosopher (looney tune genius) Slavoj Zizek.
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5
A book about a man who stops existing in normal time, is bombed in Dresden, and is taken to an alien planet.
Anthony Giddens - Modernity and Self Identity
A sociological investigation into the consequences of modernity (including the cultural post modern and sociological high modern) on the development of self identity.
Henri Cartier Bresson, Behind the Gare St. Lazare, Paris, 1932
