31/10/11 – Narrative & Processes

What is Narrative? We all know the obvious beginning, middle and end but what about in terms of an image?

• Structure/content/form
•       Photo as an essay
•       Alterations change the narrative, i.e. cropping.
•       Does that mislead and manipulated?
•       Text with image sets background, true or not.

Processes….

We then discussed the processes images go through to be made, as this is what our next task is about. We’re to find an image and investigate how it was made, along with text that explores the process.

We watched a video that involved the early days of photography and how people such as Fox Talbot and Louis Daguerre made their images. I was so intrigued by the Daguerreotype and really want to look into this.

 "Daguerreotype: Photographic image made by the process launched by Louis Daguerre in France in 1839. Its a positive image on a metal plate with mirror-like silvered surface, characterised by very fine detail. Each one is unique and fragile and needs to be protected by a padded case. It became the dominant portrait mode for the first deacades of photography, especially in the US." (Liz Wells 2009 p.50)

Part of the film was about camera obscuras and while quietly sitting, my mind sparked at the idea of reversal of images and think this might be a really interesting idea to look at. So I went and bought some black card and tape from my local craft store and turned my room into a camera obscura...

the world inside my room!

The road outside projected onto my ceiling.

The set up.

Found the clip of film about camera obscuras on youtube, it's from a BBC Documentary series called 'Genius of Photography' check it out!  


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHPv9-Uu6ug&feature=related






Sources
Liz Wells, 2009,  Photogrpahy, a critical introduction, Fourth Edition. Oxon, Routledge

Real Big Camera Obscura, 2009. [online video] [viewed 31/10/11] Available from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHPv9-Uu6ug&feature=related