Informing Contexts - Moments of Still
The last three months have been some of the most exciting I have had so far in terms of my photography and the ongoing progress of my MA...
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stevenrabone
Apr 18, 20213 min read
Informing Contexts - The Good The Bad & The Beauty
I wanted to start this post with a short statement that encapsulates my current intent and reflect on the current visual strategies that...
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stevenrabone
Apr 17, 20216 min read
Informing Contexts - Reflects the Personality
As Pierre Bourdieu (1997-73) points out 'any work of art reflects the personality of it's creator, so I have begun to really appreciate...
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stevenrabone
Apr 3, 20215 min read
Informing Contexts - Booking Up with Feedback
Following on from my previous post, my Critical Review Video Presentation has now been seen and commented on by a good number of my peers...
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stevenrabone
Mar 21, 20216 min read
Informing Contexts - Critical Review Video Presentation
We have this week had the chance to produce a 10 minute video to provide a critical review of our practice and work in progress. This has...
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stevenrabone
Mar 17, 20213 min read
Informing Contexts - The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
Over the last couple of months I have been focusing my attention and practice on the art of still life photography. The purpose of this...
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stevenrabone
Mar 14, 20214 min read
Informing Contexts - Responses & Responsibility
During this weeks module we have been considering both the responses and responsibility that photographers have and how they can employ...
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stevenrabone
Mar 11, 20214 min read
Informing Contexts - Is there anything wrong with beauty?
Reading Andy Grundberg's article ‘PHOTOGRAPHY VIEW; A Quintessentially American View of the World’, from the New York Times I was...
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stevenrabone
Mar 7, 20213 min read
Informing Contexts - Stepping Out Of The Shadows
So having made the conscious decision to focus this module's work on still life I had the opportunity to share my portfolio with with...
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stevenrabone
Feb 25, 20215 min read
Informing Contexts - Still Moments
As highlighted in my previous post the last couple of months have been a period of both reflection and action as I have taken a good look...
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stevenrabone
Feb 18, 20213 min read
Informing Contexts - Viewers Make Meaning
Writing in his essay, 'The Death of the Author' Roland Barthes spoke of the fact that text is made up of multiple of meanings which comes...
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stevenrabone
Feb 16, 20213 min read
Informing Contexts - So Where Is The Author Now?
Roland Barthes suggested that accompanying text gives anchorage to the image, i.e. makes the meaning of the image overt and therefore...
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stevenrabone
Feb 15, 20213 min read
Informing Contexts - Constructed Realities
As Week 3 of this module comes to a close I have started to define exactly where I want the immediate direction of my photography...
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stevenrabone
Feb 15, 20213 min read
Informing Contexts - False Indexes
This weeks reading has come at a time of change for me as I put the images collated in the first module to one side and almost start a...
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stevenrabone
Feb 15, 20213 min read
Informing Contexts - Subjective Traces, Spaces, Faces, Places
I started photography with an innocent expectation that I would resist the urge to edit my photographs and would certainly never...
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stevenrabone
Feb 5, 20214 min read
Informing Contexts - The Image and The Icon
Reading the article Photography, Vision and Representation by Snyder and Allen I was intrigued to learn that artists had been using a...
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stevenrabone
Jan 28, 20218 min read
Informing Contexts - Photography, Photographies
So in this weeks study we considered the nature of the photographic image including the works, by Szarkowski, Shore and the 2014 What is...
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stevenrabone
Jan 24, 20216 min read
Informing Contexts - The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media Nathan Jurgenson
I have a strange relationship with smartphones, for example I hate the amount of time my kids are on them, I hate how my boss can get...
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stevenrabone
Jan 16, 20217 min read
Informing Contexts - Under The Influence
Henri Cartier-Bresson has long been an inspiration for my practice. Whilst much of my photography is in a different style and genre there...
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