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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 24, 20213 min read
Informing Contexts - Jeff Wall Interview : Pictures Like Poems
Over the passed two months or so I have been reflecting about my current photography practice, what I want to shoot, what I want to say...
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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, 20215 min read
Informing Contexts - Artistic Intent
My practice is very much a serious hobby rather than full time career and my portfolio of work is an eclectic mix of genres which on the...
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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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stevenrabone
Dec 4, 20203 min read
Positions & Practice - Criticality
As we come towards the end of the first module, `Positions & Practice' in the MA Photography course we have had chance to look at and...
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stevenrabone
Dec 4, 20202 min read
Positions & Practice - Contexts & Audience
John A Walker identifies that everyone interprets images differently, there are as many meanings as there are humans. However another...
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stevenrabone
Nov 6, 20201 min read
Positions & Practice - Oral Presentation
I am pleased to provide a link to my oral presentation for the MA Photography Positions and Practice. This presentation is an opportunity...
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stevenrabone
Nov 6, 20203 min read
Positions & Practice - Methods & Strategies
During our studies this week we considered the relationship that photography has with serendipity, that happy coincidence or luck that...
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stevenrabone
Oct 25, 20202 min read
Positions & Practice - Power & Responsibilities
When taking a photograph there are always three parties to consider, as emphasised in Susan Bright's 'triangle of relationship between...
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