Car Park

Car Park, originally uploaded by HRH Ken.

Sometimes your surveillance images can be as empty as this garage.

Ferris Wheel

Ferris Wheel, originally uploaded by HRH Ken.

Class Critique

Choose one of the photos from the Surveillance blog with a group and answer the following questions:

1. Read the story or theme in the image.
2. What visual cues in the images shape the story/theme? From the subject? Observe the background?
3. How does this image make you feel? Explain.
4. Describe the atmosphere as if you were there- what would you smell, hear, feel? What would be just outside of the frame?
5. What happened just before and just after this image was taken?
6. How is this an example of surveillance photography?

Once you have answered an image with your group, then select one of your own to critique.

Caffenol-C Examples

Majors,

I wanted to show you some results from the early test rolls that I developed with Caffenol. As you can see, sometimes it may stain your film brown and other times it will be completely black and white. The unexpectedness of the development process is what I love about Caffenol and certainly merits more exploration.

Anonymous Photography Collaboration Project Blog

Hello Class,

I just wanted to let you all know that I will be posting your images that you have created on a blog that was created for the Anonymous Photography Collaboration Project. As you all create your own images, please submit them to me so that I can continue to upload them to the blog.

The blog address is: http://anonymousphotographycollaboration.blogspot.com/

Surveillance1- Reflection

Look over your photos and select your 5 favourites.
Put your top 1 in the share folder title it with your name. Then in word, insert the image and answer the following questions:

Reflect on your experiences.
Where did you set up your camera first?
Why did you select the area to survey?
How long did you remain in the same area?
What sort of images did you capture?
Were you satisfied with the results? Why or why not?
Describe your favourite image; explain why it is your favourite.
How did you feel while you were taking the photos? Anxious, awkward…

Exposed: Surveillance, Voyeurism and the Camera

Shizuka Yokomizo, Stranger No. 2 1999
Last summer I visited the Tate Modern Gallery in London. I saw an exhibition that inspired this project. Since its invention, the camera has been used to make images surreptitiously and satisfy the desire to see what is hidden. Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera examines photography's role in voyeuristic looking from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present day. It includes pictures taken by professional photographers and artists, but also images made without our knowledge on a daily basis through the proliferation of CCTV.

Check out the web site: Tate Modern
and also see: The Tate Modern Channel
Make sure you view Philip Lorca-DiCorcia and Laurie Long.

In class we will explore various Photographers who have explored the world candidly as voyeurs and photojournalists to document life as it happens without prejudice.


Robert Frank



Henri Cartier Bresson


Philip-Lorca DiCorcia


Laurie Long



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Nan Goldin