Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Throughout diCorcia’s work, there is a clear consistency in which he isolates the individuals in his photographs. Often using lighting to do this as it instantly catches our attention and draws us to the expressionless faces. While diCorcia has a vast spectrum of work, I am going to be focusing on his series ‘Heads’, which…

Doug Rickard: A New American Picture

Doug Richard, born in 1968, started his career by studying the United States History and Sociology at University of California, San Diego. He later took up photography and turned his knowledge into art. His series ‘A New American Picture’ was created on a virtual road trip on Google Street View to towns and small cities where…

Peggy Ann Kusnerz: Survey Histories of Photography

My notes:   This essay by Peggy Ann Kusnerz discusses three books on the History of Photography; these include ‘Seizing the Light: A History of Photography‘ by Robert J. Hirsch, ‘A World History of Photography‘ by Naomi Rosenblum and ‘A New History in Photography‘ edited by Michel Frizot (translated from Könemann Köln’s ‘Nouvelle Histoire de…

‘Forward to ‘Photography: the Whole Story’ by Juliet Hacking’

My notes: Photography was created in the 1930’s, since the technology has advanced through the development of new science, more and more techniques have been developed creating the wide selection of images we can find today. We use photographs to capture an ever changing world and can use past images to evaluate the change in…