Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Wednesday, 2 March 2011
Sunday, 27 February 2011
Monday, 31 January 2011
Friday, 21 January 2011
Built Sentiment
Over christmas I visited my grandad in Berwick upon Tweed. News over the Christmas holiday was he was to move into sheltered accommodation from the three bedroom house that has been inhabited by my grandparents and 5 children since my Dad was 2 years old. As my grandad leaves the house, the Pendrich name looses the last physical stronghold of at least my living memory. As I've moved around this has always been a constant, and I read into it's departure as akin to the passing of a relative. This will be my last visit.
Monday, 17 January 2011
Saturday, 25 December 2010
The world as a darkroom
Making a trip to Kensington from East London isn't that hard, yet I've only been to the V&A museum twice, first for Lee Miller and last week for the Shadow Catchers exhibition. I forget how impressive the place is.
The exhibition has the subheading of 'camera-less photography' but I can childishly perceive these as primal experiments as testing the discoveries of light sensitive materials and photographic chemicals, coming before the refinement of the camera. The dates tell otherwise. The victorian desire for documentary representation preceded the curiosity of the possibilities of these new materials, replicating the course of painting.
Susan Derges pictograms taken suspended in streams tell more about water movement than other methods can dream of capturing.
Pierre Cordier, inventor of chemigram process, revered and dismissed in both the painting and photographic circles
The posterboy of the show is the captured bodies of Floris Neususs, although the populist choice to put on the poster, they are entirely captivating in person.
The exhibition has the subheading of 'camera-less photography' but I can childishly perceive these as primal experiments as testing the discoveries of light sensitive materials and photographic chemicals, coming before the refinement of the camera. The dates tell otherwise. The victorian desire for documentary representation preceded the curiosity of the possibilities of these new materials, replicating the course of painting.
Susan Derges pictograms taken suspended in streams tell more about water movement than other methods can dream of capturing.
Pierre Cordier, inventor of chemigram process, revered and dismissed in both the painting and photographic circles
The posterboy of the show is the captured bodies of Floris Neususs, although the populist choice to put on the poster, they are entirely captivating in person.
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