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a documentary style - rethinking documentary photography
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Laquo; Back to blog. We can discern a shift away from photography as a medium to photography as style. The shift is part of a movement in the history of photography away from a recorded image towards its construction; a shift away from the traditional and more restrictive modernist notion of photography as a medium. In an interview with Katz in 1971 Walker Evans said:. We'll email you when there are new posts here. You're following this blog. Unfollow. Email address is invalid. I disagree with the Evans ...
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turning back to the image - pink gum + Xanthorrhoea
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Laquo; Back to blog. Turning back to the image. The reception of the 1960s and early 1970s conceptual art in Australia (eg., Art and Language, Ian Burn etc ) can be read as a dissent from, or a disdain for, the image as icon. This reception can be interpreted as part of the denigration of vision tradition that Martin Jay maps in his Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought. In Image and Text. Puts it this way:. Barton goes on to say that:. Email address is invalid.