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Exercise 5.1 -
Part Three: We are all Photographers Now
Project 1: The Dynamic Image
Exercise 3.1
Read Fred Ritchin’s essay ‘Toward a Hyperphotography’ in Ritchin, F. (2008) After
Photography, New York: W.W. Norton. Available on the student site:
PH5DIC_After Photography_Toward Hyperphotography
Look at the websites Ritchin discusses. Can you find any visual examples of ‘cubistically
unmasking photo opportunities’? Look for multiple points of view around a single news
event or story. Make some notes in your learning log.
Project 2: Digitising Atrocity
Read the essay ‘Archive Noises’ in Fontcuberta, J. (2014) Pandora’s Camera – Photogr@phy after Photography, London: MACK, provided with your course materials.
Research Point 1 (Optional)
For an in-depth discussion of the role of the photograph and video in rituals, see Grimes,
R.L. (2006) Rite out of Place: Ritual, Media and the Arts, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
For a general introduction to the topic of death and photography, see Wells, 2009, p.244.
For more on post mortem photography, see Linkman, A. (2011) Photography & Death
(Exposures), London: Reaktion Books and Ruby, J. (1995) Secure the Shadow: Death and
Photography in America, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Research Point 2 (Optional)
If you’re interested in this topic, see:
Books: Danner, M. (2004) Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror. New
York: NYRB
Gray, J. et al (2004) Abu Ghraib: The Politics of Torture. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books
Eisenman, S. (2007) The Abu Ghraib Effect. London: Reaktion Books
Films: The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (Dir. Rory Kennedy, 2007)
Standard Operating Procedure (Dir. Errol Morris, 2008)
Artworks: Hans Haacke’s Star Gazing (2004)
Abdel Karim Khalil’s We Are Living the American Democracy (2008)
Exercise 3.2
Find one or two recent photographs within the public domain that you consider to be
‘controversial’ or to transgress social barriers. Write a short entry in your learning log (up to
500 words) about why you feel it is controversial.
Read Allan, S. ‘Blurring Boundaries: Professional and Citizen Journalism in a Digital Age’
(pp.187–200) in Lister, M. (2013) The Photographic Image in Digital Culture, provided with
your course materials.
• Read Jose Navarro’s blog criticising the BBC’s use of images of the 2012 Denver cinema
shootings at Link 4
• Read this useful essay on the 7/7 bombings and citizen journalism at Link 5
S Allan
Jose Navarro
7/7
Exercise 3.3
Read this blog about the New York Post’s image of a man about to be killed by a subway
train. Read the details of the blog carefully and write up your own analysis of the event.
Comment on the ethical decision of the commuter who took the picture. Link 6
Project 3: 1 The Citizen Journalist
Project 4: 2 Post Photojournalism
Read the essay ‘Archive Noises’ in Fontcuberta, J. (2014) Pandora’s Camera – Photogr@phy after Photography, London: MACK, provided with your course materials.
Research Point 3 (Optional)
Research point (optional) 3
If you’re interested in the idea of compassion fatigue, see David Campbell’s ‘The Myth of
Compassion Fatigue’ at Link 7
Not in relation to these conflicts, but also worth noting, is Richard Mosse’s project Infra
(2012). See Link 8
Exercise 3.4
Look at the work of one of the practitioners discussed in this project. Write a short analysis
of one of their projects or the practitioner’s overall approach. Comment on how appropriate
you think their creative responses are. What is your impression of the evolving nature of
photojournalism?