November 2022 – Alison Berrow

Week 7: Visual Politics, Ethics and Narrative Voice.

Posted on 24 November 202228 November 2022 by Alison

From our Lecture today there is a quote From: Looking at War: Photography’s View of Devastation and Death. New Yorker Magazine Dec 9th 2002 ‘ the problem of our reliance on images and especially photographic images is not that “people remember through photographs but that they remember only the photographs … that the photographic image […]

Workshop – A.V. Moving Image

Posted on 20 November 2022 by Alison

Today working with Richard Amor Allan we took a brief look at moving image using the Nikon D750. Richard ran through the set up for getting the camera into video mode. Looking at ISO, Aperture and Shutter speed we went into the Henrion gallery to film each other with window light. Back in the workroom […]

Week 6: Still Life, Memento Mori and the Vanitas.

Posted on 19 November 20226 December 2022 by Alison

Still Life: a work of art that shows inanimate objects from the natural or man-made world. Memento Mori: Latin – ‘Remember you must die’ Vanitas: Latin -‘for vanity, reminding us that vanity and material possessions do not preclude us from death’. Todays lecture talked about how images, even seemingly simple ones, can have much deeper meanings. […]

Still Life Workshop

Posted on 18 November 202222 November 2022 by Alison

3rd November 2022 Todays session with Catherine was making still life images. Talking about themes before we picked up equipment we discussed some general categories [which are usually used in advertising] 1) graphic overhead 2) big, medium, small. and 3) repetition 1)Graphic overhead often takes the form of a tight, cropped overhead shot. 2)Three different […]

Week 5: Rhetoric and Metaphors

Posted on 12 November 202219 November 2022 by Alison

“the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the exploitation of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.” ” visual rhetoric is the use of visual images to communicate meaning.” Today I feel like I’m at the point in the Lectures where I need some plain English…unfortunately that’s not happening! (no disrespect is directed towards my […]

Week 4: Recreating, staging and Construction

Posted on 7 November 202219 November 2022 by Alison

Todays lecture was about seeing images that are not a ‘snapshot’ or ‘captured’ image but rather a constructed or choreographed image sometimes giving the viewer a different interpretation of fine art and culture. We looked at quite a few artists. Gregory Crewdson is one of my personal favourites and a fabulous creator of epic […]