Studio Photo 07: Shifting Glances

Studio brief

A fleeting stream of images passes on our screens: everyone has a camera, we snap photos on our phones, we upload them to the cloud, we like them on Instagram, we search them on online platforms, we send them to friends, we Snapchat them to strangers.

The way we create, perceive and consume photographs is evolving at increasing peace; photography has always been driven by technological innovation, which has democratised the access to image production and distribution. The digital development, however, has not killed the analogue medium: increased accessibility to printing technologies has prompted a revival of printed independent magazines. Digital and analogue, printed and on-screen, still or moving images: photography nowadays is a pervasive experience that takes multiple forms.

This studio will explore and experiment with a range of critically challenging photographic approaches to fashion editorial, portrait and commercial photography, giving you an in-depth understanding of the ever-shifting aesthetics of contemporary imagery. It will analyse the role of the photographer in our image-driven culture and the importance of establishing a unique aesthetic identity, a signature style that will stand the test of time and of the technological shift.

You will have the freedom to choose your medium, from large-format analogue to video production, from inkjet printing to online platforms and you will be encouraged to work cross-media to achieve your singular photographic approach.

Studio reading

Berger, J. (1973) Ways of Seeing. London: Penguin.
Blanks, T. (2013) New Fashion Photography. Paul Sloman Editor.
Bray, S. and Stern, J. (2014) Photography and Psychoanalysis: The Development of Emotional Persuasion in Image Making Eco, U. (2004) The Beauty of The Media from On Beauty: A History of a Western Idea, chapter XVII. London: Secker & Warburg.
Grunitzky, C. and Syllos, S. (2006) (un)Fashion. Boot-Clibborn Editions.
Hack, J. and Furniss, J.A. (2011) Making It Up As We Go Along – The Dazed & Confused book. London: Dazed & Confused.
Jansen, C. (2017) Girls on Girls: Art and Photography in the Age of the Female Gaze. London: Laurence King.
Keaney, M. (2014) Fashion Photography Next. London: Thames & Hudson.
Remy, P. (2014) The Art of Fashion Photography. Paris: Prestel.
Remy, P. (2019) Antiglossy: Fashion Photography Now. New York: Rizzoli.
Sigurjonsdottir, A. and Langkjaer, M.A. (2011) Images in Time: Flashing Forward, Backward, in Front and Behind. Photography in Fashion, Advertising and the Press. Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen.
Dr. Shinkle, E. (Ed.) (2012) Fashion as Photograph: Viewing and Reviewing Images of Fashion. London & New York: I.B.Tauris.
Wells, L. (Ed.) (2015) Photography: A Critical Introduction. London & New York: Routledge.

Magazines and websites

ID Magazine, Dazed & Confused, Oh Comely!, Suitcase, Kinfolk, The Travel Almanac, PussPuss Magazine, Oak: The Nordic Journal, The Gentlewoman, Nicotine Magazine, Contributor Magazine.

Show Studio fashion films showstudio.com

Image: Berzan Isik, Portrait (2019)

Close-up face shot of female with small pearl-like face jewellery around eyes

Details

Course	Fashion Photography BA (Hons) Photography BA (Hons) Fine Art BA (Hons) Painting BA (Hons)
Tutors	Paola Leonardi Lee Brodhurst Hooper
Where	Calcutta House Small Annex, CA3-04
When	Monday 10am to 5pm, Thursday 10am to 5pm

Fine Art

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Studio Art 01: We, the Contemporary

Andrea Medjesi-Jones and Karen David

What is ‘Contemporary’ about painting? That's a question this 2D studio tackles from multiple directions.

Studio Art 02: Art and Non-Art

Galia Kollectiv and Joseph Noonan-Ganley

Allan Kaprow described non-art as “whatever has not yet been accepted as art but has caught an artist’s attention with that possibility in mind”.

Studio Art 03: The Black Box

Patrick Ward and Dr Jonathan Whitehall

Increasingly artists are confronted with technologies and systems whose internal operation appears mysterious to its users.

Studio Art 04: The Thingy World

Rosemarie McGoldrick, Olga Koroleva and Jessie Flood-Paddock

The critic Viktor Shklovsky's striking words a few months before the Russian revolution over 100 years ago were against the attrition of routine.

Studio Photo 05: UN/staging the UN/staged

Heather McDonough and James Cant

UN/staging the UN/staged considers image making through a critical lens of the constructed and unconstructed image. It sets out to challenge the binary distinction between photographic works that are considered staged and those works that are considered unstaged.

Studio Photo 06: Disrupting Borders: the Personal to the Universal

Ania Dabrowska and Yiannis Katsaris

Disrupting Borders: the Personal to the Universal, responds to timely contemporary issues supporting students in making works that embrace speculative visions, deconstruct cultural and political myth-making and forecast new contemporary photographic subjectivities.