Thanks Jean for your comment, I have ordered a copy of the book already, sounds interesting. Seen an interesting reference on Claire Manning’s blog too, so post MA progress is about more research, but that is good I am thinking.
As for progress with the newly found photographs of photoshoots, well, it kinda started from where I left off, Photoshoots 1, in that the poses and compositional aspects were identified with obvious focus.
But then the wider studio shots with the red-screen as part of a room seemed to create a different response, Photoshoots 2. The screen is intended to function as a neutral, to separate the figures from the context, but here it seems to in fact emphasise that process of situating the focus. Not sure that makes sense as I am trying to find the words, but the part normally cut out (red-screen) remains here and the subject is absent, and that seems interesting.
Photoshoots 3, are the best pieces so far and the more ambiguous the better I think, as it forces the looking, it forces anticipation. Not sure where next, but representation is not familiar here but it is implied, and seems different, there is a certain uncertainty that is ‘un-ordinary’ and yet there is nothing to sustain the idea that it is exceptional to the ordinary. Contradictory yes, intriguing perhaps, but it does follow my interests in the viewer’s role in signification. Hmm.
