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An interesting article on the BBC website about photographers - have a read and see is there is anything that might be relevant to your exam research.

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Photography is a visual medium that connects the viewer with the subject through the eyes of the photographer and that magic black box.

It's unique in many ways, but the power the photographer wields in how the subject is represented should not be underestimated and is what makes the stories of those behind the lens so fascinating.

Photographer Peter Dench, known for his powerful and humorous take on the human condition, has recently published a collection of interviews he has conducted with a number of leading photographers.

Delving behind the camera to see what makes them tick, Dench reveals how they have made an impact on the photographic world.

"All of the photographers featured have shaped me in some way; sometimes professionally, more often personally," said Dench.

Dench writes that photography has always been a solitary profession, but once digital took hold there was no need to head to the laboratory where photographers would often meet, hanging around for their prints to come off the line.

To combat that loss, Dench sought out other photographers, sometimes staying with them in their homes, other times just chatting over a pint.

The resulting interviews are more a discussion, a collaboration between the two of them.

One of the photographers Dench interviewed is Chris Floyd, whose series One Hundred & Forty Characters comprised images of his followers on Twitter.

Beautiful, energetic black and white pictures that brought together a random selection of people all linked through the photographer, both socially on Twitter, and now visually.

Floyd began as an assistant photographer before setting out to follow a new path that would help shape the look of a generation through the pages of Loaded and GQ.

Since then, his images have appeared in many major magazines, from the New Yorker to Harpers Bazaar, and he has shot advertising campaigns for British Airways, Apple and Sony to name a few.

Another featured photographer, Harry Borden, the recipient of numerous awards as well as a solo exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London, should need little introduction to anyone with an interest in portrait photography.

Whatever the subject, his ability to connect the viewer and the subject in that split second is a gift few manage time and time again.

Dench stayed with Borden at his home in Devon and writes: "Borden likes to win; not only win, but to out-skill, out-think, out-manoeuvre, out-earn and out-photograph his competitors."

That's a lofty aim, yet one backed up by the pictures.

His first commission, for NME back in 1989, was of Craig Gannon, guitarist with The Smiths, for which he was paid £25.

Borden tells Dench that he said yes to everything, producing work for a range of magazines, ensuring he was first-choice photographer and in the early days utilising a number of technical tricks, from cross-processing to ring flash.

Other photographers included in the book range from Martin Parr to Laura Pannack and Marcus Bleasdale to Anastasia Taylor-Lind.

What ties all of the photographers together is that long-term vision, whereby the individual pictures build into cohesive bodies of work over time, each with their own unique stamp.

An exhibition of Great Britons of Photography Vol.1: The Dench Dozen, published by Hungry Eye magazine can be seen at Project-Space in London 14-24 February.

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Photography is a visual medium that connects the viewer with the subject through the eyes of the photographer and that magic black box. It's unique in many ways, but the power the photographer wields in how the subject is represented should not be underestimated and is what makes the stories of those behind the lens so fascinating.

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Stuck for a photographer to research, there are plenty on this list!

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If you have run out of things to say, this is a great hand-out to give you ideas.

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Interesting List

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The 55 Best Photographers of All Time: Nos. 15 to 11

5 David Bailey (born 1938)
One of the key players in the new generation of photographers which rose to prominence in the 1960s, known mainly for his iconic fashion and portrait
photographs (Krays, Beatles), and still active today.

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4 Richard Avedon (1923-2004)
American photographer, widely acclaimed for his innovative fashion photography for Harper's Bazaar and Vogue and for his penetrating black and white
portraits of people against a white background.

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3 Eve Arnold (1912-2012)
Photojournalist equally at home when documenting the lives of the poor and dispossessed around the world, or shooting informal portraits of celebrities. Best-known for her photographs of Marilyn Monroe.
2 Diane Arbus (1923-1971)
American documentary photographer who produced emotionally intense and often disturbing portraits of people on the margins of society, including
giants, dwarves, circus performers and transsexuals.

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1 Ansel Adams (1902-1984)
Highly influential master of the monochrome landscape. Particularly famous for his images celebrating the beauty and majesty of Yosemite National Park and his 'Zone system' for accurately calculating exposure.
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The 55 best photographers of all time. In the history of the world. Ever. Definitely.

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5 David Bailey (born 1938) One of the key players in the new generation of photographers which rose to prominence in the 1960s, known mainly for his iconic fashion and portrait photographs (Krays, Beatles), and still active today.

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Research shutter speed - what is it, find pictures and how do you control it on your camera.
Photograph using shutter speed - can be of whatever you want but use both fast and slow shutter speed.
Remember anything below 1/125 needs to be on a tripod or non-moving surface.
Light trails - remember to keep the lens open for as long as it takes you to draw something and get someone else to help you.
Slow shutter speed photographer - Alexey Titarenko.

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What do I need to include in my evaluation for my photos. I am really unsure on what to write about

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What do I need to include in my evaluation for my photos. I am really unsure on what to write about

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Evaluations are you 'get out of jail free' card!  They need to cover your ideas and where you started with the project, how it developed, what went well and what you would improve on.
Basically anything that you feel you haven't covered in detail in the rest of the project process.

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Since the invention of the photographic camera, artists have explored it as a means to stage a false reality, or capture an idea. This can be seen in one of the first staged photographs, Hippolyte Bayard's Self Portrait of a Drowned Man, 1840.

However, the term 'conceptual photography' began to be used in the 1960s, coinciding with the early explorations into video art and Conceptual Art. The phrase can refer to any use of photography within the Conceptual Art movement.

The development of conceptual photography

Using cameras, artists like Richard Long and Dennis Oppenheim began recording their performances and temporary artworks in a manner that is now often described as deadpan. The aim was to make simple, realistic images of the artwork that looked as documentary as possible.

Artists adopted this approach as far back as the early twentieth century when Alfred Stieglitz photographed Marcel Duchamp 's readymade made from a urinal, , for an exhibition in New York. The original Fountain was lost, but the photographs by Stieglitz remain and have become works of art in themselves.

Others explored conceptual photography as a means to stage an idea. This is often seen in advertising, where images are used to convey a clear concept, often using actors or props.

Conceptual photography has since expanded to include artists such as Cindy Sherman, John Hilliard and Broomberg and Chanarin. For them the medium is much more experimental, taking elements of documentation or staging but re-interpreting them in new ways.

The range of photography included under this title has diversified hugely with the availability of photo-editing software such as Adobe Photoshop. This allows anyone with a computer to create an image which is other than a direct representation of what was in front of the lens.

Likewise, platforms such as Instagram and Flikr have allowed any smartphone user to share their photography and create entire portfolios of work. Amalia Ulman is an example of one of these photographers; using Instagram to create an entire narrative around a fictional identity.

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Conceptual photography - Art Term | Tate

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Since the invention of the photographic camera, artists have explored it as a means to stage a false reality, or capture an idea. This can be seen in one of the first staged photographs, Hippolyte Bayard's Self Portrait of a Drowned Man, 1840.

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William Henry Fox Talbot - AS Research Task

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William Henry Fox Talbot - AS Research Task

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Fox Talbot is credited as one of the inventors of photography. I would like you to do some research on this esteemed gentleman. Write a short biography - in your own words - and then find 3 of his images and analyse them using the Annotating Photographs handout. This is due for submission to me by 3 October.

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I am a fan of using a basic design process for my own work and I developed this one whilst doing my Graphic Design degree. It works just as well for photography projects, without being too prescriptive. It has the added benefit of making sure that you provide evidence for each of the Assessment Objectives.

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This handout provides you with how to print out a physical contact sheet (without using Bridge) or create a PDF version.

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I've set this up in order to share information, tutorials, photographers etc. Please feel free to add things you think we would find interesting or helpful.