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WEEK 03: Tuesday 10 october 2006
Photo magazines, collection books and visual culture 1960s- onwards
browsing for class and to view on your own:

Aspen- web version of Aspen, a multimedia magazine of the arts published by Phyllis Johnson from 1965 to 1971.

PhotoStatic- a magazine, a periodical series of printed works that focused on xerography as the source of a particular visual language that was widely used by graphic artists in the various art and music underground scenes of the 80s and 90s. (1983-1998)

Ohio: Hans-Peter Feldmann, Uschi Huber, Jorg Paul Janka and Stefan Schneider magazine.

Peter Piller’s photos
http://www.peterpiller.de/framesets/index-Photos.htm?Photos.htm~mainFrame [archive]

Camila Webster: found image project (via christopher charalambous)

Useful Photography #002 -Hans Aarsman+Julian Germain+Hans van der Meer+Erik Kessels+Claudi de Cleen
http://pages.ebay.nl/promo/artimo.html
Useful photography War Special
3rdeffect

wordandimage 3

Found magazine
https://store.quackmedia.com/found/index.php?crn=210

This is (not) a Magazine

aleksandra mir: publications

Sophie Calle: L’Hôtel, Paris, 1984
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=2692&page=1
http://hosting.zkm.de/ctrlspace/d/texts/10

Centre for Artist Books>Serial Context (2002)
assignments to be read PRIOR to class meeting and be prepared to discuss them in class:
1. [READING POSTPONED TO WEEK4 AS PRINTED READER BECOMES AVAILABLE] New media and Visual Culture, chapt 2 In New Media: A Critical Introduction (Lister et al), 97-107 [READER]

Be prepared to discuss the following: Describe at least 2 ways in which 1) New technologies contribute to changes taking pace in visual culture; 2) new ways of seeing’ are emerging // List 3 specific aspects that the term visual culture implies for visual images and visual experience // Describe in what way is the study of visual culture similar to the history of art? and in what way it differs?// What does the term ‘visuality’ stand for and what are its implications for the study of visual culture?// Comment Rogoff’s quote in reference to the networked flow of websites // What are the two key points to take into consideration when thinking about the effects of new technologies on visual culture?

2. The following is a selection of short essays/reviews of artists pubications that use collections. Be prepared to discuss the difference between editorial and curatorial practices in these projects.

third space> conference towards a photographic visual literature conference mapping the cultural periodics of photography

Out of Print Ohio- a Magazine art Project [fore-words] by David Brittain + Bob Jardine

Manisha Jothady, «Peter Piller, A Tennis Ball Discovered While Cutting the Hedge is Like a Bird of Prey’s Pellet in: Camera Austria, 89/2005

In Almost Every Picture. Edited by Erik Kessels.

Jonathan Bell: What goes around, comes around – Martin Parr Boring Postcards, Boring Postcards USA, Langweilige Postkarten

Val Williams . Loving Your Pictures by Erik Kessels Eye Magazine, vol.14, spring 2005

OUTLINE SESSION 3

1. presentations/ brief 2

DUE on class 3 | POST ON blog
Brief 2- The role of text in photo publishing
statement 2 (300-500w): post it to your blog, with images and text- captions, tagging, commentary, technical, etc

2. discussion based on assigned readings of a selection of short essays/reviews of artists pubications that use collections.

- the difference between editorial and curatorial practices in these projects.

2.1. third space> conference towards a photographic visual literature conference mapping the cultural periodics of photography

The third space> Photography’s quarrel with ink By David Brittain

discuss difference between photographer’s magazines such as Camera Work(1903 – 1917), Aperture that attepted to elevate photography to a form of art and others such Photo Image, File, Ohio that reproduced appropriated images, compare their attitudes towards printing and publishing photography, to authorship and their use of editorial texts and photograper’s portfolios

richard prince’s re-photographed photos

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Prince

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curator

http://staff.biad.uce.ac.uk/staff/id003706/warspecial.htm

aperture magazine
Hans-Peter Feldmann: 100 Years

http://www.new-york-art.com/Mus-PS-1-Feldmann.htm

http://www.macba.es/uploads/20050513/100years_big.jpg

To live one hundred years – concept artist and photography buff Hans-Peter Feldmann presents 101 portraits of people age 1 to 100 – family members, friends and friends of friends.

General Idea: File Magazine (1971-1987)

discuss the term original reproductions coined by Gerhard Theewen and its use in the context of Salon magazine

ink-based photographic literature vs ubiquitous printing

hans-peter feldmann+ uschi huber+jorg paul janka+stefan schneider: ohio magazine(1995- ) > images from the archive

[fore-words] by david brittain+bob jardine

EXERCISE

1-as a group, brainstorm on some aspects of the collections we have seen assembled as books and choose a topic for a pubication that uses “original reproductions”.

2-individually, start online research

3- as a group again, decid eon ways to publish the material, aking into consideration aspects of curating and txt/image editing.