Arnatt studied painting at Oxford and then art at the Royal Academy Schools (Keith Arnatt, n.d.). His interests lay in conceptual art; particularly the reductionist element of that movement and “in relating the presentation of art objects to the contexts of their viewing in a way that sought to activate those contexts.” (ibid.). Reductionism This concept is […]
Category: Part 5 Research
Photographer: Lee Friedlander – Letters from the people
Friedlander’s collection ‘Letters from People’ is a series of images that cover letters, numbers, words and sometimes whole sentences (Lee Friedlander: Letters from the People | MoMA, 1994). Fig X below shows an installation image of his work as it was displayed in MoMA in 1994. Fig. X is an installation image from MOMA and shows a part […]
Photographer: Richard Wentworth
I researched Wentworth after finding him within the course texts. The images that I could find online piqued my interest in the way that he has used considerable attention to detail in isolating small pieces of reality to create interesting, sometimes amusing, images. I decided to purchase the book Making Do and Getting By which contains hundreds […]
Photographer: Michelle Sank
I researched Michelle Sank after finding her through the British Journal of Photography. Sank’s collection where the collection My.Self is portrayed (Warner, 2018). The collection was created by Sank by simply approaching young people in the area of Sandwell and asking to photograph them in their bedrooms. I think that Sanks, as a woman, was perhaps more able […]