Unlike previous lectures, there was nothing that I could quote French on for no reason other then the fact I couldn’t understand the complex language he used to discuss his lecture titled ‘Contemporaneity and the Heft of Photography’. This is lack of understanding is through no way of his fault. After the tutorial for the lecture, I so wish I had understood. For this reason, my post will be segmented between the pre and the post tutorial.
Pre-tutorial: There was no doubt in my mind the Blair French is extremely learned in the field of art and that of photography. The lecture however seemed disjointed. As he stated at the beginning of the lecture, ‘You can’t just look at a blank screen!’ So as a solution he was generous enough to show us MRI scans of a Polaroid camera, however, the relevance of these works to his lecture eluded me.
Post-Tutorial: Following on from discussion that came out of Dupont’s tutorial about the ‘death of photography’, a large portion of today was spent discussing the relevance of photography in the modern world, as well as this need for appearing ‘contemporary’. We all, artists, photographers, designers alike, struggle in the need of appearing contemporary, whilst battling an audience who can now capture images much the same on their mobile phone. Where does that leave us, the studying photographer? I wish I knew!
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