Friday, March 28, 2014

Zowie Hewitt Critical Study – (introduction to contemporary practice essay)


Critical Study – (introduction to contemporary practice essay)


For my Contemporary Practice Essay I am going to choose Medical/Clinical Photography as my starting point as it links to my specialist interest.  I am going to research into the background and have set my self a question below to explore and expand on.

“ How medical photography has
Evolved from the Victorian days
To the present day”



I am go to explore and evaluate the historical context of medical photography and identify key events.  I am going to include critical analysis of historic and contemporary photographers in this field and maybe try and visit a medical museum. I will include the ethics of the Victorian age and in today’s age. Researching…

‘ducheenne 1862 mechanisms of the human face’
John Copland – black & white abstract body parts
Sally Man – husband & children
Eadweard Muybridge – document of body movements

Things to think about?    

Do I think the patient in the photographs 100 years ago ever thought they would be made public today? 

How have images I have seen had an impact on my own work and ideas?



More historic photographers to research –

Edward Weston – Abstract nudes
Robert Mapplethop – genitals
Bill Brants – nudes
Andrea Kertesz – distorted nudes.





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