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U3AC Photography – Five Facets of Photography

Posted on April 29, 2022 by Brian

The five-week course I ran in March/April seems to have been well received.  Of the 62% of attendees who gave formal feedback 92% thought it was excellent and 8% good against a range of criteria, giving an overall approval rating … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography – Controversy in Photography

Posted on March 24, 2022 by Brian

The Cambridge U3A class met yesterday for Five Facets of Photography –Controversy in Photography, the last in the series.  The previous classes had not shied away from controversy, embracing as they did issues such photography as art, the depiction of … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography – Controversy in Photography: Jan Saudek

Posted on March 23, 2022 by Brian

During his life in communist Czechoslovakia, Jan was labelled by the totalitarian regime as a pornographer.  He was considered a disturbed artist and was oppressed by authorities.  He lived in poverty using the only room in his basement as his … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography – Controversy in Photography: Lee Miller

Posted on March 21, 2022 by Brian

During the Second World War, Lee Miller was a war correspondent for Vogue covering the London Blitz, the liberation of Paris, and the opening of concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau.  She took this picture scene of one of three people lying dead in an abandoned office at … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography – Women and Photography

Posted on March 16, 2022 by Brian

The Cambridge U3A class met for Five Facets of Photography – Women and Photography today.  The first three classes included work by 15 women photographers (more will be included in the fifth class). Today we took a more focused look … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography – Women in Photography: Grace Robertson

Posted on March 12, 2022 by Brian

Despite the fact that her socially committed approach to photography chimed with the way that Picture Post celebrated working-class culture and the welfare state, the magazine initially refused to accept Grace Robertson’s proposals for what were seen as ‘women’s subjects’. … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography – Travellers and Photography

Posted on March 9, 2022 by Brian

The Cambridge U3A class met for Five Facet of Photography – Travellers and Photography today.  The first two classes looked at the general development and role of photography and its importance in understanding the world and our place in it.  … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography – Travellers and Photography: Watson and Kaye

Posted on March 8, 2022 by Brian

The People of India: a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan, was published by the India Museum, London, 1868-1875.  It comprised eight volumes containing 450 images made by Watson and Kaye as … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography – Travellers and Photography: Francis Bedford

Posted on March 7, 2022 by Brian

Francis Bedford (1815-94) was one of England’s most prominent landscape photographers.  Following the death of Prince Albert in 1861, his eldest son, Prince Albert (later King Edward VII), invited Bedford to photograph his extensive tour of Greece and the Middle East, the first royal tour … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography – Photographs that Changed the World

Posted on March 3, 2022 by Brian

The Cambridge U3A class met for Five Facet of Photography – Photographs that Changed the World yesterday.  This built on the first class, which established the pervasive capacity of the medium.  There is any number of famous and recognisable photographs … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography – Photographs that Changed the World: Rontgen’s X-Ray

Posted on February 25, 2022 by Brian

A medical X-ray photograph of Anna Bertha Röntgen hand made by her husband Wilhelm in 1895. The discovery of x-rays won Wilhelm the first Nobel Prize ever granted for physics in 1901. His breakthrough quickly went into use around the world, … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography – Ideas that Changed Photography: Conceptual photography

Posted on February 23, 2022 by Brian

Conceptual Photography is often considered to derive from Conceptual Art of the late 1960s, but it has been around longer than that.  It is photography that is staged or created to represent an idea; it is not primarily intended to depict and … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography – Ideas that Changed Photography: The Decisive Moment

Posted on February 21, 2022 by Brian

The course I’m running for the Cambridge U3A, Five Facets of Photography, starts this week with ‘Ideas that Changed Photography’.  This post comes from that module.  Posts over the next five weeks will include material from subsequent modules. Henri Cartier-Bresson … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography – Ideas that Changed Photography: New Documents

Posted on February 12, 2022 by Brian

The New Documents exhibition at MOMA in 1967, small, framed black-and-white pictures by Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, and Garry Winogrand, was modest by today’s standards.  The work had a casual, offhand quality and the subject matter was apparently random and … Continue reading →

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Five Facets of Photography – Ideas that Changed Photography: Photojournalism

Posted on January 23, 2022 by Brian

Photojournalism is journalism that integrates images and text to tell a news story.  It is distinguished from other close branches of photography by having a rigid ethical framework which demands an honest but impartial approach that tells a story in strictly journalistic terms. In the … Continue reading →

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