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Why Photography Matters As Art As Never Before -Michael Fried (2009)

Hugh wrote 1 week ago: I became interested in Michael Fried’s recent tome of photographic art criticism after reading … more →

Tags: Photography Theory, Photography Criticism, Photography, Art, Visual culture, Modernism, michael fried, Theatricality, objecthood

The Rhetoric Of The Image - Roland Barthes (1964)

Hugh wrote 2 weeks ago: Roland Barthes This essay is a classic semiotic text where Roland Barthes analyses an advertising im … more →

Tags: Photography Theory, Photography, Visual culture, Roland Barthes, rhetoric of the image, guided by voices, semiotics

The Subject As Object: Photography and the Human Body - Michelle Henning (2000)

Hugh wrote 2 weeks ago: After finding aspects of Stuart Hall’s text difficult to grasp in parts I turned to a chapter … more →

Tags: Photography Theory, Photography, Visual culture, Photography Criticism, Stuart Hall, Michelle Henning, Voyeurism, Fetishism, Freud

Stereotyping As A Signifying Practice - Stuart Hall (1997)1 comment

Hugh wrote 3 weeks ago: This entry discusses an extract from the book Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifyin … more →

Tags: Photography Theory, Photography, Visual culture, representation, stereotyping, Stuart Hall, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

The Documentary Debate : Aesthetic or Anaesthetic - David Levi-Strauss (1992)1 comment

Hugh wrote 1 month ago: In this article Levi-Strauss writes about the relationship between aesthetics and politics in social … more →

Tags: Documentary Photography, Photography Criticism, Art, David Levi Strauss, Documentary, Martha Rosler, Photography, Visual culture

Post-Documentary, Post-Photography - Martha Rosler (2001)

Hugh wrote 1 month ago: Martha Rosler is a visual artist whose writings on photography theory have been widely influential o … more →

Tags: Documentary Photography, Photography Criticism, Documentary, Martha Rosler, Photography, Visual culture

Criticizing Photographs - Terry Barrett (1999)

Hugh wrote 1 month ago: Terry Barrett’s book Criticizing Photographs is a general introduction to photography theory w … more →

Tags: Photography Criticism, Photography Theory, criticizing photographs, joel-peter witkin, Photography, Terry Barrett, Visual culture

Best Designer Award Went to John Rocha7 comments

whisty wrote 1 month ago: I dropped in to Off The Rails Live at the RDS amid a biblical rain storm on Friday night. Mock ye no … more →

Tags: Fashion, student fashion, Dublin Fashion, Tim Ryan, RTE, joanne hynes, Off the Rails, john rocha, LCAD

The Image World - Susan Sontag (1977)3 comments

Hugh wrote 1 month ago: Susan Sontag’s On Photography is a text that every photography theory student grapples with at … more →

Tags: Photography Theory, On Photography, Philosophy, Photography, Realism, susan sontag, the image world, Visual culture

Camera Lucida 1 (1981) by Roland Barthes

Hugh wrote 2 months ago: from The Photography Reader, edited by Liz Wells Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida is a classic te … more →

Tags: Photography Theory, camera lucida, Philosophy, Photography, Realism, Roland Barthes, Visual culture

First year of NCAD

peterfingleton wrote 2 months ago: My first year of college saw me experimenting with a lot of different art forms, from print to anima … more →

Tags: Art, 1st year

Ella Bertilsson

Cillian wrote 5 months ago: I saw this lady’s art at the NCAD Graduate Show in Dublin. Funny in a demented way, like that … more →

Tags: Art, Ella Bertilsson

NCAD Graduate Show 20091 comment

kDamo wrote 6 months ago: Gillian Joyce – The Birth of Drug Abuse kDamo’s Review of the NCAD Graduate Show a.k.a. … more →

Tags: Art, Exhibition, degree show, Graduate Exhibition, Thomas Street, Digital Hub, Gillian Joyce

Making Worlds

kDamo wrote 7 months ago: Tomorrow (Fri 5 June) some of my photos will be appearing as part of shows in two fairly massive exh … more →

Tags: Photography, Friends, Art, Wine O'Clock, kDamo, Exhibition, Kennedy Browne, Venice Biennale, Dan Deacon

Win a Philip Treacy Creation2 comments

whisty wrote 7 months ago: Okay it’s safe to say that for this summer at least I’m a Trilby girl but I couldn … more →

Tags: Food, Fashion, Dublin Fashion, designer fashion, irish fashion, Irish Designers, Philip Treacy, Sarah Jessica Parker, SATC

Make-Up and Style Press Releases

emmafarrell wrote 7 months ago: ARTICLE ABOUT WEDDINGS IN THE RECESSION: I have been wondering if the downturn has effected the wedd … more →

Tags: Weddings, Style, Make-Up, Bride, wedding, recession, Press Release, Fish, people still getting married

NCAD Meeting

dochendrix wrote 7 months ago: Met with the Student’s Union in the National College of Art and Design today. We are hoping to … more →

Tags: thesis, University, Blogging, Group, Meeting, Location

Arty Party Exhibition14 comments

myleftventricle wrote 8 months ago: Gareth’s Guinness fangs!! … more →

Tags: Exhibition, Photography, arty party, Sundara, cat

This week I will be mostly... bussing it.

kDamo wrote 9 months ago: Catherine Barragry - Why Foxes Don't Get Drunk While Bobby Armstrong’s latest show in the … more →

Tags: Art, Wine O'Clock, Exhibition, catherine barragry, sheila rennick, Twisted Pepper, Lighthouse Cinema, Performance, Phoenix Park


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