Tuesday, 23 April 2013

All I ever do is read.

Yet more reading, reading reading reading! Apparently it's good for you.
I've currently loaned The Genius of Photography- How photography has changed our lives by Gerry Badger, and just been constantly reading through different sections (it's a big book).

I came across the idea of 'Photonovel' yesterday afternoon and whilst in detail it's not so much the same, the overall gist seemed fairly familiar and I could make links with my current work.

Photonovel:
"The 'photonovel' was developed by Dutch photographers in the 1950s. Using photography as a diaristic medium, this type of photo book often employed a stream-of-consciousness style.
And it defined a more personal, spontaneous kind of documentary photography, private rather than public in intention, focusing upon a photographer's own life, rather than others."

Whilst this concept sounds completely alien, I do feel that it sort of works backwards in terms of my own work.. (stay with me) In the sense that although I didn't take the photographs, in particular the ones I'm going to be using for my final major project are like a photonovel for me. They behold a private view of my childhood years, and with the intentions of my publicised work wanting to be kept private, I feel it actually fits in pretty well.

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