In Nude and Naked; Questioning Power and Challenging Representation we looked at moving from a historical consideration of the nude/naked binary in art and photography into a critical consideration of representation and power.
Key Themes and Ideas to think about:
Nude and naked
The role of the nude in art and culture
The male body and censorship
Power and representation
This week's task:
We have discussed nude and naked in the context of reclaiming
representation. We have looked at some classical photographers who
challenge notions of representation and contemporary photographers who
use the body to comment on the body as an object, representation and
commodification.
Working in pairs your task is to make an image of your partner, that reveals
something about them. This brief can be interpreted as broadly as you like. It
could be anything from a favourite food, idiosyncratic habit, what they like to
do in their spare time. The challenge is to navigate a successful way of
representing this in the image.
Experimentation is encouraged. What medium are you going to use? Colour,
Black and White? What format are you going to use? What presentation may
support the portrait? Do you need to make more than one image? Whose
image is it? How did you negotiate the story with the participant? What are
you trying to reveal in the image?
All tasks need to be added to the Google+ collaborative open space by
Wednesday March 1st. The seminar session will be online peer to peer
feedback.
You might want to look at:
Orlan
Hannah Wilke
John Coplans
Jenny Saville