PHO702.The Unseen and the overlooked

This module has been my favourite so far I have a lot of writing to catch up on and the topics covered are providing us with plenty of material to digest and discuss, maybe a bit overwhelming but none the less fabulous.

Today we had a “bonus lecture” discussing the everyday and banal, we discussed how often overlooked subjects or objects even in the vernacular become important and valid by the the act of seeing and more importantly by the act of being photographed.

In its broadest sense we can look at the work of Eadweard Muybridge who’s images could only have given us that vision via the camera, his images of horses running for example was a new view on a familiar subject that actually painters had been getting wrong.Google Earth is another area where the familiar is viewed in a new way that only through the lens of a camera we see a version of the vernacular.

These are of course quite extreme examples and in this post I hope to explore the other end of the spectrum and some of the work in between the two.