First Impressions
- · Confusing at first to figure out who the author is talking about
- · You don’t have to be an outsider to the subject to be a photographer you can be an insider too
- · Nan Goulding is an insider to the photographs she takes because she is sometimes the subject of them and also she knows the people she is photographing she is an insider to the lives they lead
- · “as with arbus’ photographs of freaks and deviants the risk is that the subject- irrespective of the photographer’s intention- becomes object and spectacle”
- · the subjects are often victimized, marginalised, discriminated against, or even physically attacked
- · “the camera observes mutely; there is no text, no narration, no explanation, no commentary”
- · “it may well be that the nature that speaks to our eyes can be plotted neither on the side of inside or outside but in some liminal and as yet unplotted space between perception and cognition, projection and identification”
after seminar
1-
Do you agree with Sontag’s opinion of Diane Arbus?
· Diane trying to fight against
“boredom” – Is she trying to be an outsider by photographing the unusual?
Photographing the unconventional
· Mentally ill with depression – maybe
felt like an outsider so she took photographs of “freaks” because she
identified with them- but then contradicts this by calling them freaks.
Nan Gouldin
– has an insiders approach because she knew the people she was photographing
· Photographing herself with a bruised
face or in intimate positions with her boyfriend also presents Gouldin as an
insider…
Reinforcing
the idea that a photographer can be an insider and an outsider.
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