Photographer in residence at Forest Fringe
Edinburgh, Scotland
13th – 20th August 2013
Jemima will be creating a visual essay on Forest Fringe. She is keen to explore the role of the photographer within specific performance environments that goes beyond that of the documenter and marketer. How might the photographic image inform the processes of performance making? What is the relationship between photography and visual dramaturgy; photography and criticism?
Simultaneously she’ll be building upon an independent collection called The Audience; which functions as a photographic study of spectatorship as well as a contribution to the ongoing debate on the cultural value of performance.
I'm nervous about the essay. I'm nervous about failing to do anything interesting that does go beyond documentation. I wish I had brought up Joel's PHD on photography and theatre. All 300 pages of it.
"keep and cull" - laura in the kitchen
"Weill delineates some problems encountered in photographing theatre. The first of these is linked to concerns mentioned in previous articles, and is a question of the status of the theatre photograph. Weill suggests that a photograph struggles to be both an accurate representation of a show and also be a good photograph in its own right: he states that it is nearly impossible to create a series of images that are both faithful to a show and aesthetically interesting... Weill sees the question of theatre photography in terms of interpreting a complex instant." - Joel Anderson, Theatre and performance photography: Documentation and the Unlive
14.08.13
I'm going to not photograph today, not the shows, I'm going to use the luxury to watch them first.
POST - I Wish I was Lonely
"The only time I will call you is if I'm on fire."
photo of circle and phones
photo of audience in beginning from steps
In Swaziland, the story telling culture is so much more vibrant, low technology???
POST - A Cure for Ageing
"many many years gone bye"
Balloon reversal landscape
the line in front of the stage.
Dancing on earth to video of feeding
Speak to Kung Kung about Emily show - start with letters, start with reading each other's letters as if they were written about ourselves.
landscape, scenograph, wide angle
POST - Stand-By For Tape Back-Up
Portraits
shadow on projection
Is this photo journalism?
colour black and white CLICHE.
DO: Introduce yourself to everyone you photograph.
Try to avoid photographing during an actual performance
See the show before you photograph it.
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photography & visual dramaturgy?
photography and criticism - positive medium of criticism... the image cannot make something feel better than the best points of the experience. Unless it is staged for the camera. Right now, this is not something I am interested in.
"Clive Barnes ([1971] n.d.) considers how (Max) Waldman's work challenges notions of photographic recording. A theatre critic himself, Barnes links Waldman's photographic work to the work of the critic, whose job is to interpret and not to report. "A photograph" according to Barnes, is "the interpretation of a moment in time"... The suggestion is of the theatre photographer as auteur, and Barnes calls Waldman's camera a "filter to the world." - Joel Anderson, Theatre and performance photography: documentation and the unlive.
- Parkin'Son - Guilio D'Anna
- a dog die
- Nothing to Declare by Dictaphone Group
Today is world photography day apparently.
part of a recreation of Forced Entertainment's And On a Thousandth Night
The journal also contains a commentary on photographs of a
by Georgesthe type that theatre/publichas
production,
Didi-Huberman (1980), a photo-essay article of continued to publish.
20.08.13
