http://www.david-campbell.org Photography, Multimedia, Politics Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:50:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.david-campbell.org/photography/#comment-19810 Thinking Images v.8: Haiti’s eternal present | David Campbell Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:40:37 +0000 http://www.david-campbell.org/?page_id=8#comment-19810 [...] workGuidePhotographyAtrocity and MemoryVideosHIV/AIDSImaging FamineVideosGrantsMultimediaThe Boarding HouseLiving in the [...] [...] workGuidePhotographyAtrocity and MemoryVideosHIV/AIDSImaging FamineVideosGrantsMultimediaThe Boarding HouseLiving in the [...]

]]> http://www.david-campbell.org/photography/#comment-6300 `Still pictures are not still…’ Fore-seeing the effect of visual images « The Rights Exposure Project Sun, 09 May 2010 12:28:06 +0000 http://www.david-campbell.org/?page_id=8#comment-6300 [...] `Still pictures are not still…’ Fore-seeing the effect of visual images An interesting digest by Rahnuman Ahmed on Shahidul Alam’s blog including a seminar at the recent Chobi Mela (International Festival of Photography) in Bangladesh called ‘Engaging with photography from outside: An informal discussion between a geographer, an editor and a curator/funder of photography’. One of the panelists, David Campbell, a professor of cultural and political geography, raises the point that there is currently too much focus on the meaning and ‘truth’ of the image, and not about their effect and function. We should not invest ‘too much possibility’ in the single image. The effect of visual images needs to be investigated rather than assumed. It should be ‘understood as being part of a network of materials…’. For more of David Campbell’s work looking at the function of photography on issues such as famine, HIV/AIDS and Atrocity/Memory click here. [...] [...] `Still pictures are not still…’ Fore-seeing the effect of visual images An interesting digest by Rahnuman Ahmed on Shahidul Alam’s blog including a seminar at the recent Chobi Mela (International Festival of Photography) in Bangladesh called ‘Engaging with photography from outside: An informal discussion between a geographer, an editor and a curator/funder of photography’. One of the panelists, David Campbell, a professor of cultural and political geography, raises the point that there is currently too much focus on the meaning and ‘truth’ of the image, and not about their effect and function. We should not invest ‘too much possibility’ in the single image. The effect of visual images needs to be investigated rather than assumed. It should be ‘understood as being part of a network of materials…’. For more of David Campbell’s work looking at the function of photography on issues such as famine, HIV/AIDS and Atrocity/Memory click here. [...]

]]> http://www.david-campbell.org/photography/#comment-1553 How photographs make Darfur mean something | David Campbell -- Photography, Multimedia, Politics Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:18:47 +0000 http://www.david-campbell.org/?page_id=8#comment-1553 [...] Photography [...] [...] Photography [...]

]]> http://www.david-campbell.org/photography/#comment-21 ‘Still pictures are not still…’ « praxis books Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:33:54 +0000 http://www.david-campbell.org/?page_id=8#comment-21 [...] But the next day, my thoughts returned to what David had said, and to the general discussion that had followed. On David’s website, I came across how he understands photography, ‘a technology through which the world is visually performed,’ and a gist of his theoretical argument. I quote: ‘The pictures that the technology of photography produces are neither isolated nor discrete objects. They have to be understood as being part of networks of materials, technologies, institutions, markets, social spaces, emotions, cultural histories and political contexts. The meaning of photographs derives from the intersection of these multiple features rather than just the form and content of particular pictures.’ (http: //www.david-campbell.org/photography/).
    [...] [...] But the next day, my thoughts returned to what David had said, and to the general discussion that had followed. On David’s website, I came across how he understands photography, ‘a technology through which the world is visually performed,’ and a gist of his theoretical argument. I quote: ‘The pictures that the technology of photography produces are neither isolated nor discrete objects. They have to be understood as being part of networks of materials, technologies, institutions, markets, social spaces, emotions, cultural histories and political contexts. The meaning of photographs derives from the intersection of these multiple features rather than just the form and content of particular pictures.’ (http: //www.david-campbell.org/photography/).
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