Week 3: Notes on Presentation (Group 1)


Group 1 Presentation: Vernacular photography


August Sander

  • devoted to an old-fashioned large-format camera
  • known for his "people of the 20th century" project
  • "The portrait is your mirror. It's you"
    • It is about how you control that person


Robert Frank

  • has broken the rules of photography and filmmaking


Martin Parr


  • known for serious photographs disguised as entertainment
  • documents social class of human


This work brings the absurdness (tourists, damaging effects)




  • His style
    • employing saturated colour
    • the use of flash, which brings 3D


Ways of Seeing by John Berger

  • introduces the term image
  • "An image is a sight that has been recreated or reproduced"

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