Notes Visiting lecturer Dr Kim Charnley

Dr Kim Charnley

Photography and Conceptual Art

How language became to be considered differently can become an art practice

Edward Ruscha - Various small fires and milk

Strange books of photographs, containing images that are a very literal statement of the title of the book.

Strategy that plays on relationship between language and art

Not leaving any spaces for question, deadpan approach to photography

Conceptual artists at this time used photography to represent the art rather than being the artform itself, more of a documentary style.

Douglas Huebler

“For other artists, photography simply played the role of documentation of some kind of action or event”

Staging of a concept in relation to an image

Jiri Kovada

Bas Jan Ader - im too sad to tell you

Mel Bochner - Misunderstandings

Marcel Duchamp

John Hilliard

How images construct our identity

Victor Burgin

Martha Rosler - Cleaning the drapes (feminism)

The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems

The ethics and legal implications of photography

Morality

John Baldessari - kiss panic

Image culture

The relationship between images and language is one that has to do with power…

Perception of values, cutting of text or how a photo is framed changes how a message is seen.

Jeff Wall - marks of indifference

Hito Steyerl

Role of visibility