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Nobuo Ina – Return to Photography

mickyates January 21, 2019 ContextualResearch, Critical Research Journal, Critical Theory, ICWeek1, Informing Contexts, Japan, Photography, Quotes Leave a Comment

I have just been reading Return to Photography, by Nobuo Ina (1898-1978). Ina was influenced by thinking on photography emanating from Germany (Bauhaus et al). This essay was published in 1932, and predates Walter Benjamin‘s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936), with which it bears some similarities. Ina’s essay appeared in the first edition of Koga …

Artist’s Statements

mickyates December 29, 2018 Art, ContextualResearch, Critical Research Journal, Critical Theory, ICWeek1, Ideas, Informing Contexts, Photography, Practice, Quotes Leave a Comment

Arty Bollocks has an ‘Instant Artists Statement Generator‘ … and here is an example: ‘My work explores the relationship between postmodern discourse and vegetarian ethics. With influences as diverse as Derrida and Miles Davis, new tensions are generated from both traditional and modern narratives. Ever since I was a teenager I have been fascinated by the essential unreality of the …

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My work is ‘Unfinished Stories’. Life is always in motion, every moment creates a sense of place or personality. Having travelled and worked all over the world, my photography is informed by my view that we are more the same than we are different – yet differences reveal stories. Details matter.

I seek intimacy, rapport with and understanding of the subject, whilst asking questions about who people are, what they’re doing, and what concerns them. I deliver to the best standard that I know how: technically, artistically, respectfully, ethically.

The aim is to fairly represent the subjects of my work, whilst challenging clients and audiences with engaging and creative story-telling.

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