Photography Module: Week One II

"Photography is able to tell huge stories in single images."

Beckham red carded as England are eliminated from France 98

Beckham becomes public enemy, an effigy of him hanging by his neck.

Redemption as he sends England to 2002 World Cup with last minute free-kick.

Becomes national hero and arguably England's most famous sportsman ever.

Photography Module: Week One

Kop End, Anfield Road, Liverpool. 13th April 2014.

Photo taken seconds before kick-off of a crucial Premier League match between Liverpool Football Club and Manchester City Football Club, on the 25th Anniversary of the Hillsborough Disaster.

Anfield as seen from Cathedral in Liverpool.

Readings

• Photography is a potent and powerful force, able to tell huge stories in single images.
• A young medium, that is now developing very fast.
• We read photographs quickly, if not instantly, and know straight away whether we like or dislike them.
• Photographers bear witness to events for us; they inform and educate us through their eyes.

(John Ingledew, Photography: Loading)

Iconic picture of legendary Liverpool manager, Bill Shankly.

• We read a photograph, not as an image, but as a text.
• "Far from being a mirror, the photograph is one of the most complex and problematic forms of representation."
• To read a photograph is to enter a series of relationships which are 'hidden.'

(Graham Clarke, The Photograph [chapter 2])

Black Power salute at 1968 Mexico Olympics (Tommie Smith and John Carlos, gold and bronze medallists in the 200m)