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)