Repetitions - Student Task

Repetitions Research Task

Research task: (1) Choose one these photographers, and examine how they use repetitions in their practice.Bernd and Hilla Becher, Dan Graham, Joseph Kosuth, Ed Ruscha, Roni Horn, Thomas Demand. Consider: (a) What is their Subject matter; (b) How do they take their photographs?; (c) What photographic equipment do they use?; (d) How do they exhibit and combine their photographs?; (e) What access are we given to the objects / events they photograph?; (f) How, before these works, do we interpret the objects depicted?(g) How do the individual images interact with one another, and influence the way we comprehend them?; (h) Can we link this analysis to Baudrillard’s notions of simulation, and the hyperreal? (j) Are these images representations or simulacra?

(2) Choose a type of object, architectural structure, or person, and create a series of Photographs of them. Develop an approach to taking your photographs that allows you to examine the individual attributes of the images, and explore the relationship of the images to one another. Think specifically about how you comprehend these objects. Think about how they exist individually and in relation to one another. What is most real about these objects? The individual presence of the object or the way it exists in relation to other objects of this types? How will the way you take and present the objects reflect this.