My application form to interview a Magnum Photographer on June 28th and 29th.

This essay examines the origins of photography as a medium between Realism and Modernism. It investigates the cultural, the social and the historical impact Photography had on the twentieth century. The Author’s disucssed include et al. Walter Benjamin, Victor Burgin, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Siegfried Kracauer, László Moholy-Nagy, Susan Sontag and Raymond Williams.

This essay examines whether photography has its own ‘language’ and how we acquire its understanding. The materials I use for the discussion include David Bate’s Photography the Key Concepts (Oxford, Berg, 2009), Allan Sekula’s „On the Invention of Photographic Meaning” (1982), Michael Fried’s “Barthes’s Punctum” (2008) and Kevin Carter’s infamous image of a vulture and a infant in Sudan.

One of my first year assigmnets at university was to review Stephen Shore's The Nature of Photographs .