ReadingGroupSession2
Outcome continue annotation of:
The Burden of Representation
Essays on Photographies and Histories
John Tagg (1988)
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/ReadingSession1Pad
Please download if you want to read through the text before hand.
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Steve will bring printouts to the session
We will begin reading at P.34, Chapter One.
Questions that might help with the group annotation during the session
(this builds on the methods you used in the last methods session with Natasha):
What is 'mode of address'?
How does this text speak to you as a reader?
How is this text in conversation with other texts?
What thoughts do you have about the structure of the text?
What in particular, for you, situates this text in the 1980s?
How would a 21st century text approach the issues raised in the text?
What other comments, thoughts, questions, do you have on/about this text?
Session One
Steve will give an overview of three texts and will outline how they each discuss photography as a 'technology of the self'
1) The Burden of Representation Essays on Photographies and Histories , John Tagg (1988)
2) Objectivity, Lorraine Daston & Peter Galison, (2007)
3 ) Duty Free Art Hito Steyerl” (2017)
Following Steve's intro, we we will read a portion of the text and then add our own notes and observations on a pad. We will also discuss how our reading of photography has changed over the 4 decades these texts were written. We will also note the comparisons and differences between the texts. You can extend this method to your own chosen texts in subsequent sessions.
This session is a response to requests for time to be set aside for reading.
It is not compulsory, but all are welcome.