Category: MY PHOTO JOURNEY
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Teaching… How do we improve quality?
I just watched a peer, ostensibly from another university, deliver what was positioned as a “Masterclass in Sustainability in Photography”. Observations: (1) Almost the entire 45 minutes were read from a script. At several points, the presenter stumbled over pronunciation, and the tone of her voice changed completely on the couple of occasions when she…
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The relationship between “reader’s perception” in writing and Barthes’ concepts of Studium and Punctum
A discussion about the merits, and otherwise, of ‘crits’ and ‘constructive feedback’ in Facebook groups dedicated to photography, prompted Derek Darke to flag the relevance of the concept of “readers’ perception” in writing. It seems to me that this is exactly the same thing as Roland Barthes’ concepts of studium and punctum, as discussed in…
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