I.T.A.P Photography (last I.T.A.P lecture)

Key principles

• How can you add text to change an image
• How text can influence our emotions

In photography and image is just and image, without some text to explain what the image is portraying then we have no idea weather an apple is just an apple or if its ment to show us how the recession is harming our economy. For example such photographers such as "John Heartfield" and "Peter Kennard" it is obvious to see what there photography is ment to be showing us.































Avendons work in the american west

This was a book by"Laura wilson" one of "Richard avendons" assistants, now his work was not self explanatory and he only took black and white photos in this book. The book was about "drifters" and how he just took pictures of them, now this is all well and good but the people have no story to them, its really just a blank canvas now text could change this and give you a lot more information but he chose not to do this, and its a crying shame because in my opinion it really ruins these beautiful crisp black and white photos.




































How can text influence our emotions

Now a photo of a murder scene is just a photo if we didn't know that the picture we were looking at was a murder scene, but put a bit of text underneath the picture explaining that manny innocent people died in that very spot would make you think a lot more about that photo. Well this is exactly what one photographer did, unfortunately i canot find any photos at this moment of his work. However i can tell you about photos take from the victims of the "Cambodian killing fields" this was when there was a lot of Communism in that area and anybody who failed to comply with the raceme were taken for "correction" by this they were horribly assaulted and then killed. These photos did have text in the book where it explained all this but without the text you would have thought that they were just drifters like the photos above.