Feb 2011
Training your gaze
22/02/11 07:36
I’m one and a bit chapters in to Roswell Angier’s book Training your gaze and I find it to be excellent. It’s got me thinking about all sorts of things. The way that the referenced images are discussed is extremely enlightening, opening ways of looking at the images (and therefore others) that had been closed off to me before, although UVC has been helping here too. The text is also pulling in those ideas from UVC, explaining them in English if you like, and plain English at that, so you don’t have to decipher the writings of the French philosopher. I liked Judith Williamson for this too.
The assignments it offers seem to be interesting too. Maybe I’ll not carry them out as intended or even at all, but the first one has triggered a possible series for me. Something I need to explore further.
The assignments it offers seem to be interesting too. Maybe I’ll not carry them out as intended or even at all, but the first one has triggered a possible series for me. Something I need to explore further.
I’m drawn to a square layout of maybe 9 or 16 (25 might be too many) of this type of image, different people and either all colour or black and white (still to experiment). This is the first exercise in the book, and yes it has me thinking and playing around with stuff that perhaps I wouldn’t have done...
Obviously, I’m still in the first few pages, but I found it so interesting that I had to mention it on here. maybe it should come in as recommended reading?
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