Photography As Dialogue brings together writing, projects, research and a film that explore how communities, researchers and artists are using photography to carve out and open up spaces for conversations. This special issue of the academic journal Photography & Culture, edited by Tiffany Fairey and Liz Orton, explores the dialogical potential… Continue reading
The Blind Photographer, published at the end of last year by Redstone Press, is a photography book that challenges our conception of what it means to see. Showcasing the work of more than fifty blind or partially sighted photographers from around the world, it celebrates the thriving and counter-intuitive… Continue reading
“…thinking about photography in collaborative terms invites us to reconfigure assumptions about the photographic act in all its stages.” Dr Daniel Palmer is a writer and Associate Professor in the Art Theory Program in the Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture at Monash University. His research and professional practice focuses… Continue reading
Wide Angle: Photography as Participatory Practice is a wide-ranging collection of essays in response to the subject of participatory photographic practice. Edited by Terry Kurgan and Tracy Murinik Published by Fourthwall Books ISBN 978-0-9922404-0-0 Acknowledging that the political and ethical status of photography is never uncomplicated terrain, contributors to this… Continue reading
307 Assignments and Ideas Edited by Jason Fulford and Gregory Halpern The cover is BUMPY. And it’s a cool project. Assignments by many of Photography as a Social Practice friends in here, including Mark Menjivar, Nolan Calisch, Harrell Fletcher and Susan Meiselas (as well as John Baldessari, Tina Barney, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Jim Goldberg, Miranda July,… Continue reading
Jen Delos Reyes teaches a fantastic course in the history of social practice. Anyone looking for texts that delve into process, collaboration, social engagement, and socially engaged art at large will find great ideas here. _________ Alberro, A. (1999). Reconsidering Conceptual Art, 1966-1977. In A. Alberro & B. Stimson (Eds.), Conceptual Art:… Continue reading
I was just looking over an assignment for Jason Fulford and Gregory Halpern’s upcoming Photographer’s Playbook (which you can pre-order from Aperture or Amazon) and thinking about social practice projects that involve assigning a group of people a task, and then pulling all those assignments together into a book. Another… Continue reading
For readings related to social practice, and what it means and how it functions. Lacy has an amazing diagram about audience. The ideas they talk about can be extrapolated to include projects that use images, though they themselves are not discussing images. Suzanne Lacy’s Mapping the Terrain Tom Finkelpearl’s What We… Continue reading