For my essay I want to answer the question “How does mental health influence photographers?” With this question I will add a couple artist references (with an image analysis included with each photographer) such as Edward Honaker, Francesca Woodman and Alexander Khokhlov. In the essay I will explain what my photobook inspired by Woodman and Honaker will show and how I would want my prints to look like for Khokhlov.
Paragraph 1: Introduction
Understanding of different mental illnesses https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/borderline-personality-disorder/overview/
Depression https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/clinical-depression/overview/ and anxiety https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/generalised-anxiety-disorder/overview/
Paragraph 2: Historical and contextual understanding
A short PPT on Tableaux Photography
https://hautlieucreative.co.uk/photo17ase/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2017/07/Tableaux-Photography.pdf
Bate, David (2016) ‘Pictorual Turn’ in Art Photography. London: Tate Galleries. How Tableaux has been influenced by Pictorialism
https://hautlieucreative.co.uk/photo17ase/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2017/07/David_Bate_The_Pictorial_Turn.pdf
Paragraph 3: Edward Honaker and analyse key images/ works
Edward Honaker book 2, his perspective on his depression shown through photography http://www.edwardhonaker.com/booktwo
https://www.ignant.com/2015/09/24/photographer-edward-honaker-documents-his-own-depression/
Paragraph 4: Francesca Woodman and analyse key images/ works
Towsend, C. (2006) Francesca Woodman: Scattered in Space and Time. London: Phaidon Press Limited.
> Go to folder with pdf Francesca Woodman essays here: M:\Departments\Photography\Students\LOVE & REBELLION\Contextual Studies\reading
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-hourglass-figure-on-photographer-francesca-woodman/
Paragraph 4: Alexander Khokhlov and analyse key images/ works
Portfolio and projects, mostly focusing on the mental health project https://www.alexanderkhokhlov.com/
https://oneeyeland.com/awards/award_images.php?v=3&award_id=4468&year=2018