Academic Sources:

• Research and identify 3-5 literary sources from a variety of media
• Begin to read essay, texts and interviews with your chosen artists as well as commentary from critics, historians and others.
• Take notes when you’re reading…key words, concepts, passages
• Write down page number, author, year, title, publisher, place of publication so you can list source in a bibliography

Movements and Isms: I would like to take some inspiration from the Straight Photography movement as I think that artists which reflect this era of work, such as Rut Blees Luxemburg, have created some very influential and important work. Throughout one of Luxemburg’s interviews she mentions how her images how a public privacy to them, which relates to the outside work and being in an urban environment. This work is very important as it illustrates that straight photography can be demonstrated in many different types of locations, and don’t just need to be images of people.

Quotation and Referencing:

Why/ What should you reference?

• To add academic support for your work
• To support or disprove your argument
• To show evidence of reading
• To help readers locate your sources
• To avoid plagiarism
• Anything that is based on a piece of information or idea that is not entirely your own.
• That includes, direct quotes, paraphrasing or summarising of an idea, theory or concept, definitions, images, tables, graphs, maps or anything else obtained from a source
• Should use the harvard system of referencing

Bibliography- Harvard System

Shea, D. (2018), 43-35 10th Street. Baden: Kodoji Press

In-text refencing examples:

Direct Quote: In his book on ‘Conversations on Photography’. Baltz writes ‘It seemed almost like magic to me how somehow you could make a replica. And you could represent the world, or a large piece of the world, without ever having to mess around with drawing…’ (Baltz 2018:8)

Paraphrasing/ summarising: Baltz (2018) states that he thinks its magic that objects can be replicated through the camera rather than drawing.

Literary Sources

Lewis Baltz– This article provides some of the information that I have included in my overall blog post about Lewis Baltz, this website is good for finding out information such as where his first photoshoots took place, his nationality and his life becoming a new topographic photographer.

Lewis Baltz’s Work– This website is more effective when researching information about the countless works that Baltz did throughout his life, how they are displayed and where the pieces of work are now. This is an important as it provided an insight into how much work Lewis Baltz has produced.

Richard Misrach– I think that this is one of the best websites for information about Richard Misrach, this is because it provides clear and concise information about the life of Misrach with only relevant facts.

Richard Misrach- Quotes and Work– This source provides information about the details and inspirations of Richard Misrach surrounding his work. This is a great source as I can see the levels and concepts throughout his work and how the quality of his ‘Petrochemical America’ book.

Additionally, I have selected Lewis Baltz’s ‘So present, So visible: Conversations with Photography‘ extract, which contains many quotes that would help me select many of the quotes that could be part of my essay. As there each paragraph is supposed to contain 2 quotations that are both relevant to the essay question and artists that I have selected, this screenshot belong is part of the book that I would like to explore and include in my personal study.

Essay Question Ideas

‘In what ways do Lewis Baltz and Richard Misrach explore how people have impacted our planet and environment?’

‘How do Lewis Baltz and Richard and Misrach consider the theme of Anthropocene?’

‘Considering how we are currently experiencing an environment crisis. How do artists Lewis Baltz and Richard Misrach illustrate this?’

‘How is the theme of Anthropocene explored through the photography of Lewis Baltz and Richard Misrach?’

‘How are the environmental changes occurring throughout our planet illustrated through Lewis Baltz and Richard Misrach’s’ work?

Opening Quote Ideas

“I’ve come to believe that beauty can be a very powerful conveyor of difficult ideas.”

“In a sense it was a dream life. Of course, it appeared it was a dream because it was mostly a romantic fiction.”

“Whether being legitimate or illegitimate, photography was still a product of the industrial revolution”

Why select Straight Photography?

The whole concept of Straight Photography is one that appeals to me much more than other types of ‘isms’ such as post-modernism. I think that this is because this style of photography is one which relates (or can be made to relate to) the theme of Anthropocene, which I will be exploring throughout my personal study. The importance of Straight Photography is one which I hope to reflect in my work as although Lewis Baltz focuses more on the concept of modernism, in my opinion straight photography is more relevant to my work.