Study Visit: Revelations, Bradford.
Join Derek on the 21 November at the National Media Museum in Bradford.
We previously ran a successful study visit Revelations at the Science Museum in London, click here to see details and feedback. This time round we want to aim this visit specifically at foundations and Level 1(HE 4) students.
“From the 1840s, scientists were using photography to record and measure phenomena which lay beyond human vision. The beauty of these early images and the revolutionary techniques developed for scientific study, shaped the history of photography and heavily influenced modern and contemporary art photographers.
Revelations showcases some of the earliest photographic images from the National Photography Collection by figures such as William Henry Fox Talbot and Eadweard Muybridge alongside striking works by modern and contemporary artists including Harold Edgerton and Hiroshi Sugimoto.”
This visit will be of interest to students across most subject areas in visual arts as it addresses the effect that ‘factual’/scientific photography had on the way we view evidence, the value placed on photography as a record and the impact on art practices.
To reserve your place email enquiries@oca.ac.uk
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I went to see this exhibition in July and found it very interesting and rewarding. I can highly recommend it.
I saw the exhibition in London and also attended the one day seminar about the event … am considering another visit to the show! There is also a book about the exhibition which contains essays as well as reproductions of the images; it is published by MACK and called Revelations.
personally I am interested in the photography of natural things and wonder why it receives such little attention from critics …
The Saturday telegraph cover magazine 3 october by nikon shows how to make an image in camera using frozen flowers in a similar genre to what you can see in Revelation like the cover image on the leaflet. Page 26 of the mag shows how it was done.
The exhibition makes you question what a photograph tells us – evidence, reality, construction, automatic machine-made record? The influence of the early photographs on art is only becoming more fully appreciated now, so this exhibition has something for all arts disciplines.
p.s. In London entry to this exhibition was £8 (or £6 for students): in Bradford it’s free 🙂