hhmr
Reged: 21/04/2005
Posts: 386
Loc: London
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I wonder if other people doing AP courses would like some space here in the SPI fora where we can discuss books we've been reading/looking at and exhibitions we've visited in the context of being SPI students rather than general users of the AP fora? Discussions elsewhere sometimes get swamped by traffic and buried under the weight of day to day chat.
If so, do post something here and if enough of us are interested maybe we could ask and see if the powers that be would give us some space.
I know the SPI courses address practical skills, but what we are set as exercises always seems to encourage curiosity about 'classic' photographers of past and present and indeed about ideas being kicked around in the world of art generally.
Henry
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meaco
journeyman
Reged: 20/01/2009
Posts: 87
Loc: Midlands - UK
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Personally I think its a really good idea. I missed the photographic show in Feb (I think) and thought it was a shame that nobody thought about mentioning it to us here as it would have been an interesting day out. Or maybe just an expensive one 
I also got into the Genius of Photography programme that was on the TV - but only realised how good it was once I started watching it - but then it was too late to say anything as it was all recorded and was no longer on! I dont watch TV that much and a friend texted me about it.
If we can give eachother a nudge then it might help us to catch things that would be useful and interesting that we might not otherwise get to know about.
Got my vote!
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B_Cal
newbie
Reged: 14/04/2009
Posts: 25
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The logic works for me Henry.
To a degree some of my inspriation comes from looking at newspapers and non photographic magazines with first rate photography such as the Independant newspaper.
But having something here would help from a point of view of awareness.
B_Cal
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jennief
enthusiast
Reged: 28/04/2007
Posts: 362
Loc: Perthshire
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I would be for such a good idea as well.
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Jennie-professional worrier.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jennyfred
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Tickhiller
Unlabelled
Reged: 14/08/2008
Posts: 525
Loc: Tockholes
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Two books I can recommend are
The Photographer's Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos by Micheal Freeman
and
100 Ways To Take Better Landscape Photographs by Guy Edwardes.
They are both interesting reference books I keep to hand to dip into now and again.
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Julia
"The MADNESS Hamsters. Every night they visit you. Every night they come
And bit by bit. They steal your brain. And feed it to their MUM"
An interesting thought of Edward MONKTON
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tickhiller/
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hhmr
Reged: 21/04/2005
Posts: 386
Loc: London
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Hi All,
There does seem to be some support for the idea so I'll write in to Jessica suggesting this over the weekend.
If we had a forum where threads didn't get buried, perhaps the effort of writing at length about why we like someone or other's pictures or why we think such and such a critics ideas suck might not seem so off-putting.
I've been reading round the subject for a couple of years, not at the speed with which a student on academic course might need to, but enough to deepen my interest considerably. I've come across plenty of inspiration and plenty of sheer BS too, especially on the sociological fringes of photo criticism where proving some political point or other seem to rise to the surface quite often.
I loved that recent TV series btw, but it was all too short. Also I'd have loved to have seen a tougher line of interviewing towards some of the pundits as I think their ideas would have been even more inspirational. I'm never too sure whether interviews with photographers themselves are worth doing, beyond the point of how they deal with practical problems of cfaftsmanship. It's either all in their pictures or else nothing is. Interviews with friends and disciples of theirs, on the other hand, can be fascinating.
Henry
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