A3—Tutor feedback

I met with my tutor this morning to discuss the work I submitted for A3. I was asked how much about my reference to Lacan and whether his proposal on the Mirror Stage had shaped my thinking about A3. I indicated that the assignment had been prompted by an experience rather than by theory. Lacan’s

Exercise 3.2—Four image-repertoires

The idea behind the exercise is that we draw on Barthes’ (2010) notion of the intersection of the awareness and points of view between photographer and subject in the making of a portrait: The portrait-photograph is a closed field of forces. Four image-repertoires intersect here, oppose and distort each other. In front of the lens,