John Gilhooly

Dissertation feedback

The feedback from John on my dissertation proposal was positive and encouraging, with some useful recommendations on both refining by plan and books for research material. I plan to write about the photographic image, and how new technology has changed the way we acquire and consume those images, from image capture and development through to distribution and public display. John suggested i focus the idea to discussing it form either the practitioners point of view, highlighting the differences in digital capture and manipulation, or write it with regard to the viewers/consumers point of view, which could cover issues of image quality and distribution, display format, mobile phone cameras etc. I'll probably use this latter line of approach, as it relates to a more cultural use of the medium and less technical aspects of it. It also has direct parallels to the issues we've recently been discussing about the advent of digital cinema and how it has effected both the film industry and how we watch movies.

John recommended reading 'Moving Image Technology - from Zeotrope to Digital' by Leo Enticknap., a theory and history of moving images .

'Suspension of Perception' and 'Techniques of the Observer' by Jonathan Crary

and 'Stillness and Time: Photography and the Moving Image.' a collection of essays by photography and film theorists.