Monthly Archives: August 2015

New Project: 13 the body

Posted on August 14, 2015 by Pete

Hughes & Paterson argue in The Social Model of Disability and the Disappearing Body: Towards a Sociology of Impairment (2010) that the social model of disability has ignored the sociology of impairment and explore that subject form two theoretical perspectives … Continue reading →

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Should I include or exclude the body?

Posted on August 12, 2015 by Pete

My research into the visual representation of race, gender and sexuality has thrown up some issues Do I need to reference the body in my work? Would I be denying that part of my reality without it? But if I … Continue reading →

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My life’s chair history

Posted on August 10, 2015 by Pete

I do get a bit frustrated with chair manufacturers. When first injured in 1978 I had NHS supplied Everest and Jennings Chairs. They weighed about 53 pounds, flexed like hell and broke every few months. I then got a Swede … Continue reading →

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Research on classes of people and representation: trying to draw some conclusions

Posted on August 10, 2015 by Pete

I think my exploration as suffered from some mission creep over the past year. I began investigating dominant representations of women and then moved onto Black people but when I cam to explore Queer photography I moved away from whether … Continue reading →

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Queer photography – a connection?

Posted on August 7, 2015 by Pete

David Benjamin Sherry’s vividly coloured landscapes where shown in Apertures Spring edition and so positioned as queer. The images, natural landscapes were positioned on their own, next to images of camp men, gay men or bodies and introduced by Kevin … Continue reading →

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Dominant representations of gay

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Pete

This post is different from the others focussed on queer photography as it’s about dominant (ie heterosexual) representation’s of gay. Not gay people and not gay icons mind: just gay. The first search turned up stereotypes (icons?) and words. I … Continue reading →

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Queer photography – more defining

Posted on August 4, 2015 by Pete

Just a few more notes and thoughts regarding the subject: Richard Meyer: The word queer = means of opposition to normative heterosexuality Nina Levitt’s image entitled submerged “hovers between visibility and erasure, resolution and apparition” Emily Roysdon reimagines Rimbaud in … Continue reading →

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Remembering mum

Posted on August 4, 2015 by Pete

Missed for one whole year now.

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Busy doing nothing

Posted on August 3, 2015 by Pete

So Karen and I spent a really busy weekend doing nothing. We drive to Portsmouth and spent a couple of days wandering and watching all the people busy coming and going. We looked at  things from all sorts of viewpoints. … Continue reading →

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