Essay
I never expect to be an art critique; yet, during my studies on photography in the last few years, I managed to complete three papers about artistic concepts applied by some photographers on their work. I am not an expert, far from. Thank you for reading, just in case you if want to get bored. Sincerely wish you may drop me a line if you have any thoughts and comments.
Final Project Essay
Certificate of "Seeing Through Photographs"
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Peter Lam, April 2020
My selection is the Angel (1973-75) series of photogram by Bruce Conner, mentioned in Week 6 by Noam M. Elocott in her article “From Darkroom to Laptop”.
On Documentary Photography
Its allegorical nature in postmodernism
Assignment Essay
Post Graduate Diploma in Contemporary Photography
HKUSPACE, Hong Kong
Peter Lam, 31 August 2020
Are all photographs documentary in nature? With its lens optics and chemical processes combined, photography intrinsically has the nature of being objective in portraying the real world. There is always an allegory that any image is a truthful depiction of some real-world human, living creature, artefact, architecture or landscape that once stood in front of the camera lens.
Ways of Seeing in Hong Kong Salon
Conflicts between the Salon and the Postmodernist Photographic Styles
Assignment Essay
Post Graduate Diploma in Contemporary Photography
HKUSPACE, Hong Kong
Peter Lam, 21 January 2021
What is the Salon?
“Salon” nowadays generally refers to a store for hairstyling or clothings. It used to mean regular meetings of writers, artists or politicians. The capital-lettered “The Salon”, originally referred to the semi-public art exhibition held by a royally sanctioned French institution at the Salon Carré in 1667, then in the Palace of the Louvre in 1725 when it became known as Salon or Salon de Paris . Later it moved to the Grand Salon of the Louvre in 1737 when the Salon became public. It showcased artwork in France and later from other foreign countries. Ths Salon, with its jury of awarded artists, emanates some degrees of authority on approval of art styles and artwork, enabling an elite organisation to dictate the definition of art [Richman-Abdou K. 2020].
