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All images taken by my Mother, Dawn Clark.
In approaching the selection /editing process I was first drawn to images that had children interacting within their environment - with backs towards the camera.
The approach of section with 'child in image' was based trying to translate my own personal family, visual language. I wanted to investigate what aesthetics within choice of composition and subject matter had been passed down, within generations, mother to child.
I found a shift in styles appearing in years 1950 -1960, that moved away from staged portraiture, to a more carefree snapshot that was well established by the time these images where taken (1970's). This would relate greatly to the change technology available to the amateur photographer.
I believe that the amateur photographers of this era have a very unique aesthetic. Using my mothers work as an example - my mother first took images on a Box Brownie with only 12 exposures per roll of film combined with development costs meant care had to be put into her choice of subject and composition.
The images above, are very much snapshots, but not taken by a person that had the luxury of a digital. They have a stillness that notes the patience's required in learning to take photographs, on such cameras as Box Brownies. There is no snapping off a hundred images within one day... its a approach that is rapidly being lost within our digital era.
Aesthetically well within my mothers images there are many posed family group photographs. Its her landscapes I'm drawn to. With or without a trace of a human element they speak of a very nonhuman centralist approach to her environment.
Monday/ 21/May
Having spent the weekend working on less formal family snapshot, I have decided that the triptic is overdoing things a little to much.
The images enlarged should be seen closer to there origanal shape. Though this may all change again if I dont like the results.
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