New Revised PDP

I have slightly expanded on points I made on my PDP and updated when my objectives have been completed.

Facebook Like Page

Another one of my objectives was to finally get around to setting up a Facebook like page for my photography. I needed a name for it which did take a while to think of but I am happy with it. I opted for 'Paisley Moon' as I think the aura of the name fits the style of my work very well.
I realised I needed to make myself a logo on Photoshop so I set about doing that. I think that the logo will be good to hand draw at some point also.

I wanted to condense my work down for the page so chose 5 albums to put up all showcasing different work that I am capable of.
Within about 8 hours I had already got 70 odd likes which I thought was really good! I'm going to keep updating it with my new projects as I do them

The link to my Facebook page is as follows:

https://www.facebook.com/PaisleyMoonPhotography

I also sent some of my work along to one of the psychedelic community subjects. He was chuffed with the outcome and posted it on his Facebook page. I'm still pretty shocked at how popular the photo was with his friends and followers!

Books

Handbook of Self and Identity by Mark R. Leary and June Price Tangney

I read part of this book in relation to my FMP. It took me quite a while to find relevant quotes to my work though so I did spend quite a long time reading it.
I found it interesting as it explained to me some logical reasons why people behave the way they do from which I was able to draw my own conclusions, like drugs potentially playing a part in people's behaviour around others.

Image-Music-Text by Roland Barthes

This book explores how people represent themselves in day to day life. He also discusses the pose and the importance that has on how we are representing ourselves. This book helped give me a deeper understanding the importance of the pose in photographs, namely by celebrities or world leaders. He used John F. Kennedy as an example for this.

Fashion and Music by Janice Miller

This book mainly focuses on the influence that music has on our style and how people represent themselves within the music industry. By reading this book I was helped to understand that lyrics are important to the formation of a music community or fan group. As psychedelic music mimics the effects of psychedelic drugs, it clearly has an impact on the dress sense and how people would act.

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman

This was probably the most interesting of all the books I had read over the past couple of months. Goffman believed that we were all actors and that we have 'onstage' and 'offstage' personas. I had never really thought about the differences in how we act around certain groups, like family, friends or at work.

Revelations - Diane Arbus

I found this in the library one day when looking for a book on Diane Arbus. It contains much of her work and excerpts from her journals and two features called 'In the Darkroom' by Neil Selkirk and 'The Question of Belief" by Sandra S. Phillips. There is also a timeline of her entire life within the book, even including the details of her postmortem.

In focus - August Sander

This book discusses 50 or so plates by Sander, has a interviews with other photographers and artists and a timeline of his life.

More Career Planning

Recently, myself, Becky Fernley and Tuesday Hibbert had been talking about what we will be doing post graduation. We decided to set up a blog that will contain vintage fashion, DIY and photography from all 3 of us. It is all very new and we have not really had much time to fill it with things as we have all been busy with the FMP and other commitments, but when we have more time we hope by constantly updating the blog that we could potentially get some extra jobs here and there from it.

Here is the link to our blog:

http://indigoplains.blogspot.co.uk/