Dave MaceyMA                     Photographer

The Great Pyramid and the Great Sphinx, Egypt, 1858, by Francis Frith Introduction was like entering a different world when Francis...

One of the traditional objectives of a portrait or a self-portrait is to portray the person as being recognisable.  Rembrandt painted 40...

For a long time I have been an admirer of the Transformations series by Lucas Samaras.  The series was created from 1973-76 and contains...

I first saw this image a couple of days ago in a photography newsletter that I subscribe to.  It is always a bit of a lottery as to what...

Recently, I have been reading about creativity.  It’s a vast subject, with such depth that it feels as if I am hardly scratching the...

The most obvious part of this photograph is the colour.  The crispness of the white in the painted sign along with the red-orange hue of...

Surrealism.  If you want to produce something that is odd and unsettling, just think of surrealism.  Think of shadows, of displaying...

One of the many qualities that attracts me to photographs is their veracity.  The photographs captured by cameras are always pre-defined...

From first looking at the photograph, the question came to mind why?  Why was the photograph taken?  Why are the people there?  Why are...

Recently I seem to of become obsessed with The Golden Spiral.  I find myself putting overlays on photographs to see how well the image...

In Hulden’s Black and White landscape I find myself getting lost.  I am lost in a world of harmony, of where the elements fit together...

Francesca Woodman excelled at taking self-portraits that were unusual and creative.  Often, she would appear as someone representing a...

In the last post it was highlighted that the pioneering photographers of the 19th Century needed to be technicians as much as artists. ...

Robert Cornelius Self-Portrait 1839 The birth of photography was a messy affair as it was not just one inventor or scientist involved, or...

Throughout the history of art, the self-portrait has had many functions, but there are two elements that have been constants throughout. ...

Posing when having your picture taken is natural, it is behaviour that everyone does.  It can be as simple as making a smile or...

Once I feel myself observed by the lens, everything changes; I constitute myself in the process of “posing”. (Barthes, 1980) Moments of...

So far the discussion has concentrated on how people react, of how people follow an example.  The looking glass self theory initially...

So far it can seem as if the selfie is a combination of the looking glass self theory with the addition of the ideas of Irving Goffman. ...

The Selfie and producing a front. It is well understood that a selfie is not a production of a deep and meaningful self-portrait, and...