Contemporary Reportage: Re-orientations from the news image towards the authorial
- Submitting institution
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University of Portsmouth
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 25200396
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- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- A multi-component output supported by contextual information, consisting of two sets of artefacts comprising reportage drawings and three journal articles.
- Open access status
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- Month
- December
- Year
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- This research is presented as a MULTI-COMPONENT output consisting of five items supported by contextual information: two sets of artefacts comprising reportage drawings, and three journal articles (‘Brief Notes on Reportage Drawing’; ‘Mapping Experience in Reportage Drawing’; ‘The Serendipitous City’).
This body of work constitutes an important and original framework for understanding the form and function of reportage drawing. Tracing shifting norms and practices of reportage drawing from the 19th century news image to the authorial turn of the mid-20th century, which continues today, Netter’s work evidences a return to drawing, authorial distinctiveness and an exploitation of the properties, perceptions and indulgences of sketch and caricature. He identifies contemporary reportage drawing as a thriving medium, exploiting the limitations of the hand over the ubiquity of the photograph.
Netter’s practice research has probed the trends, orientations and history of contemporary reportage through various modes and media of dissemination, including conference papers, video interviews, symposia, artist talks, lectures, book events and use of VR online. This submission compiles a selection of that work showing a consistent line of enquiry through practice, resulting in a matrix from which the theory and practice of reportage drawing can be understood.
Influenced by past masters of the reportage drawing such as Ronald Searle and George Grosz, Netter’s drawing practice assimilates critical debates in the field around the use of photography, the nature of experience, links to journalism and the authorial shift towards the personal and political. Both his drawing and writing are framed by theorists including Philip Rawson, Ernst Gombrich, John Dewey, David Rosand, Deanna Petherbridge, and Yi-Fu Tuan. Schema, caricature, visual language, experience, space and place and nature of the image in the contemporary world are evidenced as integral parts of reportage practice and inform individual orientations to the act, shaping its current form.
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- Non-English
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