Dissertation - On Going (RP)
This page on my blog is just to show the work I have been doing to further my dissertation, It consists of research so you can see what my dissertation will be about, what kind of things I will be writing about and where I getting my research from.
Some will be pictures I have taken of my research but other parts will be written.
To start off my planning for my dissertation I made Min-map of the different sections I will be writing about. Here is an image to show this -
Next I wrote out what will be in each of my sections - Introduction Main Section and Conclusion.
Introduction -
What my essay will contain -
- Throughout this essay I will be looking at the history of the family portrait
- Also I will be looking at the different factors of what makes up a family portrait photograph.
- Another factor I will be looking at are the reasons as to why people take family portraits
- And lastly throughout this essay I will be looking at how the family portrait has changed throughout the decades, starting from the mid 1800's right up the current day.
Main Section-
Background History on Portraiture -
- What are Portraits
- What do they consist of
Changing factors of photography in portraiture from the mid 1800's to the 1900's -
- Different camera photographic formats
- What they were
- Differences between them all
- How they changed the images
Late 1900's - 50s - 90's -
- What the images were like then
- How do they differ from early 1900's
- What factors changed
- Photographers?
2000's up to the current day -
- What are family portraits like now
- How have they changed
- what factors have changed
- Photographers
- Venture?
What is this obsession we have with taking/capturing family portraits?
What do family portrait images show?
Conclusion-
My conclusion will consist of how exactly the "Family Portrait" has changed throughout the decades and what those changes were.
For example - The different parts that have affected the photographic family portrait are.....
Ad lastly how this work of photography has and will effect my own personal work.
Next I picked a certain section within my dissertation to start writing about, I decided to pick how the photographic format of pictures changed. To start this I found a blog that is dedicated to the history of family photography. Here below this link to the site and a screen grab of the page I used.
From this website I just made key notes off all the different types of photographic formats that were used to capture family portraits and how they changed and developed. To show these notes I just took images of my notes instead of typing them all up, so here below are the images of my notes.
Another section that I decided to make a start on writing was " what are portraits". Here again is an image of the notes I made.









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