Week 9

1. According to Mountfort et al. (2018), what are the three main genres of cosphotography, and how did they historically develop?

Cosphotography is Cosplay Photography if im going to be completely honest before these readings i didn’t even know that was even counted as a genre of photography and that is has a rich background leading back to at least 1939.

The following are the 3 cosphotography sub genres as defined in Moutainfort et al. (2018) are the hallway snapshot, staged competition shoot and the Studio portrait. The competition shoot was established from annual masquerades where there were formal costume competitions. The hallway snapshot originated from more informal convention settings where the term hallway costumes was coined Mountfort el al. (2018).The first one being more professional while the second being more casual both of these originated during the 1930s-40s.
Finally the 3rd the studio portrait which came around with polaroid’s and instant cameras of the 70s this consisted of staging shots that were performed in the informal locations of conventions and such instead of studios Mountfort el al. (2018).

Reference:

Mountfort, P. R., Geczy, A., & Peirson-Smith, A. (2018). Planet cosplay: costume play, identity and global fandom. Intellect.