| Monday August 24 |
| 1. Find an online article on how to improve your shooting – your focusing, your lighting, or your exposure. Include a link to that article in your blog with a full citation 2. Read the page on Aaron Siskind, American Photographer http://www.theartstory.org/artist-siskind-aaron-artworks.htm#pnt_2 Gallery blog: Choose one of Aaron Siskind’s works from the Siskind page. For your blog, post the photograph. Record the title, date and location. After having read about Siskind, in what category would you place this work? Abstraction? Documentary? Describe the content and analyze the composition. |
| Wednesday August 26 |
| From the artists listed choose two examples of depth of field. Find one example of short depth of field. Post it to your blog. Find one example of long depth of field. Post it to your blog. In both, analyze the strengths of the composition and describe how the artist’s choice for depth of field contributes to the composition. Be sure to credit the artist under each photograph. Diane Arbus: http://www.artnet.com/artists/diane-arbus/ Saïdou Dicko, La Bouilloire (The Tea Kettle), 2014. © Saïdou Dicko. Courtesy of ARTCO Gallery, Aachen, Global Photography p. 161 Google Books https://www.google.com/books/edition/Global_Photography/hmfqDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Dicko Walker Evans: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/evan/hd_evan.htm Robert Frank: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/robert-frank-the-americans#slideshow Sebastião Salgado: https://fstoppers.com/documentary/inspirational-photographers-focus-what-can-we-learn-salgados-genesis-458163 (penguin image) Paul Strand: http://www.metmuseum.org – search for paul strand |
| Monday August 31 |
| 1. Upload 4 Texture shots to the course blog 2. Choose one example from an artist on this list and describe/analyze the strengths of the composition and lighting. Post the example to your blog with a full citation. Ansel Adams: http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/262553 http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/262589 Harry Callahan: http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/267362 http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/266590 Edward Weston: http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/286226 http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/285784 |
| Wednesday September 2 |
| Each of these photographers enhances content with strong composition. Choose one of the three photographs to discuss how composition underscores content. Then discuss the content of the work based on your readings from the website. Mitra Tabrizian, Tehran 2006: https://unframed.lacma.org/2014/05/02/new-acquisition-mitra-tabrizian-tehran-2006 James Rodriguez: Guatemala: Life After Genocide. https://www.mimondo.org Joseph Koudelka Shu’fat Refugee Camp, overlooking Al ‘Isawiya, East Jerusalem. https://pro.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&ALID=2TYRYDX7YF2P |
| Monday September 7 (Labor Day) |
| Look at the examples of photographic commentary on child labor provided by photographers Roberto Romano and Lewis Hine. Find another example online of an artist or organization documenting a similar concern today either in photography or video. Post a link to the site. Explain what made the work effective in communicating its message. Roberto Romano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFGLqkDnSVI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwMFYqmHI5g Lewis Hine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqEBO3Fimek |
| Wednesday September 9 |
| 1. Find a good Photoshop tutorial for your level and include the URL in your blog with a full citation and a summary of what you learned. Include a snapshot of a sample file if relevant. 2. Motion You will each be provided with a slide to narrate. The Motion of Light in Water. Provide the artist’s name, the title of the work, date and location of the shot. Describe how motion is captured – is the movement crisply focused and is it frozen in time? Or Is there motion blur to suggest something that continually moves? Describe the contents as they are framed within the composition and discuss the most relevant design elements and organizing principles used: light, shadow, space, line, form, balance, tonal range, emphasis, contrast. Using Audacity, record your narration of the slide assigned to you. |
| Monday September 14 |
| 1. Upload short, long and creative depth of field to Blog with a caption for each one and a brief description 2. Start working on an artist statement for exhibition submissions. |
| Wednesday September 16 |
| 1. Choose a street photograph from the LUAG collection in Maginnes Hall that is particularly strong. (If you cannot go in person, go online to Lehigh University Art Galleries, Current Exhibitions, Taking it to the Streets.) Post the image to the blog with a full citation. Write a description of the photograph and an analysis of the composition. Why did you choose this piece? |
| Monday September 21 |
| Post an example of motion blur photography with a full citation from the first link. From the second link, list techniques to try to avoid having too much light when you have long shutter speeds. 45 Beautiful Motion Blur Photos http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/24/45-beautiful-motion-blur-photos/ http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-capture-motion-blur-in-photography |
| Wednesday September 23 |
| Doing Democracy: Photography from the George Stephanopoulos Collection – Luag Main Gallery, Zoellner Arts Center Take notes from the wall label and in your own words, describe the content recorded in the image you select. What is the significance of this image and how has the photographer framed the event? |
| Monday September 28 |
| Choose an example from this list or find an HDR example online that you think is both strong compositionally and is processed well. Post it to your blog with a full citation and a description of the strengths you see. 35 Fantastic HDR Pictures http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/03/10/35-fantastic-hdr-pictures/ |
| Wednesday September 30 |
| Each of these artists sets up full–scale tableaux to shoot. Some composite multiple shots. Choose an example from one of the artists to describe and interpret. Post the example to your blog and provide a full citation. Read biographies and artists statements or watch videos when provided to get an understanding of the artist’s background and concepts. Use this information to help you with our interpretation. Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison: https://fstoppers.com/portraits/amazing-surreal-work-robert-shana-parkeharrison-4009 Wang Qingsong. Competition. 2011. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/02/04/competition/ Cindy Sherman: http://www.cindysherman.com Jeff Wall http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yG2k4C4zrU and http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/magazine/25Wall.t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 Joel Peter Witkin: http://www.ethertongallery.com/html/artist_detail.php?recordID=10 |
| Monday October 5 |
| 1. Upload 3 to 4 samples of your work from the water project with a brief description of the black and white conversion technique used for each example and your approach to motion. 2. Comment on the water photography by two of your classmates. Be sure to select peers who do not already have more than one comment. 3. Upload 3 of your Street Photography shots with a brief description of location you selected and your approach. |
| Wednesday October 7 (Blog 1 due) |
| What can you take away from these series as inspiration for book ideas? Brainstorm some possible directions you might take as a result of seeing these examples – even though you don’t have the same resources (helicopter and pilots in Laforet’s case) or live in the same era as in the other two examples. Henri Cartier-Bresson https://www.icp.org/exhibitions/henri-cartier-bresson-the-decisive-moment “Then They Came For Me: Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II” https://www.icp.org/exhibitions/then-they-came-for-me-incarceration-of-japanese-americans-during-world-war-ii AIR by Vincent Laforet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnS3HDB9BiM |
| Monday October 12 |
| 1. Upload 3 of your HDR processed images to the Blog 2. Choose a portrait that you think is particularly effective and explain why you chose it. Post the example with a full citation on your blog. Richard Avedon: Portfolio, the American West http://www.richardavedon.com/index.php#mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=0&p=7&a=0&at=0 Gertrude Kasabier http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/1950/gertrude-ksebier-american-1852-1934/ Seydou Keita https://www.gallery51.com/index.php?navigatieid=9&fotograafid=16 Irving Penn https://www.irvingpenn.org |
| Wednesday October 14 |
| Choose one photographer and select one photograph that captures a moment of the Civil Rights Movement. Describe the content and explain what makes the photograph so effective. Include the photograph in your blog with a full citation. Bruce Davidson https://pro.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_4&VBID=24PVHKKA2L9HD&IID=2K1HRGPD1IXK&PN=2 Charles Moore Photographer of the Civil Rights Movement, Dies at 79. Claire O’Neill. March 16, 2010. Photo Stories from NPR. http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/03/charles_moore.html Danny Lyon. Civil Rights Series. Jackson Fine Art. http://www.jacksonfineart.com/danny-lyon-910.html 10 Essential Civil Rights Movement Photographers. Caroline Stanley. January 16, 2012. http://www.flavorwire.com/249320/10-essential-civil-rights-movement-photographers |
| Monday October 19 |
| Maplethorpe, Mann and Serrano produced bodies of work that were highly controversial when they were exhibited. Choose one example that might be controversial and describe both sides of the controversy. Post the example with a full citation on your blog. Robert Mapplethorpe http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mapplethorpelinks.html Sally Mann http://sallymann.com/selected-works http://sallymann.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Extended-Bio.pdf http://voices.yahoo.com/sally-manns-immediate-family-unflinching-unafraid-100113.html?cat=9 Andreas Serrano http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/apr/18/andres-serrano-piss-christ-shock http://www.artnet.com/usernet/awc/awc_thumbnail.asp?aid=424202827&gid=424202827&cid=121254&works_of_art=1 http://www.artnet.com/awc/andres-serrano.html |
| Wednesday October 21 |
| Choose one example from each artist and briefly describe their contributions to documentary photography. Post the examples to your blog with full citations. Sebastião Salgado https://www.artsy.net/artist/sebastiao-salgado/works?period=1990 Robert Capa http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_10_VForm&ERID=24KL535353 http://www.skylighters.org/photos/robertcapa.html |
| Monday October 26 |
| Choose an example from Greenfield’s “Thin” series or Mary Ellen Mark’s “Ward 81” to describe and interpret. Post the example with a full citation on your blog. Lauren Greenfield: Thin, Lauren Greenfield, Joan Jacobs Brumberg. http://www.amazon.com/Thin-Lauren-Greenfield/dp/081185633X/ref=la_B001JS6DTO_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1357161181&sr=1-2 Mary Ellen Mark. Ward 81: http://www.maryellenmark.com/books/titles/ward_81/300B-026-13A_ward81_520.html |
| Wednesday October 28 |
| Watch the video then search for an example from each artist to post to your blog with a brief description of his/her process based on the video. Provide full citations. Jerry Uelsmann and Maggie Taylor: This is Not Photography https://vimeo.com/69911353 – Feature-length |
| Monday November 2 |
| List one example that really captures the look of toy photography and briefly describe the technique used to get that effect. Post the example with a full citation on your blog. 50 Beautiful Examples of Tilt-Shift Photography: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/11/16/beautiful-examples-of-tilt-shift-photography/ |
| Wednesday November 4 |
| Choose a photograph from one of these film photographers to describe and analyze. What qualities drew you to this photograph? What makes it relevant today to a digital artist? Include a copy of the photograph in your blog with a full citation. Henri Cartier Bresson: https://www.artsy.net/artist/henri-cartier-bresson Imogen Cunningham: https://www.artsy.net/artist/imogen-cunningham Alfred Stieglitz: https://www.artsy.net/artist/alfred-stieglitz |
| Monday November 9 |
| Upload pdf of your book to the blog with an artist’s summary statement. |
| Wednesday November 11 |
| Well, Well, Well: Picturing Wellness from the LUAG Collection in Fairchild Martindale Study Gallery and Rausch Business Center. Post an image from the collection in your blog that captures the exhibition concept statement. Include a full citation and description of your choice. |
| Monday November 16 |
| Use one of these photographers and their work to discuss how they have used their art to make a social statement. I-Lann Yee’s Artist Statement Study of Lamprey’s Malayan Male I and II https://www.silverlensgalleries.com/artists/i-lann-yee/series/study-of-lampreys-malayan-male Read Eugene Smith Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath: https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/tomoko-uemura-in-her-bath/ |
| Wednesday November 18 |
| Each of these artists creates a set and photographs miniatures using the principles of tabletop photography. Choose an example from one of the artists and describe/analyze the qualities that make the work strong. Post the example to your blog with a full citation. Lori Nix: http://www.lorinix.net Four Artist Have the Same Idea with Mini Figurines http://ifitshipitshere.blogspot.com/2009/10/four-artists-have-same-big-idea-with.html Julia Fullerton-batten Teenage Stories Miniature Villages and Teenage Girls Bike Accident 2005: http://www.flickr.com/photos/foxtongue/2491004588/lightbox/ http://www.juliafullerton-batten.com James Casabere http://jamescasebere.com Paolo Ventura’s Winter Stories at Spoleto 2011 on Vimeo http://vimeo.com/24599999 http://www.paoloventura.com Matthew Albanese http://www.petapixel.com/2012/10/19/a-behind-the-scenes-glimpse-of-matthew-albaneses-magical-miniature-worlds/ |
| Monday November 30 |
| Comment on two peer final book PDFs projects posted to the blog. (You will be assigned 2) |
| Wednesday December 2 |
| Montage uploaded before the beginning of class. Comment on two peers montages during class. Blog 2 due by 5:00 p.m. today. |