Below you will find good examples of tools of the trade. These can be of your subjects using their tools or good, artistic shots of the tools themselves. Think about background and lighting and don't forget you can always edit photos after you shoot them, but its less work to really think about good compositions before you take those shots! For this you will print a photo NO LARGER than 5x7. (A 4x6 would also be fine). Glue this image onto a sturdy drawing paper or watercolor paper background. Then create a drawing or painting outward from the photograph. This could be realistic or abstracted!
For the photo Friday assignment, you will crop in so close to the subject that it becomes completely abstracted. You should only be able to read lines, shapes, values, NOT the subject matter. Below are some examples!
Andreas Feininger Biography One of the world's most prolific photographers, Feininger was a pioneer both visually and technically. Born in Paris, son of the painter Lyonel Feininger, Andreas was educated in German public schools and at the Weimar Bauhaus. His interest in photography developed while he was studying architecture, and he worked as both architect and photographer in Germany for four years, until political circumstances made it impossible. He moved to Paris, where he worked in Le Corbusier's studio, and then to Stockholm. There he established his own photographic firm specializing in architectural and industrial photography. With the outbreak of war in 1939, Feininger moved to New York, where he was a freelance photographer for the Black Star Agency and then for the U.S. Office of War Information. After working on a retainer basis, he was a staff photographer at LIFE from 1943 to 1962, and there established his reputation. He subsequently concentrated on his personal work, exhibiting and publishing extensively. Feininger was renowned as a teacher via his publications that combine practical experience with clarity of presentation. Feininger's purpose in photography was documentation of the unity of natural things, their interdependence, and their similarity to constructed forms. His images emphasize design, deploying the principles of simplicity, clarity, and organization. In addition to natural forms, Feininger's subject matter included the city, machines, and sculpture. He built four customized telephoto lenses and three close-up cameras, which allowed him to represent landscapes and city scenes in a distortion-free monumental perspective, and to show small subjects in startling sizes, thereby revealing unknown aspects. He preferred black-and-white photography for the graphic control it allowed. Feininger received numerous awards; his photographic archive is held at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson. Production Assignment: The Photo EssayYour next production assignment is to turn in 5-10 photographs that tell a story. This should follow a documentary process in that it tries to capture events that really happen. (each photo should be of high quality, so I'd take an entire roll on your topic and then turn in 5-10 of the best ones to tell the story.) You also need to include a written portion to go with the photographs. This could be one longer essay that accompanies all 5-10 photos, or it could be a shorter few sentences that goes with each individual photograph, that when put together tells the story. For more info, please see page 168 in the Focus on Photography book that discusses the photo essay. A great example of photo essay is Lewis Hine's photo essays of child labor in the US taken in the early 1900s. His work published the horrors of child labor and lead to the laws being changed to prevent child labor in the US. See examples on this link here. Concept #13: Photo WeaveFor your Historical Referenced assignment, you will pick a photographer to research and then emulate their style. You will also need to include a short essay with this assignment that includes the following:
For this week's concept, we are studying the work of Barbara Kruger and then doing our own emulation of her work. You will read an article about Barbara Kruger first and study the way she takes photographs. You will nee to fill out a Cornell Notes handout and then create your own emulation based on her work. Below are examples of her photographs: Below are student images:
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