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Photographers - Choices for Personal Studies – Pick a project.Choice One –?Photography plays an important role in spreading the message that we have to do something....?(Links to Plastic Planet, carries on from Plastic Planet and takes the idea further looking more at this project but also at other issues in society)... Can also link to photojournalism and nature (for Josh)Challenges Create a page on your website TITLE: Spreading the Message or A Catalyst for Change or Raising Awareness or A Visual Voice (your choice)READ THE FOLLOWING:“Photographs can bear witness to history and even serve as catalysts for change. They can foster sympathy and raise awareness or, alternatively, offer critical commentary on historical people, places, and events. Throughout the history of the medium, photographers have aimed to capture the essence of events they witnessed—though the question of the trustworthiness of their images is always up for debate.” THE ABOVE ON TO YOUR WEB PAGEUNDER – DISCUSS, IN YOUR OWN WORDS - How can Photography serve as a catalyst for change?How can photography make people change? Discuss in particular plastic and the artists you have studied. How can photography ‘foster sympathy’ ? Give examplesCan photography be more powerful than words? (your opinion)What would you like to change in the world?What message would you like to give?E mail us when you have completed thisPLASTIC PLANET continued… Take another photo shoot that carries on from Plastic Planet. Write the title The Haunting Art of Plastic PollutionShow images of the work of Mandy Barker.Write this quote, The photography “gives science a visual voice…” How does Mandy Barker’s photography give Science a visual voice? (Own words, own opinion)Create your own photographs giving a ‘visual voice’. us when you have completed the above.Choice Two -?Magic in the MundaneExploring the beauty found in?ordinary objects in ordinary homes - leads on from fine art photography skills and the photographs we made of paper.Challenges 1.Create a page on your website TITLE: The Art of Observation or Magic in the Mundane or Making the Ordinary Extraordinary or An Ordinary Place or Exploring?Abstraction?in Photography(your choice)READ THE FOLLOWING:“Photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them” — Elliott ErwittWRITE THE ABOVE ON TO YOUR WEB PAGEUNDER – DISCUSS, IN YOUR OWN WORDS - What is Elliot Erwitt describing? Have a look at Erwitt’s work…Can you find examples of photographs that show that photography is an art of observation.Weston used photography to explore natural forms. He strived to capture details of the ordinary reality around him with real precision. Have a look at his images based around peppers, shells, and cabbages. Through these images, Weston translated reality into something much more abstracted and beautiful. WRITE THE ABOVE (in bold) ON TO YOUR WEB PAGE3886200135255003.Have a look and explore – Create a page. Take a photo shoot inspired by the work of Weston. E-mail us when you have completed the above.Choice Three -?Bright Young ThingsA project that carries on from Bright Young things and looks at portraiture today and young people today including your Almeida work and backlit portraits.Create a page on your website TITLE: Posed and Unposed or Bright Young Things or Candid Portraits or Posed and Unposed or Exposed Truth (you choose)The photographs of Cecil Beaton feel very ‘posed’. Some photographers pose their subjects whilst others capture people in candid moments. Sometimes it is hard to tell the difference.WRITE THE ABOVE ON TO YOUR WEB PAGEUNDER – DISCUSS, IN YOUR OWN WORDS and find examples of posed and unposed photographs.Take your own posed and unposed photographs in the style of Cecil Beaton.You may use some of the ones you have already taken.Explore.?Think about moments in your own life when you posed for a photograph and other times when you were photographed unposed. Find a few examples of each, either on Facebook or in a family album, and consider what the circumstances were.Reflect.?How are the images similar? How are they different? Summarize your thoughts in a brief (1-3 paragraph essay) on your webpage.1-minute PortraitWhat was it like posing for an early photographic?portrait? Recreate the experience by timing yourself sitting completely still for one minute. Have someone photograph you at the end of that time.Reflect.?Look at the photograph. What does your facial expression and body language convey? How did it feel to be that still for that long?What happens? If you create a short ‘moving’ image one minute portrait – are we able to see more ‘truth’ of the sitter? Experiment.3. Look back and collect your favourite portrait shoots throughout Year 12 – backlit and Helen Almeida – copy some of your images on to this page (you may wish to take more) – Which feel posed and which feel unposed? Do any feel candid? Do any feel truthful?4. In 1950 and 1961, photographer Harry Callahan took candid headshots of women on the busy streets of Chicago, Women in Thought…Find images of his work and write the above in bold. Create your own photo shoot inspired by the work of Callahan.0000E-mail us when you have completed the above.Choice Four -?ChangeA project exploring juxtaposition in photography...leading on from your Change project and taking it further with further use of collage and experimentation.Create a page on your website TITLE: Juxtaposition or Change or Combine or Combine and Construct….(you choose)Tamara LorenzGerman artist? HYPERLINK "" \t "_blank" Tamara Lorenz?creates various constructions which she then photographs to exploit their abstract properties. The addition of strong planes of colour provide another source of contrast in addition to those of line, shape, tone and texture.017907000Write the above on your page and include images …then….Compare with your Lea Nielson work. Link in your Jerry Reed work too. Copy your best L Nielson images to this page. Can you create a construction that combines two colours of paper and line – Can you create a photoshoot inspired by Lorenz?Can you add this construction design to a portrait you have already taken using Photoshop or traditional collage methods? Look at the work of May Xiong. Add some of your favourite images to your page. Copy over some of your Almeida and Nielson portraits. How do they compare and contrast? Discuss. Can you create another photoshoot combining all three photographers? Explore and experiment.“My conceptual work explores oddity, beauty, and attention to detail in portraiture. The arrangement of the subject and the environment often plays a big part in balancing the two. A mixture of portraiture and fine art, these constructed pieces are shaped by the idea of skewing one’s perspective, leaving the viewer to define the emotion behind each photograph.” May XiongCopy the above on to your page and then discuss… What did May mean when she wrote this? Can you see emotion in the work? How is this created?E-mail us when you have completed the above. ................
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