Photography Final

Final Project: Inspired by a Master Overview This final project is meant to be a culmination of all of your learned photographic skills. You will research a master photographer who interests and inspires you. You will take photographs in the style of the photographer. Directions Step 1: Research/Handout First, you must choose a photographer you really like. It should be someone who photographs subjects that you like to photograph too, or has a style that you really like. Next, study the life, work, and beliefs of the master photographer. Investigate the photographer thoroughly. (See questions below) Create an interesting handout in two pages max that provides information about your photographer and answers at least five of the questions asked below. Handout has at least one Image of photographer and at least two photographs of their work. Step 2: Shooting Assignment Now that you have studied the life, work, and beliefs of a master photographer, it's time to put his/her inspiration to use. For your shooting assignment, you will borrow the shooting approach, subject matter, compositional style, or concept from your master to use in your own work. Mimick the style of your photographer. Look at such things as subject matter, camera angle, mood, lighting, contrast, etc. Step 4: Analysis You will turn in a typed (full page double-spaced) final Analysis/Artist Statement with your final print

1. How were your images were influenced by your master photographer? 2. How did you apply the skills and knowledge you learned in class in your photo? (Think line, shape, pattern, texture, angles, lighting, portraiture, shallow depth of field, greater depth of field, frozen motion, blurred motion, rule of thirds, contrast, double-exposure, long exposure, does it tell a story, etc.) 3. What adjustments would you make to your project, if any? 4. What did you learn (about the process, about finding inspiration, about what interests you, etc.) while doing this assignment?

Samples

Step 1: Researching

a Master Photographer

Student Name________________________ Master Photographer: ________________________

Research and choose (5) of the following questions to answer on your master photographer. Include at least (2) examples of the masters work. In one paragraph, explain how you will borrow the approach, subject matter, compositional style, or concept from your master. 1. When and where was this photographer born? 2. What type of education did this person have as he/she was growing up? 3. Why did this person make photographs? What was he/she after as a photographer? 4. What major contributions did your photographer make to the world of art and photography? 5. What personal or otherwise significant events happened in the early life of this photographer that may have affected their view on life and his/her art? 6. When this person was first introduced to photography? How did they initially discover it? 7. What or whom was this photographer most influenced by? (Consider the many elements and factors surrounding this person’s life?) 8. How do these influences surface or appear in this photographer’s work? (Refer to specific works as examples.) 9. Identify an art movement, group, or publication this photographer was affiliated with? (I.e. Surrealism, Pop-Art, Dadaism, New-Realists, etc.) 10. How did being involved with this art movement, group, or publication influence this photographer’s ideas or approach to making his/her work?

Master Photographer List http://mocp.org/. http://masters-of-photography.com

http://digital-photography-school.com/99-remarkable-photographers-portfolios http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/ http://www.artcyclopedia.com/ Cari Ann Wayman

Josef Koudelka

Man Ray

Dorothea Lange

Richard Misrach

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Robert Frank

Richard Avedon

Robert Park Harrison

Helen Levitt

Sophie Calle Scott Mutter Jerry Uelsmann Hannah Hoch Lara Jade Michael Kenna Annie Leibovitz David Hockney

Ralph Eugene Meatyard

Maggie Taylor

Gordon Parks

Berenice Abbott Ansel Adams Manuel Alvarez Bravo Diane Arbus Eugène Atget E. J. Bellocq Karl Blossfeldt Bill Brandt Brassaï Harry Callahan Julia Margaret Cameron Alvin Langdon Coburn Imogen Cunningham Robert Doisneau William Eggleston Walker Evans Lee Friedlander Laura Gilpin John Gutmann James Hachtwey Ernst Hass Lewis Hine André Kertész William Klein

Lisette Model Tina Modotti Eadweard Muybridge Arnold Newman Nadar Paul Outerbridge Irving Penn Sebastião Salgado Josef Sudek Cindy Sherman Mike and Doug Starn Edward Steichen Alfred Stieglitz Paul Strand William Henry Fox Talbot Jeff Wall Weegee (Arthur Fellig) Edward Weston Minor White Garry Winogrand Gabriel Orozco Abelardo Morell Yamamoto Masao Andreas Gursky Anna Gaskell Annette Messager Duane Michals Gillian Wearing Guy Bourdin