Extra credit: Take a photo inspired by your photographer and put it in your presentation.
Great Photographers Research Assignment
Your job is to research the work and impact of a “great” photographer and present this to the class through a Google Slide presentation.
At least 10 slides!!!
Have a lot of visual examples of their work.
If they are important in photography please show us why!
STUDENT EXAMPLE of Richard Avedon
Here are some guiding questions:
Why are they considered “great”? This will usually be either a technical/artistic advance that they pioneered, or simply their superb work.
What else was happening at the same time? What photographic and artistic movements were going on at the time?
How did their life history feed into who they became as an artist? E.g. experience of war; people they met; physical challenges
Find some visuals to illustrate this if possible e.g. what were styles like in their day; if for example they were part of the “Bauhaus” movement, what artwork/architecture and so on can you find to show what this means.
Show like maybe one photo of what they looked like. Unless their whole photographic career was based on photos of them.
How did their work evolve over time? – show examples and briefly talk about it.
What images represent their contribution best? – show their best, most famous works, and also your personal favorites
What is your personal reaction – are they truly “great” in your mind? Why? How might knowledge of their work affect your photographic art?
Your Presentation Should:
* Be about 6-10 minutes long
* Be very visual – All slides should have an image or two on them. Give most TEXT a SMALL Font!!!
* Have a title slide with a representative photo and if possible a picture of the photographer. Include their name and your name.
* Include at least 10 major works by your photographer that illustrate why their work is considered great, how it evolved, and the breadth of their work.
* Be presented IN YOUR OWN WORDS! DO NOT copy paragraphs of text onto your presentation. Instead, think about what each source is saying, and distill the main ideas into your own words. Your presentation will be a lot more interesting, natural and convincing if you use your own words rather than parroting others!
* Have small font and bullet points that you elaborate on orally, rather than paragraphs of text that you read. In other words, each slide should have a few main points on it to trigger your memory, and summarize for the audience the information that you’ll be telling us. You might talk for a full minute on what’s summarized in a few words on the slide. If you’re not comfortable elaborating without notes, you can have printed notes to help you, but try to not just read from them – be natural, and try to maintain eye contact with your audience.
* Give your personal reaction. What did you find inspiring/useful about their work in your growth as a photographic artist? Do you truly believe they’re “great”? You can do this as a summary or mix it in with your other commentary as you go.
Help! I Don’t Know Any Great Photographers!
That’s the point – through your research and your classmates’ presentations, you’ll get to know many of them.
Who Can You Can Choose?
If you know of or find another major photographer, you can ask to do them instead of one on the list. BUT, you have to be able to demonstrate that they were a major force in the development of photography, not just someone who took good photos. What did they contribute that was new - artistically, technically or socially? Some of the “great” photographers on the list pioneered new subjects for photography, rather than a new way to take photos, but this changed the way that photography was thought of, or broadened the scope of what was considered photographic art.
Master Photographers one per student. first come first served. Sign up early!!!
Choose one from this list or find another you like and clear it with Mr. Brown
Ansel Adams
Diane Arbus
Richard Avedon(must be different info than the example)
Erwin Blumenfeld
Phil Borges
Margaret Bourke- white
Brassai
Henri- Cartier- Bresson
Imogen Cunningham
Edward Curtis
Harold Edgerton
Elliot Erwitt
Robert Frank
Anne Geddes
Lewis Hine
Allen Ginsberg
George Hurrell
Andre Kertesz
William Klein
Josef Koudelka
David Lachapelle
Dorothea Lange
Annie Lebovitz
Joel Meyerwitz
David Muench
Herb Ritts
Galen Rowell
Sebastiao Salgado
John sexton
Cindy Sherman
Hannah Hoch
Eddie Adams
Jerry Uelsman
Jim Zuckerman
Todd Hido
Edward Weston
Brett Weston
Estevan Oriel
Robert Capa
Minor White
Clark Little
How Do You Research?
DO NOT JUST GO TO WIKIPEDIA!!! There are tons of websites with info about each of these photographers. Find them through the links on the site above, through http://www.masters-of-photography.com/, and through Google searches. Don’t stop at the first step; follow further links and ideas. For instance, if you find a photographer was part of the f64 group, Google “f64”. Go to online gallery sites and search for your photographer there – for instance go to http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/ and choose Photography from the “Types of Art” box. Then look at the “Gelatin Silver” and “Color” categories. Check the library!
Your job is to research the work and impact of a “great” photographer and present this to the class through a Google Slide presentation.
At least 10 slides!!!
Have a lot of visual examples of their work.
If they are important in photography please show us why!
STUDENT EXAMPLE of Richard Avedon
Here are some guiding questions:
Why are they considered “great”? This will usually be either a technical/artistic advance that they pioneered, or simply their superb work.
What else was happening at the same time? What photographic and artistic movements were going on at the time?
How did their life history feed into who they became as an artist? E.g. experience of war; people they met; physical challenges
Find some visuals to illustrate this if possible e.g. what were styles like in their day; if for example they were part of the “Bauhaus” movement, what artwork/architecture and so on can you find to show what this means.
Show like maybe one photo of what they looked like. Unless their whole photographic career was based on photos of them.
How did their work evolve over time? – show examples and briefly talk about it.
What images represent their contribution best? – show their best, most famous works, and also your personal favorites
What is your personal reaction – are they truly “great” in your mind? Why? How might knowledge of their work affect your photographic art?
Your Presentation Should:
* Be about 6-10 minutes long
* Be very visual – All slides should have an image or two on them. Give most TEXT a SMALL Font!!!
* Have a title slide with a representative photo and if possible a picture of the photographer. Include their name and your name.
* Include at least 10 major works by your photographer that illustrate why their work is considered great, how it evolved, and the breadth of their work.
* Be presented IN YOUR OWN WORDS! DO NOT copy paragraphs of text onto your presentation. Instead, think about what each source is saying, and distill the main ideas into your own words. Your presentation will be a lot more interesting, natural and convincing if you use your own words rather than parroting others!
* Have small font and bullet points that you elaborate on orally, rather than paragraphs of text that you read. In other words, each slide should have a few main points on it to trigger your memory, and summarize for the audience the information that you’ll be telling us. You might talk for a full minute on what’s summarized in a few words on the slide. If you’re not comfortable elaborating without notes, you can have printed notes to help you, but try to not just read from them – be natural, and try to maintain eye contact with your audience.
* Give your personal reaction. What did you find inspiring/useful about their work in your growth as a photographic artist? Do you truly believe they’re “great”? You can do this as a summary or mix it in with your other commentary as you go.
Help! I Don’t Know Any Great Photographers!
That’s the point – through your research and your classmates’ presentations, you’ll get to know many of them.
Who Can You Can Choose?
If you know of or find another major photographer, you can ask to do them instead of one on the list. BUT, you have to be able to demonstrate that they were a major force in the development of photography, not just someone who took good photos. What did they contribute that was new - artistically, technically or socially? Some of the “great” photographers on the list pioneered new subjects for photography, rather than a new way to take photos, but this changed the way that photography was thought of, or broadened the scope of what was considered photographic art.
Master Photographers one per student. first come first served. Sign up early!!!
Choose one from this list or find another you like and clear it with Mr. Brown
Ansel Adams
Diane Arbus
Richard Avedon(must be different info than the example)
Erwin Blumenfeld
Phil Borges
Margaret Bourke- white
Brassai
Henri- Cartier- Bresson
Imogen Cunningham
Edward Curtis
Harold Edgerton
Elliot Erwitt
Robert Frank
Anne Geddes
Lewis Hine
Allen Ginsberg
George Hurrell
Andre Kertesz
William Klein
Josef Koudelka
David Lachapelle
Dorothea Lange
Annie Lebovitz
Joel Meyerwitz
David Muench
Herb Ritts
Galen Rowell
Sebastiao Salgado
John sexton
Cindy Sherman
Hannah Hoch
Eddie Adams
Jerry Uelsman
Jim Zuckerman
Todd Hido
Edward Weston
Brett Weston
Estevan Oriel
Robert Capa
Minor White
Clark Little
How Do You Research?
DO NOT JUST GO TO WIKIPEDIA!!! There are tons of websites with info about each of these photographers. Find them through the links on the site above, through http://www.masters-of-photography.com/, and through Google searches. Don’t stop at the first step; follow further links and ideas. For instance, if you find a photographer was part of the f64 group, Google “f64”. Go to online gallery sites and search for your photographer there – for instance go to http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/ and choose Photography from the “Types of Art” box. Then look at the “Gelatin Silver” and “Color” categories. Check the library!