Everyday assignment

1. Blog your one photographer from the list I provided. What do you think the photographer's intent was? What is the photographer trying to say with this photograph?

2. Blog your plan

• Your intentions: What are your intentions for your next series of photographs? Will try to achieve?
• How will you go about it? (Type of photos, location, camera setting, etc)
• How will you know if you have been successful?

3. Take the photos and blog some. Put the rest of flickr

4. Blog your evaluation: how successful were you based on your intentions. What worked, what didn't and why?

5. Do it all over again . . . 

Family Photography

Since 1975, Nicholas Nixon has photographed his wife and her three sisters producing a single photograph each year featuring the sisters in the same order (youngest to oldest from left to right) though at various locations along the East Coast of the USA. From left to right we see Heather, Mimi, Bebe (Nixon’s wife), and Laurie as they change and grow from year to year in image after image. The Brown Sisters series functions as an ever-evolving portrait of the siblings and their relationship to one another over time.

Family Photographers

Here are some more inspiring artists who have used 'the family' as a key subject...

Thomas Struth produces portraits of families: "it’s a staged traditional portrait photographed with a large format camera, using only natural light; it should be all the family members (and occasionally some friends, but I’m always interested in the energetic moment of the family group); and I ask people to look into the camera"

"I usually make a choice for the location, and then people can position themselves on the stage that I’ve selected - which most of the time is where they live. I ask people to sit however they want to sit, or stand. Its part of the system that inevitably people sit or position themselves according to the dynamic of the moment and whoever they want to be close to…it represents the dynamic of the moment in the group."

The choice these families make in deciding how they want to be portrayed is an interesting depiction of family construction and identity. These images of different families are exhibited together.

Homework

Blog 3 photographs of things you see everyday. Put the rest of the photos on Flckr.

Do you agree with the 10 Best Portraits?

Have a look at 10 Best Photographic Portraits. Which would you add to the list?

Some suggestions for Personal Investigation (Look for your name in Green)

Edward Weston: This is a good photographer for George and possibly Rosie. Here is a blog entry about Weston. 

Weston has his own website. Weston's photography can easily be linked to that of Ansel Adams as well as Alfred Steiglitz's Modernist photography.

Dziga Vertov's Man with A Video Camera is a good example of using film to document life as photography does. You can find an extract from Photography: A Cultural History here. Ms Taylor also has a copy of the film and commentary. This would be useful for Hector.  


Fatima, have a look at the photography in this powerpoint Interwar Photography, below. There are several example of photographs of buildings and structures.  Slides 77-85 may be useful for Leo's look at expressions with more on Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Robert Frank.

Rodchenko evans

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Lee, Have you checked out Brassai's BIJOU” OF MONTMARTRE? This is a connection to your theme as well as the work of Claude Cahun.

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