Visual Thinking Photo Assignments

These will be discussed in class, and come out of topics we will be discussing.  Please don’t invest time until we have talked about them.

1
Make a Blog
Send me the link and your name-alias if you choose not to use your own name
Make a self portrait and post it on your blog
Post by October 6

2
Make and post 3 portraits of a person; a mug shot, as you see them, and as you think they see themselves
Post by October 20

3
Make and post one photo that has a gestalt of the real and another that is a set –up
Post by October 27

4
Try some street photography and post at least one of the results
Post by November 1

5
Make and post a photograph with editorial content
Post by November 10

6
Make a photo essay of at least six pictures with either captions and/or a brief introduction.
Post by November 17

7
Make and post a new self portrait and compare it to the first one
And do assignment 2 again, either with the same person or a new person.
Post by November 29

 

TEST due Tuesday 11/8/2005

1-- What does Carpenter mean with the sentence— You can't say no pictorially ? And can you think of examples from your own experience?

 

2—What were some of Germaine Greer's reactions to being photographed by Diane Arbus? Would you submit to having your picture taken by Arbus, and why or why not?

 

3- What was the ruse used by Krupps men to photograph Newman's Polaroids of their boss?

 

4— What is the f64 group ? What photographer have we discussed who was integral to that movement?

 

5-- What is the Metalchrome process?

 

6-- How does Cartier-Bresson describe taking a photograph?

 

7—Where was Eugene Smith born?

 

Bonus question—What is the name of the Alan Ginsberg poem that incorporates the city where Eugene Smith was born?