Final 9am Saturday December 10

• Identify View Camera, Field Camera, Range finder, SLR, and Medium Format

• Robert Frank (Photographer who roamed the United States in the 1950’s and is associated with the beat generation.)

• Pieter Hugo (Photographer interested in the issues connected with Africa.)

• Seydou Keita (Commercial photographer in Africa who worked in the 1950’s & 1960’s whose work rose to the level of art.)

• Jacqueline Hassink (Photographs use postmodern ideas to critique female gender stereotypes.)

• Carrie Mae Weems (Photographer whose primary concern in art, as in politics, is with the status and place of African-Americans.)

• Cindy Sherman ( Photographs use post modern ideas to critique female gender stereotypes )

• Andreas Gursky (Photographer who is interested not in the individual, but the human environment.  Images focus on globalism.)

• William Eggleston ( Photographed the American South using color film & had what he called a democratic way of looking.)

• Tomatsu Shomie (Photographer that photographed objects, locations, and the people of Nagasaki.)

• Gary Winnogrand (Street photographer who used a range finder camera to capture the drama theater of the street.)

• Wide Angle lens for a full frame/35mm camera(20mm-35mm)

• Normal Lens for a full frame/35mm camera lens (50mm)

• Telephoto lens for a full frame/35mm camera (70mm-500mm)

• Identify Spot Meter, Matrix/Evaluative, and Center Weighted Meter
Ambient meter Light that falls on a subject matter.
Prime Lens single focal length
Zoom Lens multiple focal length

• Grey card 18% grey value

• Rule of Thirds

• Noise random speckles and grain or variation of brightness or color info in pictures.

• Exposure amount of light that reaches your film or sensor when you take your picture.

• Contrast difference in Values in photograph

• Lens speed refers to the maximum aperture diameter, or minimum f-number, of a photographic lens.

Andreas Gurksy

Florian Maier-Achian

Final Projoect

:: 4 pictures 8 x 10 inches or larger ( More than 4 encouraged )
:: Choose one subject ( IDEAS : Landscape, people/portraits, still life, etc..)
:: One short paragraph connecting to content of course ( artist/idea ) 1/4 to 1/2 page.  Explain and make connections.
:: Encourage edit pictures ( Example all black and white contrast changed )
:: Submit in envelop 9 by 12 preferable.

Notebook Exercises

1. Lighting 2 pictures (one in sun with shadow and one overcast lighting)
2. Composition ( Portrait 4 pictures with different compositions )
3. Shutter ( 1. Camera object moving 2. object camera moving 3. Camera moves once during )
4. Whiter balance ( 1. Image normal 2. Image blue and 3. Image orange )
5.  Bracketing ( Five pictures 1. -2 2. -1 3.  Normal/0 4. +1 5. +2
6.  Texture, line, shape ( Three images that represent visual concepts listed )
7.  Collage ( Three collages )
8.  5 pictures ( Shadow, self portrait, reflection, silhouette, signs )
9.  3 black and white images edited in Photoshop app ( Contrast, shadow, highlight, etc..)

Seydou Keita

Jaqueline Hassock

Cindy Sherman

Carrie Mae Weems

William Eggleston

Garry Winograd

WEEK 9 Photography Activity

1.  Photograph a silhouette.
2.  Photograph a reflection in a window.
3.  Photograph a self portrait.
4.  Photograph a sign.
5.  Photograph a shadow.

Download Photoshop express app.

REVIEW THESE TERMS:
1. Sharpen
2. Contrast
3. Highlights
4. Shadows
5. Temperature
6. Exposure

MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE

Scantron 882E
1. APERTURE  controls amount of light.
2. SHUTTER SPEED controls the amount of time
3. Meter evaluates the brightness/intensity of light
4. (APERTURE)2, 2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11, 16, 22
5.(SHUTTER SPEED) 1,2,4,8,15,30,60,125,250,500,1000
6. White Balance Symbols

6. ISO How sensitive film or digital chip is to light
7. Visual representation of values HISTOGRAM
8. Photograph a scene with multiple different exposures. BRACKETING
9. COLLAGE art form that uses bits of things such as newspaper to create an incongruous relationship for their symbolic or suggestive effect
10. Photographer who helped change child labor laws (LEWIS HINE)
11. (EDWARD S. CURTIS) Photographer who used the process of Ethnography a systematic study of people and cultures 
12. (PICTORIALISM) a style of photography that emphasizes creating or manipulating an image often to imitate the aesthetics of painting
13. (Group F/64) Photographic style characterized by sharp focused images and carefully framed images.
14. (Ansel Adams) Photographer who developed the zone system which divides a scene into values and how it would effect exposure and the aesthetics of the image.
15. (ALEXANDER RODCHENKO) Russian Constructivist photographer who made images in the service of the revolution.
16. (Hannah Hoch) Artist who used collage and was connected to the Dadaist artistic style that rejected logic and rationality.
17. (Henri Cartier-Bresson) Photographer who created a book called the Decisive Moment that used surrealist ideas.  Surrealist ideas connect to the subconscious, dreams, and what is reality.
18. Depth of field is effected by 3 things: A} Aperture   B} Distance from subject  C} Choice of focal length
19. (Colloidal Process) Requires the photographic material to be coated, sensitized, exposed and developed within the span of about fifteen minutes and creates a negative.
20. (Daguerreotype)Photographic process employing an iodine-sensitized silvered copper plate and mercury vapor to create a single image.
21. (Calotype) an early photographic process in which negatives were made using paper coated with silver iodide.

Notebook list

1.  LIGHTING Same scene one overcast the other sunny.
2.  PORTRAIT/COMPOSITION (See blog entry) 4 different poses
3.  SHUTTER SPEED (1) Camera moves 1/2 way through long exposure (2) Camera moves during exposure (3) Camera stable object moves
4.  WHITE BALANCE Same scene different white balance (Normal, blue tint, orange tint)
5.  BRACKETING Same scene one shot at ( 0, +2, -2)
6.  3 PICTURES (1) Texture (2) Line (3) Shape
7.  COLLAGE Three different collages

Histogram and Lens Type

Ansel Adams

Depth of Field

Paper Outline

Answer 5 questions below in 3 pages and include one image from photographer
1.  Look (example-lighting, composition)
2.  Process ( example - how photographed, what camera used )
3.  Bio ( Key points to photographers life )
4.  Time Period ( how photographs connect to events in time period )
5.  Subject ( description of subject example - describe who person is in photograph.

For a list of other ideas that maybe connected to the above headings see syllabus.

Shutter speed exercise

1. Camera Stable subject moving. 8 seconds/16 seconds/ and slower
2. Camera moving subject stable. 2 seconds / 4 seconds / 8 seconds
3. Camera moved 2-3 times during exposure.  16 seconds and slower

Mamie Labarge (Start 14:30)

Albumen Print

Calendar Update

Week 1

August 27

• Class Introduction

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Week 2

September 3

• Lighting & Basic camera terminology

• Joseph Nicephore Niepce, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre

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Week 3

September 10

• Portrait framing and composing a picture

• Nadar, Julia Margaret Cameron, Carleton Watkins, Timothy O’Sullivan

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Week 4

September 17

• Shutter Speed & types of cameras

• Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine, Edward S. Curtis

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Week 5

September 24

• Photographer Research Paper Due

• Aperture & types of camera lens

• Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Atget

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Week 6

October 1

• Camera Obscura & Review study guide for midterm

• Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Paul Strand

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Week 7

October 8

Midterm

• Collage ( Materials - Scissors & a Stick of Glue & Magazines )

• Man Ray, Hannah Hoch, Alexander Rodchenko

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Week 8

October 15
• Photogram ( Object or objects to place on photo paper for exposure )

• Walker Evans, August Sander, Albert Renger-Patzsch
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Week 9

October 22

• Exhibition Review Due

• Create Pinhole/box camera ( Materials - Shoe box or similar size of shoe box & duct tape )

• Andre Kertesz, Henri Cartier Bresson, Manuel Alverez Bravo

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Week 10

October 29

• Use Pinhole camera

• Tomatsu Shomie, Takuma Nakahira

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Week 11

November 5

• Introduce final project & Digital Photography Overview

• Robert Capa, Robert Frank, Gary WInnogrand, Lee Frielander, Roy deCarava, William Eggleston

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Week 12

November 12

• Checklist for content in notebook

• Seydou Keita, Bernd and Helda Becher,Rineke Dijstra, Jacqueline Hassink, Diane Arbus

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Week 13

November 19

• Notebook Due

• Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, Andreas Gursky, Rinko Kawauchi

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Week 14

December 3

• Critique Final Project

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Week 15

December 10

• Final Test

Jacob Riis Lighting

Portrait Exercise

Carleton Watkins

Julia Margaret Cameron

Wet Collodian Process

List of Photographers

1.     Joseph Nicephore Niepce. View from his Window at Le Gras. Ca.1827.

2.     Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre. Boulevard du Temple. 1838.

3.     William Henry Fox Talbot. The Open Door. 1844.

4.     NADAR

5.     Timothy O’sullivan

6.     Mathew Brady

7.     Julia Margaret Cameron

8.     Carleton Watkins

9.     Edward S. Curtis

10.  Jacob Riis

11.  Adam Clark Vroman

12.  Atget

13.  Alfred Stieglitz. The Steerage. 1907.

14.  Jacques-Henri Lartigue

15.  Paul Strand

16.  Edward Steichen

17.  Alexander Rodchenko

18.  Albert Renger-Patzsch

19.  Hannah Hoch

20.  Man Ray

21.  August Sander

22.  Margaret Bourke White

23.  Edward Weston

24.  Imogen Cunningham

25.  Walker Evans

26.  Henri Cartier Bresson

27.  Andre Kertesz

28.  Manuel Álvarez Bravo

29.  Dorothea Lange

30.  Ansel Adams

31.  Robert Capa

32.  Robert Frank

33.  Bernd and Helda Becher

34.  Tomatsu Shomie

35.  Takuma Nakahira

36.  Vivian Maier

37.  Diane Arbus

38.  Seydou KeïtaSeydou Keïta

39.  Gary WInnogrand

40.  Lee Friedlander

41.  Roy deCarava

42.  William Eggleston

43.  Cindy Sherman

44.  Carrie Mae Weems

45.  Rineke Dijkstra

46.  JACQUELINE HASSINK

47.  Thomas Struth

48.  Andreas Gursky

49.  Rinko Kawauchi

50.  Pieter Hugo

Research Paper

1.  Research project

Research: A paper on a historical or contemporary photographer, and the significance of their work to photography as an art form. Three pages of text or more required.  A list of photographers is provided or you may select a photographer of personal interest.  Please cite any sources used for the paper and include an example of your research topic’s photographs.

Due Wednesday, September 24, 2016.  200 points possible

Points to consider:

a.      Photographer’s date and place of birth.

b.      Education and photographic training.

c.      How did the photographer make a living?

d.      Type of photographic equipment utilized?

e.      Subject matter in the photographs.

f.       Creative and contemporary influences in the work.

g.      Working method to make photographic images.

h.      Select one photograph by the photographer and discuss why you think the image is a good photograph.  Why did you select that particular image?

i.       Quotes by the photographer about their photographs.

j.       Quotes by others about the photographer’s work.

k.      Where is the photographer’s photographic work displayed and/or published?

l.       Your thoughts on why this photographer’s work is important to the history of photographic art.