May 5th - in class topics:
FLASH!
http://www.vividlight.com/Articles/611.htm
http://photonotes.org/articles/eos-flash/
http://flickr.com/photos/hamwithcam/82760337/
http://flickr.com/photos/akeeh/2155275733/
http://flickr.com/groups/strobist/pool/
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=171657
Dodging and Burning with more precision - download PDF here......
Museum Trip:
MAY 9th - MOMA meet at 3:00 in lobby facing 53rd street:
we'll see these:
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/97
and
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/309
Assignments for May 12th-
PHOTO
work on your final images!!! if i didn't speak to you one on one today about your project, then i expect to speak with you on the 12th.
Final PRINTED PHOTO assignment for May 19th:
FINAL PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT: (this is an important part of your overall grade) This should consist of 10 images which follow a theme of your choice.
I can give you some suggestions based on the images you have taken over the last semester.
These images should be printed. They can contain a text explanation, text with each image, or no text at all.
Though they need not be “formally presented”. i.e. in frames or mounted, please think about how you want them to be seen. Will they be pinned up horizontally, vertically, in the hallway, on the floor, in the elevator, on the table, as a book, in a box, etc? will they have borders or be borderless? think about photographs as objects. Even if maybe the arrangement isn’t quite right, we will discuss its possibilities during the critique.
Images do not have to be “singular”, they can be “compositions” created in Photoshop. In this case, we can figure out the exact quantity for the final, especially if they end up being large prints.
Final paper assignment for May 19th:
FINAL PAPER OVERVIEW:
********** If you need help with any of these concepts, email or ask me!************
GO TO:
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York, NY 10019
(212) 708-9400
info@moma.org
FREE with your Queens College ID
http://www.moma.org/explore/exhibitionsSunday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m
Monday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m
Tuesday Closed
Wednesday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m
Thursday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m
Thursday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m
Friday 10:30 a.m.–8:00 p.m
Saturday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.mWRITTEN PAPER: (this will be graded)
Write a 2-page paper (basic 5 paragraph essay if you need a format) about the show “Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West”. You may compare different individual photographs or writie about the show as a whole. http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/97
Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West - March 29, 2009–June 8, 2009 Special Exhibitions Gallery, third floor
Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West examines how photography has pictured the idea of the American West from 1850 to the present. Photography's development coincided with the exploration and the settlement of the West, and their simultaneous rise resulted in a complex association that has shaped the perception of the West's physical and social landscape to this day. For over 150 years, the image of the West has been formed and changed through a variety of photographic traditions and genres, and this exhibition considers the medium's role in shaping our collective imagination of the West.
Into the Sunset brings together over 120 photographs made by a variety of photographers. These works illustrate photography's role in popularizing ideas of the sublime landscape, Manifest Destiny, and the "land of opportunity," as well as describing a more complex vision of the West, one that addresses cultural dislocation, environmental devastation, and failed social aspirations. Organized thematically, Into the Sunset includes photographs dating from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries, incorporating a range of artistic strategies, motifs, and concerns, and featuring the work of approximately seventy photographers, including Robert Adams, John Baldessari, Dorothea Lange, Timothy O'Sullivan, Cindy Sherman, Joel Sternfeld, Edward Weston, and Carleton E. Watkins. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog.
OR
Write a 2-page paper (basic 5 paragraph essay if you need a format) after viewing “the Printed Picture” - comparing one modern and one historic photographic printing process: http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/309
The Printed Picture - October 17, 2008–July 13, 2009 The Edward Steichen Photography Galleries, third floor
This October, MoMA will publish The Printed Picture, a book by Richard Benson that traces the changing technology of picture making from the Renaissance to the present, focusing on the vital role of images in multiple copies. In conjunction with the publication of the book, an educational installation of the material will be presented in the The Edward Steichen Photography Galleries.