More on the Masters of Photography Project

I wanted to provide more guidance for the Masters of Photography Project.

• Include all 5 finished photos in one blog post.
• Include all your original photos in the same post. (You might need to include more than 5 original photos since some students combined pictures to create a final picture.)
• You needed to take the pictures you are including in the post.
• If you are including pictures from your master photographer, you need permission.
• Title "Masters of Photography - The Photographer You Chose"

In the same blog post, write a brief description about your master photographer. Discuss these topics and questions. I want to thank the students from 2nd period, especially Aashna, for helping me draft the questions below.

About the Photographer

• Time Period
• Location
• Object/Subject (nature, people, war, scientific achievement)
• What makes the photographer unique?

Your View

• Why did you choose the photographer?
• How did the photographer inspire you?
• How did this change while working on the project?

Movie Monday December 8 - Robert Capa

It's another Movie Monday! 

Today we are watching our third installment of "In Love and War." 

You will submit one piece of paper for your entire group.

1-10. Each group writes ten (10) interesting facts from today's film. Take turns. Do not write twice in a row unless you are the only person in your group today. We will watch about twenty minutes of the film today (until the 1:06 mark.)

11. View Losing The Media in Afghanistan slideshow on Lens and choose the image that is most similar to one taken by Robert Capa. On your paper, list the photo number 11. You do not need to explain your reasoning. Your group must agree. Since all photographs were taken by Magnum photographer Larry Towell, your choice will probably be valid. 

Turn in one piece of paper for the group.

1. Robert Capa dated Ingrid Bergman. (#33)

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10. Robert Capa was not his birth name (#99)

11. x of 19 (which photo is most "Capaesque")

Masters of Photography Project

After you have completed the student checklist and Mr. Farley has approved your group's work, your group may choose a Master Photographer from the International Photography Hall of Fame Museum.

In addition to this list, you may also choose Irving Penn.

Once a photographer has been chosen by any of the four classes, that person may not be selected by any other group.

Masters Assignment


For this assignment, each group member will complete five photographs that are inspired or influenced by the master photographer chosen by the group. 

Student will include five finished photos (along with the five original "before photos") in a blog post titled "Inspired by a Master - ___" In the post, describe how you edited the photo so that your original photo appeared similar to an image taken by the master photographer. Since many of the masters photographed with black and white film, your color digital files will probably need editing. 

Each student will also write a short description of the photographer explaining why the photographer is considered a master and what the student learned from the project.

You may include links to the master photographers' images, but do not include their work unless you have permission.

12/12




Photographers chosen so far

Ansel Adams (2nd)

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre (3rd)

Yousuf Karsh (4th)

Phillippe Halsman (3rd)

Imogen Cunningham (4th)

Robert Capa (4)

Eugene Atget (1st)

Peter Dombrovskis (1st) now available!

Irving Penn (1st)

W. Eugene Smith (1st)

Carleton Watkins (2)

Bernice Abbott (2)

Andre Kertesz (2)

Josef Sudek (4)

Julia Margaret Cameron (4)

Lazlo Moholy-Nagy (4)

Bill Brandt (1)

Margaret Bourke-White (3)

Clarence White (3)

Henri Cartier-Bresson (3)

Gordon Parks (1)

Robert Frank (3)

Paul Strand (2)

Richard Avedon (2)

Eadweard Muybridge (3)








Ansel Adams Government site

Ansel Adams Gallery

PBS Experience

Sierra Club

Robert Frank NPR The Americans

Half Past Autumn Video - Gordon Parks

Moholy-Nagy Foundation

Paul Strand 

Muybridge (National Museum)

Halsman (Jump Pictures)

Second Quarter Check-List

1. Create an appropriate Gmail that identifies you AS YOU
2. Correct your post titles
3. Add an email signature with a link to your blog
4. Add one link-list of all group members
5. Add another link-list of "important" blogs (lens, time, life, class blog, International Photography Hall of Fame)
6. Check that all links work on your site
7. Check that your group members' Blog Post Titles and links work TOO!
8. Add a profile photo and an About Me photo that identifies you somehow (and not just your love of ladybugs)
9. Blog Post Titles
10. Check your Group Members' Blog Post Titles TOO!\
11. Remove redundant posts (see #6 and #7; and #10)
12. Fix fonts, spacing, spelling and numberingh (updated on 11/7/14)

1. Practice leaving comments on your group members' posts. 
2. Respond to the comments on your page.
3. If you added blog posts, please put them in the correct order and include update information (#15 was updated on November 7, 2014)

You are responsible for everyone in your group.
Everyone in your group is responsible for you.

Once everyone in your group has completed these tasks, you may continue with the next project. I must double check your work before your group may continue.

You are a smart and talented group of students who and class has many available resources. You may use them. You may also ask other groups for information. Once you finish these tasks, you may start the next photo assignment.

ATPI Contest - or not

Some of you may choose to submit a photo to the ATPI contest. Even if you do not, you will send a photo to me with the specifications listed on the ATPI website.

This means that you must also choose a category for your photograph even if you do not apply for the Fall Contest.

If you wanted to submit to the contest, you must notify me by October 30th and submit by October 31st. Your grade will not be affected by your decision to submit.

Happy Halloween.

Homework - Photo Gallery Festival Review

Periods 2, 3, and 4

Review the Lens Photo Gallery, A Festival of Photos and Ideas in Africa.

Choose the best photo from the gallery and use academic language to support your position. You may write a five paragraph essay or create a list with arguments.

Clearly explain the photo you have chosen and submit homework at the beginning of class before you turn on a computer. I am more concerned that you provide a complete answer than a complete essay. I would rather read complete ideas than complete sentences.

Thank you,

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Portraits - More Than Candid

In the box above the section where you write the blog post, PLEASE TITLE THIS POST "Second Portrait." Some of you title your blog posts correctly. Please help those who are not doing this yet.

In the last week, two important photographers died. Both took portraits.

The first photographer was Magnum Photographer Rene Burri. Burri photographed Che Guevara, Pablo Picasso, Maria Callas, Ronald Reagan and many others. Burri even photographed Winston Churchill when Burri was thirteen.

Alfred Wertheimer, the photographer for Elvis Presley, died this week too. Alfred began photographing Elvis when Alfred was 26 and Elvis was 21. Elvis would become one of the most popular people in the history of the world. Wertheimer's "The Kiss" image is one of the most popular images of the 20th Century.

Both photographers were lucky; both worked hard to gain the trust of their subjects. Both photographers also knew how to use a camera. While both men were lucky, they were dilligent. Supposedly, Burri spent four years organizing the portrait shoot of Picasso.

Perhaps because I know that some photographers work for years to take a portrait, I hesitate to call this assignment "candid portraiture;" however, some students understand this term better than informal portraiture.

Here is one helpful example of an article about candid portraiture.

I also hesitate to use the word candid, because I remember Candid Camera. I loved the show, but "candid" meant staged or fake. Portraits should be real.

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