Think Art - Make Art

VISUAL AND ORAL PRESENTATION
ON A PHOTOGRAPHER

There is a rubric for this project. You need to include:

VISUAL presentation (on a piece of poster board):

1) Headline with your artist's name.
2) 5 images by the artist
3) 1 page biography of the artist,
SINGLE SPACED and TYPED 12 pt font, and NO PLAGIARISM!!! Research online and in books, but make sure the biography is all written by you. It needs to include the following:

• basic info (birth date and location, etc.)
• how did the photographer start taking photographs (schooling, etc.)
• what are the important themes/ideas in their work
• what is their style (light, dark, odd, crisp, blurry, etc.)
• what makes them important or unique in the history of photography
• what political/economic/historical factors influenced the work
• list all sources used on a separate sheet (web urls and articles/books)

4) Half page evaluation of one of the images SINGLE SPACED and TYPED 12 pt font

• Talk about principles and elements of design: line, shape, space, value, balance, etc.
• Talk about the quality of light in the image.
• Does the photo have a center of interest? What is it and why does it capture your interest?
• Describe the mood of the work. Why does it have that mood?
• What do you like best about the image?

5) 8x10 collage based on the photographer's work

• similar in terms of style or in terms of the subject matter

ORAL presentation:

• You must present the poster board and the information on it to the rest of the class

• Presentations are 5 minutes long

• Talk about the photographer's life, their artwork, your own personal reaction to their artwork, and the images of their work.

What I will be looking for:

• presentation contains all the required items/information
• poster is clean and neat
• collage is creative
• information in the presentation is well organized
• spelling and grammar of text is accurate
• presentation shows understanding of concepts or topics being depicted in the images final result represents your full potential. The oral presentation must be well organized and rehearsed.

Photographers to choose from:

ODD/STRANGE/COOL: diane arbus, robert frank, nan goldin,
mary ellen mark, duane michels, andre serrano, cindy sherman, weegee, garry winogrand, man ray, danny lyon, david hockney, lee friedlander, joel meyerowitz, mike and doug starn, eliot porter,
david levinthal, sophie calle, larry clark, ralph eugene meatyard,
paul outerbridge, sabastiao salgado, dieter appelt, wynn bullock,
larry clark, philip-lorca dicorcia, gregory crewdson, joel sternfeld,
larry sultan, adam fuss, francesca woodman, uta barth, james casebere, tina barney, john baldessari, elinor carucci, jan dibbets, andreas gursky, roni horn, nikki s. lee, sherrie levine, gordon matta clark, ana mendieta, duane michals, shirin neshat, catherine opie, thomas struth, lucas samaras, todd hido, lorna simpson, carrie mae weems, richard misrach, james nachtwey, rineke dijkstra, wolfgang tillmans, thomas demand, christian boltanski, tokohiro sato, loretta lux, catherine chalmers,
tom baril, elliot erwitt

FASHION/CELEBRITY: irving penn, richard avendon, annie leibovitz,
barbara morgan, horst p. horst, steven meisel, herb ritts, bruce weber, david lachappell, louise dahl-wolfe, mario testino, ellen von unwerth

CLASSIC/MASTERS/HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT: margaret bourke-white, mathew brady, harry callahan, imogen cunningham, walker evens, lewis hine, andre kertesz, dorothea lange, jacob riis, charles scheeler, edward weston, edward steichen, alfred stieglitz, paul strand,
james van der zee, minor white, alexander rodchenko,
manuel alverez bravo, felice beato, bill brandt, julia margaret cameron, henri cartier bresson, tina modotti, lisette model, leni riefenstahl,
w. eugene smith, werner bischof, bill brandt, robert doisneau,
alfred eisenstaedt, brassai

MY FAVORITES: hiroshi sugimoto, jacques-henri lartigue, jill greenberg

YOUR CHOICE MUST BE APPROVED BY ME
BEFORE YOU CAN BEGIN.

NO PHOTOGRAPHER CAN BE DONE
BY MORE THAN ONE PERSON.