Constructed Identity Photographer Research

In Class Photographer Research Assignment

Choose from one of the following photographers to research.  No student will research the same photographer, so when you have chosen who to research from the provided list,  add a comment to this blog entry with the name of the photographer's image you have selected to research & present.

Due: End of class Friday the 14th 

     

Peter Fischli and David Weiss

Jan Groover

Boyd Webb

Wang Qingsong

Henk Tas

Cindy Sherman

Rommert Boonstra

Cindy Sherman

Gregory Crewdson

Andy Warhol

Arthur Tress

Gertrude Kasebier

Thomas Eakins

Philippe Halsman  Man Ray  Henry Peach Robinson Imogen Cunningham  Julia Margaret Cameron Claude Cahun  Paul Outerbridge Eddie Adams Eikoh Hosoe Laurie Simmons  Man Ray (Marcel Duchamp) Nic Nicosia Sandy Skoglund Tom Drahos  Hector Sos  Kerry Skarbakka

Please answer the following questions about one or a set of the photographer’s images.  If you cannot find direct answers to the questions, analyze the work based on your own interpretations of the work.  Provide three images and the website(s) you used to obtain the information.  Post this to your blog.

1.      Biography, birth date, country and state of residence

2.      Significance: Describe what makes their work significant and unique.  Why is the work well known or recognized?

3.      Composition: Describe the use of framing, perspective, contrast, balance, emphasis, lighting, etc

4.      Concept/Aboutness/Idea: Describe what the images are about.  What is the photographer trying to say through his/her images? How does the composition support the concept?  What are the intentions in creating the images?

5.      Your Opinion: What do you like or dislike about the work

Constructed Identity Prompts: Due by the end of class tomorrow (2/4)

In complete sentences, respond to the following on your blog (post titled, "Constructed Identity prompts")

1. Write a few sentences in response to this video we watched in class.

(link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDYDxWSjVJw)

2.

1. In what ways do you “construct” your identity? In what ways do you “perform” in your daily life?

2. Describe some ways in which your personal culture and social environments are “constructed”.

3. Describe some ways in which your physical environment/space is “constructed”.

4. In your daily life, what would you consider to be “real” and what would you consider to be “constructed/fabricated”?

5. Describe a narrative tableaux that you might create to be captured by a photograph. A narrative tableaux can be defined as “Several human actors play out scenes from everyday life, history, myth or the fantasy of the direction artist” 

6. Describe an idea for a photograph that includes a miniature stage or still life. A description of such an image is “The tableaux reconstructs events as in the narrative tableaux, but in miniaturized format, using dolls and other toy objects” 

3.  Describe your plans for your constructed identity project.  What 4 concepts are you exploring? How will you do so? Do you need props, costumes, models?

links to websites visited in class:
http://www.canstockphoto.com/images-photos/cgi.html
http://www.digitalimagemagazine.com/blog/featured/if-it-seems-too-good-to-be-trueits-cgi/
http://www.pro-imaging.org/content/view/176/32/