Research-Select-Write-Email-Share-Photograph
- Research several using the internet. Find your top 5 five favourite. Write 5 important points about each and put in your journal with an image for each and narrow it down to one.
- Select a photographer who is currently living and working in the medium. Find a photographer who you are interested in. This is likely the most challenging and important of the steps; find a photographer that inspires you.
- Email your photographer, let them know that you are interested in their work and you are doing a project for school based on their work. Ask them for some information. Print out your email to them and their response.
- Write an article about the photographer's life, the medium, photo style and offer an opinion reflection and commentary of their work in 500 to 750 words. Include a bibliography.
- Share your contemporary photographer with the class any way you want. You are to articulate information from your article to the class verbally, and visually.
- Photograph in their style, create a contact sheet and five 5 x 7 prints and one 8 x 10 print.
When you find your photographer, make sure there is some information about them even a resume can be helpful, but it will help to get more. And you will need to find at least five photos of their style. Send them an email to ask questions that you are curious about their work, process, style, choices, method etc.
Here are some links to help you search photographers,
International Center of Photography - In New York. Visit the "Museum" Current and Past Exhibitions. Maybe go to NY sometime and visit this place. Cool!
Photography Now- Visual list of contemporary photographers.
Yahoo Photo Masters- index of photographers, but these are mostly old ones.
Museum of Contemporary Photography- look up collections and also browse by artist. (I love Colleen Plumb.)
Magnum Photo
CAPIC
PPOC
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