Time for You to Blog!

In an effort to see all the images you create in our digital photography unit, you will create a blog specifically for Graphic Design to show your artwork. A blog is a way for you to share your artwork with friends and other people. It's also a way for you to organize your work, see improvements and build a portfolio. You will keep and update your blog at different points in the semester when assignments are due and this will be the way that you turn in your assignments from now on.

Here are two blog sites I have used:

blogger.com - very basic, need to set up a gmail account to get started

tumblr.com- more design options, easy to use

Your assignment today is to finish editting your 7 images. Utilize Brightness/Contrast, Levels, and Curves to achieve a range of values. You may also experiment to achieve natural-looking colors using Color Balance. When you have made your changes to your images, save them as jpegs.

Then post your pictures on your blog with the title 7 Views of Jones as the title. You may give titles to your individual images if you want.

Photography Research Project

PHOTOGRAPHY RESEARCH PROJECT Graphic Design  

Due

Choose two artists you would like to research and present to the class. The artists may be exclusively photographers or they can be artists who create different types of artwork including photography. At least one of the artists should be living and working now.

Part I Outline: In an outline format, please include the following information:

·         Artist’s name

·         where and when he/she was born and where the/she lives and works now

·         university/art school he/she attended

·         type of photography artist does (documentary, photojournalism, street, portraits, etc)

Part II: Write this information/ answer questions in complete sentences

·         What ideas is the artist interested in? What is the work about?

·         How does the artists’ style and picture-taking process connect to the concepts/ideas of the artwork?

·         Why are you are interested, drawn to, and/or moved by the artist’s images?

Part II: Power Point Presentation- Choose 1 artist

·         Create a simple power point displaying 4 photographs by the artist

·         Images should be large and  high-quality

·         Develop 2 questions for the viewers to answer and/or think about for each artwork

·         Describe the work- including concepts, subject matter, process, etc (basically tell us why these images are cool and what they are about so we can understand them better)  

On-line Resources- galleries, museums and websites with good information & high quality images

You can do searches on these sites or look at artwork to find artists that interest you.

Art 21 (Art in the Twenty-first Century) PBS program & website

Saatchi Gallery (all contemporary artists- good images)

Gagosian Gallery

Museum of Contemporary Photography- Chicago

Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) - L.A.

Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) - Chicago

New Museum – NY                                                            

PS1- Queens, NY                                                                             

Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) - NY                                                         

Whitney Museum of American Art- NY                                       

                               

Lens Culture: Contemporary Art Magazine- lensculture.com

Photography-now.net

newyorkphotofestival.com

photography.nationalgeographic.com

New York Times- nytimes.com/pages/multimedia/index.html

Art Forum (magazine) - artforum.com

Art in America (magazine) – artinamericamagazine.com