Class #8 - Oct. 19th - Manipulated Photography

10/19 

   -Quiz #4 on pages 205-207

   -In class discussion of Discussion Topic #4
   -Discussion on Manipulated Photographs – Pre-Photoshop and Post-Photoshop

               -Go Over Critiquing Photography – Formal Analysis

   -Shooting Assignment #8 explained and given –  Shoot your Full Name from                                                   graphic elements.

               -Critique of selected images from Assignment #7 – projected

For next week: -BRING: in camera

                                        -BRING: your permission slip!

                                       -UPLOAD: images to your Tumblr from Assignment #8.

Formal Analysis

A formal analysis consists of a purely visual description of the work irrespective of cultural context, history, or artistic motivation. As such, it is a basic tool for art historians and artists to understand the purely visual aspects of a work of art. This is not to say that such cultural or motivational interpretations can be separated from the artwork, but that the visual elements provide an essential starting point for understanding a work of art.

Elements of a formal analysis include descriptions of color, space, line, volume, mass, and composition.

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Formal Analysis Example

                                           Shooting Assignment #8

Graphic Elements in your environment

For this homework assignment I’d like you to go out on the streets of New York City and photograph the letters of your full name.

Try and get as close as possible to the letter and isolate just that letter. 

A letter can’t be used twice.  In other words if your full name has 3 Bs then there has to be three completely different Bs.

Each letter also has to be from a different source.   No using the same sign for multiple letters!

Points will be deducted if you are not too close. 

You have a better chance of getting all the letters if you go to a busy commercial center.

You are allowed only ONE letter to be photographed inside!  Everything else MUST be photographed outside.

It doesn’t have to necessarily be an actual letter from a sign.  For example, if your name has a “Y” and you see a tree branch that’s shaped like a “Y” then use that.

Be creative and have fun with this!!!