Photographer Research Project
- Select a photographer who is well
known for his/her photography
Key
considerations and expectations:
- Your selection must be easily
found via an internet search, but you
- State why this individual is of
interest to you
- Provide adequate information
regarding his/her body of work
- What or who influenced the
individual’s work
- Educational background of the
individual
- How did he or she evolve as a photographer
- How does the artist/photographer’s
work connect to the audience
- Why is he/she successful
- As soon as you have made your
selection, notify the instructor so your selection can be recorded – note:
no one can report on the same photographer, selections must be made end
the beginning of the period Monday, November 18th.
- Presentations will be due before Thanksgiving break, November
26th.
Requirements:
·
Collect
images of his/her work from web sources
·
Write
a well-developed paragraph for each of the key considerations above
·
Ensure
that you cite your sources – do not just
cut and paste from the net
·
Create
a timeline of the individual’s life that is highlighted by examples of his/her
work
·
Take
a photograph that emulates the individual’s style – don’t just copy or
photograph anything – you should let his/her style influence your work
Photographers
William
Henry Jackson - 1869 to 1893, his life and how his work captured and
introduced the American West
Ansel
Adams – Yosemite and America
Mathew
B. Brady – Civil War photographer
André
Kertész
Alfred
Stieglitz
Edward
Weston.
Robert
Capa 20th century – flamboyant figure
Grodon
Parks - photographer, filmmaker, composer
Robert
Gilbert - African-American photographer 19th century
Cecil
Beaton - photographer, artist, writer
Dorothea
Lange
Edward
S. Curtis – native American women in the early twentieth century
Horst
P. Horst
Jacob
Riis
Jacques
Henri Lartigue
Alfred
Stieglitz, the man regarded as the father of American photography
Flip
Schulke - documentary
photographs in American magazines helped to shape public opinion
Imogen
Cunningham
Margaret
Bourke-White - pioneering female photojournalist
Dorothea
Lange
Lola
Alvarez Bravo
Carrie
MaeWeems
Elsa
Dorfman
Greg
MacGregor's - retracing the route
followed by the Lewis and Clark expidition
Cindy
Sherman
Andy
Rouse - wildlife photographer
Anne
Gettes
Annie
Leibowitz
Websites for lists of
famous photographers
http://www.cameranaked.com/Photographers.htm
