Photo IV: Week Five Due: October 7, Thursday

Photo IV: Week Five Due: October 7, Thursday

Go to:

http://www.whitney.org/www/2006biennial/artists.php

Select any three artists whose names you do not recognize and click on their name to view their work and read a blurb.

Select the image from each of the three artists to post on your blog with the full caption and a link back to the artist's page.

Read the info / brief blurb about each of the three artists that you have selected. Then briefly explain anything at all that the three artists' works have in common. Just even the slightest something will do.

Then, post three of your own images and explain why you selected each of the three images.

Photo IV: Week Four Due: September 30, Thursday

Photo IV: Week Four Due: September 30, Thursday


At the Met is an exhibition Between Here and There, Contemporary Photography. Some of the Photographers in the exhibition are listed below. Click on the names which are links or locate an image by any one, two or three artists from the list that you think has any relation whatsoever to your own work from the first project assignment. Other links to images are located within the essay by Douglas Eklund (http://www.metmuseum.org/now-at-the-met/features/2010/09/22/between-here-and-there-contemporary-photography-at-the-met.aspx). Select the image (or images) that you think relate(s) to your work for your blog, with a link back to its original on-line location, and with any relevant information available about the image. Then, explain how that image is related to your own work.


And finally post three of your own recent images and explain why you selected each of the three.


Here is the list of photographers in the exhibition:
Vito Acconci, Ed Ruscha, Richard Long, On Kawara, On Kawara, (or On Kawara), Bruce Nauman, Rineke Dijkstra, Thomas Struth, Darren Almond, Doug Aitken, (or Doug Aitken), Lothar Baumgarten, Matthew Buckingham, VALIE EXPORT, Felix Gonzalez–Torres, Svetlana Kopystiansky, Dennis Oppenheim, Allen Ruppersberg, Fazal Sheikh, Erin Shirreff, Robert Smithson, Anne Turyn, Jeff Wall, and Weng Fen.


Also of interest:
Images of War, Finally Unpacked: “The Mexican Suitcase” at the International Center of Photography features recently recovered images of the Spanish Civil War by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/arts/design/24suitcase.html

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/01/27/arts/20080127_KENN_SLIDESHOW_index.html

Photo IV: Week Three Due: September 23, Thursday

Your assignment for week three:

Go to http://masters-of-photography.com/

Find any three images from three different photographers (one photograph per each photographer).

Post these three images from three different photographers with full captions.

Write why you think this image is included in an archive that is called "Masters of Photography".

Then post three of your own recent images and state why you like each one.

Photo IV: Week Two Due: September 16, Thursday

Your assignment for week two: 

find any three images from three different current exhibitions in any large city, anywhere except Denver, AND explain why you chose each of the three images. (use my links posted here --->>)


The exhibitions MUST be in a physical space, and NOT just an on-line exhibition.

Also, link from the image or description of the image to the website where you found the image.

THEN upload any three brand new, recent images of your own AND explain why you chose each of the three images.

Photo IV: Week One Due: September 9, Thursday

Photo IV: Week One Due:September 9, Thursday

Your assignment: 

find any three images from three different current exhibitions in any large city, anywhere except Denver, AND explain why you chose each of the three images. (use my links posted here, to get started)


The exhibitions MUST be in a physical space, and NOT just an on-line exhibition.

Also, link from the image or description of the image to the website where you found the image.

THEN upload any three brand new, recent images of your own AND explain why you chose each of the three images.