Final Project

Your final project is due May 3rd. This project is weighted more in terms of your grade; produce accordingly - the size and presentation of your images should be appropriate to your project. This is the time to spend a bit more on printing, and to experiment with the structure of your piece. You will be graded on your commitment to the project as shown through
1. quality of the production (color-correction, lighting, print, presentation, craft etc.)
2. experimentation as shown through quantity of test shots and overall interest/innovation

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May 3rd you must turn in a cd containing the final iteration of each project. You must turn in one high-res 300 dpi version, approx. 8 x 10 in. and one 72 dpi, approx. 1024 x 768 pixels. Please name the images according to the project name, size, and your first name (for example wunderkammer_sm_gianna). If you made changes/improvements to your images beyond what you originally turned in, please let me know in an attached note. The projects that you turned in over the semester will be available to you for pickup at this time.

George Lois

System of Critique

Consider how your own work fits into this system:

Robert Rauschenberg inspired photos

My Banksy

Eliasson Interpretations

jackson pollock inspired

Present your own work

This weeks presentation was to ready you for next week:

November 23
-5 minute presentation on your own work
-Answer the same questions as you did with the artists this week.
-Show at least 10 images.
-Discuss your concrete intentions and your less-concrete ideals as an
artist/designer.
IMPORTANT: what is missing from your current portfolio in relation to
your goals?

Followed by individual meetings

TODAY (nov. 16):
write a list of strengths and weaknesses in your work. ask a friend if
necessary.
write one paragraph describing your work: commonalities, themes.

Angela Strassheim

contemporary portrait photographer:

From Whitney Biennial 2006: ANGELA STRASSHEIM
Born 1969, Bloomfield, Iowa; lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and New York, New York

Before receiving her MFA from Yale in 2003, Angela Strassheim became certified as a forensic photographer. She did crime scene, evidence, and surveillance photography in Miami and, while working in New York, photographed autopsies. Her first exhibited work was a photograph of a naked woman on an unkempt bed who had committed suicide, and subsequent photographs feature a hospital X-ray room, a body in an open casket, and a bloody surgical saw. But many of Strassheim's vivid color photographs depict less dramatic, even banal, objects and figures, and she identifies her subject matter as "the Midwest and the middle-class American family with the dog, etc." Yet the lessons of forensics have lingered, and scientific detachment, meticulous symmetry, and clinical lighting pervade each of her images. The ropy blue veins in a close-up shot of an elderly woman's hands seem macabre even after we learn that they are those of the artist's grandmother.

(google images)

Robert Rauschenberg

Final Portrait: Cailyn

Olafur Eliasson

These are some of Eliasson's more famous pieces. The Waterfalls he installed in New York last year. The Green River he did around the world including L.A. in 1998 and The Weather Project was installed in the Tate in London in 2004

Nov. 9

Today in class:

1. individual meetings

2. Find images to correspond to each of your talking points - you must have at least 12 images of their work in your presentation.

3. Finalize the content of your presentation so you can spend the rest of the week working on your photographs.

Over the next week:

produce 2 photographs that demonstrate the ideas and process used by your artist. The images should not look like their work, but should be a mixing of their approach and your own ideas.

Nov 16

Their work + your work: presentation to the class. Is there an overall theme? Tell a story.

- 5-7 minutes on the artist. 5 minutes on explaining how your photographs relate to their ideas. Must be at least 10 minutes long. Must address the talking points and how you used their ideas as inspiration.

portrait [reshoot]

jackson pollock

historical reenactment

wunderkammer

Research Assignment

Alexander Calder

magical realism

portraiture assignment

here's my final.

Portrait

I don't wanna grow up!

George Lois

Research Assignment

Artist: Banksy