FINAL - 9:30 am / Thursday, Dec. 15

PHOTO DIARY
1. Varieties in one place - 10 shots
2. Roomies - art documentary - 3 shots
3. People group  - 5 shots
4. Place out of time - 6 shots
5. Document a place - 8 shots
6. Grennan photos - 5 shots
7. Paper eyes - 2 shots
8. Critical landscape / pollution - 8 shots

INCLUDE ALL TEST SHOTS FOR PROJECTS - THIS COUNTS AS YOUR SKETCHBOOK GRADE / Put original documentary work in this section.

PROJECT 01 - Documentary (10 - 20 shots)
PROJECT 02 - Contemporary Portrait (12 - 15 shots)
PROJECT 03 - Critical Landscape (6 - 8 shots)
PROJECT 04 - Appropriation (5 shots)

FOR FINAL
Please have your documentary resubmit read to view digitally and new artist statement for the set. For appropriation please have it printed off card stock 8.5x11 print for class to look over in critique on Thursday. If you would like anything checked over before the class on Thursday. I will be around. Please just give me a shout out over email and I can meet up with you to look over anything you need.

Tuesday, Dec. 6

Please have your prints ready to hang. We will put everything up on Tuesday. Please have your artist statement printed out for the area as well.

Thursday, Nov. 17

Please have your test shoots downloaded into the dropbox. You must have a printed out proposal / artist statement for each project.

Tuesday, Nov. 15

Ladies - please have your test shoots ready to look over in class on Tuesday.

Thursday, Nov. 10

Hi guys,

PLEASE FILL OUT YOUR HORIZON'S REGISTRY FOR THE FIELD TRIP. CAN'T GO WITHOUT IT.

Also if you would like to get your grade sheet back from the last project just stop on by my office or the graphics lab tomorrow. I'm sorry I've forgotten to give them to you for a couple of class periods. So sorry things get pushed to the bottom of the bag and they never come up for air. So is the life of professor mom - can find the wet wipe but never all the assignment sheets.

For THURSDAY

Bring about $20 for the day. Should give you plenty of padding. We will be meeting up at 8 am at the photohouse. Drive to exit 56 go to the Hatchie National Wildlife Refuge. I'll meet you at the watchtower area around the lake at 8:30 am. Bring your digital camera. Bring your film camera and about two rolls of film. We will take pictures at the Hatchie and then head downtown to Beale St. area to shoot film. From there we will head back down to midtown to the Brooks to see the Eggleston work.

Please read an essay of your choice by him about his work. http://www.egglestontrust.com/. Amanda - there is one on him by Eudora Welty that is a great read. From one literary giant to a photography giant:)

From there we will head to the Jack Robinson gallery back downtown to meet with them at 1 pm. Somewhere in there some good BBQ and more shooting in Memphis. We will leave no later than 3:30 pm to get back by 4:30 pm.

See ya then! Give me a ring if you have any problems or questions!

Tuesday, Nov. 8

Please have a proposal for your ideas for critical landscape and your documentary work (don't forget to include the artist statement and the install in the proposal.)

For Tuesday, shoot 10 test shots in the style of Vilde Rolfsen. She shoots plastic bags turning the object into a landscape through close-up. This is a great example of critical landscape photography. It makes a landscape speak to a greater concept. Please do a test shoot where you turn an object into a landscape. Choose a material that speaks to a greater message.

Here's some examples of Rolfsen's work.
http://vilderolfsen.com/plastic_bag_landscapes-1
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/28/plastic-bag-landscapes_n_5198793.html

Please have these images in the dropbox for Tuesday. Don't forget about Memphis trip on Thursday.

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Please shoot your photo diary in the style of Oak Thitayrak

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2011/04/seen-on-the-streets-of-chicago-an-interview-with-oak-thitayarak/

One image you are hunting / tracking for a subject for your funny face
One image you are sitting / waiting for your subject to come across your frame for your funny face.

Put both images in the dropbox for Tuesday.

I TOTALLY FORGOT WE HAVE CAMPUS AND COMMUNITY DAY ON TUESDAY. Go be part of our community. Please have your proposal for the documentary project ready to look over for class on Thursday. We are going to do Critical Landscape for next show. We will mix in Cameraless Photography assignments (photo diary work) and Appropriation assignments (photo diary work) in until the end of the semester.

Tuesday, October 25

Please submit your artist statement and proposal along with your digital files to drop box. If you have any questions with the install just let me know on Monday. See ya then. 

Thursday, October 20

Photo Diary - due on Tuesday, October 25

Please take a photo of a subject in the style of Martin Schoeller. Close crop and catch light. The next photo is the same subject with our eye mask like that of the George Clooney portrait. Eye mask is in the lab on the table (CeCe).

Here's a link to Martin's photography.
https://www.google.com/search?q=martin+schoeller+photography&safe=strict&rlz=1CAHPZY_enUS594US594&espv=2&biw=1311&bih=608&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwje4KPi5eTPAhUCbSYKHSf5BKIQ_AUIBigB&dpr=1

For Thursday - please install your possible photograph series in the hallway. Submit a rough draft of your proposal and artist statement. We will review and revise both for the final critique on Tuesday. Please meet in class in the lab for critique of photo I on Thursday.

Tuesday, October 11

Please have your test shoots from this weekend downloaded into dropbox and into lightroom. We will start playing with the edits on Tuesday. Be ready. See ya then!

Thursday, October 6

Do test shoots for your projects. Have them in the dropbox folder for Thursday to look over. Start developing out your sketchbook. Look at photographers and style.

Tuesday, October 4

Please submit your photo diary assignment - Katy Grannan before Tuesday. Play around with lighting in the studio this weekend just to brush up on types. Please have three pitches of ideas for your next proposal in you sketchbook for Tuesday. Take those columns that you wrote in your sketchbook as ideas. Start looking at other photographers to put in you sketchbooks for ideas if you hit a wall. Good luck!


Here are some links to Grannan's work to talk about American Dream loss...
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/on-the-boulevard-with-katy-grannan

http://www.artnet.com/awc/katy-grannan.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOef03Sy3x0

Thursday, Sept. 29

Please start your sketchbook for contemporary photography. Start researching ideas, concepts and photographers. Please make a list of three columns. One column - things you hate that make you made. Middle column - things that you are attracted to (aka colors, other artists, settings, objects, etc.) Far column - things that you love. See if there is a way to combine the ideas between them. Look at photographers that work in portraiture that you are attracted to. Print off these works and put them in you sketchbook. A good sketchbook is more of a scrapbook than anything. Lots of bits and pieces make a whole.

It doesn't have to be pretty...just functional. Here are some images of some friends books, former students and professionals.

Return to Normal - Sept. 27, 2016

Check back here on Tuesday, Sept. 27th, 2016 for our regular updates of a blog. Until then be thinking of me with little one at home and making great art in the meantime. Excited to see what you all have been up to over the past month. See ya then!