Photography Units Overview

Unit 1:   The Art of Photography

·         Chapter 1 and 2 in book

·         Elements and Principles of Art

·         Photogram’s

·         Man Ray and William Wegman

Unit 2: Black and White Photography

·         Chapter 3 in the Book

·         Pin-hole camera

·         How the camera works

·         Chapter 11 in the book

·         First roll of film

·         Sandy Skoglund

Unit 3:  Unusual Perspectives

·         Photographic Composition

·         Unusual Perspectives

·         Cropping

·         Filters

·         Article on Artists

·         Ansel Adams, Cindy Sherman

Unit 4:  Action and Depth of Field

·         Action Collage Digital

·         Chapter 4 and Chapter 6

·         Using your Digital Camera

·         Depth of Field Black and White film

·         Dodge and Burning

·         Richard Avedon , Henri Cartier-Bresson

Unit 5: Portraits

·         Chapter 5

·         Digital and Black and White Portraits

·         Studio Lighting

·         Cindy Sherman, Anne Geddes, Edward Curtis

·         Psycho Movie

Unit 6: Photojournalism

·         Chapter 7

·         Black and White Story Project

·         Digital Magazine Cover

·         Alfred Stieglitz, Annie Lebovitz

·         Four Step Art Criticism

Unit 7: Manipulations and Experimentation

·         Double Negative, Double Exposures

·         Collage Work

·         David Hockney Article

·         Solarization

·         Andy Warhol, Jerry Ulessmann

Unit 8: Final Project

·         Personal Collage

·         Artist Statement

·         Four Step Art Criticism

·         Final Exam Preparation