ASSIGNMENTS:

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ASSIGMENT 05 - SELF DIRECTED

DUE MON 12.01.08

PROMPT:
CREATE A SUBSTANTIAL FINAL PIECE IN THE FORM OF YOUR CHOICE.

ASSIGMENT 04 - ARTIST RESEARCH

DUE MON 11.17.08

PROMPT:
Chose one photographer and perform some research into their work. You may chose from the list below, or find someone you are interested in on your own. Chose 5 works to focus on. Write one paragraph for each image based on information you find in your research. Include relevant data including biographical, descriptive data, and bibliographic data. Acquire high quality images of each of the works.

REQUIREMENTS:
1. Chose one Photographer and research their work
2. Acquire 5 images of their work of no less than 100dpi quality at 5"
3. Write a paragraph about each work including descriptive data
4. Include biographical data
5. Include sources and bibliography

ASSIGMENT 03 - PROPAGANDA

DUE MON 11.10.08

PROMPT:
By combining images, a new network of meanings is created. In the presence of another image, one can be distorted and transformed. Create a single image which is forceful, persuasive, coercive, activist or political. Your image must be created by compositing at least three other images. Do not take the word propaganda literally. Instead, take it to mean that the concept and ideology of your project should directly determine its composition. Of course, such work comes with the risk of being preachy, or cliche. Avoid the obvious. Change our perspectives in an original way.

REQUIREMENTS:
1. Shoot with a digital SLR Camera
2. Your piece must have a clear ideology or persuasive message
3. Composite 3 images: At least 2 images must be shot by you. 1 may be scanned
4. Make 1 print: 30 x 40 in. (your piece does not have to be these dimensions exactly, but should be 40 in on one side)
5. NO TEXT

DEFINITIONS:
You can disregard the negative connotations of these words if you want. Your message can be positive and/or hopeful as well.

Propaganda:
1. information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
2. the deliberate spreading of such information, rumors, etc.
3. the particular doctrines or principles propagated by an organization or movement.

Ideology:
1. the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class, or large group.
2. such a body of doctrine, myth, etc., with reference to some political and social plan, as that of fascism, along with the devices for putting it into operation.
3. Philosophy.
--a. the study of the nature and origin of ideas.
--b. a system that derives ideas exclusively from sensation.
4. theorizing of a visionary or impractical nature.

ASSIGMENT 02 - FACT AND FICTION

DUE WED 10.08.08

PROMPT:
Photographs seem to both verify fact but never seem to tell the truth. With this paradoxical relationship in mind, create a dyptic which explores two sides of the same subject. Using studio lighting, construct one of the two images.

REQUIREMENTS:
1. Shoot with a digital SLR Camera
2. Shoot 2 images of the same SUBJECT 3. One image must represent this subject "factually" and one must represent "fictionally" 4. One of your images must be shot in the studio, using studio lighting 5. Make a print of each, with the minimum dimentions of 20x30 inches

ARTIST REFERENCES:
Thomas Demand
Yasumasa Morimura
Vic Muniz
Thomas Ruff
Harold Edgerton

ASSIGMENT 01 - SHOOTING SPREE

DUE WED 10.08.08

PROMPT:
Shoot 150 Images in two weeks. Take a closer look at things around you, or find situations you have never experienced before. Notice the difference between how your eye sees light, shape and color and how the camera does.

REQUIREMENTS:
1. Shoot 150 Images with a digital SLR Camera
2. Print the two images you find most interesting
3. Print contact sheets of all of your images
4. Upload the selections you and your classmates made from your contact sheets to the server

ARTIST REFERENCES:
Alfred Stieglitz
William Eggleston
Nan Goldin
Wolfgang Tillmans
Uta Barth