For the final project, you will be submitting a portfolio of 4-6 images that stand together as a cohesive body of work. The subject that you choose is completely open- it can be a documentary project, narrative, series of portraits, still-lives, a formal or abstract study, an experimental approach that combines another medium such as installation, performance, or drawing, or any other approach that would be of particular interest to you. Unlike the other assignments given in the class, this project does not have to take Florence and your experience of the city as subject matter, but it can. The photographs printed can be manipulated heavily through Photoshop or not manipulated at all, functioning as straight photographs. Images can be in color or altered to become black and white images.
The final project should consist of a series of prints that are printed to the best of your ability- be sure to adjust color balance, contrast, etc.
Please keep in mind the following important dates:
Friday, June 19: Project Idea Presentations, Initial Critique Session of Ideas
Monday, June 22: Work in Progress Critique
Friday, June 26: Final Critique (final projects and accordion book projects will be distributed in the residence before the group dinner)
It is essential that you have materials to show for the work in progress critique. If you do not participate in the critiques, you will receive a 0 for the day. Prints submitted for work in progress critiques do not have to be final prints- you won’t be handing anything in on these days. These critiques are for you to get necessary and helpful feedback for your project and are very important. Feel free to bring ideas/questions or anything that you need feedback on- whether it’s a conceptual concern, a technical concern- or just general advice.
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Monday, June 15, 2009
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Blog Assignment
Given that the first component of this course will explore issues related to travel photography, each student will create a blog throughout the course where images taken throughout the class can be posted online- acting as both an on-line art project and an opportunity to share your experiences with friends and family back in the US.
Blogs should be based on typical tourist photographs. Try to either provide a theme for your blog that focuses on one particular aspect of Tuscany, take photographs that represent your own personal point of view, or create posts which combine text and image to reveal your own unique observations on aspects of the city that you find compelling, contradictory, interesting or ironic.
Each student will be responsible for at least 4 posts per week (beginning June 1) for a total of 16 posts completed by the end of the course. Blogs will be reviewed on June 27. Posts should be paced at 4 per week- do not try to make all 16 posts during the last week of class!
Blog servers that can be used include blogspot, typepad, or wordpress. (Wordpress and blogspot are free, typepad is not free). You can also post blogs to your own personal website if you have one.
Provide the url address of your blog and put up your first four posts by Friday June 5 so that a link to your blog can be made from the main class website.
Note: Because of the issue regarding internet access in the class, I will bring a thumb drive to class onto which you can download your files. This drive will be kept on my doorknob so that you can take your files from the lab computers after you have worked with them in Photoshop and post them at the residence where you can access the web.
Blogs should be based on typical tourist photographs. Try to either provide a theme for your blog that focuses on one particular aspect of Tuscany, take photographs that represent your own personal point of view, or create posts which combine text and image to reveal your own unique observations on aspects of the city that you find compelling, contradictory, interesting or ironic.
Each student will be responsible for at least 4 posts per week (beginning June 1) for a total of 16 posts completed by the end of the course. Blogs will be reviewed on June 27. Posts should be paced at 4 per week- do not try to make all 16 posts during the last week of class!
Blog servers that can be used include blogspot, typepad, or wordpress. (Wordpress and blogspot are free, typepad is not free). You can also post blogs to your own personal website if you have one.
Provide the url address of your blog and put up your first four posts by Friday June 5 so that a link to your blog can be made from the main class website.
Note: Because of the issue regarding internet access in the class, I will bring a thumb drive to class onto which you can download your files. This drive will be kept on my doorknob so that you can take your files from the lab computers after you have worked with them in Photoshop and post them at the residence where you can access the web.
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