Image Analysis Seminar

8/13/2019 Image Analysis Seminar

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IMAGE ANALYSIS SEMINARorHow to link images to questions


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IMAGE ANALYSIS SEMINARorHow to link images to questions

Or

How do you write about a picture?


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What do you see?(Denotation what is there Connotation what is implied?)

Responses(How do you read the image, what feelings does it evoke? How do yourecord this?)

Intention Method / Techniques

(What does the photographer intend? How is this articulated throughtechniques?)

Context(Associations, History, other photographs / images)

Metaphors, Ideologies, Beliefs(What symbols and systems of values are evoked?)


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Key issues:What is an essay?

What are its different parts?


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What do you know? How have you demonstrated this?What have you analysed? How have you demonstrated this?What argument has been developed?How have you written this?[How original is this? What degree of rigor and creative leaps have been demonstrated?]


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The assessment criteria:

Applied knowledge and theoretical understanding of perception,communication and meaning

Critical understanding of historical and cultural photographic practice

Use of research to initiate, support, and develop ideas

Strength of argument through structure, flow, and development

Use of academic conventions to communicate clearly in written form


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Learning Outcomes

LO1

A growing understanding of critical ideas regarding perception, meaning, and communication.

LO2

A growing appreciation of the application and operation of concepts of visual communication

to both histor ical and contemporary practice particularly in photography.

LO3 A developing knowledge of theoretical cultural ideas and perspectives and their importance

in both historical and contemporary practice

LO4 Developing essential academic skills to support, explore, and expand concepts, support

critical analysis, the understanding and development of ideas and their expression in verbal and written form


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A question:

1. Compare and contrast the work of Edward Weston and Richard Misrach


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Stephen Shore, Merced River, Yosemite Valley, 1979

Ansel Adams, Yosemite Valley, 1942


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What does it mean to compare and contrast?What elements can be compared and contrasted?How do you define an approach to landscapephotography?What importance does style have to the meaningof a landscape photograph?


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Richard MisrachChemical Bomb and Pyrotechnic Storage from series w-47 (the secret)1986-91

Edward Weston, Dunes, Oceano, 1936


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Ansel Adams, Moonrise, Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, 1948


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Alfred StieglitzEquivalent1923


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Alfred StieglitzEquivalent1929


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Edward Weston, Wind Erosion, Dunes, Oceano, 1935


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Carleton Watkins, Best General View, Yosemite Valley, 1867


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Timothy OSullivan, Inscription Rock, New Mexico, 1873


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David Maisel, Terminal Mirage 24


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Richard Misrach,

Richard Misrach, Bomb, Destroyed Vehicle and Lone Rock, Bravo 20 Bombing Range, Nevada, 1986


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Richard Misrach, Dead Cattle, Bravo 20 Nevada, 1987


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Richard MisrachAmmunition Bunker

from series w-47 (the secret), 1986-91


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Richard MisrachChemical Bomb and Pyrotechnic Storage from series w-47 (the secret), 1986-91


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Richard MisrachHazardous Waste Containment Site, Dow Chemical Corporation1998


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Sophie Ristelhueber, Fait (Fact), 1992


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Sophie Ristelhueber, Fait (Fact), 1992


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Edward Burtynsky


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Alberta Oil Sands #6Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, 2007


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Mitch Epstein


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Robert Adams, East from Flagstaff Mountain, 1976


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Mark Power


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Roger FentonThe Long Walk1860


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What things can be compared and contrasted here?


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What things can be compared and contrasted here?

How does a treefigure differently in each view?


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Marc Auge,Non-Places

Paul Farley & Michael Symmons Roberts,Edgelands: Journeys Into Englands True Wilderness


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Some edgelands


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Another question:

2. How does a thing (a sign, an image or an object)

come to represent a person?

Explore this question through the work of one or more

photographer/s using portraiture or still life


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Gillian WearingAugust SanderDiane ArbusImogen CunninghamLaura LetinskyRobert MapplethorpeMartin Parr

Irving PennDanny TreacyVik MunizRaymond MeierRichard AvedonNadar

Some names


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Gillian Wearing


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Gillian WearingWhat signs are present? How are they representing people?

What method is the photographer using?


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August SanderWhat signs are present? How are they representing people?



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Irving PennWhat signs are present? How are they representing people?



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Compare? Contrast?


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Compare? Contrast?


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Compare? Contrast?

Richard Renaldi


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Diane Arbus Richard Avedon


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Martin Parr Katy Grannan


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Lewis Hine > Walker Evans > Martin Parr


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Edward Weston Irving Penn


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Laura Letinsky Imogen Cunningham


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Ansel Adams The modernist thing-in-itself


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Tina Modotti


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Lee FriedlanderA condensed spaceA missed object


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Juergen TellerA game of perception and identification: where is the flower, is it a stain?


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Nobuyoshi ArakiNatureorthe in-human


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Martin Parr:

the common-place


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Stephen Shorecultural locations..


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A third possibility

3. How does a photographic image appear natural and yet be the product of a cultural process?Explore this question in relation to at least two different photographic examples.


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Jeff Wall,Dead Troops Talk (A vision after an ambush of a Red Army patrol, near Moqor, Afghanistan, winter 1986)

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Jeff Wall,Dead Troops Talk (A vision after an ambush of a Red Army patrol, near Moqor, Afghanistan, winter

1986)

1992


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The artistic image vs the scientific image


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The posed image? The natural likeness?Questions of icon / index?Denotation and connotation?


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Documents

Image Analysis Seminar