Choose one of the following artist, research their work, and prepare a short presentation (using Google slides, PowerPoint or any other presentation software).
You will deliver the presentation online during class time. Mr. Zimmer will provide detailed instructions on how to use Zoom to deliver the presentation. Click here to view Mr. Zimmer's YouTube video about how to create a slide presentation using Google Slides.
Please incorporate:
- 6-10 images that best illustrate the artist's work
- 8-12 slides
- Significant names, dates and vocabulary
- Significant information associated with each image (size, building method, firing technique)
- Be sure to identify central themes (i.e. ideas) and concepts illustrated by the work
Photographers
and possible topics:
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Robert
Frank - photographs that demonstrate our common
humanity through images of various cultures eating, dancing, singing, etc.
Henri Cartier-Bresson - the father of the "decisive-moment"
approach to photography
Paul
Strand - pioneer of straight photography
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Annie Leibovitz - portraits of famous people
(photographer for Rolling Stone and Vogue)
Edward Weston -
produced magnificent pictures of primarily buildings and nature
The History of the SnapShot
Berenice
Abbott - architectural studies of New York City in the
1930s
Ansel Adams - landscape photography
Diane Arbus - portraits of people outside the mainstream of
society
Bill
Brandt - surrealist and working class imagery,
British, 1930-60
Harry
Callahan - formalistic, minimalist portraits and
landscapes
Roy
DeCarava - documented the African-American experience
and its cultural icons
Walker
Evans - imagery
of American society during the Great Depression
Lewis W. Hine - worked to expose the tragedy of child labor
in the United States
Walter Iooss - a world renowned sports
photographer that worked
for Sports Illustrated for many years
William
Klein - New York street photography in the mid-fifties
Dorothea Lang - portraits of people during the depression
Jacques-Henri
Lartigue - France before World War I
Arnold
Newman - One of the greatest portrait-makers in the
history of photography
Gordon Parks -
produced portraits of black political figures and
social change in the fifties and sixties
Herb Ritts - famous for portraits of famous people
Alfred Stieglitz -
helped photography become recognized as an art form
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