AP Photo Breadth 9

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Alfred Stieglitz

Minor White

Doorways and Passageways as metaphors

Doorway: the passage of a door, entranceway into a house or room

Passageway: a way that allows passage to or from a place or between points

Photos: take 25-50 photos of doorways, passageways or images that represent them. You may take sevearl images to photomontage in Photoshop.

Reading/Blog:
1. Read the Dream Intrepreation of doors on the handout

2. Go to the following site to review how to take good photos and use value:

http://www.thinkartmakeart.com/photocommand.htm

http://www.thinkartmakeart.com/value.htm

3. Go to http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4x37g_alfred-stieglitz-tribute-theequiva_shortfilms or at home(you tube) http://www.phillipscollection.org/research/american_art/artwork/Stieglitz-Equivalent_Series1.htm

and

http://www.jnevins.com/whitereading.htm read this article by Minor White about Stieglitz

In your blog: answer the question: What did Stieglitz mean by the term the equivalents, then brainstorm ideas in your blog for passageway images.

4. Study the portfolios of

Minor White: http://www.masters-of-photography.com/W/white/white.html

Paul Caponigro: http://www.johnpaulcaponigro.com/gallery/scroll.php

Jerry Uelsmann: http://www.uelsmann.com/

Photoshop Skills: go to the P drive>students> kelly> Ap Photoshop Lesson adv layer, do the practice lesson with your own images, save in your dig photo folder under breadth 9