Thursday, November 25, 2010

Movie Slide Show

After you have viewed the history of America, choose six of the choices below and create a slide show. Find one to two photographs for each choice and in your own words explain what you learned about that topic from the movie.

Brownie Camera
National Geographic Magazine 1920's
Edward Curtis
Photo-succeionsit movement
Lewis Hine
Paul Strand
Photography in WW1
1919 Tabloid photographs
Photographs and advertising 1920's
Celebrity photographs 1920's
Space and astronomy in photographs 1920's
Photography in Civil Rights Movement
Photography during Vietnam War
Photography to document genocides
Photography during presidential elections
Andy Warhol and photography
Gordon Parks
Ansel Adams
Life magazine
Edward Steichen's The Family Man
Robert Capa
Farm Security Administration and photography
Photography in WW2

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Magnum Photographers

Go to Magnum photographers and answer the following questions and share it at ferranta@spsd.org. Label it Magnum Photographers.

1. Describe that it means to be a  magnum photographer?

Go to photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson and answer the following questions. Choose 2 of the photographs that you like. Copy and paste them on a the google document. 

2. Describe his style.
3. Comment on why you like the photographs you chose. (describe the elements of design he used)

Go to Robert Capa. Choose 2 photographs that you like. Copy and paste them on a google document.
4. What is his style?  
5. Why is he named “the greatest war photographer in the world”? 
6. Comment on why you like the photographs you chose (what elements of design do you see).  
7. Go to his biography and write 3-5 bullets of what you learned 

Go to another photographer. Choose 2 photographs that you like. Copy and paste them on a google document.
8. Describe the style of the chosen photographer.
9. Comment on the photographs you chose. What elements of design do you see?