JOURNAL/ HOMEWORK Week #9 spring semester

Week #9 Blog:  Due March 9th

Read the article about Edward Weston in the white book and answer the following questions:

1. What types of images were being photographed around the 1920s?

2. Weston started developing a "new way of seeing." What types of things was he interested in?

3. What were the subjects of his photographs?

4. What did the Pictorialists believe about photography? Explain their style.

5. Weston was a member of "Group f.64" along with Ansel Adams. What was this group?

6. List 3 facts about Weston's personal history:

JOURNAL/ HOMEWORK week #7 spring semester

Week #7 Blog:  Due February 24th

Read the article on Mary Ellen Mark and answer the following questions:

1. What type of portraiture is Mark famous for?

2. How does she attempt to portray the "human condition"?

3. Mark believes you need a sense of intimacy in order to make great portraits. What has changed over the years to make this hard to obtain?

4. what is "still photography?"

5. When does she use a tripod? Why?

6. What do you think she means when she says her photography has a "signature" to it?

7. How does Mark feel about magazine work? How does she approach her assignments?

8. Why does she photograph disadvantaged people?

9. What is photography "about" for her?

10. Does she do her own printing? Why or why not?