Week 3

Reading response, class shoot prep

Questions/ Concerns/ Catchup time

Look at More Portrait Artists and Self Portrait Artists

• Catherine Opie [article about her] - Queer communities
• LaToya Ruby Frazier [website]
• Dawould Bey [whitney museum]
• Let Your Motto Be Resistance (it's a book) [amazon]
• Kehinde Wiley - Appropriation of Importance through appropriation of visual language [his annoying website] [wiki]
• Is the portrait real? Is the photographer constructing? Is the subject performing? Is there an ethics of portraiture?
• Dorothea Lange [wiki] - The lie of the unmodified portrait (discuss)
• Edward Steichen and JP Morgan [image] [steichen bio with mention of the portrait] [pop article]
• Jill Greenberg and Dick Cheney [atlantic rebuttal] [other link]... weirdly, it seems like the discussions about it have disappeared. ooOOOoo...
• Barbara Degenevieve - The Panhandler Project [video]
• Katy Grannan (I don't really have much to say about Katy Grannan. You can look her up yourself) [gallery link] [wiki]
• What does it mean if the author of the portrait is unknown? The Art of the American Snapshot

What is the difference between portraiture and documentary? (presence/absence of photographer) What if it's in a newspaper? Or a magazine? Or a book? Why are they in these places? How does that affect the photographs and how we read them? How could it change how the photographer shoots them? What is the role/place of consent in photography?

• Rineke Dijkstra [bio]
• Diane Arbus [show of early work at the Met Breuer]
• Henry Horenstein's Honky Tonk book
• Walker Evans - Let Us Now Praise Famous Men [wiki on the book] [wiki of Walker Evans in particular]
• Some token white men:
• Timothy Briner's Boonville project [link to his website]
• Larry Sultan's Pictures from Home [website]
• Alec Soth [website]

Work in class to continue tethered shooing others for your project 1 (due next class)

Project 1

Deliverables:

• Submit 4 portraits of your group members (1 of each)
• Drop the images in the Project 1 folder
• Make sure you create a folder with your lastname_firstname
• Make sure your self portrait is first
• They should be jpeg, srgb, 3000 pixels on the widest side
• name them yourlastname_firstname_PH152_Assig02_01.jpg , yourlastname_firstname_PH152_Assig02_02.jpg etc

(note this is not the same as your import conventions)