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Criteria- Grade 11 Dead Photographer Assignment
- Select a photographer who is currently living (12s) or dead (11s) and working in the medium. Find a photographer who you are interested in. This is likely the most challenging and important of the steps; find a photographer that inspires you.
- Research several using the internet. Find your top 5 five favourite. Write 5 important points about each and put in your journal with an image for each and narrow it down to one.
- Email (12s only) your photographer, let them know that you are interested in their work and you are doing a project for school based on their work. Ask them for some information. Print out your email to them and their response.
- Write an article about the photographer's life, the medium, photostyle and offer an opinion reflection and commentary of their work in 500 to 750 words. Make sure you include a bibliography.
- Share your contemporary photographer with the class any way you want. You are to articulate information from your article to the class verbally, and visually.
- Photograph in their style, create a contact sheet and five 5 x 7 prints and one 8 x 10 print.
If that doesn't work for you,
Photography Now- visual list of contemporary photographers.
Yahoo Photo Masters- index of photographers
Museum of Contemporary Photography- look up collections and also browse by artist. (I love Colleen Plumb.)
Magnum Photo
International Center of Photography
CAPIC -The Canadian Association of Professional Image Creators
PPOC- Professional Photographers of Canada
Lisa Pritchard Agency
Women in Photography
