Assignment #8 ‘Digging Deeper Photo Evaluations’

This term I would like you to start the process of understanding, and evaluating, several photographic images.  To do this, I would like you to precede through the following steps, making notes, sketches along the way. 

*Please note that I’m looking for you to make a personal response based on your own experience, prior knowledge, and/or research.

Connecting:

  • The purpose of making a connection to the photo is to enhance our understanding of the photographer’s intent.
  • Use your own knowledge and experience’s to find meaning.
  • “Deep thinking connections help you understand the Photo better.  Quick connections don’t”

Questioning:

  • “A deep-thinking question helps you to think deeper about the text.” 
  • The Photo looks like it’s about   But now I’m wondering if it’s actually about _________________.

Visualizing:

  • “Visualizing is like seeing a movie in your mind while you read” In this case ‘reading’ the photo.
  • Look at the photo for a while. Now close your eyes- what happened before? What happens after?

Inferring:

  • Most Photographers don’t tell you EVERYTHING about what their intent was for work- they want YOU to figure it out for yourself
  • Don’t just think about what IS in the photo, thinking about what ISN’T.
  • Inferring is filling in, in your head what is not written under, or beside, the photo
  • When you infer, you need to act like a detective.  Look for the clues the photographer left in the image and use them to figure out what they didn’t tell you.

Transforming:

  • “Transforming is when your thinking gets re-arranged and re-organized because of something you read. You may end up with the same thought, only now it looks a little different” 
  • “Summarizing is two dimensional reading, synthesizing is three dimensional reading”
  • “A summary is a re-tell; a synthesis is a re-think”.
WHAT?
What’s going on in the photo?
SO WHAT?
What’s going on in your head?

 

Analyze:  (think about all the parts which make up this photo)

  • Use the elements/principles to reflect upon the photo (see notes below)

Interpret: (Consider the following)

  • What, do you think, is the artist trying to say?
  • What caused the artist to say it?
  • What is the historical milieu that surrounds the work of art, in your opinion?
  • Why, do you think, was the work of art created in this particular style?

 

Evaluating:  (Judgment time) {Not from RP}

  • How successful or important is the work of art to you?

 

 

Answer the following questions.  When completed Post the photo and your answers on your blog.

 

  • What, do you think, is the artist trying to say?
  • How does the artist use the Elements and Principles of Design to support your idea?
  • What caused the artist to say it?
  • What is the historical milieu that surrounds the work of art, in your opinion?
  • Why, do you think, was the work of art created in this particular style?
  • How successful or important is the work of art to you?

 

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