Final Project- Photographer Research Part 1

Digital Photography I Research Project Part 1

Skyline High School, Ann Arbor Public Schools

You will research a famous photographer and present a PowerPoint, Prezi or Comic Life presentation to the class. You will create a PowerPoint or Prezi presentation that must have a title page and a bibliography at the end listing your sources. You will need a minimum of three different sources. *Do not copy & paste from websites or any other resources—No PLAIGERISM!

Your presentation will be a minimum of 5 minutes in length. Each of the following areas should receive the same amount of attention. Your presentation must include the following:

__­_ A minimum of 24 photographs of the photographer’s work—with title & date taken typed below it.

­___ A short biography of the photographer, explanation of the type of photography they shot, how the photographer’s work was affected by the time in which they lived.

­­___ An explanation of the technical processes the photographer used and how you feel this photographer has contributed to the field of photography (discuss specific examples—content versus process).

___ An in-depth critique of a minimum of three of the photographs shown (use critiquing handout).

___ Bibliography—include website address and date info was obtained.

Photo Research Project

Early Photographers & Photo Process Inventors

Jacques Mande Daguerre         William Henry Fox Talbot       Paul Nadar

Julia Margaret Cameron           Eadweard Muybridge              George Eastman

Architectural Photographers

Randy Scott Slavin                 Janie Airey            Edddy Joaquin        Moby

Simon Kennedy                      Dirk Reinarts

Landscape Photographers

Ansel Adams                Berenice Abbott           Lars Van De Goor        Philip Hyde

Joseph Holmes             Eliot Porter                  Galen Rowell

Documentary Photographers / Photo Journalism

Timothy O’Sullivan     Jacob Riis         Weegee            Walker Evans               Lewis Hine 
Dorothea Lange            Margaret Bourke-White           Robert Doisneau             Helen Levitt

Shiran Neshat               Elliot Erwitt

Pictorial Photography

Alfred Stieglitz             Gertrude Kasebier        Eva Watson-Schutze    Oscar Rejlander

Straight Photography

Paul Strand                  Eduard J. Steichen          Imogen Cunningham       Paul Outerbridge

Kate Kirkwood

Experimental Photographers

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy               Minor White    Alexander Rodchencko            Man Ray         

Harold Edgerton                      Rinko Kawauchi          Edweard Muybridge

Still Life Photographers

Jan Groover     David Ashman    Sandy Skogland           Edward Weston         Holly Lackner

Portrait Photographers

Richard Avedon                       Steve McCurry Bill Owens                   Cy Jo

Mary Ellen Mark                     Carrie Mae Weems       Jan Meissner                Cass Bird

Annie Leibovitz                       Peter Turnley               Gabi Ben Avrahahn     Diane Arbus    

Brandon Stanton                      Gordon Parks               Steven Meisel               Cristina Hoch  

                                               

Contemporary Photographers

Harry Callahan             Jerry Uelsmann            Gregory Crewdson                   Bronek Kozka

Cindy Sherman            William Wegman         Shelly Corbett        Uta Bath    Jeff Wall          

Hiroshi Sugimoto         Holly Andres               Andy Goldsworthy                  Alex Prager

Surreal or Fantasy Photographers

Alex Stoddard              Brooke Shaden                        Kyle Thompson                       Logan Zilmer

Yutha Yamanake         Alessio Albi    

Sports Photographers
Bob Martin                  Tim Clayton                 Erik Refner      Max Rossi        Neil Liefer      

Photographer Research Part 1