Fact and Fiction: 1 Image, Minimum of 12"x16"
It's a Small World:1 Image, Minimum of 12"x16"
Itʼs a Small World allows for the exploration of the studio as a viable part of an artistic practice. Working small will give you the freedom to construct realities, which may have never existed otherwise. The studio is a space to explore the interrelationships of control and experimentation. It stands apart from the social world, but it is indirectly connected. The isolation may allow some to explore ideas that involve identity (self and the construction of meaning), while many others will remake or allegorize the outside world. For all, this is an opportunity for the improvisation and execution of elaborate plans.
Steps Outline:
Your miniature set should not be any larger 3 feet square. Prefabricated sets may be used. ie. dollhouse
Begin with sketch of your potential set. Identify any potential hurtles and accompanying solutions. Identify lighting needs. Construct for set with lighting needs in mind. ie. does a wall need to be transparent or a roof removed. Make at least 4 images you’re your setup(s) and 2 prints for critique.
Materials Ideas:
Cut paper and photographs, dollhouses, snow globes, food, toys, models, clay, play dough.
Lighting Ideas:
Flash Lights, studio strobes, work lights, mirrors, colored lights.
Tips
Plan ahead, and have all of the item in hand and ready before you begin.
Have sketch and/or images that you draw inspiration from.
Sketch lighting setup.Use the hand held meters
Bracket your exposures: +1⁄2, +1, –1⁄2, and –1 stop - Choose an f-stop that gives you the effect that you want - FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS
Due: Dec 8th
Soon after the invention of photography and its subsequent use as an “objective” scientific tool of observation photographs began to be manipulated. While photographic manipulation has a history nearly as long as the process itself, photographs continue to be the mainstay in which we experience history, receive the news and provide evidence of scientific discovery. Many major news publication such as Time magazine, the New York Times and National Geographic, to name a few have manipulated photographs to create a more appealing and dramatic image to a story. Artists such as Joan Foncuberta and Christine Chin have taken advantage of the objective role of photography and have used it to create fictions that are presented as fact.
For this assignment, I would like you to create a photographic hoax with the intention of conveying it as the objective “truth”. Consider how manipulated images in the news have possibly (re)shaped our ideas of historical and cultural events. Invent an event, alternate history or scientific discovery and create a photograph will serve as evidence of the event, history or discovery.
For this assignment, I would like you to create a photographic hoax with the intention of conveying it as the objective “truth”. Consider how manipulated images in the news have possibly (re)shaped our ideas of historical and cultural events. Invent an event, alternate history or scientific discovery and create a photograph will serve as evidence of the event, history or discovery.
Due: Dec 8th
Itʼs a Small World allows for the exploration of the studio as a viable part of an artistic practice. Working small will give you the freedom to construct realities, which may have never existed otherwise. The studio is a space to explore the interrelationships of control and experimentation. It stands apart from the social world, but it is indirectly connected. The isolation may allow some to explore ideas that involve identity (self and the construction of meaning), while many others will remake or allegorize the outside world. For all, this is an opportunity for the improvisation and execution of elaborate plans.
Steps Outline:
Your miniature set should not be any larger 3 feet square. Prefabricated sets may be used. ie. dollhouse
Begin with sketch of your potential set. Identify any potential hurtles and accompanying solutions. Identify lighting needs. Construct for set with lighting needs in mind. ie. does a wall need to be transparent or a roof removed. Make at least 4 images you’re your setup(s) and 2 prints for critique.
Materials Ideas:
Cut paper and photographs, dollhouses, snow globes, food, toys, models, clay, play dough.
Lighting Ideas:
Flash Lights, studio strobes, work lights, mirrors, colored lights.
Tips
Plan ahead, and have all of the item in hand and ready before you begin.
Have sketch and/or images that you draw inspiration from.
Sketch lighting setup.Use the hand held meters
Bracket your exposures: +1⁄2, +1, –1⁄2, and –1 stop - Choose an f-stop that gives you the effect that you want - FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS
