Year 11 Photography Unit 1

30 January 2014

STUDIO ART: PHOTOGRAPHY

UNIT 1: Artistic Inspiration and techniques

This unit focuses on using sources of inspiration and individual ideas as the basis for developing artworks and exploring a wide range of materials and techniques as tools for communicating ideas, observations and experiences through art making.! Students also explore and research the ways in which artists from different times and cultures have interpreted and expressed ideas, sourced inspiration and used materials and techniques in the production of artworks.!

Call of the Wild. Matthew sleeth Published by Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, 2004. Edition of 15, Slip case, 250x330 mm, Signed + Numbered 14 8x10 type C prints www.sleeth.info

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Year 11 Photography Unit 1

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Visual Diary Keep records of everything you create in studio arts, drawings, notes, gallery visits, and photographs all go in your visual diary. Keep all your images (even test prints etc.) and store your negatives safely for future use. If! you intend to continue photography at a tertiary level you will need all your VCE work (from year 11 and 12) for presentation in folios and pre-selection kits.!

Gallery Visits During the year, you should aim to visit a variety of galleries regularly in order to help develop your ideas, concepts and to maintain an awareness of contemporary styles, concepts and techniques present in current art practices. Take notes about the works you see with particular attention paid to the way works are presented (what are they made out of, how are they framed / hanging on the wall etc, how do they t into the gallery environment) and artists whose works you particularly nd interesting. What is it about their work that piqued your interest: subject matter, size of work, colour / B&W, style of photography etc? The following venues are a provided as a starting point. At a minimum you should visit these galleries!

Nick Knight OBE is a British fashion photographer, documentary photographer, and web publisheras director of SHOWstudio.com

Centre for Contemporary Photography 404 George St, Fitzroy, Vic, 3065 www.ccp.org.au! Monash Gallery of Art 860 Ferntree Gully Road Wheelers Hill Victoria 3150 www.mga.org.au!

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Outcome 1:

Source inspiration, identify individual ideas and use a variety of methods to translate these into visual language.

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National Gallery of Victoria Federation Square: The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia! and ! St Kilda Road:! NGV International!

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Year 11 Photography Unit 1

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Suggested Reading and Interneting:

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Art Almanac, (www.art-almanac.com.au) Journal of Photography (http://www.bjponline.com), Photole (http://www.acp.org.au/photole) Artist Prole (http://www.artistprole.com.au)

http://www.foam.org tate.org.uk aperture.org blindspot.com lenscratch.com https://www.lensculture.com

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Masters of Photography www.masters-of-photography.com Centre for Contemporary Photography ccp.org.au Monash Gallery of Art mga.org.au Australian Centre for Photography www.acp.org Museum of Contemporary Photography http://www.mocp.org/ Museum of Photographic Arts http://www.mopa.org/ Australian Institute of Professional Photography www.aipp.com.au Photography Studies College www.psc.edu.au Queensland Centre for Photography www.qcp.org.au History of Photography www.rleggat.com/photohistory International Museum of Photography and Film www.geh.org Australian Centre for the Moving Image www.acmi.net.au Alternative Photography www.alternativephotography.com
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Lewis Hine en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lewis_Hine Ben Cauchi bencauchi.com

Year 11 Photography Unit 1

30 January 2014

Tasks

This is what you will be doing in Unit 1. There will be specic instructions and demonstrations as we get to each stage. Use this list to ensure all tasks are completed and included in your visual diary by the end of the Unit. !

1. Visual Diary front cover: ensure it has your name clearly visible on it and identies your book as Unit 1 Studio Art: Photography. !! 2. Mind Map: your initial brainstorming session to help you start thinking about future themes. !! 3. Photograms - produce 4 nal works to be handed in using the photogram process which will be explained to you. You will also need to complete the worksheet.!! 4. Camera handling skills worksheet. !! 5. Formal Elements & Composition Task !! 6. Portraiture Project - to be done utilising 35mm lm and darkroom processes. see separate worksheet.!! 7. Photoshop Skills: worksheets !! 8. Typology Project- to be done using digital cameras and photoshop skills learnt in Task 7.!! 9. Still Life Project - to be done utilising digital cameras and computer editing.!! 10. Research an artist - you will do a 6-8 slide PPT presentation to your classmates about a photographer of your choice chosen from a list provided. Everyone will have a di"erent artist.!! 11. Major Project: will be divided into small tasks via separate worksheets.!

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