What Makes A Good Photograph
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- What makes a good photograph?
- Look at the following images and consider:
- Is this a good photograph?
- If so why, if not, why not?
- Describe the photograph. What do you think the photographer has
done to make the image so iconic?
- What kind of photograph is this? (Reportage/documentary,
portrait, landscape, abstract, multiple image, interior,
photomontage, still life)
- The Terminal , 1892 Alfred Stieglitz (American, 18641946)
- Edward Weston Pepper No. 30 1930
- Ansel Adams Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico 1941
- Louis Jacques Daguerre, Paris Boulevard 1839
- Imogen Cunningham Agave Design 2 1920
- BRANDT, Bill Halifax 1937
- Eugene Atget Avenue des Gobelins c.1926
- Robert Mapplethorpe, Ken Moody and Robert Sherman , 1984
- Iriving Penn Rhythm (c.1950?)
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- Of the following list of photographers, select two artists and
one work by each. Save the image on a file and write some brief
notes on the images you selected. You will share you findings with
your peers.
- Discuss the following points in your notes:
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- Subject what is the photograph of?
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- Composition how has the photograph been arranged?
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- Light how has light been used, what effect has been
created?
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- Focus what are we meant to be looking at, how has the
photographer achieved this?
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- Mood what sort of feel has been evoked?