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?)
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.
Peter Peryer
Annie Liebowitz
Cindy Sherman
Gilbert and George
Joel Meyerowitz
Christopher Bucklow
Alexander Rodchenko
Ronnie Van Hout
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Barbara Kruger
Starn Brothers
Maggie Taylor
Anne Noble
Discuss the following points in your notes:
Subject what is the photograph of?
Composition how has the photograph been arranged?
Light how has light been used, what effect has been
created?
Focus what are we meant to be looking at, how has the
photographer achieved this?