Year 10 - Art and design
Photography: the influence of sources on photographic investigations
Photography
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Unit Summary
This is a teacher led unit which introduces to pupils to the skills within their endorsements. Through a series of workshop activities, students experiment with a range of materials and techniques. They develop a range of studies exploring mark making media, print and mixed media.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to research, record, and annotate a photographer's work, and show how their ideas, style, or techniques connect to your own.
Key Notes
- Researching photographers helps us understand their ideas, style, techniques, and context.
- Context can include cultural, historical, material, and social influences on a photographer's work.
- Annotation means describing, analysing, interpreting, and making a personal response to images.
- Research should inspire our own photography, not by copying, by adapting techniques and linking them to our themes.
Vocabulary To Learn
- research: investigation into and study of information to establish facts and reach conclusions
- source: a place from which something, in this instance images or information, originates
- context: the circumstances that form the setting of an idea, event or photographic work
- annotation: notes and comments that accompany work
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Research is separate from making work.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Researching photographers helps us understand their ideas, style, techniques, and context. Context can include cultural, historical, material, and social influences on a photographer's work.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'research'
investigation into and study of information to establish facts and reach conclusions.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Research is separate from making work. Correction: Research feeds directly into experimentation and outcomes.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Darkroom processes: using an enlarger and developing a print Study Guide
- Digital processes: using digital media to layer an image Study Guide
- Digital processes: using digital media to manipulate an image Study Guide
- Introduction to the principles of photography Study Guide
- Picture taking: aperture and shutter speed settings Study Guide
- Picture taking: depth of field Study Guide
- Picture taking: lighting Study Guide
- Picture taking: motion Study Guide
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