Independent Project
Using all the skills and ideas learned during this class, come up with a project that challenges our perception of 'photography as reality'.
Try to challenge yourself to do something new. Simple can be good, as long as it is a good idea and is compelling to the viewer. Try to have a theme either visual or conceptual that relates all of the photographs and will make it a series.
The project can combine the skills from the previous assignments to achieve your final image goals. It can be an entirely new idea and/or application of camera and Photoshop.
The images for this assignment must be manipulated in some manner. This means more than removing a few pimples or dust.
*If you are having trouble or would merely like a second chance on an earlier assignment, you can redo/re-execute one of the previous assignments ( only assignments 2-4 are eligible-
no diptychs and triptychs please). This means all new images, not polishing an old assignment. This would allow for new lighting, new models, and the application of new photoshop techniques to these previous assignments.
This option is available, but try to come up with a new idea before going this route.
It can be any combination of assignments 2-4.
Minimum of 6 prints are due for this assignment. (Maximum 10)
• 13 x 19 inch prints
Below are examples of photographs using Photoshop in a unique way.
Can you challenge yourself to come up with a new idea like this?
These photographs were posted by a guy name "Wookie" on Flickr.
They are very interesting, see if you can figure out how he did it:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/w00kie/sets/180637/show/
Self Portraits by Lissa Rivera
Lissa Rivera
Lissa Rivera
Kiki Smith "My Blue Lake"
Known for her sculptures, drawings, and prints that focus on the human body as subject, Kiki Smith has often used herself as material for her work. After making a number of prints that included depictions of various parts of her own body, the artist became interested in creating a picture that showed the skin of the body as a flat image, similar to the way a map becomes a flattened version of the globe. Working with printers at the workshop Universal Limited Art Editions, Smith gained access to a special camera (of which there are only three) at the Royal Academy at the British Museum in London. Originally designed for use in geological surveys, the camera can produce a 360º image. To make it, Smith spent a week at the British Museum being photographed on a rotating table, finally emerging with a negative that could be made into a photogravure printing plate. In making the final print, Smith added marks via the process of lithography, and hand-colored the images as they emerged from the press. The resulting print with its red and blue fields of color reveals an unusual self portrait that evokes a blending of landscape and the human form.
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