Assignment A04: Black and White Directions Page
Assignment: Black and White
Objective:
To learn to see better. To learn how to see in Black and White.
Materials:
Camera, Imagination,
Procedure:
For this assignment you will be shooting images that lead to really good Black and White photos.
This assignment will be graded heavily for content as well as for technique. To be a good photographer you need to understand light. If you cannot see the light, you cannot see.
Grading will be on creativity, composition, use of light and how well your photograph works in Black and White.
Some photographers for inspiration
Documentary:
Eugene Atget, Berenice Abbot, Walker Evans, Helen Levitt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, Lee Friedlander, Ray K. Metzger, William Eggleston, Vivian Maier, Sally Mann.
Straight Photography:
Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Bret Weston, James Fee, Aaron Siskind, Harry Callahan, Imogen Cunningham, Helmut Newton, Robert Maplethorpe, and John Sexton, Keith Carter.
Also consider going to this dual photography exhibit:
Peter Fetterman Gallery
I highly recommend either of these so you can appreciate the high-water mark of fine-art black and white photography from the middle Twentieth Century
Ansel Adams: Beauty and Truth (Links to an external site.)
February 22 - August 21, 2020
February 22 - August 21, 2020
To be turned in:
1. DNG file as described in the lectures and Assignment Guidelines for details for further submission details.