Week 07 - First critique - Photography Series/Books

We had our Midterm exam on camera settings and exposure, as well as the Barrett readings. We will review the answers on Monday. I will be working on plugging in grades and sending out a mid semester progress report so please keep an eye on your Marymount email inbox this weekend.

This week we had our first critique sharing the first images from the weekly assignment of 20-30 prints. These assignments are leading up to our final book project that will be based around a body of work that you develop through the shooting assignments. We took a look at some books including Rich and Poor and Raised By Wolves by Jim Goldberg, Sylvania by Anna Beeke, Illuminate Naturally in Darkness by Judith Stenneken, and Grays the Mountain Sends by Bryan Schutmaat. Hopefully some ideas around sequencing and creating a cohesive theme or narrative are starting to emerge. We will be looking at more photographic work throughout the semester to give you guys some insight to how other artists put together a body of work, especially work that is centered around the photographic book.

For next week:

• Research and prepare for your oral presentation (due class 9)
• 2 possible ideas for your final - due next week. Post to your blog:
• Writing describing each of your ideas 
• At least 5 sentences per idea
• Images as visual aids
• At least 3 per idea

• Visual aids could be:
• Images you’ve shot that you want to include
• Sketches for photos or book
• Mood board/inspiration
• 20-30 new images as prints (please bring all your old prints from past critiques to subsequent critiques from now on)
• From the responses I got last week, it was clear that most of you had not looked at the critique guidelines posted in your handouts folder. Please take a look at these before next week, especially the "three before me" rule which means you let three other people speak before you talk again. It's a great rule of thumb and ensures different voices are being heard which ultimately benefits the artist who is having their work critiqued. We will review these quickly in class before critique next week.
• Please know that there are no exceptions to the 20-30 print assignments and participating during critique. You will be graded on bringing in prints as well as making comments and asking questions during critique. 
• Anyone who did not bring in prints last week has double the amount of images due next week. So if you did not show this last week, you have at least 40 prints due on Monday. 

See you all next week!