Formalanalyisguidelines.docx

Design for Photographers

Fall 2017

Formal Analysis Guidelines

 

· Formal Analysis paper

Your formal analysis should be 3 pages in length and address the following questions:

1. What are the main elements of design the photographer is using?

2. How to the elements used create movement for the eyes?

3.What emotive content does the design create?

Your formal analysis should also identify the photograph discussed. Proper identification for full points:

1. Name of Photographer

2. Title of Photograph

3. Medium of Photograph

4. Date of Photograph

Example: Imogen Cunningham, Two Lillies, Silver Gelatin Print, 1920

Formal analysis should be 3 pages in length, 12- point font, Times New Roman and double spaced. A work cited page of at least 3 sources is also required. MLA FORMAT

Grading Guidelines

Paper:

Length 3 pages, worth 25 points

Work Cited Page, MLA format, 10 points

Photographic Image, 10 points

Identification of Images, 15 points

Analysis, 40 points,

Total:100 points

List of Photographers:

Documentary

Jim Goldberg

Sebastio Salgado

Walker Evans

Graciela Iturbide

Jacob Riis

Lewis Hine

Robert Frank

Maggie Steber

Mary Ellen Mark

Roy Decarava

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Imogen Cunningham

Dorthea Lange

Marian Yampolsky

Silva Plachy

Fine Art

Edward Weston

Minor White

Aaron Siskind

Harry Callahan

Pedro Meyer

Jerry Uelsmann

Joel Peter Witkin

Susan Burnstine

Sally Mann

Keith Carter

Tina Modotti

Francesca Woodman

Diane Arbus

Man Ray

Uta Barth

Landscape

Ansel Adams

Michael Kenna

Sebastião Salgado

Brett Weston

Franco Fontana

Andreas Gursky

Fashion

Irving Penn

Richard Avedon

Patrick DeMarchellier

Helmut Newton

Cillford Coffin

Directorial Photography

Tableaux: Duane Michales, William Wegman, Cindy Sherman,Carrie Mae Weems

Gregory Crewdson

Assemblage:

Rosman Wolff Purcell

Niel Maurer

Barbara Norfleet

Construction:

Sandy Skoglund

Placement: John Pfahl

Photojournalism/War

W. Eugene Smith

Robert Capa

James Nachtwey

Mary Ellen Mark

Sebastiao Salgado

Pete Souza

Philip Jones Griffiths

Henri Cartier Bresson

Robert Dosineau

Margaret Bourke-White

Eddie Adams

Robert Frank

Portraiture

August Sander

Arnold Newman

Mary Ellen Mark

Steve McCurry

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Nan Goldin

Graciela Iturbide

Yousuf Karsh

Vivian Maier

Master Photographers

Minor White

Ansel Adams

Edward Weston

Alfred Stieglitz

Henri Cartier Bresson