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SNAPSHOT/COMPOSEDmaking art or making $#@%


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So...how do we as viewers of art begin to understandwhat an artist is trying to say?

How can we speak the same language as a visual artist?

Sarah MoonMorgan, 1985


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Try considering the following

Four basic steps when lookingand analyzing a work of art.

DUANE MICHAELS TITLE: I BUILD A PYRAMID


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Describe: What does the artwork look like? Whatare the most important Elements of Art to the

composition? Where are they located?

Analyze: Based on your description how did theartist use the Principles of Design or Composition to

help get us move visually through the composition?

Interpret: Based on your description and analysiswhat is the piece of art about? What is the artist

trying to say?

Judge: What do you think about the work of artbased on other similar pieces that you have seen?


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The Elements of Art-Line

-Shape

-Space-Form-Value

-Texture

-ColorThe Principles of Design

-Balance-Contrast-Emphasis-Pattern

-Rhythm / Repetition-Movement


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What visual clues help to tell the story?

What is this photograph by Dorothea Lange about?


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Consider and think about how the Elements and

Principles work together to create strong compositions.


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Are we makingSnapshots orComposed

photographs?Henri Cartier-Bresson

So, how can we tell where these have been used?


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Which are the composed images and how do they differ from the snapshot/s?


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Snapshot orComposed?


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Snapshot or Composed?


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Jean-Jacques Bguin

Snapshot orComposed?

Sally Mann


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Berenice Abbott

Bernd & Hilla Becher

Robert Frank

Elliott Erwitt


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What is the differencebetween a snapshot and acomposed photograph?

Snapshot-A casual record of some event, person, object or place.-Usually a very quick response to a situation.-Unorganized, no attention has been paid to details.

-Only the photographer has an emotional connection to thephoto

vs.Composed Photograph

-An artistic interpretation of an event, person, object, or place.-A process where care is taken to consider the elements andprinciples that exist within the frame of the composition.-Organized frame, where attention has been paid to expressing an

emotion or telling the viewer something about its subject.


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What can we do to make photos composed?


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Use the Principles

of PhotographicComposition


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L i g h t


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RULE OF THIRDS


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USING

THEEDGESOF

THEFRAME


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FRAME WITHIN A FRAME


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L I N E


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POINT OF VIEW


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FILL THE FRAME & CROPPING


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PATTERN & TEXTURE


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These, added to the Elements and Principles, helporganize our subject matter and better communicate anidea, emotion, point of view, or meaning.

Because, in the end, it is not that you show us some placeor person or thing never seen before but that you show us

it in a waywe have never seen before.


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Of course, there will always be those who look attechnique, who ask how, while others of a more curious

nature will ask why. Personally, I have always preferredinspiration to information.

-Man Ray (Emmanuel Rudnitsky)b. Philadelphia, PA (USA), 1890. d. Paris (France, 1976.

Tears. c.1930

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