Choose photograph(s) or a series from a photographer that you like from New
Topographics by Britt Salvesen, Photograph as Contemporary
Art by Cotton, or a photograph by a photographer we've seen in
class that you think works in the style of the New Topographics.
Print at least two photographs that you have taken specifically for this assignment with the same functional logic as the description you chose below.
Find a quote or a paragraph from the article "New Topogoraphics"
by Britt Salvesen where you think most relates to the work you
selected, and expand on it by explaining in words how the photograph
you selected works specifically in the mode of New Topograhics and
explain how your photograph achieves that.
Handin:
- Submit the photograph(s) you referenced and text to google drive [here] using the slide template
- Pin up your prints (darkroom or digital) before class starts
This isn't a creative project. It is a technical exercise. That is, don't force your spin on it. What I expect is a straightforward attempt at New Topographics. That is why I value the attempt/process and not the end result
The goal is not necessary to take great photograph(s) (although it
doesn't hurt) but to understand and internalize the process of
taking such a photograph. It hopefully will inform and change the way you look
at some of the photographs you see today.