For this assignment you will serve as photojournalist and
artist. I (your instructor) will be the
photo editor, and you will be the photojournalist working on the assignment
entitled "Landscape Outside life at Stephenville”.
PART 1: You will turn in 15 images (minimum) to
flickr in a set entitled "Landscape" by the end of the day Wednesday
Part 2: You will do a 5 minute presentation of your work in
class on Friday ? based off the subject
you choose. Your presentation should
include a PDF/Powerpoint slideshow along with relevant historical data to
supplement your images. You will be
graded
based off the quality of your presentation's research and
the engagement level you have with the work.
Basically, if you sell to the audience that the work is interesting
and you have the historical data to back it up, you will get a good grade.
Why are we doing this?
I want you to think about the details in your photographs
that tell the story, that imply the narrative of a place. Photographers must
know their subject before and after they shoot it, and sometimes it requires
research, and knowledge of a place.
Even historians are constructing a narrative with words of a
place. Maybe it is about the history of a place, maybe it is more your own
personal encounter with history that is the true story. Can still life landscape
tell a story. Diromas.
What information can you put in your photograph that makes
more than just a random field, or barn? Think about the details that set the
scene of the story you want to tell.
Possible locations and I am new here:
Who was George Bernard Erath? What is up with those wind
turbines popping up in the Northwest? The Drought. Every actually stop at a Texas
roadside marker? Where did people see the aliens? How did people migrate here?
Where does the railroad go and how was it used?
Why is Thurber a ghost town? Where is the chalk on Chalk
Mountain Alexander , TX United States ?
What do people do on a Saturday night in Morgan Mill? Who is Dale and how can you
tell he is bluffing in poker in Bluff Dale? Where does the roller derby team
play? What goes on in Comanche, Deleon, etc...etc...
Map of Erath County
History of Erath County
Ghost Towns
Stephenville
Lingleville
Huckabay
Thurbur
Morgan Mill
Bluff Dale
http://www.texasescapes.com/Ghosts/The-McDow-Hole.htm
Come up with your own idea of Landscape. Look at Ansel,
Muybridge, Esti{I will present photographers over the week}. How did those images make people come to the West. Can you photo manipulate images that suggest a
landscape story or interesting one. Landscape photography is easy but how does
images come across is hard. That’s why your presentation will be important.
Make it unique and this has to be professional!!!
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