Year 12 Photography

28 January 2014

EXPLORATION PROPOSAL
Unit 3 Outcome 1

You will need to prepare an exploration proposal that formulates the content and parameters of your individual design process, and that includes a detailed plan (including a date list) of how and when aspects of the proposal will be undertaken.!

You will need to develop ideas for: !

Materials and techniques

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Vivian Dorothea Maier was an American street photographer, who was born in New York City and grew up in France. After returning to the United States, she worked for approximately forty years as a nanny in Chicago. www.vivianmaier.com

Aesthetic qualities Subject matter!

Sources of inspiration

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Year 12 Photography

28 January 2014

*Here are some questions to get you started. You should address these in your visual diary:
1)!!!! What type of music do you enjoy and why? 2)!!!! Is there a visual aesthetic that the musical group/band/artist has that appeals to you?!!! What is it and why do you like it? 3)!!!! What was the last film you saw and what aspects of it do you remember? 4)!!!! Describe a memorable even in your life? 5)!!!! Where did you grow up? 6)!!!! What is your earliest memory? 7)!!!! If you could say something to the world what would it be? 8)!!!! What visual techniques have you explored previously? What did you enjoy and why ? 9)!!!! Do you have a level of interest or competence in techniques previously explored? 10)! What materials and techniques would you like to explore further and why?

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- SCOTT ADAMS

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*Find 3 examples of contemporary artists speaking about their work. You should also research different media forms newspaper articles, video clips, film. You should take note of; their identified inspiration, sources for ideas, influences of their background/culture, experimentation of materials and techniques, their processes. *Create a mindmap. Use your research above to help inform your mind map and add to it as your ideas grow. You might even end up with multiple mind maps. *Create a mood board to help explain visually where you are at with your idea and how you are visualising it in your head. It might consist of your own images, found images, literature, lyrics, whatever gets your point across.

Lee Friedlander (born July 14, 1934) is an American photographer and artist. In the 1960s and 70s, working primarily with 35mm cameras and black and white lm, Friedlander evolved an inuential and often imitated visual language of urban "social landscape," with many of his photographs including fragments of storefront reections, structures framed by fences, posters and street signs. http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Lee_Friedlander

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