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Perspective and Space in Photography

March 28, 2011

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
  • How will you use perspective and space in an original work of art to create a real or imaginary scene?
  • What art elements and principles of design are found in Cubism and Hockney that you will apply to your final composition?
  • What is your subject and what is your environment? 

1.                  DIN- In Hockney/Cubism Classwork, respond to the reading below.

Space, sometimes crowded, sometimes open, is all around you. It may be full of trees or buildings, clouds, or clean air. It can be contained by walls or open to the horizons. We run, walk, and drive in space. When you walked to the computer to read this page, you were walking in space. The words forward, back, around, under, behind, over, into, and out from all indicate action taken in space. (From Exploring Visual Design, Second Edition, Gatto, Porter & Selleck).

"It takes time to see these pictures - you can look at them for a long time, they invite that sort of looking.  But more importantly, I realize that this sort of picture came closer to how we actually see, which is to say, not all-at-once but rather in discrete, separated glimpses which we then build up into our continuous experience of the world."  - David Hockney
 
But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.
David Hockney

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.
David Hockney
  
2.  Photographing REQUIREMENTS:
  • your person is your focal point, not necessarily located in the middle
  • Use enough light
  • pick an environment, or set up an environment, make it not too busy, relate it to your figure
  • Stand, sit, move to the right, move to the left, step forward and move in for many PERSPECTIVES, create SPACE
  • Take at least 36 photos.  You will use a minimum of 10 photos in your final piece.
  • Try:  go outside
 GO PHOTOGRAPH.

3. Come back to class to upload images, examine them, and delete your bad photos.  Create a 6X6 contact sheet in Photoshop.  Work on a computer in the first 3 rows, so you may have to share a computer. 

4. TOD:  Visual check by Mrs. Thomas and online question in Hockney/Cubist Classwork.  What did you accomplish in class today and how did you use SPACE and PERSPECTIVE?

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