1. AP Studio Art- 2D Photography

2. Lesson: A plan for learning how to determine a concentration for an AP 2D Design portfolio in Photography.

4. Examples of Concentration Most artists will work in a series when they develop and produce art work. Their investigation of a particular visual idea can produce a variety of works with a unifying central idea. These ideas can be unified by process, composition, themes, objects, etc.

5. A concentration is a body of related works that: Grow out of a coherent plan of action or investigation; Are unified by an underlying idea that has visual and/or conceptual coherence; Are based on your individual interest in a particular visual idea; Are focused on a process of investigation, growth, and discovery; and Show the development of a visual language appropriate for your subject Commentary describing what your concentration is and how it evolved.

6. Breadth section might contain Work that employs line, shape, or color to create unity or variety in a composition; Work that demonstrates symmetry/asymmetry, balance, or anomaly; Work that explores figure/ground relationships; Development of modular or repeat pattern to create rhythm; Color organization using primary, secondary, or other color relationships for emphasis or contrast in a composition; Work that investigates or exaggerates proportion or scale.

7. Exams: 2007 Studio Art 2-D Design: Concentration -- Britaney N. Wehrmeister Buhler High School Buhler, KS This concentration was produced by an AP art student.

11. Henri Cartier-Bresson “To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.”

12. “To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.” Valencia Portrait of Henri Mattise Layers of space are evident in Henri Cartier- Bresson’s photography creating a rich perspective. The foreground,mid ground, and background are clearly defined.

13. Edgar Degas Edgar Degas used the idea of motion by repeating several figures placed from foreground middle to background. “It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.”

14. David Hockney “I may seem to be passionately concerned with the 'hows' of representation, how you actually represent rather than 'what' or 'why'. But to me this is inevitable. The 'how' has a great effect on what we see. To say that 'what we see' is more important than 'how we see it' is to think that 'how' has been settled and fixed. When you realize this is not the case, you realize that 'how' often affects 'what' we see.” Fractured space can be create with multiple view points are combined in a single image It is to see how David Hockney will manipulate space And suggest the passage of time

22. Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko Born 1891 – December 3, 1956) was a Russian artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of constructivism and Russian design; he was married to the artist Varvara Stepanova. Rodchenko was one of the most versatile Constructivist and Productivist artists to emerge after the Russian Revolution. He worked as a painter and graphic designer before turning to photomontage and photography. His photography was socially engaged, formally innovative, and opposed to a painterly aesthetic. Concerned with the need for analytical-documentary photo series, he often shot his subjects from odd angles—usually high above or below—to shock the viewer and to postpone recognition. He wrote: "One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in the round rather than looked through the same key-hole again and again."

23. Minor White One of Minor White's most famous quotes: "Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence." He also said: "Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts." Real to abstract to non-objective

25. Edward Weston “Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.”

26. Carol Golemboski

27. Carol golemboski gives examples of her work and this explanation. " Psychometry" is a series of photographs exploring issues relating to anxiety, loss, and existential doubt. The term refers to the pseudo-science of "object reading," a purported psychic ability to divine the history of objects through paranormal channels. Like amateur psychometrists, viewers are invited to interpret arrangements of tarnished and decrepit items, depending on the talismanic powers inherent in the remains of human presence. The success of the image relies upon the viewer's expectation of truth in photography, expanding upon age-old darkroom "trickery" to suspend belief between fact and fantasy. In her artistic, almost performative recreations, Golemboski collects old objects from flea markets and antiques stores and then invents new environments and narratives for them. Her beautifully crafted prints are highly manipulated as well, creating literal and symbolic layers of meaning and memory. Ethereal markings also suggest spirit and slate writing almost as if another presence is attempting to come through to "the other side" with Golemboski acting as medium. Her use of photograms, fingerprints, and etchings underscore the postmodern idea of the trace and provides an artistic foil to the spirit photographs. This darkroom magic, done the "old fashioned" way, is intended to cut to the core of photographic truth.

31. Atmosphere, emotional, surreal

34. Jerry Uelsmann http://www.uelsmann.net/ David Mc Kean Blake Fitch Ruth Bernhard Gila Paris http://ww.xp=rience.net/xpWeb/homeEN/recent=works-2007.aspx http://ww.xp=rience.net/xpWeb/homeEN/recent=works-2007.aspx Scott Mutter http://www.photographymuseum.com/mutter/scottmutterNewGallery.html http://www.photographymuseum.com/mutter/scottmutterNewGallery.html Annie Leibowitz More Photographers for Suggested Research

35. Collage Artists Leo Kaplan Robert Rauschenberg Richard hamilton Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Kurt Schwitters Salvador Dali

36. Assignment I would like you to further research these artists and create some images that will focus on on your personal voice but be inspired by these artists. When you study these artists do a little brainstorming in your journals of personal,unique ideas that could relate to the conceptual aspects of these artists. I would like to see series of 8-10 images for each of 2 artists presented and two from the lists.(4 artists with 8-10 working images) Due for critique two weeks. Proposed ideas due in two class days. Please copy all documentation and imagery for consideration.