Because Facebook is blocked by our school we'll use ArtsConnectEd.org to make a simulated Facebook page.

For this assignment, students are creating a simulated "Facebook" page for a historically significant photographer or photography related inventor (from here on we will use the term "photographer", but it could also mean inventor). Students are to research a photographer or inventor from history and use the ArtsConnectEd website to make a collection of the photographer's work with some text pages telling about the photographer.  All text should be written from the photographer's point of view. (As if he or she was actually talking about him or herself and actually creating his or her own "Facebook" page.)

A minimum of 6 works from the artist/inventor must be included in the collection with text stating the title, date, and a few lines discussing the work.

Click the next button to see a list of photographers students may choose from.

Berenice Abbott 
Ansel Adams 
Dianne Arbus 
Richard Avedon 
Craig Blacklock 
Margaret Bourke-White 
James Brandenburg 
Bill Brandt 
Louis Jacques Daguerre 
George Eastman 
Walker Evans 
Chris Faust 
Lewis Hine 
Dorothea Lang 
Robert Mappelthorpe 
Eadweard Muybridge 
Timothy O'Sullivan 
Man Ray 
Eugene W. Smith 
Alfred Steigletz 
Paul Strand 
William Henry Fox Talbot 
Daguerreotype (Louis Jacques Daguerre) 1839 
Calotype (William Henry Fox Talbot)1840 Paper print 
Collodion Wet-Plate 1851 (5 second exposures) 
George Eastman Kodak Box Camera (1/25 second exposure and roll film) 1888 
Thomas Knoll 
???Digital Camera Inventor(s)???

Links to many of the photographers listed above can be found here: http://harrysproshop.com/Links/Great_Photographers/great_photographers.html

Evaluation:

2 points -- Nicely written from the Photographer's point of view. (spell checked, grammatically correct, etc.)

3 points -- Quality and depth of information included in the collection

3 points -- Good representative sample of the Photographer's work. (No tiny thumbnail slides)

2 points -- Followed directions: Published collection with student's full name on the first text page, Published collection address "webloc" file dropped to the dropbox.

10 points total 

Click here for instructions on how to add your own images to your "Facebook" assignment using Flickr and Artsconnected.

An easily navigated version of this assignemnt is available at:

www.lhsart.org/NewFiles/current/pho/photohistace/photohistace.html

The next slides contain an example "Historical Photographer Facebook Page".  

As in many of my photographs, this one again illustrates a my fascination with depth and the illusion of depth.

Here we see a giant child filling a room. Actually the kid wasn't that big, but by controlling my depth-of-field I was able to make it look like he was a giant.

(No photoshop was used here.)

This is me! I liked how the clouds in the mirror worked well with the clouds in the background.

I also think that the mirror makes it look like I'm in a "dimensional doorway", visiting from another time or place.

Here's another picture that plays with perspective.

Notice the texture, contrast and shades of gray.

The title of this is "Hampsted", from 1952. This is an example of adding an image from an external site to my page.  I uploaded this image onto my account on Flickr.com.  Then I put the image in my ArtsConnectEd collection.