Complete Essay Plan:
- Essay question:
- ^^ Can photographs actually capture feelings and emotions or can they not be taken on face value?
- Opening quote
- ^^” Every portrait that is painted with feelings is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter”
- Introduction (250-500 words): What is your area study?
- ^^what I will be studying is whether photographs can capture every day life effectively, or whether there is more to life/emotions/thoughts that we cannot see in a photo
- Which artists will you be analysing and why?
- ^^Find 2 artists and analyse why they can be useful “I will be studying ** and ** as their work links with my personal investigation in the follow ways
- How will you be responding to their work and essay question?
- ^^I will be responding to their work and essay question through the production of a photobook and final prints which display my theme/take on occupation vs. liberation/photoshoots and a hands on approach which will get me to think about my essay question throughout my work.
- Pg 1 (500 words): Historical/ theoretical context within art, photography and visual culture relevant to your area of study. Make links to art movements/ isms and some of the methods employed by critics and historian. Link to powerpoints about isms and movements.
- ^^Visual culture (solarization/superimposition) related to my response/postmodernism. Make links to art movements.
- Pg 2 (500 words): Analyse first artist/photographer in relation to your essay question. Present and evaluate your own images and responses.
- ^^ artist that shows face value/photographs lie/best of OR artist that shows friendships/how can you convey love/emotions/attachment in a photo
- Pg 3 (500 words): Analyse second artist/photographer in relation to your essay question. Present and evaluate your own images and responses.
- ^^ artist that shows deeper sides of life either things we cannot physically show/only express OR the side that we keep hidden from others/personal/shame/secrets
- Conclusion (250-500 words): Draw parallels, explore differences/ similarities between artists/photographers and that of your own work that you have produced.
- ^^Similarities and differences to both artist work/approach and my own response/method/final outcomes
- Bibliography: List all relevant sources used.
- ^^keep note of sources used!