- Research and identify 3-5 literary sources from a variety of media such as books, journal/magazines, internet, YouTube/video that relates to your personal study and artists references .
- Begin to read essay, texts and interviews with your chosen artists as well as commentary from critics, historians and others.
- It’s important that you show evidence of reading and draw upon different points of view – not only your own.
- Take notes when you’re reading…key words, concepts, passages
- Write down page number, author, year, title, publisher, place of publication so you can list source in a bibliography
Essay Plan
Make a plan that lists what you are going to write about in each paragraph – essay structure
- Essay question: How does photography act as an important form of communication of both true and untrue subjects?
- Opening quote ‘A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is like what’s in the picture.’ (On Photography by Susan Sontag, p3)
- Introduction (250-500 words): What is your area of study? Which artists will you be analysing and why? How will you be responding to their work and essay question?
The area of study I want to explore is physical collaging and altering of the images, therefore I will look at Jessa Fairbrother’s work as she does all these manual image alterations, as well as has a similar subject and context to the images as me. her work, especially the project “conversations with my mother” where she produced images that relate to the relationship between her and her mother. This links to what I am doing as I too will be exploring the relationship with my mother.
- 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.
the main themes and genres that Jessa explores in her work are mainly: pictorialism, surrealism, and symbolism. on top of that all the above “isms” relate to what I want to explore myself, therefore researching them will help me understanding how they can be in cooperated into the photographs.
- Pg 2 (500 words): Analyse first artist/photographer in relation to your essay question. Present and evaluate your own images and responses.
- Pg 3 (500 words): Analyse second artist/photographer in relation to your essay question. Present and evaluate your own images and responses.
As I want to focus on just exploring Jessas’ work, due to how relevant it is to me I will write more about her and her work, and will be able to analyse it in more depth.
- Conclusion (250-500 words): Draw parallels, explore differences/ similarities between artists/photographers and that of your own work that you have produced
- Bibliography: List all relevant sources used