Essay Planning

Sources-

Essay Question

How does the work of Francesca Woodman and Carolle Benitah explore isolation through self portraiture?

  • 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 pints 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

Bibliography

List all the sources that you have identified above as literary sources. Where there are two or more works by one author in the same year distinguish them as 1988a, 1988b etc. Arrange literature in alphabetical order by author, or where no author is named, by the name of the museum or other organisation which produced the text. Apart from listing literature you must also list all other sources in alphabetical order e.g. websites/online sources, Youtube/ DVD/TV.

Quotation and Referencing:

Why should you reference?

  • To add academic support for your work
  • To support or disprove your argument
  • To show evidence of reading
  • To help readers locate your sources
  • To show respect for other people’s work
  • To avoid plagiarism
  • To achieve higher marks

What should you reference?

  • Anything that is based on a piece of information or idea that is not entirely your own.
  • That includes, direct quotes, paraphrasing or summarising of an idea, theory or concept, definitions, images, tables, graphs, maps or anything else obtained from a source

How should you reference?

Use Harvard System of Referencing…see Powerpoint: harvard system of referencing for further details on how to use it.

Referencing:

whole text ref-

Townstead. C (2006). Francesca Woodman. London: Phaidon Press Limited.

in text ref-

The authors makes this point ect. ‘since the mid-1980s Francesca Woodman has become one of the most talked about influential of contemporary photographers.'(Townstead 2006: 6)

(year was published). title. publishing house- place included if edited add chapter

2 thoughts on “Essay Planning”

  1. Ari, you must publish missing work: ie

    1. Statement of Intent
    2. Artist case studies
    3. Photoshoots
    4. Essay draft introduction, so I can read your introduction and help with suggesting key texts for your to read, if necessary.

    Thanks,
    MT

  2. Regarding essay, we had a chat last week in lesson and I identified some key texts on Woodman’s work, for example in relation to Surrealism. The book is in the class room, but here is a link to a folder where you can find the key texts scanned:

    Francesca Woodman essay

    M:\Radio\Departments\Photography\Students\NOSTALGIA\Contextual Studies\READING

    Essay plan:
    Essay question
    Opening quote

    Introduction > YOU MUST PUBLISH DRAFT ASAP

    Pg 2: Francesca Woodman and her work as therapy

    compare her work with Jo Spence and her theory around photo-terapy

    https://hautlieucreative.co.uk/photo21al/wp-content/uploads/sites/41/2021/01/Rosy-Martin_Jo-Spence_Photo-therapy.pdf

    Dennett, Terry (2008): Jo Spence’s camera therapy: personal therapeutic photography as a response to adversity

    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13642530902723041?mobileUi=0&journalCode=rejp20

    Jansen, Charlotte (2020) Is Photography An Effective Form of Therapy? Elephant

    https://elephant.art/is-photography-an-effective-form-of-therapy-jo-spence-14102020/

    Pg 2. Francesca Woodman and her influence from Surrealism
    Read key texts above from essays in book.

    Pg 3: Show examples of your own images and development in relation to artist/ theory above

    Conclusion: summarise key findings, similarities/ differences – see my Essay Writing blog post here for more details

    https://hautlieucreative.co.uk/photo21al/2020/12/09/essay-writing/

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