Create a Biography Blog Post

1. Choose a photographer from the list below
2. Research that person on the internet or in ther library
3. Create a blog post about your photographer including two medium sized photographs representative of their work. The Post should be over 400 words. The images should be at least 300 x 300 dpi.
4. Be sure to include information about their material, motives, and education!
5. Link two websites with images by your photographer.

Gregory Crewdson
Diane Arbus
August Sanders
Joe Pfahl
Robert Adams
Tina Modotti
Sandy Skoglund
Sebastiao Salgado
Edward Burtynsky
Eugene Atget
Robert Capa
Alexander Rodchenko
Dorothea Lange
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Julia Margret Cameron
Andreas Gursky
Mary Ellen Mark

Assignment 1: The Origins of Photography

go to National Gallery of Canada
wait for the intro
Click on the orange box in the upper lefthand corner (camera obscura) and read through the seven sections.
Answer the following questions:

Camera Obscura
1.Why was inventor Diovanni Battista del Porta charged with sorcery?
2. What were some of the uses of the camera obscura?
3. How were camera obscuras different from cameras today?
4. Draw a basic camera obscura.

Click on the yellow box in the upper lefthand corner (inventors) and read through the eight sections.
Answer the following questions:

The Inventors
1. Define the word "fix" as it is used in relation to photography.
2. What type of objects did Wedgwood's father use a camera obscura to help him decorate?
3.Why were daguerrotypes used mainly for achitecture at the time of their invention?
4. Who coined the word photography?
5. compare and contrast the chemical processes of two inventors.

due by Friday Feb 10th

David Guttenfelder, AP
A piece of the coastal highway near Lhok Nga in Banda Aceh, Indonesia wrecked by the December 26 tsunami , sits along the beach almost a year later on November, 24, 2005.