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Teaching Photography
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Teaching Photography

by Glenn Rand, Richard D. Zakia
January 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
376 pages
9h 33m
English
Focal Press
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AppendixExample Assignments

Following are four examples of assignments that bring into the educational process differing aspects of photography. The first is from Gary Wahl of Albion College, MI, mixing the idea of discovery and the technical aesthetic dialectic.

Gary Wahl

Handmade Negatives

This assignment creates compositions without the use of a camera. You will be composing directly onto a handmade tape-negative. You will need to search for small objects of various translucency, shape, and texture. Try to develop a palette of shapes, lines, and points. Leaves, wire, string, dryer sheets, fabric, onionskin, garlic skin, flower petals, coarse salt, and bug parts are good materials.

You will arrange these on a piece of processed unexposed black ...

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ISBN: 9780240807676