Unit IV Reading Photography - HUM 12 2024 PDF

 READING VISUAL ARTS EDMAR M. DELOS SANTOS Instructor 1 [email protected] COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES Department of Languages & Literature  UNIT IV- Reading Photography Unit IV will provide information about...

 READING VISUAL ARTS EDMAR M. DELOS SANTOS Instructor 1 [email protected] COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES Department of Languages & Literature  UNIT IV- Reading Photography Unit IV will provide information about the overview, different mediums, styles, history, and how to identify appropriate approaches in reading various masterpieces and evaluate the messages, techniques, and forms of photography. COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES Department of Languages & Literature At the end of the lesson, you must have: identified the basic definition and history of photography and its basic types; identified the appropriate approaches in reading various photos; used the appropriate approach/es in reading a particular photo; searched for a local photographer; evaluated the form, technique, medium, and meaning of the visual art; presented their evaluation of a photo; recorded their experience and impression on the photos they encountered. COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES Department of Languages & Literature  A PICTURE IS Happiness Unmasked by Froilan Robas WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS Ezra Acayan COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES Department of Languages & Literature UNIT IV: READING PHOTOGRAPHY COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES Department of Languages & Literature PHOTOGRAPHY Photography is the process of recording an image of an action produced by the action of light on a light-sensitive material. The said word was derived from the Greek words photos (light) and graphein (to draw) and was first used in the 1830s (Britannica, 2023). COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES Department of Languages & Literature BASIC TYPES OF PHOTOGRAPHY 1. Nature Photography 2. Editorial Photography 3. Portrait Photography 4. Landscape Photography COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES Department of Languages & Literature 1. NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY A type of photography where you shoot photos outdoors and of wildlife. It could be the oceans, mountains, forests, animals, or plants. Photos by Edmar Delos Santos 2. EDITORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY Any photos that are meant for publication, with an article accompanied and connected to it. Some examples would be magazines, websites, and newspapers. Other fields include sports, product, food, fashion, and travel photography. Vogue Philippines  Photojournalism It is a specific branch of editorial photography that tells stories through a series of pictures. It is usually done for documentation and accompanies a news story in media companies. The University rescue team quickly responded and provided first-aid to several students who fainted due to the scorching heat during the opening program of the #UNIGAMES2022. Photos by John Lloyd Balantac/ SIRMATA Personnel of the Cebu Environmental Sanitation and Enforcement Team (Ceset) issued citation tickets Friday morning, October 18, 2024, to vendors and residents displaying goods for sale along Spolarium Street in Mambaling, Cebu City. Ceset also cited individuals for improperly disposing of trash in front of their houses. | via Juan Carlo de Vela / SunStar Cebu Over half a million Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh to date in this latest spate of violence; 20,000 alone crossed the borders on October 16, while another 100,000 wait on the border of Myanmar. The crisis that began as a counterattack by the Myanmar government against Rohingya militants who had attacked several police bases on August 25, turned into a full scale 'ethnic cleansing,' according to the UNHCR, as the army and local Buddhists firebombed, raped and murdered across Rakhine state, the predominantly Muslim western region of Myanmar. WHNPA.org/Cheryl Diaz Meyer  Photo essay With a limited amount of words to describe the photos, the main aim of a photo essay is to tell a story using different sets of images. Photos compiled should be coherent and under one theme or story. There are hundreds of schools just like this one in Nepal, and many have been waiting decades for clean water. But in December 2012, the students at Balkumari Primary School got lucky. Photo by Charity: Water Giving basic necessities to those people who are in need will make them believe in hope. We should continuously help them as our creator guides us in fighting the virus. Photo by Edmar Delos Santos (2020) 3. PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY It aims to take a picture of the identity and personality of a subject. Photo by Adam Koziol Photo by Justine James Wright 4. LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY Interested in taking photos of sceneries of mountains, deserts, forests, or mountains? Landscape photography is the right thing for you! Just make sure that your main subject is shot in a wide view. The Mayon Volcano. Photo by Mr. Carlos Esguerra. DEVELOPMENT OF CAMERA AND PHOTOGRAPHY COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES Department of Languages & Literature Camera Obscura (Pinhole Camera) 1021 Camera Obscura is the ancestor of cameras and comes from the Latin term “dark chamber.” In a small darkened room, light is admitted through a single tiny hole. Its results are said to be inverted images from the outside sceneries Photo: Public domain via Wikimedia Commons which are cast on the opposite wall and usually whitened (Britannica, n.d.) Camera Obscura (Pinhole Camera) 1021 Daguerreotype 1830s It is said to be the first successful form of photography. It was named after Louis-Jacques Mandé Daguerre of France, the inventor in the 1830s (Britannica, 2023). Accompanied by kits, including a tripod, mercury vapor treatment, boxes for fuming with iodine and bromine, a buckskin pad to shine the plates, and a box of unexposed Photo: Liudmila & Nelson [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons silvered copper plates. (Daguerreobase, n.d.) Daguerreotype 1830s Kodak Film Camera 1880s It was the first portable and commercial camera used by a lot of amateur photographers starting in 1888. It was invented by George Eastman. The Kodak camera was a simple handheld box camera that contained 100-exposure film rolls, which were paper negatives (Britannica, n.d.). Photo: Kodak No. 2 Brownie box camera, circa 1920 from Wikimedia Commons Digital Camera 20th-21st Century It was in 1972 when the filmless electronic camera was patented by Texas Instruments Incorporated. Sony Corporation brought out a commercial electronic model in 1981, where a “mini” computer disk drive is put in to capture any images from a video camera. (Britannica, Photo by: Marvi Silva, Pexels.com 2023).  Point and Shoot Camera It is a handheld and compact camera. Photo by George Rex from London, England - Photo by D-Kuru/Wikimedia Commons My Yashica T4, CC BY-SA 2.0,  DSLR Camera A DSLR (digital single-lens reflex) camera operates with a digital sensor which is fixed. It could have a manual or autofocus feature where it can store thousands of photos or videos through an internal memorable camera. It is said to be a favorite camera Photo by Ralf Roletschek - choice for amateur and professional Own work, GFDL 1.2, Wikimedia photographers (Adobe.com, n.d.)  Photos by Edmar Delos Santos Mobile Photography With the advancement of technology, photography converged on smartphones in the 21st century, where anytime and anywhere, people can capture images in one click. READING FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHS Reading Photography Steve McCurry’s Afghan Girl Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother Kevin Carter’s The Vulture and the Little Girl / The Struggling Girl Philippe Lopez’s Religious Procession in Tolosa (Yolanda / Haiyan photo) Raffy Lerma’s Pieta-like ‘war-on-drugs’ photo Noel Celis’ A Scene from Quezon City Jail Steve McCurry He was born in 1950 He showed the world the first photos of the Soviet assault on Afghanistan McCurry’s brand in photography is his documentation of armed conflicts He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania American editorial photographer Steve McCurry "Afghan Girl" Front cover of the June 1985 issue of National Geographic Magazine. Medium: Kodachome color slide film (Nikon FM2 Camera and Nikkor 105mm F2.5 lens). A picture of a young Afghan girl named Sharbat Gula during the Soviet–Afghan War in Afghanistan Her eyes portray her purity; the center of the photo Her rigged clothes signify that she is poor The portrait was described as "the First World's Third World Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa Steve McCurry "Afghan Girl" Front cover of the June 1985 issue of National Geographic Magazine. It was only in 2002 that National Geographic identified the subject; she was unknown for 17 years. Symbol of the Soviet-Afghan War Dorothea Lange She was born in 1895 and died in 1965. American documentary photographer Took photos of displaced farmers during the Great Depression, the most severe economic downturn in the 21st century from 1929-1939. Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother Nipomo, California March 1936 It was captured during the Great Depression (economic depression) The US government’s Resettlement Administration (renamed the Farm Security Administration, or FSA, in 1937) hired Lange to take photos to document the plight of poor families in the United States. A photo of a thirty-two-year-old widowed migrant farmworker Florence Owens Thompson and three of her children Thompson was a migrant agricultural worker when the photo was taken.  Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother Nipomo, California March 1936 This single photo was printed in various newspapers, magazines, and other printed materials. It became a symbol of the Great Depression She was unknown until 1978 when she wrote to one of the media organizations who published the photo. Ms. Thompson was never paid for the photo. She felt exploited for this. She wrote to a media organization about this in 1978. (The New York Times, 2018). Kevin Carter South African photojournalist Born in Johannesburg, South Africa He died at 33 Documented the famine in Sudan Member of fearless conflict photojournalists called the Bang Bang Club Kevin Carter “The Vulture and the Little Girl or The Struggling Girl Appeared on The New York Times March 26, 1993 It is a photograph of a little girl suffering from starvation in Sudan. She is crawling toward a United Nations- sponsored feeding center. First published in the New York Times featuring the deadly famine in Sudan with a news article titled ‘Sudan is Described as Trying to Placate the West” Sudan was experiencing famine due to the civil war between the Muslim-Arab North and Christian South happening in the 1990s. Kevin Carter “The Vulture and the Little Girl or The Struggling Girl Appeared on The New York Times March 26, 1993 According to the New York Times (2009), hundreds of their subscribers called or wrote to the editors as they were curious about the fate of the little girl, asking why Carter did not help her instead of taking her picture. Kevin Carter “The Vulture and the Little Girl or The CRITICISMS (Geurts, 2015) Struggling Girl Appeared on The New York Times The photographer was criticized for March 26, 1993 taking this photo. The New York Times received messages asking for details about the girl. What did the photographer do after taking the photo? Did he help the kid? “To them the photograph no longer depicted the miserable fate of a young child in need of help, but testified against Kevin Carter’s decision to shoot, rather than aid the victim” The photo says nothing about the article and the political situation in Sudan. Kevin Carter “The Vulture and the Little Girl or The Struggling Girl Appeared on The New York Times March 26, 1993 New York Times (1994) Editor’s Note: ‘The photographer reports that she recovered enough to resume her trek after the vulture was chased away. It is not known whether she reached the center. Kevin Carter “The Vulture and the Little Girl or The Struggling Girl It won a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Appeared on The New York Times Photography in 1994. However, negative March 26, 1993 reactions overwhelmed positive reactions due to criticisms about the photographer. Carter admitted that he intended not to disturb the bird, positioned himself in the best way possible to take a good image, and waited for twenty minutes for the vulture to show its wings. He chased the vulture away after failing to capture its wings and witnessed the girl as she resumed her struggle. (Geurts, 2015) Kevin Carter “The Vulture and the Little Girl or The Struggling Girl One week after he received his award, he Appeared on The New York Times claimed his own life in 1994. Because of March 26, 1993 this, the meaning of his photo changed again. His negative fame might have influenced him to claim his own life as he “always carried around the horror of the work he did.” Until now, the identity and fate of the woman are unknown. (Geurts, 2015) To know more about Kevin Carter, you watch these films: Raffy Lerma He is a freelance Filipino photojournalist and documentary photographer based in Manila. He was one of the photojournalists who documented the Philippines’ “war on drugs” He worked as a photographer for 12 years for the Philippine Daily Inquirer Fore more information: https://www.raffylerma.com/ Jennelyn Olaires cradles her husband Michael Siaron, a pedicab driver and alleged drug pusher, who was shot and killed by motorcycle-riding men in Pasay City last month. This now viral photo was first featured on the front page of the Philippine Daily Inquirer on July 24, 2016. INQUIRER FILE / RAFFY LERMA Raffy Lerma ‘Pieta-like’ “war on drugs” photo First published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer July 24, 2016 It became a symbol of the extra-judicial killings, especially among the poor, under the drug war of the former President. It went viral in 2016. Below the photo was a banner story with the headline “Chruch: Thou Shall Not Kill” Former President Duterte criticized the Philippine Daily Inquirer for publishing the photo.  Pietà-like ‘war-on-drugs’ photo Michelangelo's Pietà Raffy Lerma, Philippine Daily Inquirer St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. https://www.rappler.com/life-and-style/arts-culture/importance-tell-human- rights-stories-through-art/ UNIT IV: READING PHOTOGRAPHY COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES Department of Languages & Literature  RUBRIC FOR VISUAL ARTS ANALYSIS (PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY, SCULPTURE, ARCHITECTURE, FILM) RUBRIC Developing Accomplished Exemplary 1 2 3 Content The analysis shows minimal sound The analysis displays some The analysis provides sound judgment about the visual art. sound perspectives on visual perspectives on the visual art. art. Use of Criticism The chosen lens is not appropriate The chosen lens is The chosen lens is appropriate for for analyzing the visual art and has appropriate for the visual art the visual art and the analysis, little connection with the analysis. and the analysis but lacks providing sound arguments, context. criticisms, and context. Use of Evidence The analysis provided minimal The analysis has provided The analysis provides strong support to the evidence. good use of details and support with details. evidence. Originality The analysis lacks originality and The analysis includes some The analysis presents original presents ideas that are copied from original ideas. ideas and perspectives. other sources. Grammar and The analysis has multiple spelling, The analysis has minimal The analysis has no spelling, Mechanics grammar, and punctuation errors. spelling, grammar, and grammar, or punctuation errors. punctuation errors. References Blumberg, N. (2023, August 25). 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