Annie Leibovitz (Master Photographer) Photo Critique
Meryl Streep
1981 Annie Leibovitz |
DIRECTIONS
Look at the Historical Photo above. Write a short PARAGRAPH about it in a Google Doc using ALL of the areas in Art Criticism below: Description, Analysis, Interpretation, and Judgment. Copy and paste the photo onto your Google Doc. Resize the photo so it's smaller on the page and title it Art Criticism 2. A minimum of 10 well written sentences is required for FULL credit (20 points.)
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Description
What do I see? Inventory what you see. Make a list. No conclusions. No assumptions.
Analysis
How is it organized? What elements & principles of art are used? Take your list and look for relationships. Compare things that you see. Look for similarities and differences.
Interpretation
What is the photographer trying to communicate? Offer hypotheses for the relationships that you discovered. Offer up a brainstorm of possibilities for what the photo means, why the photographer took it and what the viewer should derive from it.
Evaluate
Do you feel this successful photograph? Based on you assumptions from the Interpretation make a statement or offer your opinion of how successful the photographer was at making the photograph.
Look at the Historical Photo above. Write a short PARAGRAPH about it in a Google Doc using ALL of the areas in Art Criticism below: Description, Analysis, Interpretation, and Judgment. Copy and paste the photo onto your Google Doc. Resize the photo so it's smaller on the page and title it Art Criticism 2. A minimum of 10 well written sentences is required for FULL credit (20 points.)
Save this to your Google Driver and then Print it out and turn into the class basket when you are finished.
Description
What do I see? Inventory what you see. Make a list. No conclusions. No assumptions.
- Describe in a few sentences the significant details in the photograph? What is it? Are there recognizable images? Describe what are you looking at...?
Analysis
How is it organized? What elements & principles of art are used? Take your list and look for relationships. Compare things that you see. Look for similarities and differences.
- Describe in a few sentences any lines, shapes, tones, textures, patterns, sizes, used? What Art Elements and Principles of Photography have been used and describe how the photographer applied them.
Interpretation
What is the photographer trying to communicate? Offer hypotheses for the relationships that you discovered. Offer up a brainstorm of possibilities for what the photo means, why the photographer took it and what the viewer should derive from it.
- Do you think there are things in the photograph that represent other things - symbols? Speculate about the intentions of the photographer.
- Why would this photo be made? How could it be used? Why do you think so? What is it about the photo that gives this idea? List the evidence.
- What mood do you see in the photo? What makes you think this? Is there a message or deeper meaning or significance that the artist is trying to show? What do you think that message is about? (Examples of this could be: Beauty, mystery, fun, strength, love, anger, loneliness, war, courage, fear, horror, madness, peace, hate, death, old age, hope, sadness, happiness, pollution, adventure)
Evaluate
Do you feel this successful photograph? Based on you assumptions from the Interpretation make a statement or offer your opinion of how successful the photographer was at making the photograph.
- Do you like the Photo? And more importantly why or why don’t you like the photo? What kind of impact does the image have on you? Does it give you any emotions? Would you say it is a successful photo? Yes or No and Why?