Descriptive - Explanatory - Interpretive - Ethically Evaluative
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These categories and many of the examples given come from
A question for "Art for Children" college students: How could I teach elementary school children to use a camera in a way to that would make photographs related to one of these types without showing examples from these photos before the children do their work? note: Some Internet links to images are included here. These are generally not the same images published in the Barrett book. Descriptive Photographs (Barrett's term) Photos that make a record of something Examples: portfolio slides, photographs of the moons surface, the cave paintings of Lascoux, medical X-rays, your photo i.d., security camera images
Explanatory Photographs
(Barrett's
term)
Explanatory examples
Explanatory
Interpretive Photographs
(Barrett's
term)
Jerry Uelsmann
Chairs 2001Interpretive
Anne
Brigman
Gertrude
Kasebier
, (1852-1934)
Ethically
Evaluative Photographs
(Barrett's term)
Jacob Riis Home of an Italian Ragpicker 1888
Carrie Mae Weems (racial injustice)
Susan Sontag Looking at War: photographys
view of devastation and death.
The New Yorker.
December 9, 2002.
pp. 82-98.
Aesthetically
Evaluative Photographs
(Barrett's term)
Theoretical Photographs --Barrett,
page 68 (1st edition)
Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #13. 1978. Collection The Museum
of Modern Art, New York.
Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #3. 1977. Collection The Museum of
Modern Art, New York.
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/sherman/index.html
Sherrie Levine copies of Walker Evans
Joel-Peter Witken - Cover photo for Love and Redemption
Also see Photo Judging Criteria Link to: A form for classmates to use when conducting a photo class critique by Marvin Bartel Also see Types and Categories of Photographs Link to: What is a Strong Photographic Composition ? by Marvin Bartel Link to: A form for classmates to use when conducting a photo class critique by Marvin Bartel Link to: A Rubric for artwork assignments Link to: A Rubric for learning in Art History Link to: An Artwork Critique Form Back to: Assignments page All rights reserved. This page is posted solely for purposes of review by students in the instructor's Art for Children class at Goshen College. Questions? - e-mail Marvin Bartel
posted 12-11-02
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