Week 1 Day 3 Wrap-Up

Freedom From Want, Hank Willis Thomas and Emily Shur

Hi Everyone!

Today we visited the International Center of Photography and discussed photojournalism, documentary work, contemporary photography and civic engagement while looking at the work of the For Freedoms Collective in the exhibition Where Do We Go From Here?
We also looked at portraiture from across the entire history of photography in the exhibition Your Mirror.

Thanks for the hard work and insightful conversations--I came away from this trip with a different understanding and viewpoint of both exhibitions.

On to tonight's homework:

• Continue working on your series and your Week1 project. Our first critique is Friday!
• Create and post a portrait photograph "inspired" by an image from "Your Mirror". This can be any image, and how you interpret your response is wide open and entirely up to you. This can be through composition, format, style, subject matter, or it can just be responding to a theme or other element. Be sure to list which image you are responding to. Ideally, it will be a self-portrait, but you can choose 
• IF YOU WERE NOT IN CLASS: Please look at the web pages for both exhibitions, as well as the For Freedoms website (all are linked above) and choose one image for the assignment above (you can see additional images from each exhibition in the "Light Box" link on each exhibition's home page). Additionally, take a look at the collaborative "For Freedoms" response that your classmates posted to the blog. Since you were not in class today, you won't have an opportunity to create your own. Instead, please post a comment in the post itself regarding your response to the work.

Tomorrow afternoon, we will be headed to Chelsea and the Aperture Foundation. Please come prepared for walking and weather.

That's all for today--see you tomorrow!