FALL '09 WEEK #12

Detroit Foreclosures by Bruce Gilden
Multimedia presentation on the effects of the foreclosure crisis in Detroit, Michigan.

EXAM TODAY; 9:45-11:15.

SUBMIT FINAL PROJECT PHOTOS:
Place in DROP folder. Be sure to slug them correctly:
lastname_finalproject01.jpg

For next week:
1. Be sure to review these examples of good multimedia, see below.
2. Study list of MULTIMEDIA TUTORIAL LINKS, see below.
3. Continue to shoot your subject, and edit. You should be at least 3 weeks into your project.
4. Submit new photos to the DROP folder.
5. Check GRADED ASSIGNMENTS folder, be sure all submitted work has been graded.
6. Only two-weeks remaining. December 14th is last class.

Good examples of Multimedia

The Last Days of W, by Alec Soth/Magnum
Washington DC, Center of a Nation, by Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum
Fore-closures in Detroit, by Bruce Gilden/Magnum
Aging in America, by Ed Kashi
Love in the First Person, by Matt Eich
Undying Love, by Patrick Davison
Music Therapist, by Thomas E. Franklin
The Elvis of Glen Rock, by Thomas E. Franklin
The Blacksmith, by Thomas E. Franklin
The Horse-Whisper, by Thomas E. Franklin

good MULTIMEDIA TUTORIAL LINKS

INTERVIEW TIPS
VOICE-OVER TIPS
iMOVIE HD TUTORIAL
SOUNDSLIDES TUTORIAL
AUDACITY AUDIO EDITOR TUTORIAL
VARIOUS RECORDING DEVICES

Ten ways to improve your multimedia production, by Media Storm.

FALL '09 WEEK #11

photo by Elliott Erwitt / Magnum

AGENDA

1. ASSIGNMENT #09 Illustration
2. Let's look, Soundslide, ASSIGNMENT #09 SOUNDSLIDE TOWN
3. History of Photojournalism; W. Eugene Smith, Elliott Erwitt, Eddie Adams, Charles Moore, James Nachtwey
4. Ethics
   
5. Final Project , lets see
   
6. War Photographer, James Nachtwey

FOR NEXT WEEK:

1. War Photographer, ; finish watching the film.
   
2. EXAM; 9:45-11am.
3. FINAL PROJECTS: get working, put 15-25 new images in the Drop for next week.
4. CATCH-UP: submit ALL missed assignments and red-do's.
5. STUDY: FINAL SALUTE, By Todd Heisler
6. NPPA CODE OF ETHICS -study
   
   
   

War Photographer -James Nachtwey

"I have been a witness, and these pictures are
my testimony. The events I have recorded should
not be forgotten and must not be repeated."
-James Nachtwey
website

ELLIOTT ERWITT

ELLIOTT ERWITT
American, b. (Paris) 1928-
WEBSITE

Born in Paris of Russian parents, Erwitt emigrated to the US with his family in 1939. He studied photography in Los Angeles City College (1942-1944) then film at the New School for Social Research ( 1948-1950). After serving as a photographic assistant in the United States Army Signal Corps in Germany and in France, Erwitt met Edward Steichen, Robert Capa and Roy Stryker, former head of the fabled Farm Security Administration in 1950 and worked under him for Standard Oil Company.
From 1950 to 1952, Erwitt was a freelance photographer for Collier's, Look, Life and Holiday. He became a Magnum associate in 1953 and a full member in 1954.
Erwitt has shot journalistic essays throughout the world and numerous commercial assignments for Air France, KLM, Chase Manhattan Bank, among many others.
Since the 1970s, he has turned much of his energy toward movies. His feature films, television commercials and documentaries include "Beauty Knows No Pain" (1971), "Red, White and Bluegrass" (1973) and the prize-winning "Glassmakers of Herat, Afghanistan" (1977).
Following the publication of his book "Son of Bitch," he became famous as a maker of funny pictures where dogs play the starring role, and his work has been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide.

FALL '09 WEEK #10

Life was the first all-photography U.S. news magazine and dominated the market for more than forty years. Life celebrated the "photo essay." Life was wildly successful for generations before its prestige was diminished by economics and changing tastes. Since 1972, Life has twice ceased publication and resumed in a different form, before ceasing once again with the issue dated April 20, 2007. Recently, the brand name continues on the Internet. -Wikipedia

AGENDA

1. All Photojournalist Papers are due, put word doc in DROP: lastname_paper.doc.
2. History of Photojournalism; Joe Rosenthal, Robert Capa, Magnum
   
3. Photojournalism categories
4. Illustrations
   
5. ASSIGNMENT #09 Illustration
6. Lauren Greenfield's Girl Culture
7. Discuss your Final Project ideas if uncertain. Proposal due today.
8. Let's look, ASSIGNMENT #08a CITY or TOWN
9. Audio slideshows lesson
10. Complete Soundslide, ASSIGNMENT #09 SOUNDSLIDE TOWN

Upcoming dates of importance
-Get started on Final Projects, drop 8-10 photos in DROP.

-EXAM DATE CHANGED
11/30/09 9:45am sharp.
-No make-up exams.
-review all the Power Point Presentations. Especially if you were absent.
-Be aware that many of the PPP’s contained more material than we discussed in class.
-visit web sites/links listed in the PPP’s & BLOG.
-review all entries on the class blog this semester: http://ramapophotoj.blogspot.com/
-make sure you have completed all the reading assignments.
-be sure you understand each shooting assignment & different types of photos.
-review all photo essays discussed\assigned in class, and those in the PPP’s.
-be familiar with important photographers, agencies, publications, discussed in class.
-Read & study all docs in PHOTOGRAPHER’s BIO’s folder.
-Know their names, their work, their era (no dates), why they are important.

ASSIGNMENT #10 Illustration

ASSIGNMENT #10 Illustration (Due Monday November 23)

Part I:
Make an Illustration
Make an illustration for the following topic:

The War in Iraq has been a costly war.

Research and select one dimension of this military conflict that has been costly and make an illustrative image.
Remember, an illustration is a Non-Documentary photograph, and can be completely set up, manipulated, or orchestrated. Make the image has a message. Make sure it is executed with a clear preconceived visual solution.
The image’s message must be communicated clearly.
This is an opportunity to take an idea and transform it into a representative visual, with manipulated guidance. BE CREATIVE AND CONCEPTUAL.
Photo can be montage, multiple images, computer or darkroom altered images.
Image alteration is allowed, BUT not required.

*Students must complete:
1. Select (1) best photo.
2. SLUG PHOTO AS FOLLOWS:
Last name_illustration.jpg EXAMPLE: franklin_ illustration.jpg
3. Place image in the “drop folder.”

PART II:
READING:
Visual Journalism
By Christopher Harris & Paul Martin Lester
Read pages 87-129 (see handout)
Documentary Assignments & Manipulated Assignments

PART III:
READING:
History of Photojournalism; ( see photographers bios or the Blog)
HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON, ELLIOTT ERWITT, EDDIE ADAMS, CHARLES MOORE

FALL '09 ASSIGMENT #09; SOUNDSLIDE CITY OR TOWN (PART 3)

ASSIGNMENT #09 SOUNDSLIDE FOR CITY OR TOWN (PART 3)
(Due 11/23/09)
Complete audio slideshow of photo essay on a selected place.

PART 1.
Finish shooting and editing photos

PART 3.
MAKE SOUNDLSLIDE
1. Title slide
2. Closing text slide, credits.
Include special text:
This multimedia presentation is not for publication. For educational purposes only.
3. Use music. Give credit at the end.

*FOR NEXT WEEK, students must submit:
1. Create Soundslide folder
2. SLUG FOLDER AS FOLLOWS:
Last name_townname
EXAMPLE: franklin_hoboken
3. Place project folder in the “drop folder.”

FLAG-RAISING AT IWO JIMA by Joe Rosenthal

FLAG-RAISING AT IWO-JIMA
On Feb. 23, 1945, Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal captured the Pulitzer Prize-winning picture of Marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima. He recalled, "I could only hope that it turned out the way that I looked at it through the finder." During World War II, Rosenthal also covered the invasions of New Guinea and Guam. Joe Rosenthal died on August 20, 2006 at the age of 94.

FILM FOOTAGE OF ACTUAL FLAG RAISING: see film

ASSAULT LANDINGS ON IWO JIMA: video

PULITZER PRIZE WINNING PHOTO: see video

FEELINGS ABOUT ICONIC IMAGE: see video

NY TIMES OBITUARY: read

FINAL PROJECT

The Final Project is a 4-6 week project that requires each student to spend significant time with a chosen subject, to produce a well-crafted, in-depth photo essay. The Photo Essay is equivalent to a Final Exam.

Each student must submit a written proposal; which must meet the requirements of the assignment and approval by the instructor.

The Final Project is NOT a single event or photo shoot. It should be about a subject of social importance and worthy of a 4-6 week essay. The essay should tell a story.
Each student must develop their essay on a week-to-week basis, and bring photos in each week for critique.

The final essay will consist of an 15-20 images submitted to the DROP folder, as well as a finished slideshow with audio.

The Final Project makes 25% of your grade and is due the final week.


Due Monday November 16th
WRITTEN PROPOSAL FOR FINAL PROJECT / Photo Essay

Each student must submit a well-written, thoroughly planned proposal (250 words or 3-4 paragraphs). The proposal must be an examined, well-planned, and strongly supported idea.
Your proposal will be evaluated and part pf your grade.
Select a story idea, theme, or subject that will be both interesting and visual. You will need to photograph this subject in various stages over the final 4-5 weeks, so make it something good! Something you can spend time with and revisit multiple times.
It should be a subject worthy of a photo essay. Think of some of the work we have reviewed in class. It must also be accessible to you. Don’t select a subject that you can’t get to each week, select an idea that is do-able.
Do NOT select an uninteresting and simplistic subject, such as; my roommate, my dog, or my girlfriend/boyfriend. Select something that has substance, something complex that can be revisited many times and in different ways.

The proposal should outline in detail 4-5 different aspects that you can document, not just one thing repeated each week. This how real photojournalists get their work published. They pitch story ideas to editors. Each story proposal usually has to be approved by a series of editors, and a poorly throughout proposal will quickly dismissed by an editor.



REQUIREMENTS:

-The Final Project is due
Monday Dec. 14th. During FINAL CLASS, attendance required.

PART 1
The final edit must be submitted to the DROP folder.
-Each project must consist of at least 15 different images, no more than 20.
-Project should include at least one: vertical, detail, and overall.
-At least (8) photos must contain people.
-Each image must be captioned properly in File Info.
-The first image in your series MUST have a brief summary of your project, in addition to the caption. 2-3 sentences, be brief and concise.
-Each image must be slugged properly
(lastname_final 01.jpg, lastname_final 02.jpg, etc
-Each image must be cropped, toned, sized, etc in Photoshop
-Each image should be sized to 10 inches at longest side, 200dpi
-Each image should be less than 2MGS. Save it at a lower compression if too big.
-Sequence your images in the best story telling manner.

PART 2
Create an audio slide show using SOUNDSLIDES.
This should consist of audio and photos.
Audio may be: subject; interview, ambient sound, narration, music, etc.

Project does not need to consist of all these audio elements, only those required to create an effective story-telling piece. Decide which is the best approach for your particular subject.

Use no more than 30 photos.
Keep the piece under 3-minutes.
Edit in SOUNDSLIDES.

• Use no more than 30 photos. Keep the piece under 3-minutes.
• Edit audio is Audacity (AUDACITY TUTORIAL) or similar audio editing software.
• Submit just the "publish to web" folder.
• Slug: lastname_soundslide
• Submit folder to the DROP.
• Be sure to start with opening text title slide.
  
• If necessary include a brief explanatory text page. Check for typos and usage errors.
  
• Create in Photoshop.
  
• If any additional credits are required, such as for music, be sure to give proper credit with a closing text slide at the end. Create in Photoshop.

-YOU WILL BE GRADED ON WELL YOU MEET THESE REQUIREMENTS, AS WELL AS THE OVERALL IMPACT OF YOUR PHOTOS.

-PROJECT SHOULD REFLECT 4-5 WEEKS OF WORK.

PLEASE FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY!

FINAL PROJECT CHECKLIST:
1. be sure you submitted to the DROP updated final proposal, if you changed topics.
Slug: franklin_finalproposal.doc
2. make sure all photos are captioned.
3. sequence photos, take special care to put photos in order.
4. slug photos properly.
5. Photoshop & size each image properly.
6. submit 15-20 final photos to the DROP when you are done
Slug: lastname_final01.jpg, lastname_final02.jpg, etc.

MAGNUM PHOTOS, photo agency

Magnum Photos is a prestigious international photographic cooperative founded by Robert Capa, Chim, Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Vandivert and George Rodger in Paris in 1947. It is wholly owned and controlled by its members. They select its staff, establish its business practices, and share in its profits.

Inge Bondi writes that Magnum was the first photographers' cooperative and it had a spirit of unusual independence and tolerance.

Magnum's members have established an unparallelled standard of photographic excellence and quality to become a vital force in contemporary photojournalism. A New York office was opened in 1947, and the agency also has offices in London and Tokyo, with approximately 50 members.

Magnum was founded when Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson and David Seymour, who had been friends before World War II, were reunited unexpectedly in liberated Paris at the war's end. Capa conceived the organization as a fraternal forum for professional photographers as well as a training ground for young talented persons, and as an association that would combine the support of a group with much individual freedom for each photographer. The three men decided to name the cooperative "Magnum" --after the two-quart bottle of champagne. Capa is credited with doing much to energize, market, and promote the agency once it was incorporated in the spring of 1947, with initial capital of less than $2000.

Magnum was, from its inception, an international enterprise and has been called "a miniature United Nations". Each of its charter members assumed responsibility for the coverage of a different geographic area. Capa was the only roving photographer; Chim was to cover Europe; Cartier-Bresson: India and the Far East, Vandivert: the United States, and Rodger: Africa. Magnum continues as a successful photographic cooperative with offices in New York and Paris.

ROBERT CAPA

Robert Capa, nee Andre Friedmann,
(1913-1954),

Robert Capa (1913-1954), nee Andre Friedmann, was born in Budapest in 1913. Like many of his student companions of the thirties, he was keenly involved in the political turmoil of the period, and at the age of 18 found it expedient to leave Hungary. He moved on to Berlin and then Paris, where Chim persuaded the editors of Regards to give Capa a job covering the Front Populaire movement.
In 1936, Capa went to Spain to cover the Spanish Civil War with his friend Gerda Taro, nee Gerda Pohorylles. By that time, he was using the camera as a means of expression and setting on film the political life around him. Her tragic death ended her photographic career and left a deep scar on Capa's personality.
Capa went on to cover the Second World War from 1941 to 1945 in European theatre, and received the Medal of Freedom Citation from General Dwight D. Eisenhower. His photographs of the D-Day landing are classics. He became known as the quintessential war photographer though war was not the only subject of his camera.
In 1947, with his friends, David Seymour "Chim", Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and Bill Vandivert, he began a picture agency named Magnum. He spent the next few years making Magnum into a successful cooperative, and photographing the good times with his artist friends, including Picasso, Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck.
While visiting pre-war friends in Japan he was called to replace another photographer on a LIFE assignment in Indochina. Capa took the assignment, and was killed after stepping on a land mine, the first American correspondent to die in Indochina.
Steinbeck said of Capa: "The effect of Capa will be found in the men who worked with him. They will carry a little part of Capa all their lives and perhaps hand him on to their young men." Of photography, Capa said, "If your pictures aren`t good enough, you aren't close enough."

International center for Photography. ICP


American, b. (Budapest) 1913 - d. (Indochina) 1954

On December 3, 1938, Picture Post introduced "The Greatest War Photographer in the World: Robert Capa" with a spread of 26 photographs taken during the Spanish Civil War at the battle of Ebro.
The "greatest war photographer" hated war. He was born Andre Friedman, a Jew from Budapest, and studied political science at the Deutsche Hochschule für Politik in Berlin (1931-33). At the same time he was working part-time in the lab of the Ullstein magazines group to whom he sold his first published picture of Leon Trotsky's 1931 Copenhagen meeting. Driven out of the country by the beginnings of the Nazi regime, he settled in Paris in 1933.
In Paris he participated in the beginnings of the agency Alliance Photo and met the journalist and photographer, Gerda Taro. Together they invented the "famous" American photographer Robert Capa and sold his prints under that name. He met many artists, among them Picasso and Hemingway, and began friendships with colleagues that would be essential in the creation of Magnum, such as David "Chim" Seymour and Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Beginning in 1936, Capa's coverage of the Spanish Civil War appeared regularly in Vu, Regards, Ce Soir, Weekly Illustrated and Life. His 1936 picture of the Loyalist soldier falling to his death brought him international reputation and became a powerful symbol of war. In Spain Capa also shot newsreels for March of Time, Time-Life's film department.
After his companion Gerda Taro was killed in Spain Capa traveled to China (1938), then emigrated to New York in 1939. From 1939-45 he photographed World War II (most famously the landing of American troops in Omaha beach, the Liberation of Paris and the battle of the Bulge) as a Life and Collier's correspondent in Europe.
In 1947 he founded Magnum Photos, in conjunction with Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour, George Rodger and William Vandivert. The next year Capa traveled to Russia with John Steinbeck, and from 1948-1950 to Israel with Irwin Shaw, completing the first of a number of stories for Holiday. In 1951 he became president of Magnum and initiated several group projects involving all his colleagues.
Robert Capa died on May 25, 1954, in Thai-Binh, Indochina, after stepping on a land mine while photographing for Life. He was awarded the War Cross with Palm by the French army. The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award was established in 1955 to reward exceptional professional merit.

MAGNUM PHOTOS

FALL '09 WEEK #9

photo by DOROTHEA LANGE / FSA

1. Let's look, ASSIGNMENT #07 FLASH USE\ALBUM COVER
2. Let's look, ASSIGNMENT #08 CITY or TOWN
3. History of Photojournalism; FSA, DOROTHEA LANGE and her MIGRANT MOTHER, WEEGEE, LIFE MAGAZINE
4. Look at former students final projects, Audio Slideshows
5. Proposal for your final project due next week
6. REMINDER: Photojournalist Paper Due 11/16/09
7. National Geographic photo essays
8. Audio

FALL '09 ASSIGMENT #08; CITY OR TOWN (PART 2)

ASSIGNMENT #08 CITY OR TOWN
(Due 11/16/09)
Photo essay on a selected place

PART 1.
READING:
History of Photojournalism; ( see photographers bios or the Blog)
1. MAGNUM
2. ROBERT CAPA

PART 2.
Charlie Rose interview with National Geographic women photographers


PART 3
SHOOTING ASSIGNMENT
Continue shooting the interesting town, place, or neighborhood, in the manner of a National Geographic photo essay, see the "Places of a Lifetime."

Go to same location, but at a differnet time of day/night, as this is a multiple-week assignment. Explore the place, further and produce a diverse set of images.

Shoot photos at various times of the day and night. Use all the techniques and strategies we've discussed in class. Focus on the people, not just the places.
use your flash if necessary.

*FOR NEXT WEEK, students must submit:
1. Select (10-15) ADDITIONAL best photos.
2. Caption photos.
3. SLUG PHOTO AS FOLLOWS:
Last name_townname_01.jpg, Last name_townname_02.jpg
EXAMPLE: franklin_ hoboken.jpg
4. Place images in the “drop folder.”

PART 4
Select a piece of music, original or not, and bring to class in MP3 format. WAVE files are OK also. Select and appropriate piece that goes well with you subject.

FALL '09 WEEK #8

There will be no class tomorrow 11/2.
Please submit ASSIGNMENT #07 FLASH USE\ALBUM COVER to the DropFolder by the end of the day. (otherwise you will be marked late and lose points).

For next week, please be sure you have read the reading assignments from last week and this week, and completed shooting Assignment #08.

See you next week