Photographing with a Concept

• formally, composition, in camera decision, what the image looks like
• conceptually
• through subject matter

Concept

• the idea, use or theme
• does each image support and further a deeper understanding of the concept?
• does each image support and further a deeper understanding of the subject matter?
• make viewer look at subject matter in a way they haven't seen before
• a story
• order of images
• we read left to right
• does your series have a title
• to give context (giving a title)

Landscape / Nature

• light
• different times of day
• response to space
• space is everywhere, place is specific
• respond to form
• glorifying the natural world
• relationship between man and nature
• changes to the natural world
• changes over time

Built World

• how the created environment is created and shapes us
• what happens when the natural world meets the built world

Utopian Environments

• imaginary, built or a secluded place
• sense of distance and scale
• black and white tends to romanticize and remove the viewer from reality
• put yourself in that place

Portraiture

• studio or environmental
• staged or candid
• individual or group
• group: photograph them individually
• exploring, character, culture, relationships, or all
• historical?
• collaboration between the subject and photographer
• shared control or one person in control
• ethics, representing someone to other people
• subject's gaze
• narrative

David McMillan (Winnipeg)

• formal relationships
• cloud formations
• strives for photographic beauty and reality
• natural color and clarity of the world
• large format camera, 4 x 5

Jeffery James (Toronto)

• from Wales
• sites, specific projects
• usually commissioned
• San Diego, Lethbridge, Toronto
• the main thing is the condition of light
• depicts two separate images that function as one
• large format camera, 4 x 5

Paul Griffin

• medium format
• "Signs"
• "Tower and Sky}

Isabelle Hayeur (Quebec)

• panoramic landscape
• two pictures merged into one

Sarah Anne Johnson

• went to Yale
• capturing gestures of the people and quality of light
• in the Julie Saul Gallery

August Sander

• started as a portrait photographer (1910 - 1934)
• archetypes
• constructing a visual encyclopedia
• environmental portrait, and posed
• almost always engaging the viewer with their gaze

Diane Arbus

• American photographer
• 1960s - 1971 (committed suicide)
• segments of the population who were marginalized
• people were weren't of power
• emphasized the "oddness" of people who were marginal
• emphasized the "ordinary" of people of higher status
• nudist colonies, children, exotic dancers
• the unfamiliar

Tina Barney

• cultural and historical events
• documenting a way of life
• family and friends
• large format, 4 x 5
• posed subjects
• rarely had eye contact with subjects
• "The Conversation"
• "Jill and Polly in the Bathroom"
• saturated and matching

Laura Latinsky (Winnipeg)

• Yale and U of M
• large format
• "Bev and Iver" 1991
• posed subjects
• different notions of love
• what is love suppose to look like, what is considered normal

Talia Potash (Winnipeg)

• U of M
• medium format, digital
• is very direct, open
• does not ask permission
• 50s fad
• in public sphere
• add grain and saturation
• "It's a Good Life" Miami series