History of Photography Multimedia Presentation
Use the Internet to research an important figure in the history of photography. Organized your research into a multimedia presentation using HyperStudio.

You will be randomly assigned a photographer.
Use the Internet to research your photographer.

List of possible photographers:
Invention of Photography - Henry Talbot, Daguerre
Early Travel and Exploration - Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan
Civil War and War photo - Matthew Brady, Frank Capa
Social Documentary - Jacob Riis
The Depression Era - Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans
Documentary - Robert Frank, Diane Arbus
Landscape - Ansel Adams
Line, Shape, Form - Edward Weston, Paul Strand
Photojournalism - Henri Cartier-Bresson, Weegee, Alfred Eisenstadt
Fashion photo - Richard Avedon, Irving Penn
Motion - Duane Michaels, Edward Muybridge, David Hockney
Surrealism - Jerry Uelsmann, Man Ray
Celebrity Photographers - Man Ray, Annie Liebowitz
(Post) Modern Photographers - William Wegman, Sandy Skoglund

Alfred Stieglitz
Tina Modotti
Margaret Bourke-White
Andre Kertesz
Wayne Bullock
Harry Callahan
Aaron Siskind
Gary Winogrand
Minor White
Yousaf Karsh


Consider the following aspects of the photographer's life and art as you research...
Date of birth/date of death
Other events in History?
How did the person become interested in photography? Were they influenced by other photographers or artists?
External factors which influenced their work? (i.e., war, political/social movements (i.e. civil rights, migrant workers, women's rights, environmental movement)
Themes in their work?
What elements and principles of art do they use in their work?<> What photo techniques are used in their work?
Why is this person an important figure in the history of photography?


NOTE: if you can not find the information you need onto Internet, use your photo text or other photo books. Images from books may be scanned and saved to disk.

Copy the URL's of any sites with helpful information (copying and pasting the URL into a Word pad document, rather than writing it down by hand will be much simpler and faster). Save any useful images to disk. Right click on the image; go to Save Image As; click on 31/2 Disk; rename the image if you wish.

Go to the Hyperstudio tutorial. Some of you may already know how to use HyperStudio, but some of you may need a review.

Create a multimedia presentation based on the research about your photographer. Your presentation should demonstrate good design. Keep in mind two things: you will present your project to the class, using your multimedia project as a visual aide, and everyone will be tested on the history of photography based on the information contained in the presentations (expect to identify photographic works and their creators).

This is the outline to follow for your presentation :

Card 1 - Subject of presentation (birth and death dates)
Card 2 - Time period of work, other events in history
Card 3 - Influences, how did he/she become interested in photography?
Card 4 - Themes in his/her work; include one of his/her well known images illustrating this theme (title and date of work)
Card 5 - What elements and principles of art are illustrated in the photographer's work? Include one of his/her works which illustrated this (title and date of work)
Card 6 - What photo techniques are illustrated in his/her work? (selective focus, great depth of field, etc.) Use the photographic glossary if unsue: http://www.kodak.com/global/en/consumer/glossary/glossaryContents.shtml Include one his/her works which illustrates this. (title and date of work)
Card 7 - Why is this person important in the history of photography?
Card 8 - Closing statement