Integration of Darkroom

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Integration of Darkroom Digital Technologies

• Lisa S. Parks
• Ken-Ton Schools
• Buffalo, NY
• Lisa_Parks_at_kenton.k12.ny.us

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The beginning of the project

• Direction of college programs
• Kenan Regional Exhibition
• District Goals

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• What is the role of technology in the photo
  curriculum?
• What are the gaps in student achievement?

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Table of Contents

• Alternative Processes
• Fashion Portraits
• Advertising Still Life
• Final Performance Task Museum
• Digital Portfolios

• Mail Art
• Photo of the WeekFlickr
• Robert Parke Harrison Man Vs Nature
• Surrealism
• Tomie Arai Understanding Identity through
  Culture

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MAIL ART
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How can artists/photographers create visual
dialogue?
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Art Movements associated with Mail Art

• This is an extension of ideas started by
  Surrealist artists in the 1920s. Mail art was
  created in the 60s from the Fluxus and Dada art
  movements.

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Student work
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FLICKR.Com

• Students use Flickr.com to post their images and
  join groups that interest them
• Students use Flickr to write about photographs
  each week.
• Inspiration for thematic rolls

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Man vs. EnvironmentThe Art ofRobert Parke
Harrison
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• Urban Landscape
• Tension
• Cause Effect
• Opposites

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The Marks We Make
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Mending the Earth
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Performance Task

• Shoot digital photographs of urban landscapes
• Shoot digital photographs of objects/people to
  layer into landscape photos
• Use Photoshop to blend photos together create a
  new image based on the idea of man vs.
  environment
• Create a salt/gum print of your final image
• Write a reflection about your piece

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Student Work
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Tension Weight
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Surrealism in Photography

• Sur - re - al - ism (n.) -(often l.c.) a style of
  art and literature developed principally in the
  20th century, stressing the subconscious or
  nonrational significance of imagery arrived at by
  automatism or the exploitation of chance effects,
  unexpected juxtapositions, etc.
• Surrealist.com

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Dreams

• Freud declared the dream to be "the royal road to
  knowledge of the unconscious.
• What are dreams like?
• How is dream time unlike real time?
• What happens to gravity in dreams?
• How do objects and people come together in
  dreams?
• Students kept a dream journal

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Andre Breton described the Exquisite Corpse
fabulous source of unfindable images

• Students drew a card, printed an image from their
  negatives or digital files that met the
  description
• Head, neck, shoulders
• Torso to thigh
• Thigh down

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Jerry Uelsman
Symbolic Mutation, 1961
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Manipulation of Images

• Manipulation of images came from his desire to
  do things better
• Untitled, 1965

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Double Exposure
Max Ernst, 1946
www.fredericksommer.org
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Student Work
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TOMIE ARAI
How can you express identity?
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• By conveying the stories of others, she acts not
  as expert, informant, representative,
  ethnographer, or neutral observer in fact, she
  un-tells the versions that we expect in order to
  reconstruct and repair societys understanding of
  history.
• CEPA Gallery UntellingA mid career
  retrospective 2005-2006

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Portraiture

• Stems from traditional Asian approach
• Not focusing on individuality, but local identity
• Part of a collective, particular social
  environment

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How can an artist's work span two cultures?
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Laundrymans Daughter 1988 Screenprint
Relationship of family to work
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PERFORMANCE TASK

• Through interview internet research you will
  gather information about your heritage
• Find images and icons that relate to your
  heritage as well as popular icons and images that
  relate to your identity
• Photograph these different images and icons
• You will transfer these images to objects and
  assemble them into an installation or series of
  works

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Alternative Processes
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Transfer

• Gel Medium
• Liquid Light
• Oil of Wintergreen
• Critasolve
• Picture This
• Liquid Sculpy

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Create a Digital Negative

• Turn image to grayscale
• Go to Adjustmentsgt Invert
• Increase contrast

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Salt/Gum Prints

• After making a digital negative from their
  Photoshop document, students create a contact
  print using Salt or gum printing.

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Solarization
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Daguerreotypes

• 1840 - 1855
• Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre
• Conviennent and partial
• Direct positive process on silver coated copper
  plates.

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Fake Daguerreotype

• Choose a high contrast negative
• Create a test strip on the halftone film/paper
• This film/paper is very sensitive, so keep it in
  total darkness as much as possible
• When the film goes through the fixer the
  film/paper will become transparent in the light
  areas.
• When printed back with foil

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Cyanotypes

• John Hershel invented this process in 1842
• Derived from experiments with the light
  sensitivity of iron salts
• The oxidation produced a cyan or blue print

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Faux Cyanotypes
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Directions

• Copy your image into a new Photoshop document
• Go to ImagegtAdjustmentsgtHue saturation, check the
  colorize box, move the hue slider to around 225
• Next adjust the brightness/contrast.

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Stained and Feathered

• For an aged appearance
• Create a new layer, use the Paintbucket tool and
  fill the layer with a stain
• Have the blending set to Multiply
• Flatten the layers
• Select the image leaving a thin border and
  feather the edges.

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Toning

• Toning is a process that creates a monochromatic
  tone to your prints
• Before and after Toning, be sure your prints are
  thoroughly rinsed.
• Choices for chemical toning Blue, Sepia, Yellow
• You can also tone prints with Kool Aid
• If you are using blue toner, print with a bit
  less contrast, the blue increases the contrast
• For the Sepia Toner, you will need to bleach your
  print first.
• Be careful not to commingle the chemicals!!
• Air dry these prints

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HDR PrintsHigh Dynamic range Images
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Fashion PortraitsThe Work of Richard AvedonA
Study in Light Beauty
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Portrait (portrit) A likeness of a person,
especially of the face, produced usually from
life by an artist or photographer.
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Fashion (fashen) The mode of dress, manners,
living, etc. prevailing in society good form or
style
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Lighting (liting) 1. The providing of light or
the state of being lighted illumination 2. The
arrangement or effect of lighted areas contrasted
with darker ones, as in a photograph
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Performance Task

• Review Avedons work
• Sketch out ideas for your own fashion portraits
  in your journal
• Play around with lighting to create a definite
  mood
• Shoot film and digital using props costumes
• Create a series of three full-size final prints

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Student work
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Advertising Still Life
Media Literacy
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• The still life has been popular in the history of
  art throughout the ages. In photography the
  still life has served as art and advertisement.
  In exploring the idea of the still life, its
  various symbolic meanings, and the effects of
  advertising students will explore Lighting,
  advertising set-ups. In addition students will
  examine careers available in the field of
  commercial photography.

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Guiding Questions

• What are the intersections between art and
  advertising?
• Where do art and advertising diverge?
• What are the responsibilities of advertisers to
  their clients?
• What are the responsibilities of advertisers to
  the public?
• How have public tastes, standards and
  expectations of mass media changed over the last
  100 years?

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Student work
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Final Performance Task

• How do contemporary artists express their ideas
  through photography?

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List of Artists for Final Project

• Sandy Skogland
• Cindy Sherman
• Andy Goldsworthy
• Joseph Cornell
• Robert Rauschenberg
• Barbara Kruger
• David Hockney
• Andy Warhol
• Nikki Lee
• Lorna Simpson
• Ralph E. Meatyard

• Richard Prince
• Lucas Samaras
• John Baldessari
• Ray K. Metzker
• Gabriel Orozco
• Eleanor Antin
• Ann Hamilton
• Margaret Kilgallen
• Sherrie Levine
• William Wegman

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Performance Task

• You will choose an artist/photographer from the
  list provided
• Create a virtual museum
• Create brochure advertising a virtual opening of
  that artist/photographers work.
• Create your own artwork using the same techniques
  as your artist/photographer.
• Share your museum at an opening with your peers

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DIGITAL PORTFOLIO

• Artist Statement

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• As students near completion of an advanced
  elective, there should be an opportunity to
  reflect upon the quality of their work and their
  growth within the medium of photography.
  Creating a digital portfolio of their work will
  provide them this opportunity. Students will
  examine their artwork, reflect on it, and choose
  pieces to include in the portfolio that show
  evidence of growth and increased sophistication.
  The completed portfolios will be viewed and
  critiqued by their peers.

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Guiding Questions

• What themes did you explore this year? Why?
• Do you feel that your work has grown or matured
  throughout this course? Why?
• How is this portfolio going to act as a
  self-portrait?
• What images should you choose to include? Omit?
• What evaluative statements can you make about
  your work?