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TITLE 1 PORTRAITURE as a document- Take a photo of our time - for this I would like you to conform to the traditions of document. Take a photograph of either

Your family on your doorstep/ from a straight on point of view

A member of your family /or you as though they/you  are in a traditional identification photograph - school photograph /passport photo/ mug shot

TITLE 2 SELF PORTRAIT -
See the attached resource from the amazing Photopedagogy for inspiration

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I haven't been asked for an autograph since the invention of the iPhone with a front-facing camera. The only memento 'kids these days' want is a selfie.
-- Taylor Swift

Why are Selfies criticised for being empty, boring or pointless? Perhaps if we understood how significant they have been in the history of art and photography we might take a different view? This is certainly the aim of the Saatchi show. Let's look at a couple of recent and remarkable examples:

These are remarkable examples of The Selfie for different reasons. Take a close look at the first photograph. What can you see?

Who is taking The Selfie?

Where is s/he taking it?

What is reflected in the astronaut's helmet?

What's the bright object behind his/her head?

We would normally expect to see the photographer's face in a Selfie. In this example, we see a remarkable reflection, a privileged view that very few people will ever witness.
Take the second example. This is not a conventional Selfie but rather a photograph of a man in the process of taking a Selfie.

How do you think this photograph was made?

Who is the man and what is happening behind him?

This image was featured in an exhibition about modern art and war at a museum. Why do you think the curators chose this particular picture to advertise the exhibition? You can read more about the image and the exhibition here.

magazine in 1945 with the caption, "In New York's Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers". This iconic photograph (along with V-J Day in Times Square, a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt (below left), was published in Life other famous images) has been transformed into a Selfie by an advertising agency (below right) in order to publicise a South African newspaper. How does this advert work?

To what extent are Selfies a kind of performance?

The selfie makes us accustomed to putting ourselves and those around us 'on pause' in order to document our lives.
-- Sherry Turkle

There are lots of people who think that Selfie culture is a bad thing. How can Selfies be used positively?

Rather than dismissing the trend as a side effect of digital culture or a sad form of exhibitionism, maybe we're better off seeing selfies for what they are at their best - a kind of visual diary, a way to mark our short existence and hold it up to others as proof that we were here.
​-- Jenna Wortham

The following experiments are designed to encourage you to get to know some famous (and not so famous) examples of self-portraits in art and photography and to use them to help you create your own examples. Rather than relying on the current, limited, stock of poses and facial expressions that tend to dominate Selfie culture, these experiments will hopefully broaden your repertoire and make your Selfies stand out from the crowd!

This article provides a useful starting point for reflecting (see what I did there?) on the mirror Selfie. Once you've had a look at some examples, experiment with your own Reflected Selfies*. Try using a range of reflective surfaces (not just mirrors). What happens when you choose a shop window, curved surfaces or a sequence of mirrors, for example? Will you look straight into the reflective surface or to one side? Will you include your phone/camera or hold it out of the way?

* For an extra twist on the Reflected Selfie check out the Las Meninas Selfie below.

Associated with the Disguised Selfie, there are several examples of photographic Selfies in which the subject's face is obscured. This effect is a special feature of photography that doesn't feature so much in painting. The camera flattens three dimensional space so that something in the foreground can appear to be on the same level as something else in the background. Of course, some of the obscuring can be done after the fact. Look at these examples and then experiment with making your own Obscured Selfies.

Rather than taking a straightforward self-portrait, some artists have experimented with transforming themselves (and others) into sculptures. Often these images are part of a performance (see the videos below of Gilbert and George performing 'Bend It' and Wood and Harrison's '100 Falls'). For Erwin Wurm, these sculptural acts take just a minute. The photographs is all that remains. Hicham Benohoud collaborated with his students (in Marrakesh) to create playful self-portraits in the middle of his lessons. Rebecca Horn has experimented with ways to extend her body and Danny Treacy has created costumes from discarded clothing.

The first commercially successful photobooth appeared on Broadway in New York in 1925. It provided a way for ordinary people to create a sequence of self-portraits for very little money. One remarkable example of this is the work of Lee Gody, a homeless woman from Chicago, who used photobooths to make creative self-portraits throughout her life. More recently, Japanese artist, Tomoko Sawada, has used the idea of the photobooth to explore her identity, inventing over 400 different visual personas over several weeks. There are a number of mobile apps, like Incredibooth, that reproduce the effect of the automated strip of self-portraits. Experiment with your own photobooth style self-portraits exploring a variety of ​physical appearance and dress, facial characteristics and expressions.

A face with eyes closed seems unusually vulnerable. We can see the subject but they can't see us. Why are their eyes closed? Is the person blinking, are they thinking, sleeping, dreaming..? A self-portrait with eyes closed is a peculiar kind of photograph. It might suggest a particular state of mind - a withdrawing from the the business of looking - in order to occupy a more private space. These images can be both captivating and alienating simultaneously. Experiment with making your own Eyes Closed Selfies.

A shadow is like a photograph of ourselves, an image made by light (and the absence of it). Photographers are particularly sensitive to effects of light and so have long been interested in their own shadows. Experiment with your own Shadow Selfies, exploring a variety of effects and compositions.

Most Selfies concentrate on the face but why can't a Selfie represent another part of the anatomy? Take a look at these unusual self-portraits and experiment with your own Feet Selfies. You could use your feet and someone else's head. Or, if you're really clever, you could try to get a foreshortened version of your own face and feet into the same photo, like Harry Callahan.

The word "surreal" is a bit over-used these days to mean anything strange or unusual. The Surrealists of the 1920s and 30s used the word to suggest the illogical world of dreams and the marvellous in the everyday. Do a bit of research about Surrealism and then experiment with making your own Surreal Selfies. You might also need to brush up on your Photoshop skills...!

Scanners are special image capturing devices. Rather than capturing the image in one go they move slowly across a glass plate, scanning whatever is placed on it is a sequence of lines which are then stitched back together at the end of the process. Some artists have experimented with Scanography to create unusual self-portraits. Keeping still during the process produces a relatively conventional image. The real fun comes when you move as the machine scans the surface. This involves a fair amount of chance. Experiment with your own Scanner Selfies.

'Las Meninas' is a self-portrait in which the artist appears with other participants. It also features a reflection (in Velasquez' painting, the mirror reflects the Spanish king and queen, whose portrait the artist is painting). The painting asks "who is looking at whom?" and "who is in control of the looking?" Several photographers have used both a mirror and other participants in their self-portraits, like the examples below. Sometimes, as is the case with the Jeff Wall photograph, there is a clear reference to another work of art.

Masks are specific kinds of disguise. Wearing masks is a feature of some theatre traditions. Masks enable the wearer to adopt another persona, to look and act in ways not necessarily like their everyday selves. Take a look at these examples (some of them are very strange) and attempt your own Mask Selfies. How can you use your face to hide your face?

One of the famous infamous examples of the Fake Selfie was featured in a recent exhibition at Tate Modern entitled 'Performing for the Camera'. In April 2014 Amalia Ulman uploaded a photograph to her Instagram account of the words "Part 1", of an intended series called 'Excellences & Perfections'. It received 28 likes. This was the start of a fictional online performance via social media in which Ulman pretended to lead the life of an aspiring actress or model.

For many privileged users, social media is a way of selling one's lifestyle, of building one's brand. And Ulman went to great lengths to replicate the narrative conventions of these privileged feeds, from her use of captions and hashtags (#simple, #cutegasm), to the pace and timing of uploads, to the discerning inclusion of "authentic" intimate or emotional content (a photo of a lover or a moment of despair).
-- New Museum website

Ulman is now referred to as an " Instagram Artist" who successfully fooled thousands with her " masterpiece". What do you think of this project? Do you think it is a work of art? What might Ulman have been attemting to say about the relationship between social media, beauty, acceptance, success and photography?

Several photographers have enjoyed using their equipment incorrectly to achieve unusual effects. Moving a camera (and subject) during exposure can produce some strange distortions. More recently, people have discovered that playing with the panorama function on a mobile phone can reveal glitches. It is possible to create a PanoSelfie, but much more fun to do it incorrectly. Attempt your own versions.

Artists like David Hockney, with his Joiners series, have experimented with the idea of multiple viewpoints to create a combination photographic work of art inspired by Cubism. As well as adding several pictures together, artists have also tried cutting through layers of pictures to reveal others underneath. Experiment with your own Cubist Selfies.

The Boring Location Selfie - take a series of Selfies in the most unremarkable, unattractive and unmemorable locations you can find.

The Deadpan Selfie - take a series of Selfies in which you look at the camera with a completely deadpan, unemotional, expressionless face.

The Unusual Pet Selfie - take a series of Selfies with slugs, worms, pigeons and other 'pets' which you adopt momentarily for the purposes of the picture.

The Disappearing Selfie - take a series of Selfies in which only a tiny portion of your head is visible (a few stray hairs or the top of an ear, for example).

The Upside Down Selfie - take a series of Selfies either with your head upside down or, in the normal way but making sure you rotate the photograph by 180 degrees before publishing it.

In what other ways can you deliberately play with the 'rules' of taking Selfies, undermining and/or challenging them?
Here are some favourite examples of the art of the Selfie from Instagram to help you with your own experiments.

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Use this to help when analysing and writing about artists and your own work

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Movement: Eadweard Muybridge, Gjon Mili, Phil Stern, Harold Edgerton, Robin Rhodes, Susan Derges
Portraits: Zanele Muholi, Lorna Simpson, Khadija Saye, Silvi Rosi, Campbell Addy

Photomontage: Raoul Hausmann, Hannah Hoch, Peter Kennard, Alexander Rodchenko, Ashkan Honarvar

Narrative: Mari Mahr, Duane Michals, Elliot Erwitt, Robert Frank, Wolfgang Tillmans, Judith Golden, Sophie Calle, Carrie Mae Weems, Heather Agyepong

Typologies: August Sander, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Ed Ruscha, Lewis Baltz, Hans Eijkelboom

Multiple Exposures: Harry Callahan, Ray Metzger, Stephanie Jung, Pep Ventosa, Idris Khan,

Joiners/Photo weaving: David Hockney, Maurizio Galimberti, Seung Hoon Park

Contact Sheets: William Klein, Martin Wilson, Thomas Kellner

Photo sculptures: Matt Lipps, Lisa Kokin, Robert Heinecken

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Refer to these simple steps to set your camera to manual
Lesson 1- ISO and Shutter speed

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Manual Mode in DSLR Camera is considered to be an out-of-this-world setting that many people never ever think of trying it. I have come across many people who own DSLR Camera for many years but never tried. Most popular reason being that it requires them to have technical know-how of Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO settings which has a steep learning curve.

If this reasoning rings a bell even for you, let us tackle it right here right now. You will see yourself playing around with Manual Mode like never before within matter of few minutes.

I have used images of Canon Rebel T3i DSLR camera settings in this article. Most of the Canon DSLRs probably have very similar settings. If you are a Nikon DSLR owner, please read DSLR Basics: 8 Easy Steps to Learn Manual Mode for Nikon DSLR Cameras.

If you follow these steps exactly the way I describe, you will never have to switch back to Auto mode.

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Step 1: Pick up your Camera and Start the Timer

This is the most important step. If you are just reading it in your office, or a restaurant, or a coffee shop, then no matter what, you will never learn it. If you do not have access to camera right now, then stop it here. Go back home, pick up your camera and then follow the next steps.

Start the timer now. Let us see how much time you will take to understand the manual mode.

Step 2: Turn the Mode dial to point to M which means Manual Mode

Rotate the mode dial, which is usually at the top right hand side, to point to M . Some of the models may have the mode dial at the top left hand side.

Step 3: Point the Camera where you find good light

This is very important step. Do not ignore this step. Turn on the camera if you have not done it already and point it towards a subject/object which has sufficient amount of light. Keep the camera on a stable surface to make sure the composition does not change.

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To use Manual Mode under all lighting conditions read the DSLR Photography Basics: Getting Perfect Exposure Using Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO.

Step 4: Check the Important Camera Settings

Press the disp button which will display current settings in the LCD.

Note: After a few seconds LCD screen display turns off, press disp button to get it back.

You will see too many settings there. As of now, we are interested only in Aperture (F number) and ISO.

If you have never before touched the manual mode, then you should see F number to be very small like f/2.8, f/3.5, or f5.6. If not, press Q (Quick Mode) button then traverse to aperture setting with F number. Turn the top dial towards your left until there is no change in F number.

If ISO value is 100, which is the least value, then you are good. Otherwise, press Q button then traverse to aperture setting with ISO number. Turn the top dial towards your left until you get the lowest ISO number usually 100.

Step 5: Check the Camera Metering indicator

Check the camera metering indicator which displays a dotted line with -3 and +3 on either side of the line.

If you half-press the shutter button, you will also notice a blinking indicator either to the -3 side or to the +3 side of the dotted line. It is fine whichever way it is currently pointing to since you will learn in few minutes to deal with it.

Learn about Camera Metering Modes to achieve proper exposure under all conditions.

Step 6: Press the Shutter button

Press the shutter button. I mean it...just do it.

This is an important aspect of learning. Take action, make mistakes, learn from mistakes. If you learn only the right way of doing things, as the time passes, you will be scared to test anything else.

Now let us talk about the picture you took.

You are probably not impressed with what you got. May be it is not what you expected? Let us analyze it then.

Is it very dark? then it is underexposed, because of less light hitting the sensor. It means the meter indicator was towards -3.

If the picture is bright or washed out, then it is overexposed, because of too much light hitting the sensor. It means the meter indicator was pointing towards? you know that.

You might already have solved the problem in your head now. Have you? you know what to do, isn't it? Do it.

Step 7: Achieving the Proper Exposure

Press the disp button again to get back to the settings on the LCD screen.

If the picture was underexposed or the arrow is pointing towards -3, then turn the main dial towards your left (counter-clockwise direction).

As you turn it left, you will notice that the blinking indicator below the dotted line comes closer towards center. Keep turning the dial in counter-clockwise direction until the blinking indicator hits the center ( 0 marking) of the dotted line.

If the picture was overexposed or the arrow is pointing towards +, then turn the dial, towards your right (clockwise direction).

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As you turn it right, you will notice that the blinking indicator below the dotted line comes closer towards center. Keep turning the dial in clockwise direction until the blinking indicator hits the center ( 0 marking) of the dotted line.

In Steps 6 and 7, you changed the Shutter Speed to achieve the proper exposure. Shutter speed is represented in seconds. Generally it will be in fraction of seconds like 1/30 or 1/60 all the way upto 1/4000 or 1/8000.

In all possibilities, you should get the arrow to point to center unless you have chosen a subject which is way too dark or way too bright.

Step 8: Make your very first Photograph using Manual Mode!

Press the shutter button now. Did you get the picture what you were longing for?!

Congratulations! on your very first photograph using manual mode. You have taken control of your camera, there is no turning back from here.

Stop the timer now. How much time did you take to learn? Was it hard to learn?

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Did you enjoy this article? Do you want to know about some other concept that is haunting you from a long time? Let me know in your comments.

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Different ideas and ways to present your images

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Examples and tips on how to present your work to a high standard

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http://www.auroranova.org/portraits-in-motion/

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http://www.lethaprojects.com/visuals/index.php
http://www.studentartguide.com/articles/creative-photography-ideas

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Website featuring the visual arts portfolio of Letha Wilson, a mixed-media contemporary artist who works in sculpture, installation, outdoor sculpture, video, photography, and drawings.

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Research
http://josefchladek.com
http://www.moma.org/interactives/objectphoto/#home
http://www.photoquotes.com
http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk
https://photoworks.org.uk
http://www.michaelhoppengallery.com
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL98AECDD66AF3BEF9
http://www.achtung.photography/category/photography-books/
http://www.tate.org.uk/search?q=photography
http://www.nowseethis.org/about
http://www.museumofnewmexico.org/mfa/ideaphotographic/images.html
http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/photography/
https://www.lomography.com/photos/
http://www.mep-fr.org
https://www.magnumphotos.com
http://www.photopedagogy.com/links.html
https://autograph.org.uk/

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Ever wonder how your camera works?

...If instant photos are actually made of something other than magic?

We sure as heck do!

In fact, we think the science of photography is half of the reason that being a photographer is so freakin' cool.

While photography usually feels like magic, it's actually very scientific and mathematical. (We even know the ISO of the human eye!)

We're going to show you some of our favorite basic photography techniques, what makes them tick, and how you can try them all yourself for a hands-on view of how all your favorite photo stuff works!

The Camera Obscura

Ever see pictures with an entire city projected onto bedroom walls?

Yep, that's a camera obscura. The most basic type of camera in the world (it was around even before photography was!)

A camera obscura is basically just a dark room and a hole in a window opening.

The light rays from the outside world get squashed and travel through the tiny lens hole in your window, flip themselves around, and end up showing up again on a projected upside-down image.

It's the most basic form of a lens, and works a lot like your very own eye!

The smaller you make the lens hole, the sharper and more in-focus your image gets.

If your lens hole is too large, light rays have too much room to move and make your image blurry and out-of-focus.
Camera obscura photo by afroboof. (...want to read more about the camera obscura?)
The Pinhole Camera

You can practice the science of the camera obscura hands on by using a pinhole camera!

Like a mini-camera obscura, a pinhole camera is a fully functioning camera made with nothing but a pinhole, a box, and a piece of photo paper!

Check out how much you can do with a pinhole camera (which includes several ways to make your own!), try experimenting with different sized pinholes, or even make a solargraph!

Photo Paper

So you've filled your handmade camera with photo paper. Ever wonder how that magical stuff works?

Photo paper is made simply by coating a piece of paper with a light sensitive chemical called "emulsion."

It's then kept in complete darkness until you're ready to make your picture. When you do, the light that comes into your cameras pinhole gets flipped, squashed, and projected onto the paper in the back of the camera (just like it was projected onto the bedroom wall with a camera obscura!)

The brighter parts of the projected image react with the tiny light-sensitive crystals in your photo paper. When a developer chemical is added, the brighter parts turn dark. Your photo paper stays white in the areas where no light reached it's surface.

Good news! You can experiment with photo-sensitive paper without having to deal with messy chemicals! Sunprint paper will allow you to make pinhole pictures or photograms that develop in water.

Instant Film

Instant prints magically develop before our eyes. How do they work?

The bottom part of your instant prints contain something very special inside: a mini-darkroom!

That's right, that tiny pouch on the bottom of your picture is actually holding packets of gooey chemicals that develop your film for you while you watch!

When your instant camera takes a picture, the light travels through the lens and lands on the surface of your instant film.

Then, your instant camera ejects the picture in between two metal rollers. The rollers pinch the chemical packets on the bottom of your film, break them open, and spread the developer chemicals all over the surface of your image.

Watch your instant image develop and you're actually watching a chemical reaction in a mini-science lab!

Color Filters

Remember when we showed you how you can make a color image from three black and white ones? or how you can make an epic color mashup?

Those techniques work because your film is actually made out of three color layers.

One layer records all the red information in your images, one layer records all the yellow info, and the last one records everything that's blue.

If you hold a green filter in front of your lens, it will filter out all other colors and only allow green light to pass through to your film.

You can experiment with color filtration by using color filters to remove or add certain colors to your photos the old fashioned way!

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Photo Science: How 5 Photo Techniques Work & How You Can Play With Them!

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Extra photos for bloggers: 1, 2, 3, 4 Ever wonder how your camera works? ...If instant photos are actually made of something other than magic? We sure as heck do! In fact, we think the science of photography is half of the reason that being a photographer is so freakin' cool.

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I made my first picture using camera obscura techniques in my darkened living room in 1991. In setting up a room to make this kind of photograph, I cover all windows with black plastic in order to achieve total darkness. Then, I cut a small hole in the material I use to cover the windows. This opening allows an inverted image of the view outside to flood onto the back walls of the room. Typically then I focused my large-format camera on the incoming image on the wall then make a camera exposure on film. In the beginning, exposures took from five to ten hours.

Over time, this project has taken me from my living room to all sorts of interiors around the world. One of the satisfactions I get from making this imagery comes from my seeing the weird and yet natural marriage of the inside and outside.

Several years ago, in order to push the visual potential of this process, I began to use color film and positioned a lens over the hole in the window plastic in order to add to the overall sharpness and brightness of the incoming image. Now, I often use a prism to make the projection come in right side up. I have also been able to shorten my exposures considerably thanks to digital technology, which in turn makes it possible to capture more momentary light. I love the increased sense of reality that the outdoor has in these new works .The marriage of the outside and the inside is now made up of more equal partners.

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http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/steven-pippin-2408