Photography Famous Images through the Ages

What Makes a Photograph Successful?

!   Lighting

!   Subject Matter/ Content

!   Exposure

!   Composition

Your Assignment:

!   In pairs, discuss each of the following points for each image.

!   Answer the following: !   Who took the photograph? !   What is the photo about? (Think subject matter, the message,

and what is happening) !   What do you think about the composition? Is it successful? Not?

Why do you think so? !   Is the photo correctly exposed? !   How does the lighting of the photograph affect the overall

quality or mood of the image? At the end of the hour, you will each turn in your notes.

Alfred Stieglitz- The Steerage 1907

Lewis Hine- Little Girl Spinner 1908

Man Ray- Natacha 1929

Edward Weston- Pepper No. 30 1930

Dorothea Lange- Migrant Mother 1936

Arno Rafael Minkkinen- Self Portrait, New York City 1971

Nan Golden- The Blue Bathroom, London 1980

Richard Avedon- Sandra Bennett, 12 years old, Rocky Ford, Colorado, 1980

Barbara Kruger- Are We Having Fun Yet? 1987

Andrea Gursky- Siemens, Karlsruhe 1991

Robert Parkeharrison- Flying Lesson 1999