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Year 9 Photography Knowledge Organiser – Mixed Media

Central Idea: this is the start of your mind map and

represents the topic you are going to explore.

Branches: The main branches which flow from

the central word are the key themes. You can add to these main themes with

smaller branches

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Key Words: When you add a branch to your mind map you will need to include a key idea. Try keeping to one word for each branch. If needs be have further words branching off

your key words.

Mind Mapping – Ideas presented around the theme of the work


Mood Board – A collage of Ideas using collected images

Your mood board should be a visual representation of your mind map

and show a variety of still life examples

Fill the space, there is no need for any white space on your slide

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Artist Research – Showing your understanding of an artists work or style 3

For your mixed media project you are expected to research Maurizio Anzeri, Charlotte Caron and Ruth

Maddison. You will also be expected to find one of your own

that you develop an idea from.

For any artist you research, there should

be a mood board of their work.

Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 – January 1, 1958) was a 20th-century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers..." and "one of the masters of 20th century photography." Over the course of his 40-year career Weston photographed an increasingly expansive set of subjects, including landscapes, still lives, nudes, portraits, genre scenes and even whimsical parodies. It is said that he developed a "quintessentially American, and specially Californian, approach to modern photography" because of his focus on the people and places of the American West. In 1937 Weston was the first photographer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, and over the next two years he produced nearly 1,400 negatives using his 8 × 10 view camera. Some of his most famous photographs were taken of the trees and rocks at Point Lobos, California, near where he lived for many years.Weston was born in Chicago and moved to California when he was 21. He knew he wanted to be a photographer from an early age, and initially his work was typical of the soft focus pictorialism that was popular at the time. Within a few years, however, he abandoned that style and went on to be one of the foremost champions of highly detailed photographic images.In 1947 he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and he stopped photographing soon thereafter. He spent the remaining ten years of his life overseeing the printing of more than 1,000 of his most famous images.

Biographical Information: Birth, death, style, education, important works.

Social, historical and economic influences: What was happening at the

time? Were they responding to anything that was happening around them.

Technical Information: How was their work produced?

Artistic Influences: Who influenced their work? Did their work influence anyone

else?


Analysing Artists Work – Must be a work that is directly influencing your own 4

Always try to title and date your chosen image.

Answer all the questions to the best of your ability.


Write aims for your shoots1


Explore and experiment with techniques

Where appropriate you can edit your best images digitally – make sure to include screen shots to show your progress as well as your original image and edited

outcome.

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Experiment with –materials, techniques and processes, at a minimum you should have explored

line drawing in pen, using oil pastels and colouring in monochrome images by

hand using colour pencil or water colours.


Put in a contact sheet to show all your images –

Highlight your best images and explain and

do the same for one weaker image

It is important to evaluate your shoots –answer all the questions.

Consider final piece presentation

Show your understanding of the formal elements through your photography when you compose your photographs showcasing the aspects you wrote about in your analysis

Summarise all you have done, show off your efforts and link it all together


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