Choose one photographer whose work was created within the past 25 years. Discuss the way that this artist’s work speaks to our culture.
Use your knowledge of the vocabulary of art to analyze one image by the photographer of your choice. Be specific.
What is the underlying meaning in the artwork of this photographer? What camera and techniques does the photographer use? Is this important to further understanding the work?
Reflect on the history of photography that you have read from the online lesson and chapter 9 of our textbook, is the contemporary photographer you chose to write about tied, in any way, to this history? This comparison can be made via subject matter (content), formally (visual), technology (type of camera), etc? Describe the relationship you see between your artist and a photographer of the past. Provide links to the specific works in your discussion.
Is the artist you have chosen to write about a practitioner of “pure photography”? Why or why not?