May 22, 2015
Friday 45 min
10:15 -11:00
Photography - Subject and Frame.
Will did not have his camera today, so I quizzed him on Subject and Frame. Using two photojournalism books (Time Life Photojournalism and Life:100 photos that changed the world), I selected photos and tasked Will with identifying the subject of the photo. We discussed the difference between subject and context. The photo may have been included in a story, but also tells it’s own story. The photo ‘subject’ tells the story, the context is the article that included the photo. Once Will understood that I was not looking for the context of the photo, but rather the part of the photo that draws the eye of the viewer, he did well. I also tasked him for identifying the frame, and explain how the frame informs the subject. We also discussed how some photos came to represent an event (the flag raising at Iwo Jima for example).