Process (Project Overview):
1. Take a look at the three links
(references) above and Photo_Collage_Refs.pdf. How do the Artist’s strategies
differ? How are they similar? How is what there are doing different from simply
making one photograph?
2. Choose a subject (person or place). Spend some
time exploring your location. Make some decisions about how you want your final
piece to look. Is it best photographed from one single point of view, or from
many? Is it possible to show all sides of a building in one photograph? Do you
want your final piece clean and seamless or jagged and distorted? Is the final
design a rigid, geometric grid or an organic, amorphic shape? Use your camera’s
viewfinder (or screen) to “map” out the space. Before you ever click the
shutter, visualize a final form, then plan and determine a strategy that will
manifest that form. You may want to give yourself more than one option /
strategy.
3. Shoot, shoot, shoot! Take lots of images. It’s always better
to have too many images that not enough. Shoot from a single location, shoot
from many locations. All the while keeping in mind how your “pieces” will fit
together. How does the passage of time change a subject? How much time must pass
before you can measure change? Ten seconds? Ten minutes? Ten hours? Ten days?
You’re project may decidedly have more to do with space or more to do with time.
For your final collage, each of you must make, at least, 75 photographs of your
subject.
4. Drop off / upload your files or film somewhere capable of
4x6-inch machine prints (Walgreens, CVS, Walmart, etc). Specify matt prints (not
glossy) if you can.
5. Begin physically roughing out the final form of
your composition on a large table or the floor. Use as many of your photographs
as possible, but you do not need to use all of them. Run any questions that
arise in the process by one of your peers. Also get some feedback from the
instructor before permanently gluing anything down.
6. Once all questions
have been resolved, adhere your photomontage / collage down to the mounting
board.
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