Santa Monica College Old Photographs and Kim Kardashian Photography Analysis
Description
1. Provide an in-depth formal analysis of each of the above photographs. Discuss how specific choices of form, style affect how you see and interpret each photographic subject.
- Think specifically about lighting choices and think critically about how this aspect of form and style can affect one’s perception. Check out the following video for an example of how lighting can dramatical reshape a sitter’s face: (Links to an external site.)
Unknown photographer, Khoikhoi Woman as a “Hottentot Venus” (ca. 1900s, albumen print from a dry plate collodion)
J. T. Zealy, Jack (ca. 1850s, Daguerreotype)
Jean-Paul Goude, Kim Kardashian for Paper Magazine (2014, digital)
Links related to photographs:
J. T. Zealy, Jack (ca. 1850s, Daguerreotype) (Links to an external site.)
Jean-Paul Goude, Kim Kardashian for Paper Magazine (2014, digital) (Links to an external site.)
Requirements:
Cite sources in MLA
Provide an in-depth analysis for all three pictures
**what you need to do**
describe what we can see
scale
composition
pictorial space
form
line
color
light
tone
texture
pattern
What not to talk about
iconography/symbolism
commission/patron
political/social/economic context