Week Four!
This week was the start of a new Unit! In the month of February I will be studying what it takes to be a photojournalist and who the big names in the field are. This week I worked on finalizing my February calendar and I also began setting up an interview with Tamara Lackey that…
Week Three!
This week was laid back because we didn’t have many classes, but it was still super fun. I finished Derrick Price’s chapter of “Surveyors and Surveyed” and I learned about Associations that hired photographers to photograph daily life in the 1930s. I learned about how photographers left the world of politics and became more open…
Week Two!
Another great week I have to say! This week I started to watch the series “Ways of Seeing” by John Berger. I learned all about how photography made art accessible to everyone and that it allowed us to see things that weren’t directly in front of us. I also began the chapter “Surveyors and Surveyed”…
Week One!
This week was a great start to the month and to my Independent Study! I really dove into the history behind photojournalism as a I read A Brief History of Photography and Photojournalism By Ross Collins. I learned all about the influence of chemistry on photography progression and who made this progression so influential in…