Class on Monday April 1st. - The Issues of John Szarkowski(Part#1)

On Monday we will meet in the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at 1pm to discuss the exhibition White Boys. Please prepare by reading the essay in the catalog or reviewing the exhibition web page http://exhibits.haverford.edu/whiteboys/ We will primarily look at the photographs in the show, discuss the artists methods, themes, the medium they are using, and how their work fits within the framework of the exhibition. 

For our first Assignment, which I am calling the Issues of Szarkowski (Part #1), please shoot a roll of film and attempt to capture the "Thing Itself" and "The Detail". Consider the effect of aperture and depth of field as you compose your image. For Monday please bring a developed roll of film and the contact sheet. On Wednesday April 3rd please be ready to show four 8x10" photographs that are your interpretations of: 

1. The  Thing Itself

2. The Detail

3. Shallow Depth of Field

4. Long Depth of Field 

Szarkwoski's essay is fully printed here http://jnevins.com/szarkowskireading.htm

This is an interesting interpretation of Szakwoski's essay from a blog called Traces of The Real - http://tracesofthereal.com/2010/02/21/introduction-to-the-photographers-eye-john-szarkowski-1966/