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The document provides guidance for analyzing photographs in 4 steps: 1) Observe objective visual details, 2) Think by performing a technical analysis of elements like composition, 3) Contextualize the photograph and body of work, and 4) Wonder by interpreting with personal feelings. Students are to select a single photographer's body of work that relates to a global issue, analyze technical elements and their implications for the issue, and how the photographs depict commonality across works. A class activity has students summarize a photographer's body of work relating technical analysis to a global issue.

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Analyzing Photographs - Docx 1

The document provides guidance for analyzing photographs in 4 steps: 1) Observe objective visual details, 2) Think by performing a technical analysis of elements like composition, 3) Contextualize the photograph and body of work, and 4) Wonder by interpreting with personal feelings. Students are to select a single photographer's body of work that relates to a global issue, analyze technical elements and their implications for the issue, and how the photographs depict commonality across works. A class activity has students summarize a photographer's body of work relating technical analysis to a global issue.

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English Language and Literature:

Non Literary Text Study:


Analyzing photographs

1. Observe: Visually describe what you see in the photograph (an objective step);

-What is the name of the photographer?


-What is the title of the photograph/ title of the series - BODY OF WORK?
-What is the relationship between the title and the objects presented in the frame?
-What may be the connection between the image/photograph and one of the IB
Global Issues?

2. Think: (Perform a technical analysis to draw inferences) - Visual Effect of the


photograph including discussion on:

● foreground/Background/ Negative space


● centers of interest; elements of reading reinforcement
● attributes/ light/ colors
● harmony and balance of forms
● the framing/ the composition
● camera angle/ shot and their implications
● depth of focus- If the main subject is in focus but the foreground and the
background are blurred, the photo is said to have a shallow depth of field; if
most of the photo is in focus, including the foreground and the background,
the photo is said to have a deep depth of field.

3. Contextualize the photograph and BODY OF WORK in a narrative way with all the
elements that are apparent in the photograph

● the environmental context in which the photograph was taken


● the personal history of the photographer
● the artistic and technical context of photography of the time during which the
photograph was taken (context of production for the image)

4. Wonder: Interpret the photograph in the light of your personal feelings

● What is the symbolism used?


● What imagery is used?
● How does the photograph/image tell a story?

Photographs to be studied: (Select one only)

1. Steve McCurry
https://www.stevemccurry.com/

2. CNN Photographs of the Ukraine war


-https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2022/05/world/ukraine-war-photographers-cnn
photos/
-https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2022/03/europe/ukraine-war-before-after-photos-t
owns/index.html

3. Nick Ut
http://www.apimages.com/Collection/Landing/Photographer-Nick-Ut-The-Napalm-Girl
-/ebfc0a860aa946ba9e77eb786d46207e

Class Activity (Formative)

1. Name of the
1. Body of work (5 works) Technical elements (particularly those
photographer/
with their titles; from Point 2 above) and their
Media house;
2. Chosen single image from implications- how do they bring out the
2. Body of Work
the 5 works - with links to global issue? / In what ways do the
(min 5 works on a
the chosen GI; photographs depict commonality? (BOW)
similar theme/GI;
3. Global issue
(Broader Global
Issue plus
“refined”
narrower Global
Issue)

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