Is photograph art?

1. PHOTOGRAPH AS ART
click! photography changes everything

3. Pop quiz #1.
Choose the professionals photograph.

4. Were you right?
What made you choose correctly or
incorrectly?

5. Pop quiz #2.
Choose the professional's photograph.

6. How did you decide? What
parameters did you analyze?

7. Pop quiz #3. Last chance.
Choose the professional's photograph.

8. Did you select because it was
pretty?

9. First lets think about, What is art?

10. First lets think about, What is art?
• Art is not, decoration, or scrapbooking, color
matching or decorating.
• Arts value derives of transmitting an idea of social,
cultural and political context. So all aspects of life
reflect to and from it.
• Art can be analyzed by any person with the use and
understanding of the elements and principles of art
and design.

11. • These are the basic elements that are used in
creating and analyzing works of art; and
composition.
• 1. Line
• 2. Shape
• 3. Color
• 4. Value
• 5. Texture
• 6. Form
• 7. Space
Identifying the Elements of Art.
• The elements of art are a commonly used
group of aspects of a work of art in teaching
and analysis, in combination with the principles
of art.

12. • These are the standards or rules to be observed by
artists in creating works of art or to create a good
composition.
• 1. Unity (Harmony)
• 2. Variety
• 3. Emphasis (Focal Point)
• 4. Balance / Radial
Balance
• 5. Movement
• 6. Rhythm
• 7. Proportion
Identifying the Principles of Design.
• The principles of Design unify the different parts
and give the work visual order. The elements
and principles are always used in combination
and therefore work together to create a
composition with good design.

13. TOK question
Is digital photography art?

14. TOK question
Is digital photography art?

15. TOK question
Is digital photography art?
• The question is actually
referring to new
technology in picture
taking.
• Computer programs like
photoshop aid the art
process.
• Are the pictures in your cell
phone Art?
• Do you consider yourself
an artist for what your
digital camera does?

16. But, Is Cell Phone Photography
considered Art?

17. But, Is Cell Phone Photography
considered Art?
• Can Cell Phones create
art?
• It depends on the
person's intent of
communication and
artistic view.

18. • Twitter
• Foursquare
• Facebook
• Kinotopic
• iPhoto
• Instagram
Amateur picture programs and
social Media Apps

19. Armature pictures
INSTAGRAM
Instagram is a free photo
sharing program that was
launched in October 2010.
The service allows users to
take a photo, apply a digital
filter to it and then share it
on a variety of social
networking services,
including Instagram's own.
A distinctive feature is that it
confines photos to a square
shape, similar to Kodak
Instamatic and Polaroid
images, in contrast to the
4:3 aspect ratio typically

20. Armature pictures
INSTAGRAM

21. • TOK
questions?

22. • How are historical portraits different from
todays Facebook face pics?
• TOK
questions?

23. • How are historical portraits different from
todays Facebook face pics?
• TOK
questions?
• Your Facebook face pic, depicts ho you
are.

24. Cinemagrams
App Kinotopic, Echograph, Giffer

25. Cinemagrams
App Kinotopic, Echograph, Giffer

26. Cinemagrams

27. • TOK
questions?
• How do Social Media, uses of photography,
mold our life and why?

28. • TOK
questions?
• How do Social Media, uses of photography,
mold our life and why?

29. • TOK
questions?
I'm a PC and I'm 4 and a half. Microsoft add.
• Who are these, photographers, or
photo journalists, who write our history
now?

30. I'm a PC and I'm 4 and a half. Microsoft add.

31. • We are... All of
us...
• Thank
you.
• TOK
questions?
• Who are these, photographers, or
photo journalists, who write our history
now?

32. • Kinotopic
be
creative...
Your Assignment.