The document discusses what makes a good photograph and provides examples from iconic photographers throughout history. It asks the reader to analyze the examples in terms of composition, subject matter, use of light and focus, as well as the overall mood created. The reader is then asked to select two photographs, one each from two different photographers on the list, and provide brief notes analyzing the images based on subject, composition, light, focus and mood.

1. What makes a good photograph?

3. The Terminal , 1892 Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864–1946)

4. Edward Weston Pepper No. 30 1930

5. Ansel Adams Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico 1941

6. Louis Jacques Daguerre, Paris Boulevard 1839

7. Imogen Cunningham Agave Design 2 1920

8. BRANDT, Bill Halifax 1937

9. Eugene Atget Avenue des Gobelins c.1926

10. Robert Mapplethorpe, Ken Moody and Robert Sherman , 1984

11. Iriving Penn Rhythm (c.1950?)