Identity Portrait Project Assignment 8

ART 170
South Seattle Community College
Assignment 8
Identity Portrait Project
due Wednesday November 10th
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapa Definition of Hapa
http://www.seaweedproductions.com/hapa/default.htm Hapa Project

Part Asian, 100% Hapa /
Title: Part Asian, 100% Hapa / portraits by Kip Fulbeck ; foreword by Sean Lennon ; afterword by Paul Spickard.
Main Author: Fulbeck, Kip.
Subjects:
Racially mixed people--United States--Portraits.
Racially mixed people--United States--Biography--Miscellanea.
Racially mixed people--Race identity--United States--Miscellanea.
Asian Americans--Portraits.
Asian Americans--Biography--Miscellanea.
Pacific Islander Americans--Portraits.
Pacific Islander Americans--Biography--Miscellanea.
• Publisher:
San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 2006
Questionnaire
For much of the rest of the quarter we will be working on a portrait project, which is a response to the “Hapa Project”. You might have a look at the 3 books that I have on reserve in the Library featuring the work of Edward Curtis, Annie Leibovitz, and Kip Fulbeck.
Consider the following parameters adding comments as appropriate
I. Subjects
A. Students? All ethnic backgrounds? How do we ensure diverse subjects?
B. Other issues of identity? Sexual orientation, social class, religion, occupation, age?
II. What role will text play?
A. Are there questions we would like the subjects to respond to?

III. My advanced student Elena Tarassova and I have pretty much settled on black-and-white
Film-based portraits using medium format film and a Hasselblad camera.

IV. Standard pose a la “Hapa…”?
V. Clothing?
VI. Background?
VII. Props?
VIII. Lighting?
IX. Print size?
X. What role do you wish to perform (Assignment 9):
A. Pose?
B. Recruite?
C. Take the photo?
D. Assist the photographer
E. Develop the film?
F. Print the photographs?