Sunday, May 15, 2016

Assignment 10
African American Photography
Due May 25th
1. Gordon Parks  “Half Past Autumn: The Life and Art of Gordon Parks”  (12 minutes)
Through Films on Demand
     What does Parks mean when he chooses photography as his weapon?
How does he explain is work as a fashion photographer?
I 2.  In Kanopy through South Seattle College Library:
Carrie Mae Weems, Photographer/Artist
What does Weems do as a photographer?

3.  Find a photography by a Farm Securtiy Administration photographer  such as Dorothea Lange   to comment on.



10 bonus points:

Write me a 2 paragraph report on the photography on display at
The Northwest African American Museum
Our exhibition The Atomic Frontier: Black Life in Hanford, WA is extended through May 22, 2016“

Posing Beauty in African American Culture” opened on April 30! A century of photographs by a wide range of image-makers—photojournalists, artists, men, and women that explore beauty and highlight how we see ourselves and are seen by others.

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