A3 Contextual Investigation

A3: Contextual Investigation

Irving Penn: Poppy, 1968

A3: Contextual Investigation

What are the ‘Origins’ and ‘Purposes’ of Macro Photography, and how do contemporary photographers follow these ‘origins’ and ‘purposes?’

- Produce a written assignment that explains the ‘Origins’ and ‘Purposes’ of Macro Photography as a subject genre, and how they are practiced by contemporary photographers.

A3: Contextual Investigation

Guidance: ●

SIZE: 1000(min) to 3000(max) words.

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STRUCTURE: Must include an introduction, main body of text, critique, opinion, facts and examples of work. A title page, list of contents, glossary, bibliography and conclusion are also required.

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RELEVANCE: The core subject must include strong reference/ links and connections to a Photographer, or Photographers that use Macro Photography as subject matter for their work.

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PRESENTATION: This assignment must be typed using a word processor, and printed out on A4 paper, collated and stapled. Colour copies (for images) is not essential, but, desirable. Your full name, class name, student ID and date must be included on all pages.

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TIME: When you receive the deadline for this assignment, ensure that you submit your work on/in time.

A3: Contextual Investigation Support/ suggestions: Research - Explore and discover Photographers throughout history that used the genre of Macro Photography within their own work. Go to a library, visit galleries, museums, use the WWW. Be specific - Choose ONE photographer to focus your work on during the initial writing. Provide facts, opinions and critique (yours and others) about the photographer and their work.

Make connections - Using your chosen photographer and their work as the starting point, provide links and connections to other photographers that worked in a similar way, or used similar subject matter for their work. Explain your links/ connections. What do the photographers have in common? What do they do that is the same/ similar? What are the differences? Why did the photographers use ‘Macro Photography’ in their work? What were/ are they trying to say? Any/ all references used/ sourced from websites/ books etc must be referenced, or ideally hyperlinked back to the original sources.

Include examples of photographs - Try to use examples of photographs created by the photographers that you use for your assignment. Explain these works of art, critique them using your own opinion and the opinion of others. Provide arguments for and against meanings/ reasons for the photographs. Explain how the photographs were made. What techniques were used? Why did the photographer use the techniques they did? How was the work presented?

Where can this work be seen in person (RL) and/ or via the web. All images used must include a reference to where they were sourced. If you find images using a search engine, you must include the actual website of the work, not the search engine name/ search url.

Conclude your work/ assignment - Include a conclusion that ‘wraps-up’ your work and brings everything together. As a general guide your conclusion should be approximately 1qtr of the entire content of the assignment. Make references back to your main body of text, photographers that you wrote about, examples of work that you included. Try to include/ explain or reinforce the original question: What are the ‘Origins’ and ‘Purposes’ of Macro Photography and how do contemporary photographers follow these origins and purposes?

Glossary - For this section of your work, try to include as many ‘keywords’ or ‘unique’ words in the form of a list, including your understanding/ knowledge of these words.

Bibliography - For this section of your work, list all/ any sources. Images, text, opinions, facts and quotes. You need to explain where you obtained your information from.

A3: Contextual Investigation Do you have a smart phone?

If so you can use the camera on your phone to access online resources to help you with this assignment.

All you need is a QR code reader app, point your phone web browser to one of readers below: ● ● ● ● ●

http://reader.kaywa.com http://get.beetagg.com http://www.quickmark.com.tw/En/basic/download.asp http://europe.nokia.com/support/product-support/nokia-n80/phone-software/smartphone For iPhone users. Go to iTunes and search for: QR Code reader

Once you have a reader/ app on your smart phone. Simply take a quick snap of the code(s) below, and you will be redirected to the required resource, directly on your phone.

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