Based on the photograph from class, here are some ideas on how to use the photo creatively.
1. Using photography to explore obscurity and abstraction; taking a space we see everyday and reinventing it by exploring different camera views, zooming in, or even zooming out. Questions could be, what is the space and object usually for? How might you change its purpose through a photograph? Alter its meaning and function?
2. Telephone booth as a space. This could be a collaborative group project where students are asked to reinvent the space knowing they must keep the structure of the telephone booth. In an imaginary scenario, students would be brainstorming and designing a new function for old telephone booths in a public space - what could it be used for? What could you add to it? remove? repurpose?
3. Cut-up: using previous photographs and cutting them up to create new, refracted images; self-portraiture could be interesting. Students could take photos of themselves and divide them up and intersperse within those images textures, colors, objects, etc. that reflect an aspect of themselves (or several aspects).
4.Surfaces: using photography to explore textures that are physical (foliage, material-based) versus those that are visual (2D prints, text, etc); could also use collage as a physical exploration.
1. Using photography to explore obscurity and abstraction; taking a space we see everyday and reinventing it by exploring different camera views, zooming in, or even zooming out. Questions could be, what is the space and object usually for? How might you change its purpose through a photograph? Alter its meaning and function?
2. Telephone booth as a space. This could be a collaborative group project where students are asked to reinvent the space knowing they must keep the structure of the telephone booth. In an imaginary scenario, students would be brainstorming and designing a new function for old telephone booths in a public space - what could it be used for? What could you add to it? remove? repurpose?
3. Cut-up: using previous photographs and cutting them up to create new, refracted images; self-portraiture could be interesting. Students could take photos of themselves and divide them up and intersperse within those images textures, colors, objects, etc. that reflect an aspect of themselves (or several aspects).
4.Surfaces: using photography to explore textures that are physical (foliage, material-based) versus those that are visual (2D prints, text, etc); could also use collage as a physical exploration.
