Home and IdentityA Mini-Unit

Friday, April 1DO NOW

Describe your home in 3 sentences. You can write about where it is, the spaces in it, or how it makes you feel.

Home and Identity: a mini-unitThis coming Tuesday, at the Addison Gallery, we will look at 2 exhibits:

1. Laurie Simmons: In and Around the House

2. Walls and Beams, Rooms and Dreams: Images of Home

Why This? As artists, we are ready to GO DEEPER. For the past couple of months, you have learned all about the technical and aesthetic aspects of photography. Art is MORE than that. It’s about communicating ideas and telling stories.

You will see how the artists featured at the Addison Gallery do that, and you will do it too.

How can one’s home shape one’s identity: BIG Questions

What do we consider “home”?

Is home a place?

Is home where you live now or where you are

from?

Is home a person or group of

people?

Can we feel at home no matter where we are?

How can one’s home shape one’s identity: DEEP Questions

What spaces in our homes are special, meaningful, bring us peace- our OURS?

or

What spaces in our homes are sad, scary, lonely, bring us challenges?

Ultimately, you’ll explore:How can one’s home shape one’s identity?

Of course, we’ll be doing this through photography.

How have other photographers done this?

In class today, you’ll be using the chrome books to complete a WebQuest (a guided internet search) to explore how other photographers made pictures in their or other people’s homes.

For each webpage you explore, you will answer some guiding questions. This is located on the back of today’s handout.

Here’s how to do this:1. Look on page 2 of your handout for a url

which will bring you to an online version of this slideshow.

2. Advance to slide 10, where you will begin your WebQuest.

---click on the hyperlinks to go to webpages. ---answer the questions in your guided notes sheet

William Eggleston William Eggleston is considered the

“Father of Color Photography” because of his saturated color images from the mid-20th Century (1960’s +).

Look at his images on the next slide and answer the questions about his work on your handout.

William Eggelston Click below to learn more about

William Eggelston.

William Eggelston Influences

Robert Polidori Robert Polidori photographed houses

in New Orleans in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina.

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2006/09/21/arts/20060922_FLOO_SLIDESHOW_5.html

Mary Ellen Mark Look at the first image in this article

about Photo-journalist, Mary Ellen Mark.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/mary-ellen-mark/

James Mollison In his Where Children Sleep series,

Mollison explores children’s rooms from around the world.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/08/where-children-sleep-a-round-the-world-tour-of-bedrooms/243303/