To evidence your learning throughout the 2005/5 Open College Course in Creative Digital Photography please answer the following questions Name?

Health and Safety aspects Have you completed the H&S questionnaire? Did you understand the issues involved in Health and Safety both in and out of the darkroom? Did any issues arise from the completion of this document? List any comments you may have on the H&S issue

Photograms What were the photographic principles involved in the making of pictures without a camera? How were these pictures turned into positives? Who is generally credited with the invention of the photogram?

Man Ray When did Man Ray live and where? Where was he born? And where did he live most of his life? Name one of Man Rays models. What is the name of the ‘part negative part positive’ type of print that Man Ray was famous for?

Portraiture We studied several photographers in the first term – what was one of the most characteristic features of most of Snowdons pictures? Who wrote the foreword to Snowdons book ‘Stills 1983 – 1987’?

Karsh Name two of the many famous people Karsh photographed. Where did he have his studio? One average how many pictures did he take of his subjects? What size camera did he use?

Andre Kertesz When and where did Kertesz live? What was the Dadaist nickname for Kertesz?

Jack Hulme Where di he live? How was he discovered? What was the title of the best known book of Jack Hulmes work? What sort of camera did JH use in the latter part of his photographic life? What was a typical Jack Hulme picture about?

Jeanloup Sieff Where did he live most of his life? What is the name of his photographer daughter? Where did he work?

Darkroom Name the basic equipment used to produce negatives in the darkroom. What type of film can be processed in Colour chemistry but yields B&W negatives? Name the three chemical solutions used in developing film.

Darkroom What are the two areas of the darkroom known as? What controls the exposure of the print? How long should a print be developed for? What is the stop bath for? Why does the darkroom have complicated entrance?

Exposure What two factors control exposure? What is an aperture? Which aperture is physically larger f/4 or f/8 If you make the print larger what happens to the correct exposure?

Linda McCartney Which group was Linda photographing when she found that her work was in demand? Which magazine did Linda work for in the 60’s? How many children did she and Paul have?

Street Photography - Project What was the ethos behind the street photography project? How did you understand the brief? What did you do to try to fulfil the brief? How would you assess your pictures from this project? What would you do differently if you had to undertake the project again?

Henri Cartier-Bresson Complete the phrase … Master of the divine …….’? What is the name of the photo agency that HCB helped form? Why have HCBs pictures got black borders? Why is he the greatest photographer who ever lived? (in a few words)

David Hockney Where was he born? Where does he live now? What does he call the multiple pictures he took in the 80’s? What was the title of the last picture he took with this technique?

Joiners - Project What does photographing something several times allow you to do? In deciding what size to make the individual pictures what do you need to take into consideration? What focal length of lens is better for this kind of photography?

Which of the following four pictures are by which famous photographer? Give a brief comment on the picture. Choose from –Henri Cartier-Bresson –Andres Kertesz –Karsh –Man Ray

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Picture 4

Composition Explain the rule of thirds? What is the phenomenon of colours becoming bluer the further away they are from the viewer? What time of day is the best to photograph landscapes?

Martin Parr Where did MP do much of his teaching? What word describes MP’s style of photography? Nowhere is the decay of the UK more evident than at ……………..? Complete

The Lomo Camera Where does the Lomo come from? What is the essence of the cult of the Lomo? Would you use one and why?

Details project What was the ethos behind the Details project? How did you understand the brief? What did you do to try to fulfil the brief? How would you assess your pictures from this project? What would you do differently if you had to undertake the project again?

Willi Ronis Where did Willi take most of his pictures? Who were some of Willi’s contemporaries in his home city? What style of photography did he employ?

Symmetry – mini project How did we investigate symmetry? Which face (classically) exhibits more beauty? When taking pictures for this project what angle had the face to be photographed from?

Donald McCullin Which war was McCullin’s war? McCullins early pictures for the Sunday Magazines were predominantly about what? What is DM photographing now?

Folios What criteria did you employ when selecting pictures for your folio? If you could go out and photograph anything else to include in your folio what would it be? Which pictures in your folio are your favourites and why? Which pictures do you least like and why?

Additional tasks Will you go though your workbook handouts and differentiate between the ones given to you by the Tutor and the ones produced by yourself. I have to undertake a critique of your work before it is handed in for moderation – I will let you have a copy of these documents Folios will have to be ready for 10 th July 2006.