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How to research a photographer.
To research a photographer and his/her work. Review the list of suggested photographers, choose one. Once decided, there are many websites you can use to help with your research. Start with searching for the photographers own website or the website of their archive collection or museum or gallery the holds their archive. Try a Google image search, but be careful to check the source of the images you find as often Google throws up images similar to or inspired by the artist you are searching for.
The introduction will explain your reason for selecting this photographer. In bullets & phrases cover at least 7 of the following:
- Full name of individual
- Date and place of birth & indicate years of life (and if still living)
- How influenced-by others in field of photography
- How influenced-by circumstances in life
- Awards, fellowships, grants, etc. (explain nature of award)
- Typical subject matter of photographs made by this artist
- What this artist is trying/ tried to communicate
- Typical style of work
- Geographic places this photographer shot
- Significant contribution(s) to photography (or the art world)
- What they themselves said/say about their work (quotes OK)
- What others have said about the work
Also, you will need to list at least 3 sources you used for research. Please do so in the following manner: (print source: title, year of copyright, author, publisher / electronic source: address [complete http], title, author, copyright year)
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Photographer Spotlight
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Vivian MaierVivian Dorothy Maier (February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009) was an American street photographer. Maier worked for about forty years as a nanny, mostly in Chicago's North Shore, pursuing photography during her spare time. She took more than 150,000 photographs during her lifetime, primarily of the people and architecture of New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles, although she also traveled and photographed worldwide.[1]
During her lifetime, Maier's photographs were unknown and unpublished, and she never printed many of her negatives. A Chicago collector, John Maloof, acquired some of Maier's photos in 2007, while two other Chicago-based collectors, Ron Slattery and Randy Prow, also found some of Maier's prints and negatives in her boxes and suitcases around the same time. Maier's photographs were first published on the Internet in July 2008, by Slattery, but the work received little response.[2] In October 2009, Maloof linked his blog to a selection of Maier's photographs on the image-sharing website Flickr, and the results went "viral", with thousands of people expressing interest. Critical acclaim and interest in Maier's work quickly followed,[3][4] and since then, Maier's photographs have been exhibited in North America, Europe, Asia[5] and South America [6] while her life and work have been the subject of books and documentary films. Find out more http://www.vivianmaier.com |
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