PGY2442C Figure/Ground
Austin Reeves
Areeves@ufl.edu
Handed Out: 2/17/11
Contact Sheets Due: 2/24/11
Blog Post Due: 3/3/11
Critique: 3/15/11

Assignment 3
Deconstruct-Reconstruct

In chapter 18 of The Photography Reader, we touched upon the subject of appropriation with photographers such as Richard Prince, Louis Lawler, and Sherrie Levine, as one genre of postmodern photography. Chapter 17 delves further into the topic of postmodern photography specifically highlighting the work of Barbara Kruger, Richard Prince, Vikky Alexander, Silvia Kolbowski, and Sherrie Levine. For your third assignment, you are to reconstruct 3 photographs or photographic images (art or news related) and alter them in some way. This could be through changing the scale of objects, altering the figure/ground relationship, moving objects around or switching subjects, or even combining two different images of one event into one photograph. How you go about altering the image is your choice. For the critique you will choose the best of the three prints. Some things to keep in mind: What does it mean to take a photograph? Or to make a photograph? Is an image less important/meaningful if it is based directly from a well known work of art? Do both artists deserve to be credited for the final product?

Due on 3/15/11: 3 contact sheets
1 artist statement
1 print on fiber paper
MUST BE SHOT IN BLACK AND WHITE FILM AND MUST BE A PRINT FROM THE WET LAB!!! SIZE OF FILM IS UP TO YOU.