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GCSE ART & DESIGN (PHOTOGRAPHY: LENS-BASED AND LIGHT-BASED MEDIA) UNIT 2 EXTERNALLY SET TASK (EXAM) 2014

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GCSE ART & DESIGN(PHOTOGRAPHY: LENS-BASED AND

LIGHT-BASED MEDIA)

UNIT 2

EXTERNALLY SET TASK(EXAM)

2014

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Time allowed: Preparation time + 10 hour exam (Controlled Conditions)

Instructions•Read the paper carefully. Before you start work, make sure you understand all the information.•Respond to one question and produce a personal response.•You have a preparatory period to research, investigate and develop your ideas. Your work duringthis period could be in sketchbooks, journals, blogs, PowerPoints or any other appropriate form ofpreparation.•You are allowed ten hours to produce your personal response outcome(s).•The work submitted for this examination must be your own unaided work.•You must hand in your personal response outcome(s) and the preparatory work at the end of the examination.

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Information•Your work will be marked out of 80.• All your work, including the work done during the preparatory period, will be marked.

Advice• You should discuss your ideas with your teacher before deciding on your starting point.• You should make sure that any materials or equipment which you might need are available before you start the examination sessions.•You may take all your preparatory work into the examination sessions.• You should, when developing your personal response, make appropriate connections with othersources such as the work of photographers, artists, craftspeople and/or designers.•You may work on further supporting studies (between controlled conditions sessions) until you have completed your personal responseoutcome(s).•You may use any appropriate photographic medium, method(s) and materials, unless the questionstates otherwise.

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Your work will be marked according to how well you have shown evidence of:

AO1 Developing ideas through investigations informed

by contextual and other sources, demonstrating analytical and cultural understanding

AO2 Refining ideas through experimenting and selecting

appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes

AO3 Recording ideas, observations and insights

relevant to your intentions in visual and/or other forms

AO4 Presenting a personal, informed and meaningful

response demonstrating analytical and critical understanding, realising intentions and, where appropriate, making connections between visual, written, oral or other elements.

AssessmentObjectives

These are equally weighted

And are worth 25% each.

The whole of the exam is worth

40% of your final mark.

Select 1 of the following

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1. OPENINGS

Openings such as doors and windows are important parts of the composition in some of the photographic work of Lee

Friedlander and Andreas Gursky. Dragan Todrovic often uses the light that comes through doors or windows, to

emphasise a subject or to create a silhouette.

Research appropriate sources and produce your own work in which openings play an important part.

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Andreas Gursky

Paris, Montparnasse, 1993White Cube

Hong Kong Shanghai Bank 1994 C-print 220 x 170 cm    86½ x 67"

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2. DISGUISE

Inge Morath collaborated with the artist Saul Steinberg to produce a series of photographs in a book called ‘Masquerade’.

These were based upon people wearing masks which had facial expressions drawn on them. Richard Burbridge has

produced portraits for fashion magazines in which the model wears a surreal mask, often made from found materials. Photo

manipulation using digital software can be used to alter features or to add to a person’s appearance or identity.

Investigate relevant sources and create your own portraits which disguise or add to the appearance of the sitter.

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Inge Morath & Saul Steinberg

USA. Untitled. (from the Mask Series with Saul Steinberg), 1959.

Photograph by Inge Morath

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3. FUTURISM

Artists of the Futurist Movement sometimes used photography and film making to celebrate the energy, speed

of change, technological advances and the power of machinery in the early 20th C.

Research appropriate sources and produce work in response to one of the following:

a) Working with today’s technology

b) What a wonderful world

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Futurist Imagery

Portrait of Marinetti’, Tato (date unknown)

Polyphysiognomical Portrait of Umberto Bocciono’,Anton and Arturo Bragaglia (1913)

Typist’, Anton and Arturo Bragaglia (1911)

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Natalya Goncharova, The Cyclist (1913)

Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (1913)

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4. EDGES

Laura Letinsky uses the edges of objects such as tables and shelves and the line where one colour meets another

as important features of the composition of her still-life photographs. Jed Devine and Jan Groover use similar

compositional devices in their work. Lines formed by the edges of parts of buildings, shadows and silhouettes are an

important part of the composition in the photographs and photograms of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy.

Research appropriate sources and produce your own work where edges are an important part of the composition.

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Laura Letinsky

Untitled, #3, Hardly More Than Ever series, 1997 | Images courtesy of Yancey Richardson Gallery

Interview with Laura Letinsky

Laura Letinsky's photo for an article on fruit gelatin desserts in Martha Stewart Living.

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Untitled #23, 2009Chromogenic Print

After All

Untitled #34, 2001Chromogenic Print

After All

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5. STREET PHOTOGRAPHY

The London Festival of Photography defines Street Photography as, ‘ …un-posed, un-staged, photography

which captures, explores or questions contemporary society and the relationships between individuals and their

surroundings.’ It has been suggested that Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank, amongst others, are Fathers of

Street Photography.

Research Street Photography and produce work based on your observations of individuals and their surroundings.

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6. TEXTURE

PES (real name Adam Pesapane) is an animator and director who uses the distinctive textures and colours of

objects and materials in his stop-frame animations. In the animation ‘Western Spaghetti’, bubble wrap is used to

represent boiling water and silver foil to represent cooking oil. Photographers such as Ansel Adams and Edward

Weston have sometimes used close focus techniques to explore textures in the landscape and natural forms.

Study relevant sources and produce your own work inspired by Texture

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7. FRAGMENTS

You should make connections with appropriate selected sources when developing your personal response to one of the following

suggestions.

a) Develop your own interpretation of the starting point Fragments

b) You could make a poster by combining fragments of photographic images with fragments of lettering

c) You might develop ideas by looking at the qualities of texture in fragments of rocks, wood or peeling paint.

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Webology & Resources Friedlander Dragan Todorovic Inge Morath

& Saul Steinberg Richard Burbridge About Futurism Jan Groover Jed Devine Ansel Adams Edward Weston

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