ST PETER’S SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHY PLANNING 2013/14: Year 11/12 Term 1
TERM 1A
YR 11/12: THE PHOTOGRAPH AS DOCUMENT: PORTRAITS
Use of Media
Key
Objectives
Media /
Practical
Skills
Idea Development
Knowledge/
understanding
Key
Learning
Concepts
Potential
outcomes
PSHE/Spirit
/Cultural
Personal learning skills
Vocational
Habits of
Mind
Habits of
Mind:
Notes
References
Vocabulary
Artists
NOTES:
PLC /
TRACKING
Recap ‘foundation’ knowledge: Visual Elements, Composition, Responsibilities, Independent Learning.
Understanding and exploring Photography genres, styles & purposes, from past to present.
Understanding the (changing) role of the portrait.
Understanding roles / relationships of photography and art.
Producing:
 Darkroom: Pinhole images / portraits, photograms, film developing, contact sheets,
printing.
 Studio / lighting: Range of outcomes exploring camera settings / Visual Elements &
Composition / lighting techniques.
 Introductory experiments using Photoshop exploring post-production work
 Tactile / surface manipulating of photos : Markmaking - Collage, ink etc.
 Introduction to Film: documenting progress, filming and editing techniques
Understanding:
 Basic concepts & vocabulary: Visual Elements, composition / compositional
considerations / responsibilities / independent learning & Habits of Mind Skills
 Technical Understanding: shutter speed, aperture, developing processes, resolution,
focus, DOF, white balance, ISO, comparable digital manipulations
 History / role of portraits as ‘evidence’: Anthropological, legal, medical, education
 Distinctions between ‘Objective’ and ‘subjective’ photography and different genres
such as Fieldwork studies and Documentary approaches.
 And Questioning the ‘Selfie’: Self – portraiture, personal expression and obsessions /
issues relating to online identities
 The history / role of ‘family snapshot’ – portraits and family history
 How Physical interventions / surface manipulations alter
Developing personal responses / extension work from:
 Pinhole portraits and Studio portraits
 Fieldwork Studies (classifications / thematic approaches, framing, consistencies,
dealing with people)
 Personal explorations: family portraits / ‘selfies’ (Documentary approaches)
 Constructed and manipulated (self) portraits
 Documentary film work
Reflecting on:

Society, lives of others, personal relationships, self, contemporary issues
 Vocational experiences: Dealing with models, studio lighting, insights into different
roles for photography
BEING: INQUISITIVE
IMAGINATIVE
BEING: COLLABORATIVE
PERSISTENT
BEING: DISCIPLINED
Demonstrating:
 Higher order questioning and researching skills, independent working, self initiated
research, personal curiosity
 Time management. Developing strong foundations of understanding
Stephen Bull: Photography Chapters 6 (and parts of 5)
Photography Changes…How Cultural Groups are represented Pg 137
How family history is constructed Pg 238
Photography A Cultural History pg 455 - 459
Exposure, aperture, shutter speed, focal point, DOF, white balance. Document, evidence, objectivity,
subjectivity, Enlightenment – era, positivism, genre, anthropology, colonialism, surveillance, snapshot
Daguerre, Fox Talbot, Alphonse Bertillon (19th C police photographer) Francis Galton (eugenicist), Dr
Hugh Diamond (1850’s inmates of Surrey County Asylum), JH Lamprey & TH Huxley, Jacob Riis, Lewis
Hine, FSA commissions – Walker Evans, Dorethea Lange, JR, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Thomas Ruff (New
Objectivity) Stephen Gill, Nan Goldin, Richard Billingham, Sally Mann, Larry Sultan, Gillian Wearing