Documents from a Documentary Course

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

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A is for...Assemblage:An artistic process in which a three-dimensional artistic composition is made from putting together found objects.

B is for...Bench Art

C is for...Cubism

D is for...Drawing

E is for...Expressionism

F is for...Found Objects

G is for...Graffiti

H is for...Hanging Art

I is for...Instruments

J is for...Jewelry

K is for...Krazy Glue

L is for...Landscapes

M is for...Modern Art

N is for...Negative Space

O is for...Objet d'art:French for “object of art.”

P is for...Painting

Q is for...Quinacridonerose Paint

R is for...Realism

S is for...Sculpture

T is for...Three-Dimensional Art

U is for...UTrecht

V is for...Vehicular Art

W is for...Window Art

X is for...Xylography:Xylography is wood engraving, and the oldest known relief printmaking technique.

Y is for...Yellow Art

Z is for...Zackenstil

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Spruce St, From River to River

For this assignment, we were to pick a street in Center City that stretched from one river to the other. I choose Spruce, and focused mostly on the smaller details of the street that one might miss at first glance. I started the trip at 10:46 am today, and didn't stop until I reached the river at 1:35p,.

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This map outlines every block photographed from river to river on Spruce.
S Front St and Spruce St at 10:49am

S 2nd St and Spruce St at 10:54am

S 3rd St and Spruce St at 11:03am

S 4th St and Spruce St at 11:13am

S 5th St and Spruce St at 11:25am

S 6th St and Spruce St at 11:36am

S 7th St and Spruce St at 11:43am

S 8th St and Spruce St at 11:52am

S 9th St and Spruce St at 11:54am

S 10th St and Spruce St at 12:02pm

S 11th St and Spruce St at 12:07pm

S 12th St and Spruce St at 12:13pm

S 13th St and Spruce St at 12:20pm

S Broad St and Spruce St at 12:28pm

S 15th St and Spruce at 12:37pm

S 16th St and Spruce St at 12:40pm

S 17th St and Spruce St at 12:51pm

S 18th St and Spruce St at 12:56pm

S 19th St and Spruce St at 1:02pm

S 20th St and Spruce St at 1:13pm

S 21st St and Spruce St at 1:18pm

S 22nd St and Spruce St at 1:23pm

S 23rd St and Spruce St at 1:30pm

S 24th St and Spruce St at 1:35pm

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Suggestions for the World...

For this assignment, I had to complete 12 portraits of people around the art museum area. I wanted to get a little more out of them than just a picture and their basic info, so I decided to set up a suggestion box for the world to see how people responded. I set it up for a while at the top of the museum's steps, and then went to the bottom also to look for suggestions. People answered the questions I gave them, and then I snapped a quick pic of them. These are the suggestions for the world I got, and the people that gave them to me...

Stacey is the one on the left, she wanted to be photographed with her friends.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Rephotographing South Philadelphia

The goal of this project is essentially to visually chart some of the changes that South Street has undergone over the past century. By attempting to capture the scene and dimensions of the original photograph, it is possible to see some of the modifications time has left imprinted on South Street.

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This map pinpoints the ten places on and around South Street that I am rephotographing. Some of the archived and current pictures have more than 80 years of history between them.