Biography Choices

Technology
Williard Boyle
Abel Niépce de Saint-Victor
Charles P. Ginsburg
Dr. Richard Maddox
Edwin Landis
Fredrick Scott Archer
George Eastman
George Smith
Harold E. Edgerton
John Mullin
Louis Daguerre
Nicephore Niépce
William Henry Fox Talbot

Artist Photographers
Alfred Steiglitz
Annie Leibowitz
Ansel Adams
Baron Adolph De Meyer
Charles Sheeler
David Hockney
Edward Weston
Imogen Cunningham
Jerry Uelsemann
Julia Margaret Cameron
Man Ray
Norman Parkinson
Sandy Skoglund
Willard Van Dyke
William Wegman

Photojournalists
Charles Hoff
Charles Moore
David Douglas Duncan
Dorothea Lange
Eddie Adams
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Joe Rosenthal
Larry Burrows
Lewis Hine
Margaret Bourke-White
Matthew Brady
Nat Fein
Paul Vathis
Robert Capa
Timothy O’Sullivan

Digital Photography students will research and report on the life and work of an important photographer or inventor who influenced photography. The list above offers a variety of people to choose from.

Papers should follow the Boyer Valley Community School Research Paper Guidelines style book. I have several copies in the Art Room. This is essentially the Modern Language Association's format.

Please use at least 3 sources and do not have any of them be Wikipedia or just "Google."
I highly recommend that at least one of your 3 sources be an actual book or periodical.

DP students should try to find 3 to 5 examples of the photographer's work online, and save JPEGs to your sub folder in the Photography folder on the server.

Be careful when doing image-searches online, some photographs may show gratuitous violence or illicit sexuality- I am not encouraging you to look for pictures that may be disturbing or inappropriate for school or for minors, I want you to be able to see examples of the works of these photographers, but you should beware that these photographers' subjects may include "sex, politics, and religion," tragedy, comedy, sports, war, and celebrities... in other words, expect to find the unexpected. Also, expect to be frustrated by our schools and the AEA's content filters.

Students will have until Friday, March 21 to turn in their first drafts. Final drafts will be due March 28. Digital Photography papers should be 3-5 pages in length.


Take a closer look at a PDF example

Some of my Ceramics students last semester have had a rough time trying to get their research papers formated correctly. Remember to refer to a copy of the BVCS Research Paper Guidelines handbook (available in the office or from your English teachers). But when in doubt, the JPEG above, or the link to the PDF will show you how it should look.