Introduction to Darkroom Photography

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INTRODUCTION TO DARKROOM PHOTOGRAPHY Description: This course in black and white photography is designed for beginning photographers who want to learn how to use a 35mm camera, develop film, and print pictures. This course includes light control, exposure, Depth of field, action, and composition. 35mm SLR cameras are highly recommended for this course. Instamatic, automatic cameras, digital cameras and camera phones are not acceptable. The school provides chemicals for processing and printing. This course requires a Lab fee.

COURSE OVERVIEW Course Goals Artistic Processes Course Skill Objectives Students will be able to: Students will: • Create ● Identify the film process, ● Use the techniques being • Present darkroom developing and using taught, developing a photo, an entirely manual 35 mm film • Respond dodge/burn, filters, double camera exposure and other unique • Connect ● Recognize the use of light and methods to create an entirely time and how they relate to one Anchor Standards exciting another ● Use a variety of tools and ● Understand the use of Anchor Standard #1. Generate and techniques to successfully composition in order to create a conceptualize artistic ideas and work. create a darkroom photograph dynamic and exciting scene Anchor Standard #2. Organize and ● Be able to think critically about develop artistic ideas and work. their own and others’ work Anchor Standard #3. Refine and complete artistic work.

Anchor Standard #4. Select, analyze and

interpret artistic work for presentation. Anchor Standard #5. Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

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Anchor Standard #6. Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work

Anchor Standard #7. Perceive and analyze artistic work. Anchor Standard #8. Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work. Anchor Standard #9. Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work. Anchor Standard #10. Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art. Anchor Standard #11. Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural and historical context to deepen understanding.

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Units Essential Questions Sample Assessments

Unit 1 - Camera Function ● Take light meter reading off of ● What makes a good subject while manipulating F- Unit 2 - Darkroom Basics photograph? stop and Shutter Speed Unit 3 - Processing Film ● How do artists determine what ● Focus on subject Unit 4 - Observation and Design resources and criteria are ● Load, rewind and unload film Unit 5 - History of Photography needed to formulate artistic ● Change lens investigations? ● Film removal and rewinding ● How do artists and designers ● Processing film learn from trial and error? ● Critiquing Negatives ● How do artists and designers ● Test Strip care for and maintain materials, ● Contact Sheet tools and equipment? ● Photographic Print ● How does making art attune ● Photo grams people to their surroundings? ● Birds Eye Worms Eye ● What role does persistence play ● Letters in Nature in revising, refining, and ● Trickery developing work? ● Action Photos ● What criteria are considered ● Depth of Field Photos when selecting work for ● Photo History Reports presentation, a portfolio, or a ● Group Critiques collection? ● Independent Assessment sheets ● How do artists and designers ● View and critique relevant create works of art or design films and videos about that effectively communicate? photography ● How do images influence our ● Mid- term, Final Exams and views of the world? quizzes ● How can the viewer "read" a work of art as text? ● How does art help us understand the lives of people of different times, places, and cultures?

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Pacing Guide for Darkroom 1st Marking Period 2nd Marking Period

Month 1 Month 2 Month 3 Month 4 Month 5

Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3 Unit 4, 5, 6, 7, etc. Observation & Design Camera Function Darkroom Basics Processing Film Lesson Plans: Learning the “Free Shoot Project” Birds Eye/Worms Eye, Portraits, Letters in Nature, 1 week Darkroom and Action, Silhouettes, Trick, Depth of Field, Free Shoot, Photograms Narrative Project

1 week 1 week 17 weeks - 2 weeks per project

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Unit 1 – Camera Function Unit Objectives Skill Objectives Students will be able to: Students will:

• Understand the modes and functions of the camera • Students will be able to identify and understand the light meter • Explore the history of the camera and traditional of a film camera photography • Students will understand the shutter speed and f-stops and • Identify good composition using the viewfinder other manual camera controls • Students will learn how to properly focus the camera for exposure • Students will understand how to frame a scene for an interesting composition

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Creating Presenting Responding Connecting Anchor Standard 2: Anchor Standard 5: Anchor Standard 7: Anchor Standard 10: Organize and develop artistic Develop and refine artistic Perceive and analyze artistic Synthesize and relate knowledge ideas and work techniques and work for work. and personal experiences to make presentation. art

Enduring Understandings Enduring Understandings Enduring Understandings Enduring Understandings Artists and designers experiment Artists, curators, and others Individual aesthetic and Through art-making, people make with forms, structures, materials, consider a variety of factors and empathetic awareness developed meaning by investigating and concepts, media, and art-making methods including evolving through engagement with art can developing awareness of approaches. technologies when preparing and lead to understanding and perceptions, knowledge, and refining artwork for display appreciation of self, others, the experiences. Essential Questions and/or when deciding if and how natural world, and constructed How do artists work? How do to preserve and protect it. environments. Essential Questions artists and designers determine How does engaging in creating whether a particular direction in Essential Questions Essential Questions art enrich people’s lives? How their work is effective? How do What methods and processes are How do life experiences influence does making art attune people to artists and designers learn from considered when preparing the way you relate to art? How their surroundings? How do trial and error? artwork for presentation or does learning about art impact people contribute to awareness preservation? How does refining how we perceive the world? and understanding of their lives Process Components artwork affect its meaning to the What can we learn from our and the lives of their communities Investigate/Plan/Make viewer? What criteria are responses to art? through art-making? considered when selecting work Demonstrate understanding of the for presentation, a portfolio, or a Process Components Process Components importance of balancing freedom collection? Analyze, Select, Share Synthesize, Relate and responsibility in the use of images, materials, tools, and Process Components Analyze how one’s understanding Utilize inquiry methods of equipment in the creation and Perceive, Analyze and Interpret of the world is affected by observation, research, and circulation of creative work. experiencing visual imagery. experimentation to explore Investigate, compare, and contrast unfamiliar subjects through art- methods for preserving and making. protecting art.

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Sample Performance Assessments Sample Performance Assessments Sample Performance Assessments Sample Performance Assessments

• Take light meter • Critique and display • Discuss how • Students are the reading off of of student’s first lighting affects the photographer for subject while assignment - Free mood and their own life! They manipulating F-stop Shoot composition of your can express a story, and Shutter Speed camera settings feelings and show • Focus on subject • Effect of lighting an event unfold in • Load, rewind and their community unload film • Change lens

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Unit 2 – Darkroom Basics - Photograms Unit Objectives Skill Objectives Students will be able to: Students will:

• Recognize emulsion side of photo paper. • Manipulate enlarger. • Understand the use of enlargers in the photo making • Place negative in negative holder. process. • Place paper in easel. • Understand how light and time work together to • Make a contact sheet, test strip and finished print. make a properly exposed print • Use darkroom equipment and chemicals

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Enduring Understandings Enduring Understandings Enduring Understandings Enduring Understandings Creativity and innovative Artists and other presenters Visual imagery influences Through art-making, people make thinking are essential life skills consider various techniques, understanding of and responses to meaning by investigating and that can be developed methods, venues, and criteria the world developing awareness of when analyzing, selecting, and perceptions, knowledge, and Artists and designers experiment curating objects artifacts, and Essential Questions experiences. with forms, structures, materials, artworks for preservation and How do life experiences concepts, media, and art-making presentation. influence the way you relate to Essential Questions approaches art? How does learning about art How does engaging in creating Essential Questions impact how we perceive the art enrich people's lives? How Essential Questions What methods and processes are world? What can we learn from does making art attune people to What conditions, attitudes, and considered when preparing our responses to art? their surroundings? How do behaviors support creativity and artwork for presentation or What is an image? Where and people contribute to awareness innovative thinking? What factors preservation? How does refining how do we encounter images in and understanding of their lives prevent or encourage people to artwork affect its meaning to the our world? How do images and the lives of their communities take creative risks? How does viewer? What criteria are influence our views of the through art-making? collaboration expand the creative considered when selecting work world? process? for presentation, a portfolio, or a Process Components How do artists work? How do collection? Process Components Synthesize, Relate artists and designers determine Analyze, Select, Share whether a particular direction in Process Components Synthesize knowledge of their work is effective? How do Perceive, Analyze and Interpret Analyze how responses social, cultural, historical, artists and designers learn from to art develop over time and personal life with art- trial and error? based on knowledge of making approaches to Introduction to Darkroom Photography Curriculum DRAFT 2020 9

Process Components Critique, justify, and and experience with art create meaningful works Investigate/Plan/Make present choices in the and life. of art or design. process of analyzing, Analyze differing Appraise the impact of an Choose from a range of selecting, curating, and interpretations of an artist or a group of artists materials and methods of presenting artwork for a artwork or collection of on the beliefs, values, and traditional and specific exhibit or event. works in order to select behaviors of a society. contemporary artistic Investigate, compare, and and defend a plausible practices to plan works of contrast methods for critical analysis. art and design. preserving and protecting Experiment, plan, and art make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.

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• Test Strip • Photography techniques • Photogram or • Art history assignment • Contact Sheet such as photograms, photographic print or presentation of an • Photograms exposing paper to the assigned artist light, and learning how • For example: Ansel the timer and light Adams, Dorothea Lange, (enlarger) work together. Margaret Bourke White Using these photography • Students learn the techniques to their historical relevance of improve quality of work photography in history and understanding of and today artistic methods

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Unit 3 – Processing the Film – Free Shoot Unit Objectives Skill Objectives Students will be able to: Students will:

• Process good quality, print ready negatives • Rewind and remove film from camera. • Research the history of the photographic image • Load film and put into canisters in total darkness. • Choose their own subject matter or choose from a • Process film using developing chemicals. variety: pets, portraits, landscapes, friends or scenes • Dry film using drying cabinet. around town • Cut negatives appropriately to fit in negative sleeve.

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Enduring Understandings Enduring Understandings Enduring Understandings Enduring Understandings Creativity and innovative Artists and other presenters Individual aesthetic and Through art-making, people make thinking are essential life skills consider various techniques, empathetic awareness developed meaning by investigating and that can be developed methods, venues, and criteria through engagement with art can developing awareness of when analyzing, selecting, and lead to understanding and perceptions, knowledge, and Artists and designers experiment curating objects artifacts, and appreciation of self, others, the experiences. with forms, structures, materials, artworks for preservation and natural world, and constructed concepts, media, and art-making presentation. environments. Essential Questions approaches How does engaging in creating Essential Questions Essential Questions art enrich people's lives? How Essential Questions How are artworks cared for and How do life experiences influence does making art attune people to What conditions, attitudes, and by whom? What criteria, the way you relate to art? How their surroundings? How do behaviors support creativity and methods, and processes are used does learning about art impact people contribute to awareness innovative thinking? What factors to select work for preservation or how we perceive the world? What and understanding of their lives prevent or encourage people to presentation? Why do people can we learn from our responses and the lives of their communities take creative risks? How does value objects, artifacts, and to art? through art-making? collaboration expand the creative artworks, and select them for What is an image? Where and process? presentation? how do we encounter images in How do artists work? How do our world? How do images artists and designers determine influence our views of the world? whether a particular direction in their work is effective? How do artists and designers learn from trial and error? Introduction to Darkroom Photography Curriculum DRAFT 2020 12

Process Components Process Components Process Components Process Components Investigate/Plan/Make Perceive, Analyze and Interpret Analyze, Select, Share Synthesize, Relate

Choose from a range of Critique, justify, and Analyze how responses to art Synthesize knowledge of materials and methods of present choices in the develop over time based on social, cultural, historical, traditional and process of analyzing, knowledge of and experience and personal life with art- contemporary artistic selecting, curating, and with art and life. making approaches to practices to plan works of presenting artwork for a create meaningful works art and design. specific exhibit or event. of art or design. Experiment, plan, and Investigate, compare, and Appraise the impact of an make multiple works of contrast methods for artist or a group of artists art and design that preserving and protecting on the beliefs, values, and explore a personally art behaviors of a society. meaningful theme, idea, or concept. Explain how traditional and nontraditional materials may impact human health and the environment and demonstrate safe handling of materials, tools and equipment.

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Sample Performance Assessments Sample Performance Assessments Sample Performance Assessments Sample Performance Assessments

• Film removal and • Developing contact • Class critiques with • Discovering how rewinding sheet and negatives the class as a whole photography has • Processing film for free shoot • Verbal and written emotional content • Final print or two critiques • The artist must look prints of the free • Collaborative for that emotional shoot critiques where content when students evaluate shooting each other’s’ work • Light, composition in smaller groups and subject matter all are important when making art personal

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Unit 4 – Observation & Design Unit Objectives Skill Objectives Students will be able to: Students will:

• Recognize an interesting image. • Use light and value as a compositional element. • Recognize non-traditional subject matter. • Use viewfinder to frame image. • Sample Performance Assessments/Units: • Create images with include emotional content. • 1.) Free Shoot • Take the assignment topics and create an entirely new • 2.) Birds Eye/Worms Eye interpretation that is personal and fun • 3.) Depth of Field • Consideration of light, composition and subject matter are • 4.) Portraits critical for all lessons • 5.) Action • Experiment with various subject matter and darkroom effects • 6.) Silhouettes • 7.) Double exposure or Sandwich negative • 8.) Narrative photography series

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Creating Presenting Responding Connecting Anchor Standard 1: Anchor Standard 4: Anchor Standard 7: Anchor Standard 10: Generate and conceptualize Select, analyze and interpret Perceive and analyze artistic Synthesize and relate knowledge artistic ideas and work. artistic work for presentation. work. and personal experiences to make Anchor Standard 2: Anchor Standard 5: Anchor Standard 8: art Organize and develop artistic Develop and refine artistic Interpret intent and meaning in ideas and work techniques and work for artistic work. Anchor Standard 3: presentation. Refine and complete artistic work Anchor Standard 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work. . Enduring Understandings Enduring Understandings Enduring Understandings Enduring Understandings Creativity and innovative Artists and other presenters Individual aesthetic and Through art-making, people make thinking are essential life skills consider various techniques, empathetic awareness developed meaning by investigating and that can be developed methods, venues, and criteria through engagement with art can developing awareness of Artists and designers experiment when analyzing, selecting, and lead to understanding and perceptions, knowledge, and with forms, structures, materials, curating objects artifacts, and appreciation of self, others, the experiences. concepts, media, and art-making artworks for preservation and natural world, and constructed approaches presentation. environments. Essential Questions How does engaging in creating Essential Questions Essential Questions Essential Questions art enrich people's lives? How What conditions, attitudes, and How are artworks cared for and How do life experiences influence does making art attune people to behaviors support creativity and by whom? What criteria, the way you relate to art? How their surroundings? How do innovative thinking? What factors methods, and processes are used does learning about art impact people contribute to awareness prevent or encourage people to to select work for preservation or how we perceive the world? What and understanding of their lives take creative risks? How does presentation? Why do people can we learn from our responses and the lives of their communities collaboration expand the creative value objects, artifacts, and to art? through art-making? process? artworks, and select them for What is an image? Where and How do artists work? How do presentation? how do we encounter images in artists and designers determine our world? How do images whether a particular direction in influence our views of the world? their work is effective? How do

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artists and designers learn from Process Components Process Components Process Components trial and error? Perceive, Analyze and Interpret Analyze, Select, Share Synthesize, Relate Analyze how responses to art Process Components Critique, justify, and develop over time based on Synthesize knowledge of Investigate/Plan/Make present choices in the knowledge of and experience social, cultural, historical, process of analyzing, with art and life. and personal life with art- Choose from a range of selecting, curating, and making approaches to materials and methods of presenting artwork for a create meaningful works traditional and specific exhibit or event. of art or design. contemporary artistic Investigate, compare, and Appraise the impact of an practices to plan works of contrast methods for artist or a group of artists art and design. preserving and protecting on the beliefs, values, and Experiment, plan, and art behaviors of a society. make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.

Sample Performance Assessments Sample Performance Assessments Sample Performance Assessments Sample Performance Assessments

• 1.) Free Shoot • Group Critiques • Class critiques with • Art History • 2.) Birds • Independent the class as a whole assignments with Eye/Worms Eye Assessment sheets • Verbal and written the artist that • 3.) Depth of Field critiques corresponds with • 4.) Portraits • Collaborative the project • 5.) Action critiques where • 6.) Silhouettes students evaluate

• 7.) Double exposure each other’s work in or Sandwich smaller groups negative • 8.) Narrative photography series

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Unit 5 – History of Darkroom Photography Unit Objectives Skill Objectives Students will be able to: Students will:

• Identify work of master photographers. • Answer questions based on research and analysis of the work • Analyze and Critique historical and contemporary of master photographers photographs. • Students should have exceptional knowledge of the life and • Find common characteristics between historical photography of their assigned photographer references and their own work. • Recognize ethnic and cultural differences through analyzation of photos.

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Process Components Process Components Process Components Process Components Investigate/Plan/Make Perceive, Analyze and Interpret Analyze, Select, Share Synthesize, Relate

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• Art history paper or • Students should have • Group Critiques • Photo History Reports a PowerPoint about thorough knowledge • Independent • View and critique the artist and understanding of Assessment Projects relevant films and videos their assigned artist for or Worksheets. about photography their presentation • Midterm, Final • They should be able to Exams and quizzes identify and critique this artists’ work

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