1. Cropping, Framing, Monochrome & Everything After

2. To understand how meaning changes with
presentation and how you might apply this to your
own work.
To see what happens when you crop, or frame
To see how colour effects meaning

3. What do we mean by cropping?
What effect does it have?

4. During the 1930s in the USA, due to poor
farming techniques and drought the American
Mid-West was experiencing poor harvests.
This combined with an economic depression,
means that many people in the Mid-West
were starving, travelling around from farm to
farm looking for work.
Dorothea Lange was employed by the Farm
Security Administration – FSA.
Lange’s first crop

8. I saw and approached the hungry and
desperate mother, as if drawn by a
magnet. I do not remember how I
explained my presence or my camera to
her, but I do remember she asked me no
questions.

9. I made five exposures, working closer and
closer from the same direction. I did not
ask her name or her history. She told me
her age, that she was thirty-two. She said
that they had been living on frozen
vegetables from the surrounding fields,
and birds that the children killed.

10. She had just sold the tires from her car to
buy food. There she sat in that lean- to tent
with her children huddled around her, and
seemed to know that my pictures might
help her, and so she helped me. There
was a sort of equality about it. (From:
Popular Photography, Feb. 1960).

11. “Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of
seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo,
California” (note that the main page gives
“Destitute peapickers in California; a 32 year
old mother of seven children. February 1936.”

13. Why do we frame pictures?

14. Artistically it gets the eye ready to see what is inside the
frame – preparation
Symbolically it can suggest that what is inside is important
worth looking at
It also calls a halt to wondering what is going on either side of
the frame (pointillist exceptions)

20. Korda gave the portrait "an ageless quality,
divorced from the specifics of time and place

23. Take one image (your own)
Create a new crop and save
Put a frame around it
Create a monochrome version as well as
colour.

24. What have you taken from this
section?
How can you use it in your own
work?

25. Stand up if you feel clear on the Portfolio Module.
Stand up if you feel worried about the amount of work
you have to do.
Stand up if you don’t understand what you need to do
in Portfolio.
Stand up if you are stressed about this module?
Stand up if you are relaxed about completing this
module.

26. P1 explain how media and materials are used in the work
of others to convey ideas and meaning
P2 create own visual language by working with materials,
media and processes
P3 describe ways in which visual language is used to
communicate ideas and meaning
M1 evaluate how media, materials and processes are
used diversely to convey ideas and meaning, drawing on
own experiments to make effective comparisons

27. P3 select and experiment safely with specialist
media, materials and techniques to develop visual
communication skills

28. P4 develop personal presentation and
communication skills.

32. Look at the resources on Moodle and in book
form in the classroom.
Take some of the images provided and create a
gallery piece for the studio wall based on
today’s learning.
Present to the rest of the group why you made
the decisions and how you will apply this to
your own work.

33. If you have time, you can look at adding
video or sound clips (some sound clips
provided on Moodle). You can do this
using your phones or tablets.

34. Once you have decided the nature of your personal
project you will need to select the work of at least 2
other practitioners and create a presentation which
outlines their work and how you intend to use these
sources to inform your own work (U6: P1, M1, D1)

35. Stand up if you feel clear on the Portfolio Module.
Stand up if you feel worried about the amount of work
you have to do.
Stand up if you don’t understand what you need to do
in Portfolio.
Stand up if you are stressed about this module?
Stand up if you are relaxed about completing this
module.