Contemporary Views: Portraiture in the Digital Age
This handout investigates the role of digital portraiture in contemporary life.
PHOTOGRAPHY LESSON 4: HANDOUT 4
1 class period (45-60 min)
- Art and Culture
Medium > Visual Arts
Subject Matter > Art History
- History and Social Studies
Themes > Culture
Themes > Globalization
World > The Modern World
- Literature and Language Arts
Genre > Essay
Place > Modern World
- Analysis
- Compare and contrast
- Critical thinking
- Cultural analysis
- Discussion
- Evaluating arguments
- Historical analysis
- Interpretation
- Literary analysis
- Media analysis
- Making inferences and drawing conclusions
- Summarizing
- Synthesis
- Visual analysis
- Vocabulary
- ELA Reading: 1, 7, 10
- ELA Speaking & Listening: 1-2
- HSS Reading: 1-2, 6-10
CONTINUE THIS LESSON
Complete the lesson now with one of our Student Activity Options
- Assign related sections from Ritchin’s After Photography, Hand’s Ubiquitous Photography, and/or Frosch’s ”The Gestural Image” in advance, in place of handout excerpts. To deepen reflection, screen Ondi Timoner’s We Live In Public.
- Reflection and concluding questions may also be assigned as short essays or response papers.