Activity 4

 Activity 4

Create two photographs in a location with tall buildings or trees using both formats. Create a closed and open landscape at one location. Discuss the different ways we read the resulting images.

New York City is an enormous city, and we can see this by looking on how much space it takes. The right picture is an open landscape, it is an open landscape because we are seeing the whole, rather than one building or a couple of buildings. An example of a closed landscape is the picture on the left side. This photo focuses on a couple of buildings in New York. We see in the closed landscape that the building are very tall, if we saw an open we would not think the building are that big.

Activity 3

Activity 3


Compare and contrast a landscape photograph with a landscape painting. Discuss the expressive possibilities of each medium using your examples to illustrate your argument. Choose your examples carefully as representative of the medium.

Example: The two images below are similar in subject matter, how are they similar? How are they different? What options doe a painter have compared to the options a photographer has in terms of expression.

These two pictures are very similar, because they are both about the beach. They both have clouds, and the color of the sea is the same, along with the sand. Also with a beautiful blue sky. They are different because the painting has more clods and the sea is more blue. The expression of the painting is more life and beauty, with the picture you want to be there.

Landscape: Activity 2: Blog

Activity 2


Find two landscape photographs that question social values or act as a metaphor for personal issues that the photographer is trying to express. Discuss whether the communication is clear or ambiguous and how this communication is conveyed.

Example: What does the image below say about humans need to control the environment? Or, does it indicate an attempt to recreate a time long past and remind people of their outdoor beginnings? What do you think? Does it say anything different?




Kathryn Garcia

Humans do not need to pay attention to the environment because it has been here since the beginning of time and it been great without humans. Rather humans should be worried when thy build building and abandon them. Where mother nature could of been grown.

Marcos Cordero

We need to see that nature is something great in life. We need to get away from our jobs an enjoy what mother nature gives us. Also there was much grass and tree if it were not destructed by human beings.

Landscape: Activity 1: Blog

Activity 1


View the image by Walker Evans on this page and describe what you can actually see (objective analysis) and what you think the image is about (subjective analysis).


Discuss how effective Walker Evans has been in using a landscape image to communicate a point of view. Can this photograph be considered as Art? Give two reasons to support your answer.


Make sure you include the image in your blog post with credit in the citation. When you analyze the photo, look for deeper meaning beyond the literal description of the Photo.

Bethlehem, Graveyard and Steel Mill - Walker Evans 1935 © Walker Evans Archive, 1994, 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art 

In this picture, I see a graveyard and see industrial building. Beyond the building I see a city. To my opinion the image is telling me that things will change but there is going to be things that stay the same. He is making a point by using the graveyard of his point. This can be considered as art. This is because everyone has a different opinion of what is art and what is not. In his eye it is. Another reason this is considered art is because it gives symbolism and mood to the picture.