Photography and Visual Perception

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Ekphrasis Project (due Monday, June 1st)

Term used a lot in poetry, coming from Greek, meaning a description of artwork or something visual (like a vase or woven tapestry) within a poem.
Often used in art to refer to a work of writing that is inspired by or based on a work of art.

For this project:

Select your favorite non-photography work in the arts. (Poem, song, movie, tv show, short story, book, poem, painting, play, dance, etc.)
Use this work as inspiration or a jumping off point to create a series of 4-5 images. These images can illustrate the story, reflect imagery in the song or poem, it can creatively re-create a scene in a tv show, painting or movie.
Please e-mail me a clip or link to the work, and the title and author/artist etc. of your inspirational text by midnight on Friday May 29th so I can compile them all.
On the day of the presentation, bring in your images on a USB or upload them to tumblr, and we’ll read, watch or listen to your inspiration text and then look at your images.
You can be as creative as you want. You can incorporate text, it’s very open. Just be sure that your images are well-executed technically, and that you can explain how they relate to the text of your choice.