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Cobb County School District
Fine Arts
Visual Arts - Photography
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Goals and Descriptions

Priority Level:

High = ллл     Mid = лл      Low = л

Artistic Skills and Knowledge | Connections | Critical Analysis and Aesthetics | Historical and Cultural Context
 


Artistic Skills and Knowledge

ллл VA.Pho.1 Creating Photographs
The learner will be able to develop ideas, plan, and produce a series of photographs within constraints of selected problems with emphasis on particular elements of art and principles of design; emphasis on a particular function; and emphasis on a particular idea, concept, or emotion.
  

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VA.Pho.2 Objective, Abstract, and Nonobjective
The learner will be able to produce photographs from a variety of objective, abstract, and nonobjective subjects and content.
  
л VA.Pho.3 Art and Technology
The learner will be able to produce a series of systematically altered digital photographs that are based on student's imported photographs and on images created within the computer.
  
ллл VA.Pho.4 Safety and Maintenance
The learner will be able to demonstrate safe and proper use of photographic tools and processes.
  
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ллл VA.Pho.5 Art and Relationship to Other Forms
The learner will be able to recognize the many connections between photography, science, and mathematics, such as light and color theory, anatomy of the eye and the camera, f-stop shutter ratios, and aperture-distance ratios.
  
ллл VA.Pho.6 Art and Technology
The learner will be able to recognize the role of computer technology in photography careers and production such as the many roles for artists in emerging technological fields; the computer as an artist's tool much like the brush or pencil; the importance of visual imagery in emerging technology; the increasing demand for individuals who can combine photography/art skills; complex thinking and computer skills.
  
л VA.Pho.7 Art Education and Life
The learner will be able to recognize the application of higher-order thinking skills (e.g., tolerance of ambiguity, nuanced judgment, complex thinking, and finding structure in apparent disorder) in the creation and production of photographs and discusses their transfer to life and work situations.
  

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VA.Pho.8 Career Opportunities
The learner will be able to identify and discuss artistic and commercial career opportunities in the field of photography and the role of photography as an avocation.
  
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Critical Analysis and Aesthetics

ллл VA.Pho.9 Expressive Qualities
The learner will be able to compare and contrast photographers' use of the elements of art and principles of design or combination of both to communicate expressive content or ideas.
  

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VA.Pho.10 Objective, Abstract, and Non-Objective
The learner will be able to interpret the content of objective, abstract, and nonobjective photographs and discusses why photographers might choose to work in each style.
  
ллл VA.Pho.11 Artistic Choice and Content
The learner will be able to explain how the artist's choices in technique, media, and style interrelate to produce a particular expressive content in selected photographs.
  
ллл VA.Pho.12 Art Styles
The learner will be able to compare two or more photographs of similar style and identifies those qualities that relate to the artworks.
  

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VA.Pho.13 Aesthetic Perceptions
The learner will be able to make informed aesthetic responses by relating their own photographs to photographs by major 20th-century photographers.
  
ллл VA.Pho.14 Self-Evaluation
The learner will be able to evaluate, based on predetermined criteria, own performance and progress on skills and written and visual products.
  

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VA.Pho.15 Ideas in Art
The learner will be able to discuss aesthetic issues related to computer art and photography (e.g., When is a photograph art and when is it a personal record of one's life? Can the computer be used to produce photographic imagery? What is the relationship between traditional photography and digital photography? What ethics apply to copyright issues, digital art, photography, and the Internet?).
  
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Historical and Cultural Context

ллл VA.Pho.16 Influences in Art
The learner will be able to evaluate the influences of historical and social factors upon the development of selected photographs and equipment.
  

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VA.Pho.17 Art Styles
The learner will be able to identify, compare, and contrast major styles of photography and their distinguishing characteristics.
  
ллл VA.Pho.18 Development of the Art of Photography
The learner will be able to identify and discuss selected artists who have contributed to the development of photography and evaluates the influence of historical factors on their significance.
  
ллл VA.Pho.19 Art and Technology
The learner will be able to explain the changes in photography brought about by new technology and media.
  
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