Humanities Homework Help

1. Choose 1 of the following Curtis photographs and provide an in-depth formal analysis…

• Curtis, The Vanishing Race (ca. 1904, dry-plate collodion produced as a paper print) (Links to an external site.)
• Curtis, Arikara. Barriga de Oso — Bear’s Belly (ca. 1908, dry-plate collodion produced as a photogravure) (Links to an external site.)

• EDITED VERSION: Curtis, Little Plume and son Yellow Kidney seated on ground inside lodge, pipe between them (ca. 1911, dry-plate collodion produced as a photogravure) (Links to an external site.)
  UNEDITED VERSION: Curtis, Little Plume and son Yellow Kidney seated on ground inside lodge, pipe between them (ca. 1911, dry-plate collodion produced as a photogravure) (Links to an external site.)

http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/58082/… <<<<harvest of death

2. Provide a thorough formal analysis of O’Sullivan’s Harvest of Death, and compare/contrast it against Kurz and Allison, Storming Fort Wagner (1890, color lithograph) (Links to an external site.)

• • Think about how war is differently represented in these works; what specific aspects of form and style influence how you see and feel about war.
  • Think about how the different mediums — photography vs. lithography (a type of print) — influence the form, style, and overall impact/meaning of these representations of the Civil War.

****the second question requires a formal analysis of O’Sullivan’s Harvest of Death , and separately a compare and contrast against the kurz and allison photograph. Both are required. *********

Requirements:

Cite sources in MLA

Provide an in-depth analysis for all required pictures

Answer both question requirements

**what you need to do**

describe what we can see

scale

composition

pictorial space

form

line

color

light

tone

texture

pattern

What not to talk about

iconography/symbolism

commission/patron

political/social/economic context