Art and Visual Culture
Bergen Community College
Paramus NJ 2009-2016
World Art
Explored by BCC Students through Photojournalism
A "Night Photo Shoot"
Directly outside our lecture studio
Completing our assignment:
Compare styles of 20th and 21st c. photography
using cars as reflective of our era, society, culture.
Korea, Mexico, Palestine, Peru, Russia and Texas
Exploring car surface as 3D mirrors
Introduced by early 20th c. photography/painting
of the night environment on campus.
Forming "A Photographers' Collective" Teamwork!
Appraising the success of the project while working.
Surface and depth
Students learning about imagery, composition and depth-of-field.
Students explore organizing a shoot and a site.HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT
Compare 20th and 21st-century themes in photography
Rose, our student from Russia,
compared the experience of immigration:
19th c. African-American family,
20th c. The journeys of her European family.
Rose presented 20th and 21st century photography
Contrasting the built environment and the human experience.
Reena explores 20th and 21st-century photography
Reena reconstructs
Ilse Bing's 1938s self-portrait composition.
German Expressionist Photography
Ilse Bing (20th c.) Reena Bouros (21st c.)
Project: Art and the Public Realm
Reena Compares Birdhead Photography from Shanghai
with her own view of Astoria NY
History of World Photography Project
Originality and Colonial Cultures
Originality and Colonial Cultures
Project 1:
Compare photography
Project 2:
Find the earliest local photographers in two cultures.
Tomiah Explored German/Austrian Expressionism in Photography
Her original photo portrait of her aunt made in the Expressionist style.
Tomiah was visiting student at BCC from Texas.
Tomiah
Examined the eariest photographers in
Turkey and Peru who were local citizens-
(who were not imperial explorers).
Tomiah
Photo portrait of her aunt
In the style of German/Austrian Expressionism
Museum Studies
BCC in Art and Visual Culture Class
BBC Students
Explore the Ancient World
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Choosing Material Cultures
and Figures of Belief in Medieval Europe
World Migration, Politics, and Fashion
through Fashion Photography
John, our student and military medic in the U.S. war in Iraq
born in Peru at the Metropolitan Museum with his sons
explores Antiquity and symbolic imagery.
Foundation Drawing
Bergen Community College
Our in-class assignment:
Draw around and between
an arrangement of objects (JJ)
Drawing IIOur Assignment in the glass atrium:
Drawing and Cinema
Draw the internal building structure in perspective
then draw imagery that appears on the glass.
This is a complex assignment
involving multiple types of appearances on
various planes, space and surfaces.
How each student experiences spatial perspective
while drawing: to include interior, exterior views
and a reflectioned view of fellow student.
Drawing Foundations:
How to draw on site
Choose individual perspectives in the Atrium
Assignment:
Draw 1. interior 2. exterior view 3. reflections
Multiple perspective drawing in progress.
Drawing Foundations Project: (Mira)
Interpret Master Drawings
in Contemporary Style
Drawing Foundations Project: Design an arrangement
of objects with passages among them. (Jordan)
Drawing to explore architectonic composition and perspective.
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