Period 4 -- Practice Critical Analysis

© Joel Sternfeld

Each week, we will write a critical analysis on a work of photographic art. An image will be published weekly on our class blog. Spend time studying the image and then write a detailed analysis of the photograph. Publish your analysis as a comment to the blog post; this comment should show the student’s name, time posted, and word count. The analysis must be posted to the original blog post in order to be graded.

All analyses must be 4 paragraphs minimum, 5 sentences minimum per paragraph unless otherwise noted.

Students will write eleven critical analyses per semester, and the lowest grade per semester will be dropped. 

Refer to your "How to See" handout for analyzing a photograph--

1. Describe specifics.
2. Describe form.
3. Describe the content.
4. Evaluate the image
   
   

Your analyses will be graded on:​

• meeting minimum length requirements  
• depth of organization
• evaluation of the content
• grammar/punctuation