Lesson 9

Content: Collaborative Portraiture
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Overview

Lesson nine engages students in how to approach, photograph, and interact with subjects. This lesson encourages students to take what they have learned in previous lessons—truth, symbols, form—and use these tools while collaborating with others when making portraits. The works of Richard Renaldi, Robin Schwartz, and Wayne Lawrence help students understand that there are a number of approaches to making portraits.

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