This week the Photography One students will be completing Nina Katchadourian‘s assignment from the PBS web series The Art Assignment.
Here is a little more about the assignment from The Art Assignment’s YouTube channel.
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Published on Aug 28, 2014
In which we meet Brooklyn-based artist Nina Katchadourian in Lawrence, Kansas, at the former home of American writer William S. Burroughs (1914 – 1997). Nina takes us on her journey of sorting Burroughs’s book collection and challenges you to sort some books yourself!Episode 13 Instructions:
1. Choose a person you know or would like to know better
2. Take a look at/through their library
3. Make 3 stacks of books to develop a portrait of the person
4. Upload it to your social media platform of choice using #theartassignment
5. Fame and glory (your work might be featured in a future episode)
Learn more about Nina’s work: http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/
And read about William S. Burroughs: http://www.burroughs100.com/
