Art Photography Album

A Journey of Enlightenment about the Visual and Performing Arts Projects

Why take time for projects on “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”? Why teach the poem at all, except, perhaps, in a British literature survey or a study of the Romantics or an AP course?

One of my students offered an answer last year in her project proposal: “This ballad is an old sailor’s tale that travels to lands all over the map, a tale that takes any listener from any time and place through a journey of enlightenment about self.” For this reason, Mariel gathered the class around her in a circle and unpacked from a battered suitcase the vintage album she’d made with stained pages on which she’d written, in faded ink, passages from all seven sections of the poem.

But she had replaced certain “key words” with equivalents in various foreign languages “to convey my sense of the poem’s mystery and universality.” For each page she made a visual representation of “the symbolism that lingers in the verbal images”—a different medium for each mood, including collage, cutouts, charcoal, and fabrics. “I want to show that this ballad is a universal story that can liberate all who read or hear it.”

Mariel had been struck by the penance required of the Mariner—the agonizing “wrench” that compels him to recount, over and over, his experience of sin, guilt, isolation, and grace.

I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech; that moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me: To him my tale I teach. (Coleridge 23)

Many students are drawn to the familiar experiences of guilt and isolation. Two boys collaborated on a film about an army vet tormented by memories of having killed a civilian. In their film script, the man lives as a recluse, turns to drugs, and finally commits suicide. Noah was taking Advanced Art Photography, and Pat took Media Arts. In his reflection on their project, Noah wrote the following:

Our skills complemented each other well. We both thought guilt was the most interesting aspect of the poem and that it would lend itself well to film. The Mariner is able to deal with his guilt through blessing the water snakes, and the albatross falls from his neck; he spends the rest of his life doing penance by re-telling his story. But in our film the character is never able to come to terms with what he did and can only take his life. We wanted to capture the desperation the mariner feels after his crew is killed and the hopelessness that ensues until he’s able to pray.

Pat did more than I did during the editing process, due to his familiarity with the Final Cut editing software. My photo experience helped with cinematography and where to cut shots. We wanted to use montage and a powerful soundtrack to tell the vet’s story . . . After we came up with the story, we brainstormed various images we could use, symbolic ones and ones to help make the set authentic-looking. We set a date for shooting, and in between Pat wrote the voiceovers for us to discuss.

We shot the film in my basement, with an old mattress on the floor and a battered TV to provide more images, and we also shot in the bathroom, where we used a tight frame to exclude anything that would suggest an upscale room and focused on reflections of the guy’s face in the mirror. We used just one actor, to stress the vet’s reclusiveness and because it was easier. Nick is an amazing actor, and it helped that he’d already read the poem. . . .We used a variety of editing techniques and spent a lot of time choosing music.

I think the fourth goal is where we’re weakest and we chose to sacrifice this a little, because we made our own story and so maybe it can’t ‘enrich the audience’s experience of the poem.’ Actually, many students wrote in their assessments that Pat and Noah’s project did enrich their reading by making them think about the question of how guilt works differently in different people.

Several wondered if the vet had any religious beliefs he could have turned to; they felt that even though the Mariner cut him off from God by killing the albatross, he wanted to pray and some force worked in him so he could “bless” the snakes he’d earlier seen as ugly. They suggested the vet had deliberately chosen to isolate himself and couldn’t make an effort to communicate in any way—which, they said, would lead to the total separation of suicide.

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WILLIAM OWENS VINTAGE 1970s PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION $245,000.00

ROBERT COTTINGHAM “STAR” ORIGINAL LARGE PHOTO REALISM SILKSCREEN ON CANVAS $150,000.00

RARE FRANK DAVEY PERSONAL PHOTO/ ART ALBUM 1898 HAWAII $75,000.00

ELLIOTT ERWITT “PORTFOLIO #1″ 10 SILVER GELATIN PHOTOS $45,000.00

Richard Prince Untitled Adult Comedy Action Drama Ektacolor Photograph 1995 $40,000.00

Richard Prince Untitled Adult Comedy Action Drama Ektacolor Photograph 1995 $40,000.00

ANDY WARHOL “SITTING BULL” PHOTO PORTRAIT LIMITED EDITION POP ART SCREENPRINT $35,000.00

Richard Prince Untitled Upstate Series Ektacolor Photograph 1993 Edition of 5 $30,000.00

TOM WESSELMANN “BEDROOM BLONDE DOODLE WITH PHOTO” LIMITED POP ART SCREENRPRINT $22,000.00

Helmut Newton “Domestic Nude 7 16×20 Signed Photograph $21,500.00

Slater Bradley “Untitled” Michael Jackson Ink Drawing on Photograph 2004 Framed $20,000.00

Michael Fatali Back of Beyond photograph print RARE $19,999.99

Patrick Demarchelier 18×22 Nadja Auermann Signed Photo $19,500.00

CHINESE BRONZE SCULPTURE on BASE of BUDDHA by WU WEISHAN & signed BOOK & PHOTO $18,888.00

BRETT WESTON MOST FAMOUS JAPAN IMAGE MURAL 20X24 PHOTO $18,500.00

Richard Prince Untitled Adult Comedy Action Drama Ektacolor Photograph 1995 $17,000.00

JOCK STURGES 2006 PLATINUM PORTFOLIO OF 10 PHOTOGRAPHS IMAGES FROM 1989-2005 $15,000.00

TERRY O’NEILL SIGNED PHOTO PRINT ELTON JOHN DODGER STADIUM LOS ANGELES 1975 $15,000.00

HOWARD SCHATZ ‘ POOL LIGHT COVER PHOTO’ / ltd. ed. $14,950.00

William Eggleston Signed Limited Edition Color Photograph ‘Pin-Up’ $14,000.00

Marilyn Minter Signed Print Limited Edition Color Photograph S/N Ed. of 25 $12,000.00

Ryan McGinley Signed Print Limited Edition Photograph S/N Ed. of 25 $12,000.00

David Hockney original photo – signed numbered “John St Clair Swimming” 1978. $10,500.00

David Lachapelle Flowers Limited Edition Signed Photograph Print Fashion $10,500.00

1987 Helmut Newton Nude, Signed 11×14 Photograph $10,500.00

David Lachapelle Limited Edition Signed Photograph Weber Ritts Fashion $10,500.00

Roman Loranc , Chariot of Apollo, Study #2 Photograph $10,000.00

Beautiful Roman Loranc Franciscan Church 16×20 Photo $10,000.00

VIK MUNIZ ‘Mont Sainte-Victoire (Pictures of Pigment)’ SIGNED Photograph Framed $10,000.00

PETER LIK Signed 1.5M ECHOES OF SILENCE Original SOLD OUT Framed Photograph COA $9,995.00

WALKER EVANS Photograph Country Church Near Beaufort South Carolina 1936 $9,800.00

VIK MUNIZ ‘The Sower, after Van Gogh’ (Pictures of Nature) SIGNED Photo Framed $9,500.00

Martin Schreiber Nude Photograph of Madonna w/Cat 32×34 $9,500.00

ROMAN LORANC 2005 OPEN ROAD 20″X24″ PHOTO NEXT PRICE LEVEL SOLD OUT! $9,500.00

2010 UNIQUE ANN HAMILTON ORIGINAL SIGNED & DATED PHOTOGRAPH AND SILK COLLAGE $9,000.00

2010 UNIQUE ANN HAMILTON ORIGINAL SIGNED AND DATED PHOTOGRAPH AND SILK COLLAGE $9,000.00

Ansel Adams ” Petroglyphs Monument Valley – 1958 ” Rare Signed Photograph $8,500.00

Marilyn Monroe, Bel Air Hotel 1962, Ltd Ed Photograph, Leif-Erik Nygards $8,500.00

Vintage Hurrell Signed Photo of Walt Disney 1940 $8,000.00

KEITH HARING “BABY REMARQUE L.A.” INK & PHOTO LITHOGRAPH 1988 SEE IT LIVE!!! $8,000.00

Edward S. Curtis “Hastobiga Navaho Medicine Man” Photo $8,000.00

Sold Out PETER LIK Signed 1.5M Ancient Spirit Original Silver Photo Photograph $7,995.00

Max Ernst Fleurs Coquillages Photo-lithograph in colors Signed Limited Edition $7,500.00

ALFRED EISENSTAEDT Signed 1933 Original Photograph $7,500.00

Horst P. Horst 14×17 Photo of Irving Penn Signed $7,500.00

ROMAN LORANC LITTLE SHASTA CHURCH 16″X20″ PHOTO NEXT PRICE LEVEL SOLD OUT! $7,000.00

Peter Beard Original Framed Elephants Sepia Photograph $7,000.00

Ansel Adams “Gottardo Piazzoni in His Studio” – 1974 Rare Signed Photograph $6,500.00

BARON DE MEYER VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPH + OTHERS $6,500.00

WALKER EVANS Photograph Minstrel and Movie Posters,1936 $6,500.00

Richard Misrach Print Beach Ocean Signed Limited Edition Photograph $6,500.00

Micha Bar-Am PORTFOLIO of 10 photographs (Israel) 1981 SIGNED $6,500.00

“Jerusalem – City of Mankind” PORTFOLIO 12 photos – SIGNED Cappa, Riboud, Haas, $6,500.00

Sebastiao Salgado Mali (blind woman) SIGNED 1985 gelatin silver photograph $6,000.00

Sebastiao Salgado Mali (men kneeling in desert) SIGNED 1985 gelatin silver photo $6,000.00

Sebastiao Salgado “Ethiopia” (veiled figure)” SIGNED 1984 gelatin silver photo $6,000.00

JOCK STURGES HAND MADE IN THE DARKROOM 16X20 PHOTOGRAPH $6,000.00

JOCK STURGES HAND MADE IN THE DARKROOM 16X20 PHOTOGRAPH $6,000.00

JOCK STURGES HAND MADE IN THE DARKROOM 16X20 PHOTOGRAPH $6,000.00

Timeless Land – A Framed Peter Lik Photograph $6,000.00

Ernest Bachrach Katharine Hepburn 8×10 Signed Photo $5,950.00

RARE Marilyn Monroe ORIGINAL Photo 11×14 ANDRE DE DIENES Stamped St. Jude & HiN $5,777.00

RARE Marilyn Monroe ORIGINAL Photo 11×14 ANDRE DE DIENES Stamped #2 St. Jude $5,777.00

PATRICK FAIGENBAUM Hadrian 1987 Signed Original Photo $5,725.00

ANSEL ADAMS Signed 1929-30 Original Photograph $5,500.00

Photo Joel Gardner, Tribute to Writer Father John Gardner, Broadside Ray Carver $5,500.00

Herb Ritts Signed Photograph * Tony Ward w Rope, LA 1986 * Guaranteed Authentic $5,500.00

BERT STERN MARILYN MONROE IN JACKIE KENNEDY WIG ONASSIS SIGNED ICONIC PHOTOGRAPH $5,500.00

WALKER EVANS Photograph Boarding House Porch, Birmingham, Alabama,1936 $5,500.00

1989 Herb Ritts 16×20 Nude of 2 Models Signed Photo $5,500.00

An Important 19th Cen coll of Three Albums 127 Photos of Sistan, Baluchestan. $5,000.00

Madonna Herb Ritts ORIGINAL 8×10 Color Transparency Photo Movie Slide Poster $4,999.99

George Hurrell Hand Signed Portfolio of ten photographs $4,999.00

WILLIAM KLEIN Signed Original 1963 Photograph “Anouk Aimée, Paris 1963 (Vogue)” $4,800.00

LAURE ALBIN-GUILLOT Male Nude c. 1930 Original Photo $4,790.00

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE Original 1963 Photograph – RARE - $4,750.00

Vintage Horst P. Horst Photo of Noel Coward Signed $4,750.00

Original PETER LIK Signed 1.5M Blush Lake Tahoe Silver Photo Framed Photograph $4,695.00

JAMES WELLING ‘Flowers #10B’, 2006 SIGNED Photograph Limited Edition #19/40 $4,500.00

Robert Mapplethorpe Signed Photograph * Joe, NYC, 1977 * Guaranteed Authentic $4,500.00

Richard Avedon Signed 16×20 1970 Photograph $4,500.00

Peter Lik “Castaway” Photograph Limited Edition 950 Signed Framed And Matted $4,500.00

Sante DOrazio 16×20 Signed Nude Photo of Cindy Crawford $4,500.00

Terence Donovan Julie Christie Nude 13×19 1962 Photo $4,500.00

VIK MUNIZ ‘Shovel’, 1999 from ‘Pictures of Soil’ SIGNED Photograph Print 29″x23″ $4,500.00

Harry Callahan orginal photograph $4,300.00

SONYA NOSKOWIAK Carlos Dyer c. 1936 Original Photo $4,250.00

Cecil Beaton 8×10 Photograph of Marlene Dietrich Signed $4,250.00

Elliott Erwitt Signed Gelatin Silver Print Photograph 1954 Las Vegas Magnum $4,200.00

Peter Lik “Azure” Limited Edition Framed Photograph $4,149.00

NAN GOLDIN ‘Guido Floating, Levanzo, Sicily, 1999′, 2004 SIGNED Color Photograph $4,000.00

Edward Weston Artichoke Halved printed & signed by Cole Weston Original Photo $4,000.00

MELVIN SOKOLSKY Signed Original 1963 Photograph “Julie Christie” $4,000.00

Ilfochrome Intermedia Graphic Photograph Signed Art $4,000.00

Mike Kelley Toy Santa Claus Original Color Photograph 1993 Limited Edition $4,000.00

JOCK STURGES HAND MADE IN THE DARKROOM 16X20 PHOTOGRAPH $4,000.00

MISHA GORDIN 1977 PHOTOGRAPH SATURATION HAND SIGNED 50 $4,000.00

ROMAN LORANC DARK CLOUDS OVER DUBROVNIK 16″X20″ PHOTO NEXT PRICE LEVEL $7,000. $4,000.00

CANDIDA HOFER ‘Bourse du Travail IV, Calais, 2001′ SIGNED Photo #8/65 Book Cover $4,000.00

Michael Kenna , Ratcliffe Power Station, photograph, number 8/45 $4,000.00