Abstract
Access to images requires didactic considerations that are of central importance in art lessons in order to enable subject-oriented and competence-oriented learning processes for pupils at the same time. However, the fields of action in art education do not only refer to the receptive-reflexive, but also to the creative production of images. Photography is a medium and a type of image that now seems to be technically quickly available, supposedly quickly graspable and even easy to realise. However, visual-aesthetic structures are created against the background of a cultural image reservoir that has grown historically and for which young people must first acquire the necessary knowledge and skills of a receptive, productive and reflexive nature. Using the example of photographic group portraits on the theme of "family", this article presents a didactic approach to slowing down image perception, an image-specific method of investigation in the form of comparative composition sketches and design solutions from an advanced course in grade 12 (G9) in reference to the image genre in painting.
