Near and Far Assignment

Hand Held

Hand Held the movie was really interesting and emotionally. I never heard the movie before and Michael Carroll, until now when I saw the movie. Many kids were living in bad condition and it was hard to see them like that. When I saw the movie the kids are innocent and it ins't there fault that they are in the orphanages.  I really like the movie. At the end of the movie I really had this feeling to go and help and take them all me with. It makes me wonder how they are doing today and right now. I am happy that Michael Carroll went to Romanian and help the children because without him, I think they would have all died.

Michael Carroll

Michael Carroll Biography 

Michael Carroll was the founder and the president of Romanian Children's Relief. In January 1990, Carroll was one of the first photographers to travel to Romanian after the fall of the communist regime . Carroll help many children who had problems and were living in bad condition. His stories were written and photographed for The Boston Globe and The New York times. Thousand and thousand of orphaned and abandoned babies  and children were in a house under horrific condition and minimum care. Many parents would have kids and could not afford to take care and would drop them off the orphanage. Carroll saw how this children were suffering and wanted to help them by giving them  better clothes, food, blanket, love and care.  During the visit Carroll discovered that AIDS were spread among these children. This was a news that no one expected. Carroll was one of the first to help this babies and children to bring this story to public attention and was publish by The Boston Globe on March 25, 1990, and then to The New York Times. This trip was the turning point in Michael Carroll's life. Some years after the emotionally trip Michael professional work with Don Hahn, and  Don Hahn decided to to create a documentary on his experiences. The film was called Hand Held. And in the movie Michael  was explaining many kids in the orphanage and the bad condition they were living in. Many people caught their attention to this movie and help donate to Michael and the children.  Comparing the orphanages from then and now much hasn't changed. There are more people paying attention to this kids and aware for adoption. There is less diseases, but  still struggling with money. The most important is that Michael made a huge difference to those kids then back a few years ago.
Here are some of the photos.

Biography of Walker Evans

Biography of Walker Evans 

Walker Evans was born on November 3,1975 on Missouri, St. Louis.  Evans is an american photographer. After 1938 and though the fifties he took many photos in the subways, in the streets, and from moving train. During this period he was writing for the Time magazine and  photograph for Fortune. Evan was an amazing photographer. 

I like the brightness of this picture and the clearness 

I like the light of this picture

I don't really like this picture but it is good anyways, I like the little kid. 

Laszio Moholy-Nagy

Biography of Laszio Moholy-Nagy

Laszio Moholy-Nagy came to the United States in 1937. Moholy-Nagy was a Hungarian painter and photographer, and also a professor in the Bauhaus school. His first ambition was to become a writer, and while he was still at school some of his poetry was published in newspaper. When he graduated in 1913, his uncle encourage him to study law in Budapest, but World War I interrupted his studies and did not finish. Around 1918, at the age 23 he began his career as an artist. His early paintings and drawing were figurative towards Expressionism. Then he began to study composition and the effects of colors on composition, which lead to photography.

I like this painting because the flower looks really beautiful, and it pops out because of the black background. 

I like this picture because of the details and the shadows of the guys especially I like guy who is wearing the black and white dress shirt. 

I like this it looks really cool, and like the shapes the girl in the air and one in the back, but a smaller vision of her in the air. I like how her posture is in the air. 

Photography Research

1.Book: Time/ Motion
  Photographer: Jonathan Shaw, Eadweard Muybridge, Harold Edgerton

2. Book: Robert Capa/ photographs
    By: Richard Whelan
    Photographer: Robert Capa

3. Book: Aperature Masters of Photography
    By: Agust Sander

4. Book: Masters of Photography- Aperature Photography: Manray

5. Book: Masters of Photography - Aperature
    Photographer: Weegee

6. Book: Masters of Photography- Aperature
    Photographer: Manuel Alverez Bravo

7. Book: Master of Photography- Aperature
    Photographer: Harry Callahan

8. Book: Master of Photography- Aperature
    Photographer- Alfred Stieglitz

9. Book: Master of Photography 101
    Photographer: Edward Weston

10. Book: In real life 6 Women Photographers
      By: Leslie Sills
      Photographers: Imogen Cunningham, Dorthea Lange, Lola, Aluarez Bravo, Carrie Mae Weerns, Elsa         Darfrnan, Cindy Sherman

11. Book: The Americans
      Photographer- Robert Frank

12. Book: Master of Photographer- Aperature
      Photographer- Berenice Abbott

13. Book: Master of Photography- Aperature
      Photographer- Paul Strand

14. Book: Masters of Photographer- Aperature
      Photographer: Engene Alget

15. Book: Master of Photography- Aperature
      Photographer- Tina Modotti

16. Book: Imogen Cunningham- Ideas without End
      Photographer- Imogen Cunningham
      By: Richard Lorenz

17. Book: Alfred Stieglitz- An American Seer
      By: Dorothy Norman
      Photographer- Alfred Stieglitz

18. Book: Ansel Adams 1902-1984
      Photographer- Ansel Adams

19. Book: Other Realities
      Photographer- Jerry Uelsmann

20. Book: Lewis W. Hine

William Eggleston

Biography of  William Eggleston

William Eggleston is an American photographer who still lives today. Eggleston began his career making black and white images, he later took only colors images. Eggleston became known as "the father of color photography" for his best photos of people, events and landscapes in the south. 

I like this picture. The background is colorful 

I really like this photo on the airplane. I like how the cup makes a beautiful shiny shadow. I like how the sky looks like. 

This photo is weird because the kid is staring at the guns. He is observing, but strange. I like how the picture is taking and very clear.   

Lewis Hine

Biography of Lewis Hine

Lewis Hine was born on September 26, 1874 in Wisconsin, Oshkosh. Lewis Hine was an sociologist and photographer. Hine studied sociology at the University of Chicago and Columbia . He began his career in 1904 photography immigrants arriving in the U.S at the Ellis Island in New York harbor. Hine uses his camera as a tool for social reform. Later on he became  photographer for the National  Child Labor Committee. Hine died on November 3,1940. 

This picture shows how it was back in the 1800's. Children would work at early age to survive. 

I like this picture because it is cool and it would scary to look down. 

This picture is really sad the boy is dirty, poor, and he looks tried.  

Post Assignment Shutter Speed

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1. What lessons or experiences did you “synthesize and analyze” to come up with your original idea-- what was your assignment.
2. How did you evaluated your work, what were you looking to create for the assignment, and was this idea a good idea?  
3. And what steps did you take to create your assignment?   
4. What do you like best about your images? 
5. Did you have trouble with some part of this assignment?  
6. How could you improve your image or process?

1.  To take a couple of photos of someone jumping, and at that moment you have take a perfect picture in the air. 
2.  I like to focus only one thing which is the person jumping in the air, the right time and the background. 
3. Finding a good place, and retaking picture again if it come wrong 
4. I like how it is taking at the right time when an object or a person in the air.
5. I did not have trouble in this assignment. 

3 Emotion Photos

  I took 3 best photos for this assignment. We had to take a picture of someone jumping in the air.

 

I like this picture because it looks cool , the jacket was in the air. 

 I like this picture because she looks happy and perfect in the air.

I really like this picture because I like the background. 

Shutters Speed Assignment

 Shutter speed is the one of  the  exposure controls. Shutter speed controls the image, background and the fast emotion. If you want to take a picture of someone jumping in the water, you would have to set the shutter speed high to get a perfect frozen image in the air.

Biography of Edward Curtis

Biography of Edward Curtis 

Edward Curtis was born on February 16, 1868. Edward Curtis was an ethnologist and photography of the American West and of the Native Americans peoples. Curtis took over 40,000 images and recorded information from over eighty American Indians tribal groups. He was known as the "Shadow Catcher" from many Americans Indians.

I like this picture because it is beautiful, and I like the posture of the horse.  I like the background and the little river.

I like this picture because it shows how the American Indians life cycle is and how they survive to get water, food and shelter. 

This photo is sad because this girl is sacred of something or the camera. 

This photo is one of his portrait.

Biography of Henri Cartier- Bresson

 Biography of Henri Cartier- Bresson 

Henri Cartier- Bresson was born  on August 22,1908 in Chanteloup, France. Cartier was one of major artists of the 20 century, he was involved one the world biggest events from the Spanish Civil War  to the French in 1968. Cartier-Bresson became a great photographer. By the mid 1930's he'd shown his work in Mexico, New York, and Madrid. Henri Cartier-Bresson was known as the godfather of street photography because he took so many amazing photos. Cartier-Bresson died on August 3,2004. 

                                                                  

    

I like this because I like how he shoot this photo. I can see the stairs  and the boy. It is really cool.

I really like this photo it looks really cool. He took this photo up, and I like the way he put the kids going up until the end. It looks like it is going around and around until the end. 

I like this photo, it looks really beautiful. I would  like to see this place and go through the trees with my car. 

Three Photos - Shadow

Per-Assignment: We were given an assignment to take as many as 50 photographs in the style of Paul Strand. Which means to take photos of object, people and the shadow behind the object. I chose 3 best photographs out of 50. 

Pre-Assignment: Get Close

Getting really close to an objects means focusing on only one thing and have everything blurred out. For this assignment we use the flash, so the picture will be clearer. I really like taking close up pictures, because you are only focusing one thing while the background is blurred. it gives the attention of an object.

Imogen Cunningham

Biography of Imogen Cunningham

Imogen Cunningham was born in Portland, Oregon in 1883. Imogen was one of the greatest American women photographers and had one of the longest photography career in history.  Imogen began to take photographs in 1901, while she was a student at the University of Washington. Cunningham was attracted to photography by the work of Gertrude Kasebier , who was well known for her portraits, subject or someone poses in natural light. Cunningham enjoys taking many photos. Cunningham was well known for her portraits, flower image, and nudes. 

                  I like this photo because the flower is beautiful and it looks like it is very alive.

This photo looks very ghostly in a way, but unique. It looks like the light is shining on top of her, and that she is powerful. 

I like this photos because it is very beautiful in black and white. I can see the light on the flower that makes it bright. 

Jacob Riis

Biography of Jacob Riis

Jacob Riis was born on May 3,1984 in Denmark. Jacob Riis was an investigative reporter and a photo journalism of the 20th century. Riis use photography to see the real condition in which the poor were living in New York City. Riis did not like how the poor people were living like in New York City, so he took photos to show people and make them  feel guilty of  what they haven't done anything to this poor human and don't take responsibility. Riis was known for his dedication to use photography and journalist skill to help the poor in New York City. Jacob Riis was one of the first photographers to use flash photography. Jacob Riis died on May 26, 1914. 

This photo shows how poor this mother is with no housing or food for her baby. This women look really tried and cold. This is really sad.

This photo is really sad because I feel bad for this three little boys who are sleeping on the street and cold at night. 

This photo truly shows how poor they are. There is probably like 8 people living in a small tenement with no windows or anything. It looks like they don't feel comfortable.  

Cunningham Assignment

 

The Biography of Paul Strand

The Biography of Paul Strand

Paul Strand was born in New York in 1890. Strand was an American photographer and filmmaker. At age 17 he begin to studied photography, one of his known photo is the "Wall Street" in 1915. Strand died in Orgeval, France, on March 31, 1976 at age 85. Paul Strand was one of the Photo League.

This picture is called the Wall Street one of the known.

This picture shows how this place is poor, it shows the reality of begin poor with nothing.

Biography of Ansel Adam

The Biography of Ansel Adam

Ansel Adam was born  February 20,1902, in San Francisco, California. Adam was a famous photographer in the late 1900s. Adam took many amazing pictures of the Western America, patically Yosemite National Park in black and white, he had  a different style than any other photographers. Adam had cardiovascular disease, he died  in April 22, 1984 at age 82.  

I like this picture because  the sun reflects the light to the water and it shows how the nature is really beautiful.

This photo shows how the nature is beautiful, I like how the river brights the sky and the mountains.

I like how the trees reflects the water, and the water is clear and calm.