Favorite Picture in Look From Behind, With Feeeling

Soldiers #6

I picked this picture as my favorite for multiple reasons. The color contrast of the navy and gold brings attention to the crisp lines of the gold patches, highlighting these details. Color is a very important rule of photography. This photo captures the rule of thirds by having three main rows of soldiers, creating a balance and organization among the many different soldier's shapes. The soldiers completely fill the frame, bringing attention to the subjects' backs. Filling the frame can help bring attention to the details of the picture.

Top 5 Photos

An Embedded Photographer Empowers the Poor

1. Women with water vase, #2
2. Boats in sunset, #9
3. Trash and Paper #16
4. Eyes on TV #28
5. Blue Water #3

Updated Multimedia Poster

1) Why is this poster good?

    This poster is good because not only is it creative and interesting, but it is informative and clearing explains the event.

2) Why is it better than the last one?

     This poster is better than the last one because it is more organized, creative, colorful, and interesting.

3) What did you do to create the poster?

    I helped with the creative idea behind our poster of using a camera.

Multimedia Festival Poster

Ordinary Miracles - The Photo League

1. What was The Photo League's credo? The Photo League's credo was that social change could be achieved through documentary photography and an emotional connection with one's subject and the camera was more than a means of recording reality; it was a device with the potential to change the world.

2. What organization did The Photo League separate from?
   The Photo League separated from the Film and Photo League, which separated due to differences in interests, while Paul Strand and Ralph Strainer formed Frontier Films.

3. What was the workshop? The Photo League’s school offered photography classes to anyone with a camera and $5. Director Sid Grossman believed the goal of the photographer was to achieve an emotional connection with the subjects.

4. Who taught "the workshop?"
   Sid Grossman

5. If you were to devote one year of your life to one project, what project is worth your time and energy? I would photograph mothers, which are often unappreciated and not given enough credit for everything they do.
6. What was The Harlem Document?
   The Harlem Document is a portfolio of photographs that reveals Harlem’s poor living conditions and neighborhood in the 1930’s.

7. Who started The Harlem Document? Aaron Siskind started The Harlem Document.

8. A photographer discusses a photograph where "the children looked like they came out of a __________ painting. Who was the painter?
   Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

9. Why did the photograph mentioned in #8 look like it was by the painter? The kids all looked naive, but especially the one sitting on the right had light hitting his face,highlighting him.

10. Who was Lewis Hine? (name two significant contributions) He photographed child labor which showed children working long  hours under dangerous conditions. Later in World War 1, Hine served as a photographer with Red Cross. He was also hired to record the construction of the Empire State Building.

11. Who was Weegee? Weegee was a photojournalist who took images of the aftermath of New York street crimes and disasters.

12. How did The League change when The Nazis took power? They became focused on supporting the war effort. They showed patriotism in America and gruesome descriptions of the war.

13. How did The League change during WWII? Photo League members enlisted with armed forces and took part in battles on every theatre of WWII.

14. How did Siskind change after WWII? Siskind turned away from the social and political world after WWII.

15. What was the Saturday Evening post? The Saturday Evening Post was a photojournalism magazine similar to LIFE.

16. Who was Barbara Morgan? What did she photograph? Barbara Morgan was an American photographer best known for her depictions of modern dancers.

17. What eventually undermined the Photo League? The Photo League was put on a list of possible totalitarian, communist, or fascist organizations, created by Tom Clark.

18. What was the "Growing Menace" mentioned in the film? Communism

19. Who agreed to serve as President when The League was under investigation?
    W. Eugene Smith
20. What happened to the league?
    FBI agent Angela Calomiris testified that Sid Grossman had recruited her from the Photo League into the Communist Party. Although the League was never officially on trial, people became scared and didn’t come anymore. Due to the loss of members, the Photo League closed down in the summer of 1951.

Poster Assignment

Period 3 - Semester Final

1. My favorite picture is #1 because I find that the missile explosion reflects on the water lighting up the sea playing with light and shadow. Also, the smoke the missiles leave in the sky create diagonal lines and movement and the sea takes up about a third of the picture, giving it a nice balance.

2. The best  picture is #4. Not only is it taken from an interesting angle resulting in an eye catching effect but the building column takes up about a third of the space, following the rules of thirds. In addition, the photographer filled the frame and "got closer".

3. My best work is the last picture on my Inspired by a Master- Henri Cartier Bresson. This picture is my best work because it catches movement and has many details in it that make you want to keep looking at it. On top of that, I worked hard to be creative and use lines and patterns. If I had more time I would have either made the tree and Junior more perfectly centered or toward one side or the other because it is sort of awkward how they are almost in the center but not quite.
http://judithmargit.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2014-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2015-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=9

4. My rules are fill the frame, use diagonals, and rule of thirds.


5. Inspired my Cartier Bresson
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Brick Lines

This photo fills the frame by having the brick pattern fill the picture. It also uses diagonals at the corners and the rim of the brick step is captured at an angle appearing as a diagonal line.

6. Your first rule of photography is to get closer!

7. The benefits of working in groups is it strengthens your communicating skills, you need to use team work which can lessen your load, everyone can work together to improve by sharing their input, you get to know other people and make friends, and it prepares your for the future, you will need to know how to work in a team in college and the work force.

8. Some difficulties of working in  a group is you are only as strong as your weakest link, you need to help others even if you are on track, you may feel dragged down by others who are slower, you are responsible for everyone in the group, and it can be stressful because you cant fully control others. 

9. My favorite picture by another person in this class is Kevan Mathis' fourth picture on his Inspired by a Masters blog post of a modern version of one of Henry Cartier Bresson's most famous photos of a man riding a bike and stairs. 

http://kevanmathisphoto.blogspot.com/2014/12/masters-of-photography-henri-cartier.html

A Little History

10. Henri Cartier-Bressson is considered one of the major artists of the 20th century. He was a pioneer in street photojournalism. He took raw, real, and spontaneous photos all around the world. His work helped establish photojournalism as a true art form. He captured major American events, such as the Spanish Civil War and the French uprisings. His work was rule breaking, focusing on the importance of street photography and he captured sights that many Americans would not have been exposed to without his photos. His influence on street photography styles is so strong he is known as the "Godfather of Street Photography".

11. "Migrant Mother" is Dorothea Langes most famous photo. It was taken at a camp for seasonal agricultural workers in Nipomo, California on March 1936 while she was employed for the Farm Security Administration.

12.On November 23, 1936, the first issue of Life (as a pictorial magazine rather than a humor piece) was published featuring a cover of Fort Peck Dam, by Bourke-White.

13. In 1947, Capa co-founded Magnum Photos in Paris.

14. Robert Capa took the picture "Falling Soldier" on September 5th, 1936 in Espejo during the Spanish Civil War and shows the moment of death of a militiaman.