Category Archives: Discussion Topics
Walker Evan’s Subway Portraits
You can tell Evans main goal was to get a real human expression. To get a look of real emotion. How people are truly feeling and how they would look during a train ride. He would have never gotten the … Continue reading
Transformation of Cindy Sherman
I happened to be searching some photography blogs online and ran into the video that I thought would be interesting. Especially for those who visited the Cindy Sherman exhibit. Cindy Sherman: Characters Art Exclusive
Follow Magnum Photographer Alec Soth through Ohio
Even though I said earlier this week that I had posted the last Discussion Topic for the semester, I just wanted to add this to our class blog feed. First, thanks to everyone who has been posting very interesting … Continue reading
Janette Beckman, New York Photographer
Admiring the person in charge of a lot of New York’s famous photography is Janette Beckman. Originally an English documentary photographer born in London, she lives and works in New York. As veteran photographer of music and youth culture Beckman … Continue reading
New York Photo Festival 2012 Coming Up
So, the New York Photo Festival 2012 will be held in a few days from May 16 through May 20 in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Not too far from our CityTech. And what’s most exciting is that all New York Festival exhibition … Continue reading
Remembering Wordsworth Donisthorpe, Inventor of the Kinesigraph
Wordsworth Donisthorpe was an English individualist anarchist and inventor, pioneer of cinematography and chess enthusiast. On 9 November 1876 Donisthorpe applied for a patent for the Kinesigraph, an apparatus ‘to facilitate the taking of a succession of photographs at equal … Continue reading
Discussion Topic: Street Art and Photography
In 2011, the French street artist JR launched a global art project called Inside Out Project that uses photographic images to address issues of social identity. Everyone is invited to participate. Individuals or groups send in their black and white photographic portraits … Continue reading
Discussion Topic: Old is New Again with the iPhone-Nina Katchadourian’s airplane bathroom photos
What do you do when you’re stuck on a long plane ride without wi-fi or a good book? If you’re the performance artist Nina Katchadourian, you construct a good photo with airline magazines, sugar packets, or toilet paper, which she … Continue reading
The Greatest War Photograph and Capa
The Falling Soldier or Death of a Loyalist Soldier is indeed the greatest war photograph. According to “Proving that Robert Capa’s “Falling Soldier” is Genuine: A Detective Story” the arguments Whelan brings is pretty convincing on my part. Whelan was explaining that the … Continue reading
Discussion Topic: The Greatest War Photograph and Capa
At the age of 23, Robert Capa took a photograph that many have labeled the greatest war photograph of all time. Taken during the Spanish Civil War, the renown of Capa’s photograph, Falling Soldier or Death of a Loyalist Soldier, reverberated around the world … Continue reading
