Weds History of Photography

we all know that celebrities and models get photoshopped into magazines. how do you think that affects us as a society and also towards the younger generations. i feel that when young adults and teenagers see these photoshopped women, they think that thats what they need to look like in order to be happy and successful. even the most beautiful popular women still get photoshopped like 1. kim kardashian. she is claimed to be beautiful, hot, and sexy. why does she still need to be photoshopped? 2.beyonce too? the third link is of a 14 year old girl who made a petition for 17 magazine to release one magazine where no photoshop is used on the models.. although they listened.. they did not agree to release an unphotoshopped edition. young adults should just be healthy and happy, no need to look the way the magazines do because they are almost all fake anyway. what do you think?

1.http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/kim-kardashian-photoshop-mistake

2.http://www.google.com/imgres?q=beyonce+photoshop&hl=en&gbv=2&biw=1366&bih=667&tbm=isch&tbnid=L3mG-6-3W0xceM:&imgrefurl=http://sleepthirsty.tumblr.com/post/8768159&docid=xWUbvHWuz9ZloM&imgurl=http://25.media.tumblr.com/8768159_500.jpg&w=500&h=318&ei=ACC7T-vSGLKM6QGHxP2ACw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=572&vpy=190&dur=572&hovh=179&hovw=282&tx=149&ty=85&sig=118370506217844552776&page=1&tbnh=129&tbnw=216&start=0&ndsp=20&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0,i:90

http://www.silberstudios.tv/blog/2012/05/teens-against-photoshopped-magazine-models/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SilberStudios+%28Silber+Studios%29

do u know how beautiful the wind can be? have you ever just stopped and stared at what the wind blows and think.. wow. here in a link where we can see what the wind is really made of. here are a few dozen images of what the wind can make simply beautiful. my favorites are the first one (the decisive moment), slide 5,8,9,12,and 25. what are your favorites?

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2012/05/ways_of_the_wind.html

Photographer Martin Roemers is traveling around the world and document individuals and area in mega-cities. An mega-city is an highly populated area metropolitan area such as Tokyo and New York City. Roemers wants to know how can people live in such populated areas that is often overcrowd, Roemers aim to capture the dynamic of mega-cities.

I found this article very interesting, generally most photographers aim to capture and document secluded area. The dynamic presented in a city is much different from that of an rural or suburban area. I can’t wait to see the images captured by Roemers and how they express the environment they were taken in.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/opinion/sunday/living-in-the-new-metropolis.html?ref=photography

Photographs can change our perspective about things. Sometimes, it motivates us to go forward or to stay back from some things, places and people. Jonathan Blaustein is a cooked-turned- photographer who is working in a photography project called “the Value of a Dollar” in where he emphasizes the food that we can get in our community for a dollar. He takes photographs of different types of products that we consider “food” and which we consume frequently with the purpose of showing us the differences between their real appearances versus their advertisement appearances.
What impressed me about this article is the message behind it. This photographer wants us to realize that healthier food cannot be bought for a dollar, but the food that kills us, yes! Also, most of the fast food restaurant such as McDonalds, Burger King, KFC and so on use photography to enhance their products just to attract us to go and make money from us! Do you think that they care about our health? …

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/08/food-for-a-dollar/

It’s very interesting to read articles about photographers who are focused on the nature and everything surrounded it because they make every part of Gods’ creation a piece of art by showing us in details all the things that we do not pay attention to in sharp focus. Joel Sartore is a conservationist photographer who had been shooting animals for National Geographic for around two decades. Now, he is working in one of his biggest project called “The Biodiversity Project” in where he takes photographs of zoo-raised animals in a studio. This project will contain around thousands of photos of different animals that live in zoos and aquariums in the United States. Mr. Sartore says that the purpose of this project is to captivate the eyes of the observers with true beauty, the beauty that every animal has, but we don’t see. He wants viewers to think that “animals are cool, and they’re worth looking at.”
I was looking at some of the photographs of Mr. Sartore and I was amazed because I could see the beauty of each animal, the vivid colors of their eyes and skin. Also, I could see that animals have attitudes too.

http://www.joelsartore.com/galleries/the-biodiversity-project/