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Monthly Archives: April 2013
Sleeping as Art.
First of all, the eyes are not playing an important role in the overall expression of a sleeping person. Because of that, we can only see the person from his facial expression. Normally a sleeping person does not have any … Continue reading
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Response to Rooms from Versailles to post-Katrina New Orleans
After reading the article and the have look the photographs by Robert Polidori. I really love the photographs that he took,and i his photographs aestheticize the settings of catastrophe. It is not about to change the setting, but the color … Continue reading
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Response to Photography and Special Effects in Early Film
Effects in old films are very obvious, the older a film the more obvious the effects are. For the time period the effects were well done and some are even considered iconic (moon landing). These days we’re use to not … Continue reading
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Photography and Special Effects in Early Film
A Trip To The Moon does recall practices of early photography. One of the first things that I noticed was the frame, the camera did not move. Individuals were placed inside of the view of the camera only, if they … Continue reading
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Response to Rooms from Versailles to post-Katrina New Orleans
Robert Polidori’s photographs seem to have a lot of patterns in them, not all of them of course but a majority. Tons of details gets brought out, maybe its his use of a large format camera. I think its good … Continue reading
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Rooms from Versailles to post-Katrina New Orleans
Robert Polidori’s photography is very inspirational and displays a solid setting. I do believe that his photographs aestheticize the settings of catastrophe. Polidri has the ability to take the most gruesome or heartbreaking pictures and make them appear beautiful. In … Continue reading
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Discussion Topic: Photography and Special Effects in Early Film
I’m a really big fan of the Smashing Pumpkins’ video, but I never saw the whole original movie before. It is funny for us to watch this kind of attempts to create special effects, but for that time, I believe … Continue reading
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Photography & Special Effects
Georges Méliès was a genius doing all of those mechanical effects in Le voyage dans la lune. Most of the effects in the short film by Méliès were either practical, physical and atmospheric effects. My favorite effect was the one … Continue reading
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Discussion Topic: Photography and Special Effects in Early Film
Le Voyage dans la Lune- A Trip to the Moon is in black and white the whole time which reminds of old films/photogrpagh my papers use to show me and watch on tv. THe music is loud and catches your … Continue reading
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Discussion Topic: Rooms from Versailles to post-Katrina New Orleans
I believe that these photographs show a powerful statement of unique events. If you view the photos closesly they look real and you can feel it in my opinion. India it is crowd and I never went there but looking … Continue reading
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