Monthly Archives: May 2017

Official Grades & Happy Summer

A short note to say your grades are posted on Blackboard. Please check your grade center on Blackboard to look at your grades and final grade average. There are separate columns for the final exam, paper grades, homework and two … Continue reading

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Kimberly Vargas: Homework #3

At a first glance, Robert Capa’s photograph “Death of a Loyalist Soldier” is very shocking but there is something about it that could suggest that it was “staged”. It is perhaps because of the angle and the position of the … Continue reading

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Kimberly Vargas: Homework #4

The exhibition “The Americans” from Robert frank’s book was very intriguing and mesmerizing. It had a wide variety of photos that Robert Frank had taken during his life as a photographer. His main goal for the book was to capture America … Continue reading

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Robert Frank, The American

After warching the video about Rober Frank, named the American, I was able to see his point of view about American society. He focused his photographs in ordinary people, people that were suffering in our society during 1950s. In the … Continue reading

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robert frank the Americans

The exhibition tour of robert frank’s book called the americans was very interesting and many different variety of photos that robert frank took during his life as a photographer. His goal for his book was to capture america, it was … Continue reading

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Robert Fran’s America

After watching the video on the exhibition of Robert Frank’s photographs that were not included in Robert Frank’s book. I think Robert Frank is artistic in a political way, the way he takes photos of ordinary people expresses all the … Continue reading

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Robert Franks: The Americans

After watching the short video on the Exhibit in Stanford of the photographs that were not included into Robert Frank’s book, what I took from all of it was that his style of photography was very clever and was also … Continue reading

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Homework #4: Robert Frank’s America

After watching the video on the exhibition of Robert Frank’s photography book The Americans (1958) and the photographs that did not make it into publications, I believe that Robert Frank is artistic in a political way and finds a unique … Continue reading

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Homework 4 Robert Frank Americans

The themes in Robert Frank’s The Americans were artistic, bleak, and political; therefore it was a realistic depiction of America. Through his photographic book, Frank showed the world how complex it is to be an American. Frank addresses the feelings … Continue reading

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Extra Review Material for Photographs on Final Exam

Please note that I have revised the short list for the Final and deleted a few images (the Bechers’ Gas Tower and Serrano’s Piss Christ). Since I will not be able to cover much of the remaining material in-depth,  I … Continue reading

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