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Homework #7
The theme that was addressed in Robert Franks photographs is the national pride of America. Frank has captured photos of people who are living in America after the events of World War 2 were everyone is living happily. These photos … Continue reading
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Homework #7: Robert Frank’s America
For this homework assignment, please watch a short video on last year’s exhibition at Stanford University’s Cantor Center for Visual Arts. The exhibition highlighted Robert Frank’s seminal photography book The Americans (1958) and the photographs that didn’t make it into … Continue reading
Homework#6
Food photography is currently one of the trending photography topic there is as of today. Although it’s been overly done, this photography style can be useful in other form. There’s people who take picture of food for their own pleasure … Continue reading
Homework #6
I believe the difference between food photography for marketing and food photography for art is how devoted you are to your photographs. Food photography for marketing, is a great way to use your artistic image to make money. Post it … Continue reading
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Homework #6
When viewing Martin Parr’s work I saw that each food didn’t look as appealing. While Instagram photos did look appealing. Which made me think of Ā food that’s used in advertising which can be showed everywhere. For example every fast food … Continue reading
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Homework #6: Instagram and the Art of Food Photography
Happy Thanksgiving! This week seems an appropriate time toĀ considerĀ how photographing food can be an art form. A recent article āFood instagrammers turn their accounts in professionsā in the Wall Street Journal highlights how some people have turned their obsession with … Continue reading
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Tagged British foods, food photography, Instagram, Martin Parr, Thanksgiving
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Homework #5
When reading the article the writer mentionedĀ that both The Falling Soldier and the photograph, showing a man in a further state of collapse show the same man. Both man do look similar but you can’t really tell. It can be … Continue reading
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Homework #5: Robert Capa’s Death of a Loyalist Soldier
At the age of 23, Robert Capa took a photograph that many have labeled the greatest war photograph of all time.Ā Taken during the Spanish Civil War, the renown of Capaās photograph,Ā Falling SoldierĀ orĀ Death of a Loyalist Soldier,Ā reverberated around the world … Continue reading
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Tagged authenticity, Death of a Loyalist Soldier, Falling Soldier, Robert Capa, war photography
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Homework #4
Iāve taken the train quite often, and the peopleās facial expression, today, is ALMOST similar to the ones during the Depression Era. He has taken many pictures of people looking sleepy, upset, concerned and looking at different directions on the … Continue reading
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Homework #4: Walker Evansā Subway Portraits
Walker Evansā photographed people on the New York City subways between 1938-1941. He only published these photographs 25 years later in his book,Ā Many Are Called, which was re-issued in 2004. Read a review about the new edition in theĀ New York … Continue reading
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Tagged Great Depression, portraits, portraiture, subways, Walker Evans
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