After viewing the Photographs, they are similar to the FSA photography such as the photographer Walker Evans  and Dorothea Lange because both of their photograph represents the poverty that has happened during the dustbowl. Many Americans do not live in California to know about the drought conditions that has impacted the farm or know that these fruits/crop products were harvested in California. Due to the cut of water of water in the central vally many farmers were failing to continue growing and producing their crops. This has affected the supplies towards our agricultural which leads to no supplies to harvest.

The recent events that have taken place here in the United States, resonate deeply with me as the mother of a biracial teenager, as a resident of Staten Island as a citizen of the United States but most importantly as a human being. Although I briefly studied the events that took place at Kent State many years ago, I don’t think the situation or Filo’s image touched me as deeply then, as it did when we viewed it this week in class. The photograph by Filo and the many by Olsen, for me represent an imagery of our Federal and State governments that simply should not be. An attack on citizens of the United States by military and militarized police is extremely difficult for me to fathom despite the photographic evidence shared by both photographers and my personal experiences here in NYC this past week. Further troublesome, was to learn that there is a desire to remove the topic of Kent State from our textbooks as if an instance of sheer brutality, inflicted on American citizens by the very people sworn to protect them, can simply be erased from our history books. It only makes me wonder what will be written in the textbooks about the protests of 2014, forty-five years from now.

Matt Black’s photographs documenting the California drought and the effects it has had on the “Fruit Bowl” of America is extremely reminiscent of the FSA photographs of the dust bowl, the dry and dire conditions are near identical. Scarier still is the fact that American farmers appear to have learned little from the destruction over farming caused to the Great Plains during the 1930’s.The depletion of the Central Valley’s aquifers (the natural wells that sit underground) has been a topic of conversation among government officials and farmers for many years, yet little to nothing has been done aside from the more conscious farmers who converted their farming practices into sustainable ones. The fact that the problem existed, was discussed and still ignored allowing the drought to only further complicate a terrible situation, I fear that it will not be until the faucets run dry that the people of California will pay attention.

I found the photographs by Henry Hargreaves to be extremely intuitive. Although, I believe that the celebrities’ requests are rather outlandishly absurd, Hargreaves manages to capture it in the most creative ways. These photographs displayed a certain point of view into the lives of these icons in order to understand and learn through a brief glimpse about their personalities. It simultaneously evokes the similarity to Flemish, the still life paintings by the arrangement and lighting of each item that was requested. My favorite photograph was the food request for the New Kids on the Block which was Häagen-Dazs ice cream and Oreo cookies. I admired the way the ice cream melts into the cookies that are specifically notable for being a dunkable cookie with milk. It is very appealing to the eyes to be able to visualize the melted ice cream as it leaks onto the sandwich cookies until the cookies begin to disintegrate.

Although, Le voyage dans la Lune (or A Trip to the Moon) is a moving picture film, it still evokes a sense of emotion to deliver a conceptualized story just as a photograph. The film and photography were very similar since the images they captured could only be filmed or photographed as long as the moment being captured was in the lens’s shot due to the bulky equipment that could not be easily moved. Both of these practices allow certain moments in life to be virtually immortalized by way of a film or photograph to be a constant memory for a specific occasion.

This article was very amusing to say the least. The requests that the artists listed made were quite hilarious and they completely fit their descriptions. My favorite ones were the requests Frank Sinatra, Busta Rhymes, and Prince made. As for the photos, Henry Hargreaves did an exceptional job. He did an exceptional job of giving life and character to such simple yet odd foods through his photos.

Pictures taken in Ferguson look more dynamic than the one taken in Kent State. The one in Kent State looks more like it was staged and the ones in Ferguson look more dynamic. As the author said, he did not have time focus and shoot. He shoot without pointing and do the afterwork later.

pictures are very dynamic and dramatic. I think the reason why only few Americans know about this matter is because it is not the business that they care about. There must be other reasons such as lack of attention of media and political support, but mainly is because we do not care. We still have what we have and our daily lives are not so different from any other days.

Interesting pictures. Even though some of artists only request simple meals like gummy bears, the artist still took amazing piece of art out of them. It seems like he is very good at plating. It has 3 dimensional elements.