This photograph is using a framing and depth of field. The tombs show that they are build in nineteenth century. I had learned the document of calculating last week, and Green Wood Cemetery must spending a lot of time and money to build.
I picked this photo because this is one of the mausoleums that are part of Green-Wood Cemetery’s 19th and 20th century collection. The photo also speaks to the steep but beautiful landscape of hills and grass that sets it apart from other cemeteries I have seen before.
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Green-wood cemetery
While not able to attend the Historical Brooklyn Society I did learn quite a bit while viewing the website. What really made an impact on me was the historical significance. People buried there were important figures in human history. The cemetery really resonate this historical flow that exist in the there. Every angle of the cemetery tell stories.
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A trip to the Green-Wood Cemetery
The trip to the Green-Wood Cemetery was extremely amazing. A very nice Sunny day provided us the best lighting condition. Just before we went to the cemetery, we had learned that it is not only a cemetery but a very beautiful ,historical spot for visitors. In the Cemetery, I saw beautiful design for all the tombs with sculptures and plants. Overall, the atmosphere there is not mystery at all but elegant and pleasant.
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Greenwood Cemetery-Kenyasoweta Bowman
I chose this photograph because the juxtaposition of the statue to the tombstones looks like she’s about to raise the dead. She looks mournful yet at peace. At the museum we learned about family plots and how much they cost and how multiple bodies were often used for one grave. This is a picture of a family plot.
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Entrance to Green-Wood Cemetery
This is the entrance to the historic Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. I saw photos of this entrance at the Brooklyn Historical Society during our class visit. The entrance sets a sort of grand mood for this famous cemetery, and seems to let the visitor know that this is an important site. The gothic nature of the entrance creates a mystery about the place, and the height and intricacy of the design go along with the grand nature of the cemetery. Although a gothic motif is completely different from what you see in general around Brookyln, and at the cemetery, it lets one know that this is a special type of site, apart from what ou normally see in the area. I learned at the Society that many famous people are buried at the cemetery, and that it has been in existence for over one hundred years. I also learned that it is a big tourist site in New York, which also goes along with the grand nature of the entrance
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I choose this photograph because at last weeks Research on Green-Wood at the Brooklyn Historical Society my group read a pamphlet about the rules of the cemetery. The part that really got my attention was the emphasize of the type of flowers they have to offer to put by the tomb stones. I thought it was nice to see that the cemetery actually showed care for the people who had just lost a loved one. The more recent rule book didn’t have anything like that it was just straight forward rules regarding hours and maintenance. I thought the trip to the cemetery was great i had never seen a cemetery that had such a tourist attraction feel to it. Last week i didn’t understand why someone would go to a cemetery just to visit but now i could see why, it truly is a beauty.
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Green-wood Cemetery
I picked this photo because I had seen a photo of the fountain in the book that I looked at in the Brooklyn Historical Society. I was really looking forward to seeing the beautiful fountain and I was lucky enough to see it when the sun was shining :). There were a lot of visible differences between my photo and the one at the Society. In the old photo the trees were shorter and not so lush. I knew that the cemetery was going to be very fancy and not just your every day headstones. Not just because of the photos in the brochure but even at that time it was a destination spot which cost a lot. I am really glad I got to go and definitely want to go back and and check out some famous stones.
Homework 1: Dawoud Bey
| Bowman, Kenyasoweta GRA 2330 – Digital Photography Professor Michals February 8, 2010Photograph used: Dawoud Bey’s “A Boy in Front of Loews 125th Street, 1976” 1. What type of photograph is it? This appears to be a “candid” photograph. |
Thomas Holton — The Lams of Ludlow Street HW#1 Weiquan Chen
1. I think that the type of Thomas Holton’s photograph is reflecting a group of people’s lives in America.
2. Thomas Holton try to convey a message about how though of the environment of the new immigrant living in this country.
3. The photograph created the scenes of the immirgrant’s daily life and emphasize their living enrivonment.
4. The photograph use the contrast between the light and shadow that create an intensive emphasis.
5. The very first thing that captured my eyes is the most contrast part. A character or an object that has a big color contrast with the background can be the first place I looked at. My eyes will also flow from the biggest object to the smallest object.
6. When I spend more time on those pictures, I found out that the photographer try to stand out the feeling of how the kids already get used to the enrivonment.
7. The photograph give me a feeling of sorrow, oppressive and somehow hopeful. I may think that the kids are still the hope to make the family better future, and as parents they work so hard to provide their family.
8. “Varanasi Junction” is the other Holton’s photograph, they just alike because they are both about the how the living enrivonment of lower class of Asian people and express by taking photo of thier daily live.
