Category: Glossary

Provocateur(noun)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/provocateur

Definition

• one who provokes

In “How better phones can  help you document, and shape,your neighborhood” Patrick Sisson answers the question “What advice do you have about getting ahead in the industry for people who want to become professional photographers?”

He states “You want to tell stories through your photos, and be clear if you want to be an artistic provocateur, or if you want to objectified. Secondly, you don’t need the best equipment, you don’t need the Leica. Finally, I would say, unfortunately in this day and age, you may have to do something else to free yourself up to do this kind of work. I’ve been a lawyer. For many who are pure photographers, they’re wedding and portrait photographers and so forth.”

In other words,Patrick Sisson is basically saying if you want to advance and get ahead or or simply get better at photography theirs no clear trick to it. It’s all about working with the resources you have and using the means necessary to do what needs to been done. For example, making time in your probably busy schedule to do so.

condominium (noun)

Poignant: (Adjective)

Blackout-

When a poet has chosen an already established piece of writing and starts redacting words with a black marker to form a new text, to create more of a visual poem.

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opulence (adjective)

1. affluence, wealthiness
2. abundance

In the article “Here, Poverty And Privilege Are Neighbors; Income Gaps Are a Source of Resentment And Guilt” by Janny Scott, the word opulence is used in this sentence: “…an area along the beach in Brooklyn where West End Avenue appears to be a stark line of demarcation between the serene old-immigrant opulence of Manhattan Beach and the teeming new-immigrant enclave of Brighton Beach”. Scott is saying that there is a clear boundary (huge difference) between a peaceful, wealthy neighborhood and a densely populated ethnic enclave.

Source: Dictionary

Synonyms: riches, prosperity, lavishness, luxurious

adjective

of, relating to, or being an individual or unit of mixed or diverse background or composition

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hyphenated

In, “How better photos can help you document, and shape, your neighborhood ” by Patrick Sisson he states, ‘Wolfe outlines a philosophy that reflects his multihyphenate nature, blending the artistic approach of a photographer with the rigor of a lawyer.’

In this sentence, the author uses the word Multihyphenated to describe how he has a broad way of thinking.

Avid (Adjective)

1. characterized by enthusiasm and vigorous pursuit: very eager and enthusiastic
2. desirous to the point of greed: urgently eager: GREEDY

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In the passage “BROOKLYN WAS MINE” by Jennifer Eagan, the author states “And she often reported on her avid reading”

In this sentence, the author uses the word “avid” to describe the enthusiasm that Lucy had from some of her readings which were: Dorothy Parker, Howard Fast, Boris Voyetekhov’s The Last Days of Sevastopol”

Superb(noun)

Marked to the highest degree by grandeur, excellence, brilliance or competence

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In “Reading Lucy” by Jennifer Egan, the author says, “When it came to life in the navy yard around the job, Lucy was superb. “I just learned of a wonderful way to lose friends and get a lot of laughs or do you already know the funnel trick?” she wrote in an undated letter.

This means that Lucy was excellent at her job at the navy yard, she knows how to do it well

elicit (verb)

to call forth

In the article “How better photos can help you document, and shape, your neighborhood” by Patrick Sisson, the interviewee Chuck Wolfe mentions the past tense word elicited here: “Part of the beauty of this book is that it was written at a time when smartphone photography is getting better and more common and relevant. It really works well with the book’s focus on crowdsourced and elicited photography”.

In other words, Wolfe is talking about photography brought out by people.

Synonyms: evoke, extort

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