Monthly Archives: October 2014

In this photograph, I took a picture in front of the main entrance of New York City College of Technology. It shows the busy Jay Street, crowded with people across the street ahead, going on with their day. All of … Continue reading →

.   In this photograph, you can easily find that is a construction in front of a tall building and surrounding by some trees and other buildings, a crane is lifting steel materials. That remind me that a part of … Continue reading →

This is a picture from the intersection near the subway station in Jay St MetroTech. The reason I took this picture is lots of students, workers and other people were hanging out in this corner. In this part of the … Continue reading →

I took this picture at afternoon.  The first thing came to my eye is light and darkness.  On one side of buildings were in the sunshine that looked golden, and on the other side of buildings were in the darkness.  … Continue reading →

This is a picture of the ocean taken by myself located down by the Brooklyn bridge piers. This photo was taken in the late afternoon using no filters. When I took this picture, and then saw the actual photograph, the … Continue reading →

Hi Class…lot’s of information today! Homework for Wednesday: 1. Read Parla and Anastasio. 2. Post a photograph (make sure that the image size is under 1 Mb) that you have taken to OpenLab then describe it under the photo in … Continue reading →

Henri Cartier Bresson, Derriere la gare de Saint Lazare, 1932  

Hi Class, 1. What is a photograph? 2. Why do we take, keep, share, and discard photographs? 3. How should we make sense of photographs? The French sociologist and critic Roland Barthes wrote about photography, and he came up with … Continue reading →