Assignment 1.3

 Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother depicts destitute pea pickers in California, centering on Florence Owens Thompson, age 32, a mother of seven children, in Nipomo, California, March 1936. I chose this photo because it has always really stuck out to me. When I think of The Great Depression, this is it. You can see her somberness, anxiety, and stress all in one photo. The way she furrows her eyebrow and how she's touching her bottom jaw makes you feel how she must have been feeling during this dark time. 

Assignment 1.3

 

I really like photos that make us look at it with a different perspective. I like the idea of giving an object a different meaning, or portraying it to be bigger or smaller than the what the normal size of it would originally be. I like seeing images with a different concept, I think it allows us to look at not only images, but life, with a different viewpoint.

Assignment 1.3 - Photo I Like

 

I love this photo because I have a huge soft spot in my heart for birds. Not only that, but I love how the colors were edited, and I absolutely love seeing the light shine through the bird's wings. It gives the photo an ethereal, magical feel to it that I adore. 

Assignment 1.3

 Here is the photo I chose, it was shot by Ansel Adams. I chose this image because it's the first example that comes to my mind when I think "photography". Its  beauty speaks for itself with it being completely in black and white.

Assignment #1 - Lindsay S

     I really like these types of photos, but this one, in particular, is my favorite. I enjoy the brick streets and architecture that is shown and also the time of day that it is. These types of photos make me feel relaxed and nostalgic.  

Assignment #1 - Rest Energy

 I chose this piece as a photograph I enjoy because the context behind it is interesting and the final result looks absurd.  It's from a performative art exhibit by Serbian performance artist Marina Abramovic and Ulay, where the latter pulled back on an arrow in a bow and they both leaned back.  One slip up, and the arrow could have actually pierced her body.  Not to discredit the idea, but the extremity of this has always seemed needless to me, it's a type of performance art that didn't need to rely on potential death, so that's what this photo represents to me.  Needless self-sacrifice for the sake of art that ultimately looks kinda silly.

Selective Focus