20 books and artists

1. The Photo Book
    Phaidon
    Erwin Blumenfeld
    Phaidon Press Limited
2. The Photo Book
    Phaidon
    Arbus Diane
    Phaidon Press Limited
3. The Photo Book
    Phaidon
    Neil Armstrong
    Phaidon Press Limited
4. The Photo Book
    Phaidon
    Eve Arnold
    Phaidon Press Limited
5.The Photo Book
   Phaidon
   Margaret Bourke-White
   Phaidon Press Limited
6.The Photo Book
   Phaidon
   Ian Bradshaw
   Phaidon Press Limited
7.The Photo Book
   Phaidon
   Gunter Brus
   Phaidon Press Limited
8.The Photo Book
   Phaidon
   Rene Burri
   Phaidon Press Limited
9.The Photo Book
   Phaidon
   William Christenberry
   Phaidon Press Limited
10.The Photo Book
   Phaidon
   Stephen Dalton
   Phaidon Press Limited
11.The Photo Book
   Phaidon
   David Doubilet
   Phaidon Press Limited
12.The Photo Book
   Phaidon
   Harold E. Edgerton
   Phaidon Press Limited
13.The Photo Book
   Phaidon
   Elliot Erwitt
   Phaidon Press Limited
14.The Photo Book
   Phaidon
   Leon Gimpel
   Phaidon Press Limited
15.The Photo Book
   Phaidon
   Philippe Halsman
   Phaidon Press Limited
16.The Photo Book
   Phaidon
   Lewis W. Hine
   Phaidon Press Limited
17.The Photo Book
   Phaidon
   Jan Kaila
   Phaidon Press Limited
18.The Photo Book
   Phaidon
   Andre Kertesz
   Phaidon Press Limited
19.The Photo Book
   Phaidon
   Douglas Kirkland
   Phaidon Press Limited
20.The Photo Book
   Phaidon
   Nick Knight
   Phaidon Press Limited

Mike Carroll

Michael(Mike) Carroll is a Photojournalism that lives in Pepperell, Massachusetts and is most famous for the work he did in Romania.His assignment was to document Post-cold war Romania. But what he found was one of the most horrific discoveries in American history. He found thousands of orphans were being very poorly treated and hundreds were dying. So he took his camera and documented what he saw no matter how hard it was. Because of his works conditions improved and cloths and better technology were being sent to the orphans, Many were also adopted by people in different countries. Here are some of the photos he captured of the tragedy.

Andre Kertesz

Andre Kertesz was a Hungarian Photographer that lived from July 2, 1894 to September 28, 1985. And his main focus on Photojournalism which was a big market during his lifetime, but due to his obscure camera angles he never got the attention he felt he deserved. He felt as if he was unappreciated because most of his work was only published in smaller magazines. He also served in World War I and moved to Paris shortly after his honorable discharge. Here are some of his works.

Shutter Speed Post-Assignment

My Assignment was to take photos on the highest shutter speed possible on the camera to not allow blur on the photos. I evaluated my work on how clear the photo came out and to make sure nothing was blurry.I had people jump up and down to create the motion for the camera to capture. I really like how i captured the facial expressions of the models who were jumping. I think if i had more variety in where who and what i was shooting, the assignment could have turned out better.

Walker Evens

Walker Evens was an American photographer whose most famous fro documenting the great depression. He was born November 3,1903 and died April 10, 1975. Many of his works are held in Museums such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art. THese are some of my favorite works done by Walker Evens.

Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams was a american photographer who deeply believed in environmental ideology, who lived from 1902 to 1984. Most of his work is based upon landscapes which is why re relates to this weeks near and far assignment. These are my favorite works by him.

Shutter Speed Pre-Assignment

For this assignment we will start on a shutter speed of 1/200 and an IOS of 800. We will be trying to catch images such as the works of Eadweard Muybridge. For this assignment I plan to take photos of my fellow students jumping in different areas with different elements involved. I plan mostly to shoot on school grounds because of the fact that i will be doing the assignment during school time. I was really inspired by the pictures on the blogpost about the assignment, especially the one of the apple.

                                                                                     -James Fritz

Pre Assignment Near and Far

Our assignment this week is to go out and get landscape photographs that has everything in front in focus as well as everything in the back in focus. To do this we will have to set our aperture setting at the lowest it can go so the smallest hole is taking the picture, we may even need a tripod for this assignment. I intend to use a cannon camera if using my phone proves to hard, but i want to see what my phone camera is capable of. I would like to do all the assignments in this class with my phone.

Leigh Perry

Leigh Perry is a famous photographer that mostly does landscapes, her website ishttp://www.leighperry.com/home.html and features stunning landscape photographs. She is from Sydney, Australia and has not updated her website in over 5 years. But here are some of my favorites from her.

Karim Nafatni

Karim Nafatni is a Dubai based pilot that has amazing photographs taken mostly from inside the cockpit of an Airbus A320. His work is very unique and he is currently a captain for an airline company. His work is truly breath taking and he is recently receiving international attention  

Blog Post For Week __3___

1. Pre-assignment thoughts for this week's assignment:
    What is the assignment:
     How do you plan to take the photographs: I plan to get as close to objects such flowers and capture the detail and texture of the object.
     What inspirations did you find online that relate to the assignment: I found many pictures of flowers that shows a great deal of detail on the peddles.

2. The History of Photography Artist of the Week ____Imogene Cunningham____

3. The History of Photography Artist of the Week______Jacob Riis___

4. Post-assignment Assessment for this week's assignment:

1. What lessons or experiences did you “synthesize and analyze” to come up with your original idea-- what was your assignment. My Assignment was to take close up pictures.
2. How did you evaluated your work, what were you looking to create for the assignment, and was this idea a good idea?  i was looking to create a picture that depicts great detail.
1. And what steps did you take to create your assignment?   I took photographs and then edited them.
3. What do you like best about your images? i like the shapes of the flowers
4. Did you have trouble with some part of this assignment?  no
5. How could you improve your image or process? I think i did a good job

Get Close Pre-Assignment

Our next assignment will be to get very close to objects to capture the detail on them, we do this by setting our camera on "Aperture Priority". Many artist take close ups of things such as flowers, animals, cars, etc. While doing this project i intend to take many photos of flowers.

Paul Strand Assignment

Top 3 Paul Strand

Here are my 3 personal favorites from Paul Strand

Ben Shahn

Ben Shahn was an american photographer who was born September 12, 1898 and died on March 14, 1969. He is greatly known for his works during the great depression, World War II, and for his far left political ideas. He was not only a Photographer, But also a painter and a public speaker.

Paul Strand Pre-assignment blog post

Paul Strand was a photographer in the 20th century, His influence can be found in almost all works of photography we see and know today. The main similarity i saw in looking at a few of his works is that they are all in black and white. I think he does this to capture the emotion of the people and objects in his photography, color would distract the viewer. For this assignment i plan to take close ups of man made objects.

Bad Photo Assignment Questions

1. I used my knowledge of cameras to trick my smartphone into producing the photo categories that were required of me. 

2.I was looking to produce an image where the whole photo was blurred, one with bad exposure, one with bad composition, one with wrong white balance, and one with subject blur.

3.The only step i had to take was to take the photos. Since my camera doesn't have settings there was nothing else to but trial and error.

4.They are unique, I tried not to get influenced by other photography and just see what my mind could think of.

5. Yes the wrong white balance was very difficult for me.

6.I could definitively use a better camera.

Light is by far the most important aspect in a photograph, it can be the difference on a great shot to a amazing shot. Over the weekend i looked at the same area throughout the day at times of different light. The difference in the look of the shot throughout the day was very surprising. I used to take the effect of light in a very loose way, not knowing its importance, but now I have paid attention to it i realize its importance.