Digital Photography Period 3- Junior Wei : March 2015

Friday, March 27, 2015

Lens post- Variety

Link to photo

Reasons for being the photo with most variety:

There is a multiple number of subjects to guide the viewer though the photo.
The words on the graffitied trailer wagon captures the viewers attention.
The circular and rectangular wheels, doors ,and windows add additional variety to the photo.

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Half Past Autumn - Gordon Parks pt 1 and 2

Th doctor saved his life by putting him in cold water and rubbing him against ice.
Gordon was born in Kansas with his parents.
She told him that most Negroes don't go to college because they can only be maids or laborers and it would be a waste of his parents' money.
Gordon was 16 years old when his mom died.
After his mother died he went to live with his sister and brother in law in Minnesota.
Gordon did not graduate from college when he was young but he eventually did.
He went to a clothes store for rich white women, and asked the owner if he could shoot fashions.
Double exposure is when two photographs are exposed on the same frame of film.
Joe Louis was a boxer who was an African American professional boxer and heavyweight champion.
Gordon played the piano all thought his life.
The purpose of the Farm Security Administration was to educate the American public about poverty and combat it.
Stryker's first assignment for Gordon in Washington DC was to go shop at a specific store, eat at a restaurant, and watch a motion picture. None of the tasks could be accomplished because of the racism against Gordon.
Ella Watson was in janitor in the farm administration building that Gordon photographed.
The inspiration for Grant Wood's American Gothic was he architecture of a lone farm building and the culture of rural america.
Gordon learned from Stryker about photo that the people in front of the camera are the most important people, not the one taking the picture.
The FSA shut down in 1943.
After Gordon moved to New York, he shot for Vouge.
The picture editor of Life Magazine was Wilson Hicks when Gordon walked into the Life Magazine office.
The first major story Parks covered for Life Magazine was on crime, following Red Jackson.
After he moved to the Paris Life Magazine bureau, he mentioned the artists Picasso, Vango, Brenard,and Brugol.
He shot fashion by letting his models move, and moving with them.
Parks' concerto was performed in Venice.
Parks' second wife was Elizabeth Campbell Rollins and she was a model and her father was
He met Flavio when Flavio was 12.
Parks met Flavio in the early 1960's.
Flavio lived in rio de janeiro in a favela when Parks first met Flavio and his family
Gloria Vanderbilt was an author actress and heiress. Her son is Anderson Cooper, and news anchor for CNN. Her ancestors are the Vanderbilt family who made a fortune in the railroad industry then expanded.
She said they were friends, but she also didn't care about the social boundaries, but Parks new that they mattered and would stop them from being anything more.