Journals

Journal 1


 * Paul Strand**



I like the photographer Paul Strand because he shoots in a consistent theme and uses light as subject matter well. He uses shadows as a way to enhance his photographs and I think that makes his photos stronger. I like the use of shadows by him and hope to try and incorporate the shadows in my own photography like that. I think that he also shoots with a unique style that was different than the rest in that time period.

Paul Strand was a very deliberate photographer. He started off shooting slow movement and portrait type photographs usually of a single person, as is seen in //From the El//. However, he soon decided to increase the complexity of his photographs by shooting midtown and downtown crowds. He shoots the subject matter he did because he wants to understand it better.


 * Melvin Sokolsky **







I like this next photographer because he shoots fashion in a unique and different manner. He doesn’t just shoot the item or the person, he tries to incorporate something else into his work. He shoots most of his work in black and white, with few exceptions as shown above with my five favorite photos by him. He shoots with a unique angle. He shoots the subject matter that he does because he enjoys fashion photography and prints his work in magazines and also does advertising print.


 * Berenice Abbott**

I like this next photographer because she shoots images of New York to document what is happening and to show other people what New York is like. She shoots her pictures in New York primarily as a sociological experiment. She wanted to create a body of work of photographs that when put together would suggest an interaction between three parts of urban life. These three parts were the diverse people of the city, the places they live, work and play; and their daily activities. She had hoped that this body of work would show people what the consequences of society were. In addition to her changing New York collection she also shoot paris and other topics, but I liked her changing New York sequence the most.

Journal 2


 * Lewis Hine **



Lewis Hine was a photojournalist from the great depression time period. He document the struggle of the working class in factories in new York City during the great depression. The pictures here represent the working conditions of factories and how poor of a condition they were in. The pictures also portray the emotional aspects of the working poor from their facial expressions.

Next photo essay is provided on the following link. [|Photo Essay 2]

This photo essay documents the devestation of the earthquake and tsunami that ripped through Japan recently. It is continuosly being updated by a group of photographers. Even though it is multiple photographers they are all shooting the same thing. The devestation in Japan after the earthquake came through. Each photographer captures the devistation in a different way in that they each chose to shoot a different subject area in Japan, but the style of the pictures is all very similar, and the mood is definetly the same.

Journal 3 Virtual Series of Work

Fashion Journal

[|Under water shoot] This link does have some risky pics but it wouldn't let me upload the one I wanted so I'm providing link. The one I want is the water shoot. [|thematic fashion pics]