Element of Art-Shape

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Element Of Art - Line

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My favorite photo from Lens Blog "Looking From Behind, With Feeling"

My favorite photo from Lens Blog "Looking From Behind, With Feeling" is #9, which is a woman used a gun to shoot the trees, and a lot of crows frightened. There are three reasons that I choose this photo as my favorite photo:

First, because this photo used composition of Soft-Focus on the car door, it emphasizes the woman while she is shooting crows.
Second, the explosion on the tree is really cool, and the woman's gun shooting direction is same as the explosion, make more reality which this bombing is real.
Third, the woman's red clothes with the explosion make a amazing contrast, make me feel excited from the direction of explosion.    

Top 5 Photos Ranking by Group

Our favorite photo were ranked in order  3--->9--->11--->24--->6.

Multimedia Festival 2015 Final Draft

Movie Monday - The Photo League

Ordinary Miracles - The Photo League

1. What was The Photo League's credo? The Photo League's credo held that the camera was more than a means of recording reality, it was a device with the potential to change the world.
2. What organization did The Photo League separate from? The Photo League separate from "The Film and Photo League".
3. What was the workshop? Built on Strand's ideas about bringing heightened artistry to documentary photograph, while at the same time fulfilling the popular front's goal of countering the growing menace of Fascism in Europe and Asia. Also a place where Sid Grossman taught advanced technique classes.
4. Who taught "the workshop?" Sid Grossman
5. If you were to devote one year of your life to one project, what project is worth your time and energy? Changing in China.
6. What was The Harlem Document? The Harlem Document was a collection of photograph about a celebration of a vibrant neighborhood and an indictment of squalid living conditions in the nation's most densely populated African-American Community which is Harlem during 1930's.
7. Who started The Harlem Document? A public school English teacher named Aaron Siskind.
8. A photographer discusses a photograph where "the children looked like they came out of a __________ painting. Who was the painter? Caravaggio
9. Why did the photograph mentioned in #8 look like it was by the painter? That time, the sun was coming down. And the kid that was seated on the right side was illuminated by the sun, which made him look very special.
10. Who was Lewis Hine? (name two significant contributions) Lewis Hine was the epitome of the forgotten man when he was at age 65. He photographed entire families's living conditioning who are immigration at Elise Island. As an investigator for the National Child Labor Committee, he used his camera to illuminate the satanic underside of the American Dream in the early years of the 20th Century. In the 1920s, he focus his camera on the positive side of industrial production to celebrate the skill and dedication of the American workers. He dead at the age of 66.
11. Who was Weegee? His name was Arthur Fellig, he was better known his byline, Weegee. Through his colorful talks and his classes on freelance photojournalism and flash photograph, instantly became the Photo League's quirkiest and least hygienic member. His business was murder and mayhem.
12. How did The League change when The Nazis took power? The rise of Nazism led to an influx of gifted refugees from Austria and Germany and faces to the photo league.Photographers like Laudi Jacobi, Erica Kachfer and Lisette Model were a few of the new photographers. 
13. How did The League change during WWII? Photo League members used their cameras in support of the war effort. On the home features groups documented war production as well as parades and block parties for departing servicemen. They captured patriotism mingled with anxiety about the future that was clearly written on every face. Female photographers assumed a much greater role in keeping the organization running.
14. How did Siskind change after WWII? To the stalwarts of the Photo League, the most surprising convert to this new aesthetic and way from the League's bedrock commitment to the documentary mode was Aaron Siskind whose latest work, celebrating the chance encounter and everything that was equivocal and challenging, brought the concept of Abstract Expression to photograph, a far cry from the sociological Realism Siskind and his team had employed in the Harlem Document.
15. What was the Saturday Evening post? The Saturday Evening post was a bimonthly American magazine that started in 1897.
16. Who was Barbara Morgan? What did she photograph? She was a photographer from Kansas, her photos were best known for modern dancers. She also cofounded the photography magazine Aperture.
17. What eventually undermined the Photo League? The Photo League was included on an official government list of allegedly: totalitarian, fascist, communist, and subversive groups prepared by President Truman's attorney general, Tom Clark.
18. What was the "Growing Menace" mentioned in the film? Communism
19. Who agreed to serve as President when The League was under investigation? W. Eugene Smith.
20. What happened to the league? FBI Informant, Angela Calomiris. She took stand as a surprise witness, no one is more surprise than the photographers in the Photo League to discover that their friend and colleague was an FBI stool pigeon. Although the Photo League itself was never on trial, she would testified that the League was a front for the Communist Party seven years earlier by Sid Grossman. Afterward, the membership dropped and members left and the Photo League disbanded in 1951.

Notice these things too

1. The picture of Chicks Candy Store and the Charlotte Russe: Fifth Street that a photographer made. But at the time it used to be a place where people congregated. There are everything in this store, because it has people in front of it talking to one another. The way people met with each other, the relaxed atmosphere, to design all the candy store signs and so on. That was the Lower East Side at the time. 
2. Henry James: the inconceivable alien.
3. Frank Capra: Tell them why they were fighting
4. Glenn Miller and The Andrews Sisters: The biggest musical icons of World War Two.
5. The Photo Hunt: is a spot the difference game featured on Megatouch game systems, which are coin-operated, touchscreen video games primarily found in bars, restaurants, and taverns. 
6. The Munich Agreement: was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined. 
7. Alfred Stiegligtz: By war's end, the Photo of league found it self at a creative and philosophical crossroads, symbolized by the death of Alfred Stieglitz on July 13, 1946. He concentrated on the particular moment when people and things were in movement, also called Documentary Movement,  a speeding up the whole act of seeing.
8. Daguerre: a French artist and photographer, recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography. He became known as one of the fathers of photography.

Multimedia Fest 2015

Poster Assignment