Week 14.

Helen Levitt
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This is one of my favorite photographs that Helen Levitt has ever taken. The composition of this photograph is incredible, especially how the one woman on the left is hovering over the other. The expression on the faces of the people in the photograph are so emotional, and you can tell they are all in deep thought. Their emotion adds emotion to the picture and adds great depth.

Jerry Uelsmann
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I instantly got drawn to this photograph when I was going through Uelsmann's work. The tones in this photograph are beautiful and I love the way the light from the sun sweeps over the car cover to create shadows. I also really enjoy how the figure in the water mimics the car and the position of it, and how the boy is covered by water, and the car is covered as well. The reflections in the water are also really beautiful.

Alexis Mire
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I follow Alexis Mire on Flickr, and I absolutely love her work. This photograph is one of my favorites that she has taken, and mostly because of balloons through the window on the bus. The composition is really great, and the lights on the bus really bring the viewers eye into the picture. The surreal aspect of the balloons in the bus is really incredible, and not something you see all the time. The moving car going out of frame is also a really nice touch.

Week 13.

Ken Rosenthal
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Rosenthal was actually one of the photographers that inspired me for my final project this semester. This photograph is one of my favorites from his work. The fogginess and also softness from the out of focus quality of this picture is what intrigues me the most. I love the way the picture fades in from white all the way to the black out of focus plants in the center of the frame. I also like that the picture is cropped in a square format which frames in the subject better. The way the photograph is blurry gives me a feeling of being inside of a dream.

Nadar
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The main aspect of this photograph that really intrigued me was the surrealism that is involved. I love how this photograph was set up to make it look like this man was flying in a hot air balloon in the sky, as he is looking down at the earth. Since the photo is old you can tell that this photograph is staged, especially because of the lighting, but the quality and sharpness of this photo are incredible considering how old it is.

Salgado
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I absolutely love the vantage point of this photograph. I also really love the motion used to show how the crowd of people is moving, and I also really like how the viewpoint of the camera gives the viewer an easier way to view the whole station and all of the people getting off of the trains and boarding them.

Week 12.

Minor White
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The first thing that I really loved about this photograph was the darkness of the sky, and how light the clouds look against it because of the film or filter used. I also like the composition and how the bush in the left hand corner of the photo leads the viewers eye into the rest of the picture to view the house, the trees, and the sky. I also really enjoy the shadows and how dark they are on the house in contrast to the light that is coming through the trees.

Koudelka
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My initial attraction to this picture was the composition and how this photograph looks very surreal to me. I love the curves in the lines that are in this photograph and how they mimic the curves of the earth, and the road as well. I also really love the fogginess of the photograph and how the landscape fades into the background because of how foggy it is.

Alexey Titarenko
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I first saw his work in Craft when we were looking at examples of blur. This photograph of his is my absolute favorite. The tones in this photo are absolutely incredible, and there is a dark feeling to this picture as well because of those tones. The way the hands are somewhat visible along the railing of the stairs is very powerful. The movement of all the bodies is very smooth, but the fact that all the bodies have become one mass gives a different feeling, a heavier feeling.

Week 11.

Lauren Greenfield 
Jennifer, 18, at an eating disorder clinic, Florida
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This photograph is a part of her 'Girl Culture' series. When I was looking through the series this photograph immediately caught my eye, especially because of the title. The colors that are used in this photograph are paired together perfectly, and the fact that it's a cloudy day adds to the mood of the photograph. The expression on the girls face also adds to the feeling of the photograph, and the way her arms are placed can give the viewer and audience a better knowledge as to what this girl is going through as she struggles with her weight.

Nicholas Nixon
Northeast Court, Tennis Club of Albuquerque
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I immediately fell in love with the composition and perspective of this photograph. I love how my eye goes directly to the tree behind the corner of the tennis court. The way that he used the corner of the court to lead your eye into the photograph is amazing. I also really like how the horizontal lines of the net mimic the vertical lines of the fences, and the windows on the houses in the background. The tonal range of this photograph is also beautiful and soft in a way. The lightness of the tones adds a dream-like feeling to this photograph, and the darker portions of the clouds at first gave me the impression of mountains in the distance.

Hiroshi Sugimoto
Polar Bear
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I have always really enjoyed Hiroshi Sugimoto's work, and when I saw this photograph I was instantly in awe. I love how the photograph leads in from white to gray to bring your eye down to the subject. The smooth quality of the tones is beautiful and looks completely unreal. Even though this is a photograph of an exhibit, Sugimoto made this exhibit incredibly serene and when I first viewed this photograph I thought the animals and scenery was entirely real. The way he can mold a subject to be entirely his own is amazing.

Week 10.

Harry Callahan
Chicago
1948
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I love the repetition of the windows that is used in this photograph. The abstraction is also very nice and flows throughout the entire frame. The way the windows shift in position and the way they bend in and outward is incredible and adds a lot of beautiful surrealism to the piece. I also really enjoy the different sizes and shapes of the windows, and really makes me feel as if this is something from a dream of mind. The light and the way that it is used through the windows over the black background is amazing as well.

Edward Steichen
Gloria Swanson
1924
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I have always enjoyed the moodiness that was involved in Steichen's work. The dark tones really add incredible emotion to his photographs and they become really beautiful with the added emotions. After seeing his work at the Met, I became really intrigued by his photography and the manner in which he shot his subjects. With this photograph in particular, I love the way he used the lace to make it look like it was a double exposure, or sandwiched negatives. The lace also adds great texture to the womans face, and the image as a whole. The dark tones and dark eyes add great aspects to the image as well.

JoAnn Voburg
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A friend of mine showed me JoAnn's work. She mainly shoots using diptychs, triptychs, etc., and I absolutely love how she can turn something simplistic into something really beautiful. I love how the tree flows throughout the three frames, but loses focus in some areas which causes me to feel like I am running through this field under the tree branches. The way the light is used through the leaves is remarkable as well, and the use of depth of field is great as well.