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the rule of photography

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Atsey2BPiwabH5ZlWSXfiMxg4zz638U_7Z1gXtdNhCM/edit#slide=id.g31dfd49b8d9_0_0

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final theme project

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1sTCb9We4JbnSbrWSGkTYaKvmTlwIkUwceLz-brAtg6o/edit#slide=id.g32127dd4194_0_50

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Corinne Day

Corinne day photographed Kate Moss who she didnt know was going to grow up to be a super model. She was specifically looking for someone who didnt know how to model and Kate Moss was that girl. She would photograph her mostly in black and white and brought the photos to multiple people who loved them and eventually casted Kate. She swapped glamour for grunge which was a huge change in this day and age, and in the newspapers that were being published. She photographed models with smudged mascara, stringy hair, and was looking to capture the care free spirit of teens in the 90's.

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Adrienne Salinger

Adrienne focused on photographing teenagers in their bedrooms in the 90's. I particularly love her style of photos because of how raw and unposed they are. All the photos are the same, with teenagers just standing in their rooms and posing for a picture in their own spaces. They all have similar themes, similar decor, but each photo is still a little different. She would go up to random teenagers and ask to go to their home and photograph them, this is interesting to me because if anyone were to do that in this age, it would not fly. It feels very nostalgic to look back to see what photographers used to do to get their photos and how different the technique is now because of how much the world has changed. She photographed around 60 people.

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theme project proposal

I plan to photograph close up pictures of people's hands doing things in their day to day life. I don't have much experience with close ups and with taking pictures of people so I want to go outside my comfort zone and challenge myself.  I have recently gone to therapy and I have trouble staying in the moment and not getting in my head. My therapist taught me about grounding and paying attention to the feelings of the things I am touching in order to bring myself back to the present moment. This is something that has really helped me the last year and taking pictures of peoples hands doing ordinary things helps me to ground and puts it into perspective. It seems like a silly idea but I can really explore and challenge myself through this idea. 

I have already started taking pictures of some of my closest friends' hands. I love seeing how they move and it forces me to pay attention more. I love the rawness of the idea of this project so I will capture the scenes as they happen rather than directing my subjects. There is no special equipment needed.  I want my audience to walk away noticing their own hands. I want them to be more aware of the way they move and what they touch and hold on a day to day basis. My grandma always told me you can know a lot about a person based on their hands. This shouldn't create an emotional response, but rather wake people up and make them pay attention, something that I have always struggled with. 

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James Ridgeway

James Ridgeway was not just a photographer but also an investigative journalist. He focuses on issues that were strayed away from and not talks about but he took them on. He was senior Washington correspondent for Mother Jones, and co-editor of Solitary Watch. He talked about racial issues. sex offenders, and incarceration. He published 17 books. I like him because he not only reported and wrote articles about hard hitting issues, but also took pictures with them. As a journalist myself, I find that journalists who dont stop at the writing and actually go find pictures as well are the most inspiring.

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Julie Blackmon

Julie Blackmon sees the world around her as a story. She focuses on everyday life and doesn't try so hard to find a subject or a setting, she lets them find her. She takes pictures of people from her community and lives in a generic town in a generic city, which poses different angles to photographers who live more on the scene. She believes that the photos around her are endless and the stories are always unfolding in front of her. In this picture she captures the beauty of adolescence. Not forcing the children to a pose or move a certain way, but instead letting them express themselves as she is also expressing herself. The colors in her photos stay the same and are always very light pastel colors focusing on yellows, reds, and blues. She dabbles in the comedic aspect of photography but also the more serious side in some of her other photos. Her main feature of work focuses on children and highlighting childhood play. https://www.julieblackmon.com/

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Summertime by Mark Steinmetz

In this book they are all black and white. I love black and white photos because they rely heavily on the depiction and the angle of the shot rather than the colors. Mark and his wife are photographers and together the run he Humid which is a photography work shop. He makes his photos open to multiple depictions and never sticks to one angle. He photographs a lot of children and captures the simple but exiting time of being a kid all the way up to being a teenager. I love his photos because they arent posed either. I love the lack of background and the negative space around the subject because it causes your eyes to focus directly on who is being photographed.

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Project 2

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18-Ekt9wJO3jh90nff48LWvS68WIj4zFZQiCjnN5qr4A/edit#slide=id.p

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Dita Pepe

Dita Pepe is from Czech Republic and is mostly known from her self portraits. She had a vision for her project and traveled door to door and posed with random families, pretending to be apart of someones family. She would travel to their homes before the photo shoot and discuss with them exactly what she was looking for and what she wanted to accomplish with the project. She took pictures with all kinds of dynamic people and I find them so interesting to look at. I love old timey photos of families and this captures everything I like about them. Each photo from the project is a little different, she dresses different, poses different and uses different color schemes in each one which makes them all so enjoyable. I look at these photos and see the vision of trying to be in someone else shoes. She goes from being homeless to being a wife and a mother of 6 kids, its interesting to see how she can conform and shape to the different aesthetics of what she wants to be. Photography feels to be more of a behind the scenes job, so using this project she met new people and all different kinds of people and i think that that is beautiful.

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Vivian Maier (1926-2009)

Vivian did street photography and documented her life. She did her photos in mostly black and white which is why I am particularly fascinated with her work. Colors play a huge role in photos and being able to tell a story only in black and white is something that I admire. Her work went unpublished until after she died. Her work captured her busy life and it is very clear in the photos she takes that she spends her day walking around the streets. Her photos arent anything huge or mind blowing, but I admire that such a simple story can be told with black and white images. She captured what it was like living in a bustling city that is constantly moving. She captured images that to most seem unphotogenic, but her view of them make them sentimental and touching. Photos of random people, a woman laying on the sidewalk while cops surround her, and even an image of a crying baby are moments that dont make sense to the untrained eye, but she saw the moment and captured it. I love black and white photos because they force you to really take a look at what exactly the picture is trying to portray without getting caught up in the colors that are shown. Her self portraits are pictures of her in a mirror, a picture i find myself taking a lot. They are so simple yet so moving. They are just her standing in a mirror or glass so smile no posing, just her raw self. In her color photos, she focuses on not the face of the person she is photographing but the legs, arms, hands, and feet of the subject. This heightens the idea that people are constantly moving and rushing about. She gets up close and personal with her subjects, and it is obvious that these people dont know they are being photographed. She is not afraid to snap the shot of a random moment. The colors in her photos stay consistent, red, yellow, blue, and brown. In every photo they are all cohesive, almost like you can tell that she took the pictures without even knowing.

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weekend photo story

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hello,

my name is taylor, im a junior at Fresno State majoring in digital journalism and minoring in media arts. i am an editor for the school news paper and i love to write. through this class i hope to learn the basics of photography so i can get familiar with more sides of journalism rather than just writing. i have always loved taking pictures of my friends and my adventures so i hope this will help me continue that.