Final Photo Essay

Two roommates interacting in a hallway laughing while greeting each other with a personal joke.

Two people that do not know each other walking past each other

A group of five friends walking together conversing and showing their clear friendship.

You can see to friends walking followed by two people each walking separately.

People walking in and out of the building.  It is clear in this photo who people know and who they do not.

Two friends greeting another one of their friends out of the photo.

Two friends walking together.

These people stopped in the track of their walking to interact with each other.

 A group of friends gathered talking with a person that they do not appear to know sitting there unacknowledged.

There is a clear group of people that are walking past another girl.

A guy walking alone using his phone to interact with people when there are no people physically around to interact with.

A guy walking alone.  He seems to just unfocused on anything around him.

America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly. key points

p.28 "No moment is more important than any other moment; no person is more interesting than any other person."

p. 31 "Each thing or person photographed becomes-a photograph; and becomes, therefore, morally equivalent to any other of his photographs."

p. 33 "For what would be more correctly described as their dissociated point of view, the photographs have been praised for their candor and for an unsentimental empathy with their subjects.  What is actually their aggressiveness toward the public has been treated as a moral accomplishment: that the photographs don't allow the viewer to be distant from the subject.

p.34 "'You can see someone on the street,' Arbus wrote, ' and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.'"

p.37 "Most Arbus pictures have the subjects looking strait into the camera.  This often makes them look even odder, almost deranged."

Thesis Statements

Egglseston's photographs show a great sense of emotion along with simplicity, and and understanding of a singular point in time.

Eggleston's photos pull out different meaning and emotion to every view,  as said by Susan Sontag pictures can have multiple meaning, leaving them to be interpreted differently by each individual.

Photos inspired by Robert Adams

I choose to take this picture because, like Eggleston, it seemed like an opening picture to my life.  Eggleston began with a picture of a door so I believe a picture of my door would be a very appropriate beginning.

Homework 1-26

Quotes
What comparisons does S. make between Writing and Photography?

Page 5-6  " To me it seems that the pictures reproduced here about the photographer's home, about his place, in both important meanings of the word."
Page 7 " The composer cannot freely redispose the elements of his subject matter, as a painter can, to construct a picture that fits his prior conception of the subject"
Page 8 "the new graphic economy that characterizes the best photography of the early years of the century could be described in terms of the conventional concept of Composition, but it is perhaps more useful to think of it as the result of a new system of indication, based on the expressive possibilities of the detail"