Girl's Night Out!

The initiation...Beginning of the entire process

Hardest and most time consuming part of the process. Deciding what to wear can be so stressful but still exciting as well. We as women, tend to become so focused on our outer appearance and this closet captures that detail.

Hygiene...Always a crucial and important step! You cannot attract a guy when you aren't smelling good..(well you will but not in the way you would like)

Our faces are blank canvas'. This is where we can create an image of what we want the outside world to see. This deals with texture as well. Texture in the sense of hair...Whether we want it curly,straight, or wavy.

CASH ONLY!!! We live in a debit/credit card society nowadays, so this is a must before going out.

Here we go!!! Music is bumpin, fist are pumpin, and everyone is getting party ready!

Guide Photos: Hair

3 Thesis Statements

1. After reviewing Eggleston’s Guide, I was amazed to see how each picture was connected to another picture, whether it was before or after. Eggleston’s work is very singular and gives the sense of a person being alone or depressed. Eggleston was clearly trying to have viewer’s see the connections throughout this guide. How do the colors change? Which photos are indoor or outdoor, the changes of seasons, capturing photographs in daylight or at night all tell a story about a journey that Eggleston has been on. This journey happened during Eggleston’s childhood, the places and people who are in these photographs are significant in some way to Eggleston’s life.

2. In Susan Sontag’s In Plato’s Cave, she mentions, “photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe”. I disagree to this statement, because reality and personal testimonies enlarge our notions on what to observe and something that is worth our time. It’s true that we humans get so caught up in photographs and tend to make photos iconic and make them have deep meaning. For example, if we were to see someone paint the “Virgin Mary” black, religious Catholics across the world would be mortified. Why is this? This is because people have made the image an icon and the picture, itself, means something to them when it shouldn’t be.

3. Photographs are images created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface. They are usually taken at certain occasions to capture great moments. Photographs are the world’s time capsule. I believe that photographs will help people with Alzheimer’s disease. (Just made this up)

Photo Essay

Ribbon in the Sky

Old Time feel...

Angular

Modern Antique

Helen Levitt Photographs

Helen Levitt was born August 31, 1913, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.—died March 29, 2009, New York City) U.S. photographer. She began her career in photography at age 18. Levitt's photographs captured the streets of New York. Her first show, “Photographs of Children,” was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1943. It featured the subject matter—children, especially the underprivileged—and humanity that characterize much of her work. (Above are two photographs taken by Levitt)

HW: Eggleton vs Levitt

After looking at Helen Levitt's photos I couldn't help but notice that she and Eggleston's photos have similarities. Even though Levitt's images include more peple, all the people have blank faces just like Eggleston's. Photos of antique cars, random places, and catching people off guard, or not looking at all, are all characteristics of these two photographer's images. Levitt's photos are primarily in black and white, so it puts a older time period on them, and you get to focus more on the subjects that appear darker.

HW: Eggleton vs Brown-Carter Photos

These two images remind me of Eggleston's pictures because I felt like Eggleston was on a journey. Eggleston takes readers' on this journey of places he use to visit when growing up. I also feel like each picture in his guide is connected to a picture either before or after it. Above, I have two pictures. The first picture captures people walking down a hallway (this is the journey), and the second shows two doors. This illustrates the ending of a journey. I feel like there's always two paths going in different directions, at the end of each journey, and here it is!

What does S. write about the art of photography in general?

* Photography is a system of visual editing... At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's cone of vision, while standing in the right place at the right time. (page 6)

* The choice is based on tradition and intuition-knowledge and ego-as it is in any art, but the ease of execution and the richness of possibilities in photography both serve to put a premium on good intuition. (page 6)

* The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive. (page 7)