Near and Far Assignment

I was a little behind on this assignment because I couldn't seem to find a 3rd photo I truly loved and on Friday it was terribly foggy and there was nothing to see in the distance. The first photo I did was near rocky neck, I wish I could have gotten more parallel lines with the fencing but the straight but diagonal lines with the parallel background was more important to me. In the 2nd photo this was again on rocky neck but I wish I could have gotten more definition on the inside portion of the wall. I really love the contrast the darkness created though. The third photo I did was on the backshore, using the small brush and long beach landscape it almost created a 4 section photo which I loved. The brush in front, then the rocks and sand, then water, then sky. The brush reached through all of these which is what made it one of my favorite photos.

20 Books of Photography

Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White
Author: Sean Callahan
Publisher: Bulfinch Press
Title: Margaret Bourke-White
Photo: Terminal Tower, Cleveland, Ohio; I loved the way this photo looked painted in a way.

Photographer: Robert Capa
Publisher: Aperture
Title: Robert Capa
Photo: U.S. Forces en route to Naples, September 1943; The complexity of everything in the photo mixed with the simple line of soldiers was really interesting to see.

Photographer: Weegee
Publisher: Aperture
Title: Weegee
Photo: Party 1947; It's hilarious because I have no clue what's going on in the photo.

 Photographer: Edward Weston
Publisher: Aperture
Title: Edward Weston
Photo: Succulent, 1930; I loved the intricacy of the light and shadow in this photo

Photographer: Ansel Adams
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Title: Ansel Adams in Color
Photo: Wainiha Bay, North Shore of the Island of Kauaii, Hawaii; I literally can't get enough of Ansel Adam's photography.

Photographer: Alfred Steiglitz
Publisher: Aperture
Title: Alfred Steiglitz
Photo: Charles Demuth, 1915; This photo made me feel almost uneasy.

Photographer: August Sader
Publisher: Aperture
Title: August Sader
Photo: Prizewinners Westerwald, 1927; It's an interesting photo bit his whole series of different job photos is what drew me in.

Photographer: Eikoh Hosoe
Publisher: Aperture
Title: Eikoh Hosoe
Photo: Kamaitachi #8, 1965; The lines in this photo are beautiful and it also draws you to the guy wondering what he's doing.

Photographer: Paul Strand
Publisher: Aperture
Title: Paul Strand
Photo: Tir a'Mburain, South Vis, The Brides, 1954; I love the contrast in this photo.

Photographer: Harry Callahan
Publisher: Aperture
Title: Harry Callahan
Photo: Chicago, 1953; I love the symmetry in this photo.

Photographer: Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Publisher: Aperture
Title: Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Photo: Striking Worker, Assassinated, 1934; Honestly made me do a double take when scrolling through the photos. Extremely poignant and uncensored to the brutality of the real world.

Photographer: Robert Frank
Author: Jack Krovac
Publisher: Steidl
Title: The Americans
Photo: Crosses at Scene of Highway Accident, U.S. 91, Idaho; Just incredibly sad and almost a dreamy, depressing, nostalgic feeling. You get the feeling that a lot of pain and sadness happened here and now it sits there waiting for people to notice it.

Photographer: Man Ray
Publisher: Aperture
Title: Man Ray
Photo: Flowers, 1931; It almost looks fake or painted and give off a very drawn/painted art feel with a photograph.

Photographer: Lewis Hine
Author: Dover Publications
Title: Men at Work
Photo: The Mooring Mast, Men at Work; It shows America in a simpler time. It showed how there werent safety nets or anything, you just got up and did your job.

Photographer: Imogen Cunningham
Author: Richard Lorenz
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Title: Ideas Without End
Photo: On Mount Rainier, 1912; The flowery lines are nearly mesmerizing.

Photographer: Andre Kertesz
Publisher: Aperture
Title: Andre Kertesz
Photo: Rainy Day, Tokyo, 1968; It's nearly a metaphor for conformism.

Photographer: Josiah Johnson Hanes
Author: Rachel Hanes
Publisher: Barre Publishers
Title: Josiah Johnson Hanes
Photo: Philips Street School, ~1860; I liked this photo because that's where the Boston Public Library is now and I've been there.

Photographer: Tina Modotti
Publisher: Aperture
Title: Tina Modotti
Photo: German Youth Group; To think they started out so young, it was a powerful statement to Germany's power and how young people started to see nationalism.

Photographer: Jerry Uelsmann
Publisher: Bulfinch Press
Title: Other Realities
Photo: Memories of Max Ernst; Just.. what?

Photographer: Jacob Riis
Author: Richard Locayo & George Russell
Publisher: TIME
Title: Eyewitness
Photo: Street Arabs at Night, 1889; This photo was so emotionally striking at first and then you get drawn into the details on their faces and it's nearly heartbreaking.

Hand Held

I thought the movie Hand Held showed an important view into another world's problems. There are a lot of other movies that do this but it's not common to find one that is strictly a person's view and story as they experience it. Too commonly is the information strictly factual. Through the story you get his home life, his emotions, and his confusion as to being a person in charge of reporting a whole nations depression. It's really moving when you hear his emotional telling of the story.

 Michael is now heading up his own team and working with companies in photography and digital retouching. He just went to the Virgin Islands to take photographs as he reported on his blog here: http://mikecarrollphoto.blogspot.com/

Edit*
The above comment was not actually true. That link was posted off the real Mike Carroll's blog but it's not actually him. It's a different Mike Carroll. His ACTUAL website is here:
http://carrollmj.com/

He's still living in Massachusetts and he's still taking photos and visits Romania annually for his charity. As well as visiting them because that's where he loves to be. He has no planned next photo shoot.






Orphans in Romania

The condition for the children has gotten slightly better since the change in government but it's not anything that makes a true difference. The children are still suffering, people remain helping and donating their time and money and it has become a bigger noticed issue.