Two Boardwalks, Dunalley, Tasmania, Australia. 2013

This is my favorite picture by Mr. Kenna. I love the use of the deep deep blacks without the really bright whites. I love how the whole image is done in a black-grey scale using different shades of the color, black, to achieve the look. This image is in a very "iconic" style, meaning many people have done it, but i really enjoy Kenna's version. I feel that the picture has a lot to say and thus why it has been copies so many times. I love how the boardwalk that the image was taken on is from a perspective that makes the boardwalk look so long. I feel that the longness of the boardwalk is almost a representation of the paths that we choose in our lives. I can be long and dreadful and it may seem like it is never ending. I really think that this image represents that perfectly. I also love the blurry affect of the boardwalk on the left. To me it represents a different path that you made have taken in your life and it is always there in the back of your mind. My FAVORITE part of the image is the deep black of the water on the right-side corner. It is a beautiful deep black and i feel that i means evil i someones life. I also like the mountains in the very very far left corner. I feel that they might signify a greater power over your life, It might be a spiritual, emotional, religious, etc power but it is there clear and present in your life. I also love the white that is overcoming the dark, its like a dark vs light conflict. I love images like this. Why? Because you can make your own stories to it, like everything that i just wrote is what the image means to me, but someone else could come and look at this image and find a completely different meaning to this image. That what i love about photography overall. It like a complete book in one image. You can look at it and come up with a complete story in your mind, and it can be a different story then everyone else's. I believe Mr. Kenna is a great photographer, he captures moments, feelings, and stories all in one image and i believe that is great talent. Mr. Kenna uses Hasselblad medium format and Holga cameras to achieve these images. "Kenna's photography focuses on unusual landscapes with ethereal light achieved by photographing at dawn or at night with exposures of up to 10 hours" (Wiki). I admire Mr. Kenna for all the time and dedication that he puts into his images and it really shows this dedication because his images are truly beautiful. Every time i look at his photography i feel really inspired to go out, grab a camera, and just start shooting the beautiful things around us that we take for granted everyday, that is why i choose Mr. Kenna to do my research project over. 

I choose to do my biography research project over Michael Kenna. Kenna is a black and white landscape photographer and although he grew up England, he moved to the states in the 80s to pursue his career in photography. He moved to San Francisco but traveled all throughout the world to take landscape pictures. 
 Mr. Kenna uses Hasselblad medium format and Holga cameras to achieve these images. "Kenna's photography focuses on unusual landscapes with ethereal light achieved by photographing at dawn or at night with exposures of up to 10 hours" (Wiki). I admire Mr. Kenna for all the time and dedication that he puts into his images and it really shows this dedication because his images are truly beautiful. Every time i look at his photography i feel really inspired to go out, grab a camera, and just start shooting the beautiful things around us that we take for granted everyday, that is why i choose Mr. Kenna to do my research project over. 

Mt. Pilatus, Lake Lucerne, Switzerland. 1998

Chateau Lafite, Study 12, Bordeaux, France. 2012

Akul's View, Mid Levels, Hong Kong. 2010

Torii Gate, Study 2, Shosanbetsu, Hokkaido, Japan. 2014

Waiting Freighter, Port Angeles, Washington, USA. 2013

Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Respond answers:

1. The poem is clearly written in a first Peron point of view, so the narrator has written as if writing from this persons mind.  The meaning of this poem to me is like a last wish. In the poem Tennyson references death ion several occasions, so its like he has this last wish to explore the seas with his men instead of sitting on a throne commanding people who don't truly know or worship him. 
2. My favorite lines: 51-52

"Death closes all: but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done."

In these lines i believe the narrator is trying to say that he understands that one day he must go but, he has things that he still can do for the world and he would rather go out, explore, and make a difference instead of dwelling one that fact the one day he must day and being miserable in his life at home.  

Experimental pinhole photography

 

What is a pinhole camera?

    A simple camera without a lens and with a single small aperture, a pinhole. Light from a scene passes through this single point and projects an inverted image on the opposite side of the light proof box (Wikipedia).

 

Regular pinhole photography:

 

 

 

 

Experimental pinhole photography:

 

This image is my favorite for experimental pinhole. I love how this person took something as simple as your mouth and turned it into a camera. I know that this person worked very hard on this image because I have worked with pinhole cameras before and they are a handful!! I could image doing all this while you have a piece of photo paper inside your mouth. I would definitely try this because I think it is so unique!

I also think that another experiment you can try with pinhole photography is having moving objects instead of still objects. with people this gives the "ghost" affect that looks super cool!

 



My favorite experiment to do with pinhole cameras is to take your box and poke several apertures (pinholes) through it to make a multi pinhole camera. This gives you several different images layered on one another and the end results are pretty cool. 

Hand scans layered together. 

Lewis Hine 

• Who was Lewis Hine and what did he photograph?

Hine was a documentary photographer in the early 1900's. He photographed child labor during this time and it was because of him that today WE do not have to work in a factory from sunrise to sunset. 

• How did he document his subjects? What was his visual style? How did he try to make a connection with the viewer and his photos?

Hine documented children in factories where they spent all their day in horrible conditions working for scrapes to feed themselves and their families. He wanted a sincere expression in his photos. He didn't ask the kids to "look here" and "smile", but rather he took photos of them sweating and dirty. He knew the view would be people of this time period that could make a difference in these children's lives so, he made his images "sad". By sad I mean he documented their real lives, which was not sunshine and happiness. In his photos he tried to reach people's sympathy. He wanted people to realize what these children are going through and he did that by opening a little window into these children's lives. 

• How did he help change the world for the better?

Hine didn't just get up and decide that HE was going to make a difference, he got up and decided that he was going to make people make a difference. His work is a true example of the saying "A picture is worth a thousand words".

August Sander

A German portrait and documentary photographer. Sander's first book Face of our Time was published in 1929. Sander has been described as "the most important German portrait photographer of the early twentieth century."

His work includes landscape, nature, architecture, and street photography, but he is best known for his portraits, as exemplified by his series citizens of the 20th Century.

In this series, he aims to show a cross-section of society during the Weimar Republic. The series is divided into seven sections:
The Farmer

The Skilled Tradesman

Woman

 Classes and Professions

The Artists
 
The City

The Last People

Sanders was important because he documented real life in Germany, he contributions can be looked back on to see how far we have come from this time. By the time of his death he had over 40,000 images in his collection and each image has its own story to tell.