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This picture is very well taken. This picture has meaning behind it. If the people were not positioned like this the picture would not work. Their bodies make a wave like image. i do not believe that this picture would work in color because then it would not give the dead look.

This image is one amazing picture. It shows amazing lines, shadows and and angle. This picture could work in color but I believe that it works better in black and white.

This picture is a very well done photograph. It shows lines, shadows, shapes and also architecture. I don't think that this picture would not have worked in color because it would not have the same shadow and silhouette effects to it.

I believe that this article is saying a lot that people do not really care about what is going on in the world. They people only care about what is going on in the own county. Why do people not understand that even though it is not effecting them and their county it is affecting other people in other countries and it is still important.

This image is of starving children with no clothes and probably little shelter from the weather. Not many people would know or care about these children. But yet if this were happening here in America or in your own town, everyone would care and know about what is going on.

Pg. 342 HW

The poster is showing a Hispanic person pointing as though they were to be Uncle Sam. This indicates that they think they have more power over the United States. Or maybe they are just thinking that it is wrong that we can go and do whatever we want in their lands but they cant come into ours for free.

I think that the designer of the poster had many good points and designed this poster perfectly. The poster gets the point across well and also shows the emotion of the people. It also shows what they think about the whole illegal alien idea.

Pg. 341 HW

1. Everyone in each of the posters is centered. This lets the viewer know the the poster is important. The ones of Uncle Sam and other pictures that are pointing are the ones that come out at you. The ones that draw you in are the ones of people standing there as if they were inviting you in with them. The ones with more serious facial expressions and more serious body positions are more meaningful and stand our as if they were really important. The designers were trying to get their own point across and get their goals accomplished through these posters.

2. You need to know what the people feel around you. You also need to know what to put on the poster that will effect the people as a nation and not just as an individual. This means you need to think of how the poster will effect the people so that they do not get upset or angry with the designers.

3. The posters would be different if they were actual pictures instead of paintings because then people would actually know that a true soldier wanted of needed their help instead of a cartoon. But also, this could mean the posters were more graphic and they wouldn't have the same effect on the people. It would make them more serious as opposed to more cartoon like.

Pg. 337 HW

1. The Wizard of Oz Poster was probably made around the 50's or 60's. The Buffalo Soldiers poster was probably made in the late 90's. The Vertigo poster was probably made around 30 years ago and the Matrix Revolution poster was probably made about 4 years ago.

2. The wizard of Oz is probably going to be a happy movie because everyone is really happy. Buffalo Soldiers look like a comedy. I think this because he doesn't look very serious with the ammo around his neck. Vertigo seems to me to be a sad/love movie. It seems this way because the people on the poster don't look very happy but yet they are hugging. The Matrix Revolution seems like an action movie. It looks like an action movie because they look serious and they have weapons.

3. I believe that the designer used the colors that they did to get the full effect of the poster. Colors help to get the point across and to help draw your attention to the poster.

4. In the first two the titles do not stand out so you look at the pictures first then follow the lines to the title and sub-titles. In the next to the titles stand out more which makes your eyes look at the title then follow them to the pictures.

5. The posters on the the following pages were made sometime during anyone of the wars. I can tell because they all say something relating to the wars that were going on at that time.

6. The way their uniforms are different indicate they are from another country. Also, some have facial feature that seem to be from other countries.

7. I believe the designers used the colors they did because the color brings out the full effect and emotion of the poster.

8. I believe each one has you look at the image first then read the text or the other way around. To get the full effect the designer wants you to see both the picture and the text to understand what the poster is about.

Edward S. Curtis

I believe that these pictures were taken to study the Native American ways of living. These pictures show the Native Americans hard at work and they show other views of what they look like and the way that they live. For example, the picture of the Natives face shows how they dressed themselves with piercings to express themselves. Also the picture of their homes shows how different they live from the rest of the world. I believe that if the world saw these pictures it might effect them in a way that they might have more respect for the Natives.

Women at work

The Common theme that all of the photographs have is women at work. Also in all of the photographs all of the women seem to be working in some sort of factory.

(Alfred T. Palmer)




(William M. Rittase)

Rhetorical analysis

I Believe that the people who took the picture that we are analyzing were very concerned about that women that had to work. I think that they were trying to get the point out that women can work just as hard as men can. The photographer behind the picture might have hoped that the audience would believe that women really can work and eventually allow women to venture out and get jobs when the men got back from war. I think that the photography caught the women all when they were smiling on purpose. This shows that the women actually want to work and enjoy working.

Week 2 book work

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1. I believe that the photograph was taken in the mid twenties sometime around winter. The photography might have been taken somewhere in the downtown of New York City or maybe downtown Chicago.

2. The People in the photography might be a family but it looks more to me like they are just rich friends.

3. These people seem to have more wealthy lives. They seem to be very well off in life, wearing expensive fur clothing and all. It seems like they have very funny personalities. They seem to be having a good time.

4. This photography might have been taken to show the life of friends or family in the early times.

What helped me make my inferences about this photograph was the clothing and style of the people. The fur coats being worn by the women were usually worn by more wealthy women in the big cities. The black and white helps make it look older which is why I believe it was taken in the early twenties.

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1. In the photographs the mothers are not really smiling. This makes it look as though they are unhappy with their children. Be careful to say that they are not happy with their lives or children because there is no way of telling whether or not they are happy or not.

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1. Because sometimes the Place tells a lot more of a story that people would. The land shows more about the people and how they treat the place they live.

2. The Captions underneath the photographs help shape my responses because they tell what the place in the photographs is all about.

3. The panoramas work better than it would with a normal sized photograph because it spread the picture out letting you see the landscape more clearly, allowing you to get the whole perspective.

4. Black and white shows more of emotion to the polluted land than a normal color picture would. The black and white kind of represents sadness.

5. You are set up to feel as though you are there in the picture. The panoramas helps to bring you into the picture.

Margaret Bourke-White

Why We Chose Margaret Bourke-White

The reason Candace M. Kinney and Benjamin J. Thompson chose Margaret Bourke-white was because her photographs capture both influential people as well as architecture and shapes. Margaret Bourke-White was one of the last photographers to photograph Gandhi hours before he was assassinated. Margaret also took shots of Jawaharlal Nehru who was a senior political leader of the Indian National Congress.

Margaret takes amazing architectural pictures that deal with many different shapes. As shown in the picture of Diversion Tunnels, the shapes of the tunnels work well to make this picture so amazing. In this photography she uses visual paths to pull you from the left of the photograph to the right with the decrease in size of the tunnels. She has another photograph of the one of these tunnels with a man walking it that shows the size and majesty of it. Also, in other work of hers, she usually puts building and other architectural structures in weird positions to help enhance the photograph to make the shot more interesting.

For the most part, we chose to pick Margaret Bourke-White because we had heard a lot about her photography before in earlier classes and we noticed her amazing range of photography when we search for her name. Margaret is just an all around amazing photographer with amazing talents for picture taking.

Biography

Margaret Bourke-White was a very influential photographer of her time because she captured a variety of images including people, structures, and many more. She was born June 14th, 1904 into a world that was very close-minded about women in the work force. Margaret was shielded from the outside world by her mother who raised and taught her and her sister at an early age. One day her father took her to the foundry he worked at and what she saw changed her life forever. She followed her father around and everything he liked, she was interesting also. Pretending to take photographs, she used an old cigar box and took great notes when she saw him take pictures.

She went to college at Rutgers, and her freshman year she started taking pictures for the yearbook and eventually was offered a seat as the photography editor. She declined and decided she wanted to focus on her new married life and give up photography. The marriage did not work out and she went back to school to pursue photography once again. She tried taking photography and putting together a grand portfolio trying to catch the attention of the well known. There was a time she was working out of her one room apartment but when she took pictures of the Otis Steel Mill, it won her a small fortune and allowed her to move her studio to the Terminal Tower Skyscraper.

Henry R. Luce, a publisher of a new magazine contacted her via telegram wanting her to take pictures. She had no idea how well it would work out, but decided to take a chance at this new magazine called Time magazine. She was not very happy and the publisher told her that they were working on a new magazine that was up her alley with industrial related photographs, and they decided to publish the magazine called Fortune. It did not work out very well, so she went out on her own.

After many failed attempts, she went back to Luce who had started up a magazine where it was mainly pictures, and Bourke-White was one of them. She had many cover pictures on this magazine. After many years of photography she found out she had Parkinson's Disease and had surgery twice and both times were successful, but she hurt herself and she was forced to stay in a hospital bed. She died not long after at the age of 67. She was great at what she did, especially since it was "no place for a woman" at that time.

These pictures represent the "before and after" that we read about in the book. The first picture shows the man leaving the house walking towards the camera. In the second picture we see the man walking away from the camera. This is showing the before shot and after.

These pictures also represent "small to big" and "big to small". They show the driveway starting off large and wide then as you follow it towards the house it gets narrower.

This Picture works in Black and White because The light shining through the boards makes the picture stand out. This picture would not work in color because the light would blend in together with everything else in the picture. If this picture were color the Boys would stand out more that the light.

My color image works best in color because the signs and the whole picture stands out. If this picture were to be in Black and White the image would just kind of blend together making this photograph useless.

I guess in a way both photographs could be used in both black and white and color but the best thing to do would be to leave them the way they are because that is what works best.

This picture speaks to me because it shows the power of a team sticking together. This man is saving a woman from the riot. The stand alone photography shows the power of friendship and not leaving friends behind. The fact that the man is holding the woman in the air like a superhero and all the people are running around but he is standing still with the woman make the photograph very well taken. It brings out the emotion in everyone because it makes you feel sorry for the woman and everyone.

"Baghdad Sniper"

In my opinion, I believe that the new visual communication has more of an affect on the people than that facts from an article do. In the article you get a lot of information but it does not show exactly how horrible the attacks really are. People now and days are getting more and more used to the technology and being able to see what it is they really want.

The article gives more information across without the graphic violence that is being seen in the videos. This would attract more of the older people, or people that don't want to see the graphic pictures. The paper does a good job of saying that after an attack, there is already video or pictures online and ready to view. This is true because the world would rather watch the attacks than read about it.

One of the video i watched was not very appealing. The American soldiers were being sniped down without warning. This clip was an awful site to see. In this video they showed an American soldiers dead body rotting in out in the open. They just kept showing the body. This was very disrespectful to me because they were showing off something that should not have happened.

Another clip that I watch there was a group of American soldiers being shot at and they had nowhere to go. This is definitely not fair fighting. Although fighting is not good, it should be done properly and not like this.

Seeing clips like this gives the world a better view at what is really going on. Although they could just read about it, I believe that the world would rather see the horror for themselves so they can see that is it real and true.

9/11 Cartoon

This is an image of Uncle Sam crying because of 9/11. His tears make the 11 in 9/11. This shows to me that the horrible day of September 11Th was not only something that affected the state of New York but affected the whole world.

Not only did New York cities heart break on 9/11 but so did the entire United States. People volunteered from all over the country to help out on that tragic day. This Picture helps represent that even though the whole world is grieving over this horrible event that we can stick together as a whole and help support the United States.

This image represents that even 100 years from now 9/11 will still be remembered. Its going to take a long time to forget the event that occurred on that September day. This 2Nd Cartoon is also showing that it has left a scar on the heart of the nation. That is why September 11Th is going to be so hard to forget.

About Ben Thompson

My name is Ben Thompson. I live in Winona Lake. My major is Visual communications. Visual Communications will allow me to create websites and design billboards and logo's. Some of my hobbies are working with computers, taking pictures and sometimes skateboarding. In my free time I am at a new business called the detour. The detour is an internet cafe and photography center here in Warsaw Indiana.