Boulevard du Temple

1. I picked this photo because I love the scenery itself. It is very gorgeous and beautiful in my opinion. I also like how the edges of the photo looks like its burnt out or even faded into darkness. That's the reason why I picked this photo.
2. This photo is about how the person who had made this photo had developed the fixed image using chemicals. Since he used the chemicals, anything he tries to do to the photo is going to be permanent. Whenever he makes a mistake he would have to either start over or try to cover it up by using even more chemicals.
3. The boulevard du temple was meant for recreation and walking. It was said to be very fashionable and popular. After a certain amount of time, the place was renamed to boulevard du crime.

4. The photo that caught my eyes~















5. Name: Louis Daguerre 
    Birth and death year (if applicable): Born  November 18, 1787 | Died July 10, 1851
    Born where:  Cormeilles-en-Parisis, France
    School attended (college or photo school): Doesn't mention

Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare

1. I picked this photo because I liked the way the ground is reflecting what the person in the floor is doing. But it's hard to tell if he is running on water or it was edited. But that is the reason why I picked this photo.
2. The photographer who took this photo loves to combine both speed and instinct. He is especially good for perfect timing. So when he saw a man leaping over a puddle of water. He looked through the fence and took the photo at what he though was the perfect moment. He had never saw anything more perfect then using both instinct and speed in one photo. He was proud of what this photo turned out to be.
3. Cartier, the photographer of this photo to the right, mainly takes photos of portraits and scenes. While taking photos around the world he often believes in the "perfect moment" when taking his photos. He likes to perfectly time what he thinks might turn into a good photo.



4. The photo that catches my eyes~











5. Name: Henri Cartier-Bresson
    Birth and death year (if applicable): Born August 22, 1908 | Died August 3, 2004
    Born where: Chanteloup-en-Brie, France
    School attended (college or photo school): University of Cambridge, and Lycee Condorcet

The Hand of Mrs. Wilhelm Röntgen

1. I picked this photo because I was curious on how this photo is on the most influential photos album on the website. I'm guessing the person who's hand in this photo either had something that no one else had in between her bones or she was very important. That is the reason why I picked this photo.

2. This photo is of a woman named Anna Bertha but was taken by her husband named Wilhem when he took the first medical x-ray. When other people saw this picture it has meant life. For Anna she said that saw saw her death when she had first glimpse it

3. Wilhelm Roentgen was the first person to discover the possibility of using electromagnetic radiation to create what we now know as the x-ray. The picture he took of his wife's hand is the first photo ever token with the first x-ray he has every made. The giant dark spot on the hand in the photo is supposed to be the ring he gave her from when they had gotten married.

4. Picture that catches my eyes~ 

He doesn't have any other photos that he took. The only one he has is of his wife's medical x-ray photo. That's why there is no photo posted.

5. Name: Willhelm Conrad Rontgen
    Birth and death year (if applicable): Born March 27, 1845 | Died February 10, 1923
    Born where:  Lennep, Remscheid, Germany
    School attended (college or photo school):  University of Zurich (1869), Institute of Martinus Herman van Doorn, ETH Zurich, University of Strasbourg

Moonlight: The Pond

1. I picked this photo because I liked the way the pond looked. The photo seems pretty and well token in my opinion. That's why I had picked it.
2. The person who made/took this photo had the intention for others to see it and question if it was a painting or a picture. It had turned out that this was both of them. He added some touches to the photo with the aim of pictorialism.
3. The person who took this photo wanted to influence other photographers of his time to understand what he means by "altering photos was no different than choosing when and where to click the shutter. Even though he abandoned pictorialism, his movements influenced can be seem by any other photographer who seeks to create scenes.

4. Photo that catches my eyes~



















5.  Name: Edward Steichen
     Birth and death year (if applicable): Born March 27, 1879 | Died March 25, 1973     

     Born where:  Bivange, Luxembourg     

     School attended (college or photo school): Steichen served a four-year apprenticeship in a lithographic firm

The hooded man

1. I picked this photo because it seemed creepy and odd as soon as my eye saw it. Which because of that had brought my attention to wondering what it's about.
2. The photo is of a man who had his sight deprived, his clothes, his dignity and his safety because of the wires that are attached to him. This is one photo out of many images of Iraqis being mistreated, humiliated and tortured. But the person who took this photo was a man named Frederick who took part in the torture of Iraqi prisoners.
3. The person who took the photo was sentenced to 8 years in prison. But originally he was sentenced to 10 years but got reduced to 8 years through plea bargain that calls for forfeiture of pay. He then explained at court how he forced prisoners to masturbate, punched a prisoner, and attached wires to another prisoner that was standing on a box who was told that he would be electrocuted if he fell off the box.

4. A photo of his that catches my eyes~

He doesn't have any other photos that he took. The only photo he has if of the hooded man. Just thought I should mention this

5. Name: Sergeant Ivan Frederick

    Birth and death year (if applicable): Born 1966 | He hasn't died yet

    Born where:  Buckingham County, Virginia, VA    

    School attended (college or photo school): Doesn't mention anywhere, he was only in the army as said

Abandoned Theme Parks

1. Tell me which amusement park featured in the two articles that you would like to visit and take your camera along and what about that park made you want to go there. Write at least a paragraph.
I would visit Pripyat amusement park, in Pripyat, Ukraine. The reason why I would want to go to Pripyat amusement park because it is said the the city that it is in is abandoned along with the park.Also the fact that it looks apocalyptic, had caught my attention immediately. It doesn't look bad in the photos, it seems it would be cool to go there and see for myself if I ever had the chance.




2. Post one photo from that park. You may use the photos from the link, or you can google an entirely new photo. I would prefer to see a photo of the park in disrepair and not a photo of it when it was still operating.

3. Think of at least FIVE other unusual places you think would be of interest to photographers. List them.

~Six flags, New Orleans, USA

~Spreepark, Berlin, Germany

~Okpo land, okpo city, geoje island south korea

~Holy land, waterburry, Connecticut, USA

~Takakanonuma greenland, hobara japan

4.Use google or another search engine to research ONE of your five places and see if anyone has already started documenting that place. If you find that someone has already started - post at least one photo of their work.

5. Write a paragraph about why you think that it would be fun to document that location. Tell me what interests you about that place and what kind of photos you could expect to take there.

6. Tell me what it would take for you to go and take photos at your location. What would you need as far as equipment goes, travel plans, expenses you might encounter and what laws you would have to take into consideration to take photos at your spot.

Africa/ Brandt

1. Reactions to on this earth, a shadow falls, across the ravaged land~

When I had read on this earth, a shadow falls, across the ravaged land it was very unique. The reason I believe this is because Brandt is not like any of the other nature/animal photographers. He focuses on the individuality on each and every single animal he has photographed. Since he also gets very close to the animals instead of using telephoto lenses it makes his photos seem more realistic.

2. Favorite photo:

3. The reason why this photo is my favorite photo from Brandt's albums is because I love how he managed to wait for the perfect timing to take this photo. If it wasn't at the right moment then the photo wouldn't even have turned out like it did. The fact that he got the rhino's touching horns together while on a giant puddle of water is gorgeous to me. Everything about this photo seems to be just great in my opinion.

4. Rules of photography used in the photo:
~Rule of thirds [the main subject must be in one of the four corners]
~Simplicity [not much happening in the photo]
~Balance [The photo doesn't seem to crowded with subjects]
-Avoiding mergers (the two rhinos are somewhat touching, so not sure if that counts) [There must be a subject touching another object/subject]

5. He uses three fixed-length lenses: a 55mm, a 105mm, and a 200mm
The camera Brandt uses is a Pentax 67

6. The reason he takes the photos is because he wants to  record a last testament to the wild animals and places there before they are destroyed by the hands of man

7. His hope for taking these photos is to capture all his feelings or love towards animals in pictures since he could not capture it on film.

8. I had a vision in mind: I wanted to create an elegy, a likely last testament to an extraordinary, beautiful natural world and its denizens that is rapidly disappearing before our eyes. I wanted to show these animals as individual spirits, sentient creatures equally as worthy of life as us.

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9.  Brandt's new focus with his photography is to try to make a difference. To show how are human activities are causing the animals of this world to be moved from their homes or to be killed off quicker due to our needs or wants in this world. He is showing us a new view on what is happening in this world by photoshopping animals with the frames around it and what we did to the land that they are supposed to be on.

10. Brandt selected unpublished photos from that period, printed them in California, shipped them to Kenya, constructed their steel and plywood frames on location, and positioned them so they seemed apart of the physical surroundings.

11. He had to wait many days for people to settle down and no longer look at his piece. His photography also made people aware of the problems happening to animals and he had the need to address them to others through his photography/ new album.

12. When I was looking at these photos I felt disgusted, angry, sad, and guilty. The reason why I feel this way is because the fact that we are taking away the land that they once stayed on, away from them makes me feel what I feel. I feel guilty for going on the land that was once there, mad for the people who took it away from them. Sad that they went through moving and adjusting to their new land and changing what they eat and live just because we wanted more buildings for our wants and needs. I'm also disgusted that they probably didn't even care about the fact that the animals are going through all of that or that it even crossed their minds when they were planning on using of their homes for our needs.