QUOTE FOR FRIDAY.

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”  - Dorothea Lange

Lange's 1936, Migrant Mother, Florence Owens Thompson

About Lange HERE.

WEB ASSIGNMENT #4:

DUE: Your reply to the items below posted to your blog by midnight, Sunday, October 21 (10 points)

1. Who was Alfred Stieglitz and why is he noteworthy in the history of photography?
2. Choose a photograph he made, upload it to your blog, and explain why you chose it as your favorite by him.
3. With what famous painter was he in a relationship? Who was she?  Upload a painting by her that you like.
Extra: How did they influence each other in their art making?

Alfred Stieglitz, 1902 by Gertrude Käsebier

LOOK: 24 Miles High

Stratos home site HERE.
A group of photos HERE.
More photos HERE.
More HERE.
And still more HERE.

PROJECT #5: Alphabet

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DESCRIPTION:
As photographers, we often look for interesting situations, places, and things that have the potential for making good photographs.  Sometimes we see something that looks like something else, such as a cloud that looks like an animal, car, or face.

Turn your skills of perception toward finding and photographing things that look like letters of the alphabet. For this project, you will FIND and photograph 26 letters of the alphabet.  You are not to photograph letters that already exist (i.e. on a store sign, etc.)  In addition, do not arrange subject matter to form a letter.  This project is PURELY about observation and learning to see the world in a new way.

RATIONALE: The project is an exercise in training your eye to see what you normally would not see. Stretching what your eyes see, and your mind perceives, is an exercise in creative seeing and thinking.



A FEW IDEAS:
Textism.com HERE.


Cheesy, but fun HERE.
Full alphabet HERE.

THESE ARE INTERESTING, BUT NOT WHAT YOU ARE TO DO:
Actual letter HERE (Not to be done this way).
Photographic alphabet around the house HERE.

INSPIRE US: Alexander Semenov

Alexander Semenov's site HERE.
Semenov's Flickr photostream HERE.

LOOK: Lighting Up the Night

People release lanterns in Poznan, Poland, on June 21, 2012. Thousands of lanterns were released to mark the shortest night of the year.(AP Photo)

Photos HERE.