Russel Lee

Russel Lee

           

                  Russel Lee is best known for his series on Farm Security Administration and the incarceration of japanese americans. In these series he criticized the FSA agency for their work and exposed the wrongness of the incarcerations of the japanese americans to the public. Lee was by far the most thorough of the FSA photographers, producing more than 5000 images while he was with the agency. Russel Lee was an influential artist in the history of photography in that he showed and displayed how influential photos can be in exposing the truth to the public. In 1935 Lee began to photograph and record the conditions of miners in Pennsylvania.  In 1936 he photographed and documented the Jersey Housing Project.

Afghan Girl by Steve McCurry

The Afghan Girl photo was taken by photographer steve McCurry.  The girl had the photo taken of her when she was a refugee of the Soviet Occupation of Pakistan.  This photo came to be the symbol of the 1980's afghan conflict and of refugee situations worldwide. The portrait contains a girl who has red clothing on and is staring with bright green eyes directly into the viewers eyes when they look at the photo. After the photo was taken searches were conducted to find the girl but were unsuccessful until she was found at the age of thirty in a remote area of Afghanistan. 

Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Response to Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem, "Ulysses".

I feel that the intended meaning trying to be expressed by Alfred Lord Tennyson in his poem Ulysses is that you should live life to the fullest and make what you can of it.

You have been gifted with only one chance at life and it should not be wasted or used in a way that you will not enjoy.

It little profits that an idle king, 

By this still hearth, among these barren crags, 

Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole

Unequal laws unto a savage race, 

That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.  

In this paragraph taken from the poem "Ulysses", Tennyson is trying to tell that its not fair for him to reward the kingdom when they do not really truly know him or appreciate him. Because while they are being rewarded he has to stay at home with his old aged wife.

This portion stands out to me because it reminds me that although you do something morally good and widely appreciated, don't expect credit for it. Most noble and morally good favors and actions go unnoticed. 

Weaving photo

Scan Layers

This image was made using a scanner. I scanned four different images of me then I put them all together in photoshop to get the final product. 

Lewis Hine(September 26, 1874-November 3, 1940)

 Lewis Hine was a influential photographer that you could say used hid pictures to tell the truth.

He used photography to display child labor and how wrong it is as well as adult labor workers. He documented his subjects in the form of portraits mostly. His visual style was that he would take black and white photographs of labor workers working in harsh conditions to make the viewer feel sympathetic.  He helped change the wold for better in that the exposed the world to the harsh conditions and working environments that labor workers have to work in and expose the wrongness of child labor.