Magnum Photos

film. Once he created the photo department for the French resistance, Cartier-Bresson was hired by the United States to make a documentary of French prisoners returning…

horses, magnums and shotguns and people getting shot to a very fake gun shoot sound over with banjo music. They all look the same, they all generally do the same thing, and the only differences are the people playing the characters. I do not feel like much…

Case 1: Case Study the Football Star’s Fictitious Girlfriend The first case study I chose from the book was the “Case Study the Football Star’s Fictitious Girlfriend” from chapter 12. The case explains the situation of Manti Te’o, Notre Dame University's linebacker in 2012 and his Stanford graduate girlfriend, Lennay Kekua who was reported to be involved in a car accident, and later diagnosed with leukemia. Days after learning that his girlfriend and grandmother died, the then linebacker…

If I were to say that I am an all knowing expert in the field of art, I would be lying. Besides the many facets and genres of art that I have yet to explore, there are techniques and mediums that I have not even begun to think about attempting. However, in my mind, I am an artist; I have been for as long as I remember, to some degree. There were times, though, where I had no idea what I was doing and wanted to quit immediately. In high school, I was a bit of a whiz kid in the art department.…

wasn't over. I took a cab to Downtown Montreal to check-in to the Airbnb Aaron Mermelstein booked a week in advance. He was late because he missed his flight, so I had to go on a solo mission to investigate. The place looked nothing like it did in the photos. It had a terrible, pungent, musty smell in every room. Someone created a makeshift bathroom in a closet by putting a toilet right next to the water heater. The walls were covered with one coat of nasty, smudged, white paint. The beds were…

Seven Samurai is considered by many to be Akira Kurosawa’s magnum opus and his longest at nearly three and a half hours. The film follows a group of samurai who defend a village from bandits, and train their occupants to fight back against their oppressors. Each of the samurai were based on real people from Japanese…

achievement. An entire season is practically unheard of. Though hermits have been documented for thousands of years, Knight’s feat appears to exist in a category of its own. He engaged in zero communication with the outside world. He never snapped a photo. He did not keep a journal. His camp was undisclosed to…