Documentary photography

is also one of them , even though he never staged his photographs in New York.. While growing up his parents had a cabin on Lake Buel in Western Massachusetts where his family would spend the holidays. He would always go back there not only for photography, but it wasn’t until at one part earlier in his life while he was going through a crisis, that he started taking photographs like he does today. Just as Viviane Sassen, the photographer he is today goes back to when he was a child and the…

due to their violent nature. Shocking and violent photographs have the power to garner public interest and provoke social change. Patt Blue from the International Center of Photography writes, “reality is not a framed and frozen image - it is chaos, loud, dirty, and grossly disorganized” and so we should expect our news photography to properly showcase that. While many aspiring journalists drift over to soft content like music, entertainment and celebrities, there are journalists risking their…

The debate which argues whether the artistic and scientific medium of photography captures images of an accurate and unbiased reality or merely an impression or interpretation of a moment in time, is one which is just as relevant now as it was at photograph’s conception. Considering the length of time which this has been pertinent, William Henry Fox Talbot and Paul Graham are interesting artists to compare and contrast. The first being one of the early pioneers of the photographic movement, a…

Furthermore, I remember in the documentary, “Embrace” the director did mention that in India women who “plumper” were desirable because that was an immediate indication that you were wealthy enough to feast; thus, a desirable partner, has now changed as well to thinner being more desirable, at least to women. The documentary, “Embrace” showed young girls in pageants and shows such as ‘Top Model’. One critique I do have for the documentary, and even the research is that when we talk…

This interactive narrative is an interactive documentary short that follows Marta Aviles, a longtime resident of Brooklyn’s Los Sures neighborhood in South Williamsburg, NY. Living there for nearly forty years, she now faces challenges with the rapid gentrification of her neighborhood. This piece documents her journey in deciding whether to stay or to leave her home. The narrative was broken down into the following structure: Introduction, The Street, The Stairs, The Apartment, The Listing, Part…

Armadillo, (Mentz, 2010) is a Danish documentary that follows a platoon of soldiers as they complete a tour of duty in Afghanistan. The filmmaker follows the men and observes each personally as the war progresses. This is done through the use of camera work, graphics, editing and sound. Mentz (2010) structures the story of the documentary chronologically. This is shown by onscreen text. He begins by filming the solders preparing, their final goodbye to loved ones, time at the camp, challenges…

Mechanics: West of Loathing is a unique mix between a point and click adventure and a turn based action rpg. Though you do have the ability to walk around the game using W,A,S,D I would use point and click to walk around find objects. The developers have a bag type system that is pretty good. Every item can be shown to you in a long list or you can sort every item down to make it more manageable. It seems as though whenever you want to leave a scene you walk off screen to the left. This is neat…

The video, The Deadly Deception, is a well-produced documentary on unethical behavior in government sponsored scientific research. The piece chronicles the forty year study of untreated syphilis in approximately 400 African-American men from Macon County, Alabama which began in 1932. The utilization of interviews with two survivors of the experiment, Herman Shaw and Charles Pollard, and experts in the fields of research, medicine, and civil rights, along with original film taken during the…

Andrew Parker had finally received his dream job as a sports journalist. Ever since he was a kid, he dreamed of being able to travel the world and being the first to report stories on America’s favorite athletes. Ever since he was a child, Andrew loved sports, and his mother always said that if he was not going to be in the game, he definitely was going to be reporting on it. After he graduated college, Andrew flew out to Los Angeles for a job offer working in an office, primarily getting coffee…

After the Dada movement, Surrealism was born in the early 20th century. Dada was an artistic movement that brought about just as much thought as reactions to World War I did. The Dada movement was mostly based on irrational thoughts over rational ones, free art as well as human expectations. Unlike this concept, Surrealism did not have a war idea behind it, rather it had more of an imaginative notion. With guidance of subconscious dreams, Surrealism emerged, letting the imagination go untethered…