The prof.

Unlike photojournalism, where the photographer “chases after the events”, a major part of photography is about waiting.
A sort of floatation in space and time.
Sometimes it seems as if the photographer is moving in zero gravity.  Like an astronaut, exploring at minimum speed the present and daily world around him.
I’d say that much of photography is like falling slowly (in slow motion). Like the dust that comes to rest on things, so the silver of the film and the paper creates a new reality, a grid that holds, dilates and expands over time. 
S.A.

for KRISTEN and SIENA

Dear Kristen, you shoud go to the register office and tell them that you are still enrolled in the course.

it is important!

I went to the shop and your camera works !  :-)

Dear Siena, here you can find the address of the shop. if you want to mend the camera.
http://www.sabatini.ws/contatti/dove/

Michael Christopher Brown - Shara

 

Michael Christopher Brown is an American photographer who photographs the relationship between distance and honesty. His primary device for recording images is a camera phone. This photograph is titled, "The Kivus: Goma Airport" and is part of a series (CONGO.) that focuses on conflict within the Democratic Republic of Congo taken on December 14, 2012. At Goma Airport in Congo, planes abandoned due to wars and volcanic eruptions are a common site. Children often use the abandoned planes as a playground and sometimes sell parts of the planes on the streets of Goma. In the description, Brown said that photographs of this section of the airport are prohibited, however during a security vacuum the area was left unguarded and children guided him through the area.

Larry Towell - Jake

Larry Towell was a Canadian photographer who primarily documented the mennoite community in Ontario Canada, the United States, and other outlying territories. This piece, the "Canadian" was captured in 1995 in Lambton County, Ontario. I found this piece particulary intriguing for the contrast in shadowed imagery as well as for the scene itself. Furthermore, Towell creates a strong diagonal line through the reminants of the staircase above the girl's head and the parallel lines that run down the front face of the stair case. Towell also creates a duel focal point, drawing the viewer's eye to both the somber image of the girl as well as to the image of the scenic tree in the background. The façade of the tree and pasture coupled with the image of the young girl gives the photo a glance of hope in lue of the dismal and decrepit tone.

Robert Capa - post by Angela

This photo is by Robert Capa, a photographer from Budapest. This is when he was covering the Tour de France in 1939. The shop behind them was a bike shop, and the kids were watching the bike shop owner come towards them in the race. Obviously this is a still photo, but you can imagine the tense nature of the kids and that they are all trying not to move, waiting in anticipation. There are two lines - one of older boys, and an older woman in the corner with a baby and also another woman in the same line. Then there is the line of the children. The photo creates a feeling of excitement and eagerness to me, and I like it because it looks real and is not a posed/set-up shot.

Guy Le Querrec---Jeanne

This photograph was taken by Guy Le Querrec (French, b. 1941).  This was taken in France in 1964 and it's titled, "CHARLIE MINGUS SEXTET."  According to the description given, one of the members of this bad had to be taken to the hospital in the middle of the performance.  I think this emotion can be seen on the face of the  musician here.  I was drawn to this photograph because of the strong diagonal line which gradually guides your eye from the top of the photograph to the bottom.  There is a lot of emotion on the face of the musician, which I think is emphasized by making the photo black and white. 

Sebastião Salgado- Emilia

Sebastião Salgado

Sebastião Salgado (1944) is a Brazilian social-documentary photographer. He took this picture in Kuwait in 1991. The first Gulf war had just ended, but the oil wells were still burning. This picture shows a group of specialist firefighters from Canada who were trying to extinguish the fire and to stop the oil from leaking. They worked with metal tools that had the potential to cause a fire that would have engulfed them all, if a spark had been made through a hard enough scraping of the metal instrument. I admire his work because of the level of personal attachment that he has with his subjects; he tells stories instead of taking single pictures.

Salgado took this breath-taking picture in the South Sandwich Islands, near the Antarctic (2009)