Brodylindsey

     Lee Friedlander was an American Photographer in the 1960s and 1970s.  Friedlander was born in Aberdeen Washington in 1934. By the age of 14 he was already earning money as a skilled photographer. At age 18 he went on to study photography at The Art Center College of Design in California. After school in California, he moved across the country to live in New York City. There  Friedlander took pictures of musicians. The pictures he took were used for album covers for the musicians. These photographs established his photographing ability in New York City scoring him an opportunity to photograph for Playboy Magazine. One of  Friedlander's most famous photographs was part of his time with Playboy when he photographed Madonna.      Friedlander's  most influential work was in the development of social landscape photography however. Friedlander was the person responsible for coining the name "social landscape." Social la...

       Emmanuel Radnitzky was an artist who spent most of his career in Paris France.  Radnitzky, or better known as Man Ray, was born in  Philadelphia Pennsylvania on August 27th, 1890. Man Ray's greatest contribution to the art movement was his surrealist photograms. Surrealism was a trend in the early 20th century because people were very interested in dreams. Surrealism photography captures images that make viewers believe that they are peering into the dreams of the photographer. Man Ray created surrealism photographs without using a traditional camera. Man Ray used photograms to capture light on  photo paper to create surreal images. Man Ray called his photograms "rayographs."     Photograms are a camera less photographing process that exposes light to light sensitive paper. Objects can be placed on the paper and block the light from hitting the paper in certain areas creating silhouettes of objects. Objects can also...

 By referring to  Marvin Heiferman’s  essay,  Photography changes Everything,  articulate what photography means to you.      Photography has multiple meanings to me when I think of it. The main aspects can be categorized into two main ideas that often intertwine with one another throughout my thinking process and in the essay. My first idea when I think of photography is the idea that photography catches moments in time when people are experiencing specific things. This thing they experience can be anything from a home run at a baseball game or a fish jumping out of the water. This idea can be found in the essay toward the beginning when Heiferman says "To see and experience the world, we don't only look at images; we take them, and often. Last year, it was reported that Facebook's 750 million users uploaded and shared 100 million photos every day." 100 million experiences are captured by individuals on Facebook alone. With these e...