Reflection: This week in class we took a lot of good portraits and made a lot of t-shirts. In humanities we started reading Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck. So far I really like the book its a quick read that has a lot of depth. We also started writing our Dorothea Lange writing and so far I have written two of the five. I think for next week I have to spend more time on it because I feel behind. In chemistry we started making our first emulsions and we turned the class into a dark room. Chemistry: My jobs in class are the paper guy and the documenter. I took photos of the process of the dark room and the emulsions. I am still yet to do any paper stuff, next week I will become more familiar with it. Humanities: Dorothea Write Up: Composition: The man is positioned in the center third of the frame. The background is blurred meaning the aperture was wide. It does a good job of separating the foreground from the background. Another way the subject stands out is that he is wearing all dark colors which brings him out from the white background. The photo is also in black and white. Which means the skies that day were cloudy because of the white skies. The cloudy skies mean there was no shadows because the sun was being blocked. The clouds acted like a soft box for the sun. The mans hat shaded his face so you could see all the creases in his face. The creases in his face add a lot of drama to the photo it looks like he's been through a lot. The way he is standing looks staged, but at the same time the look on his face is a sad one, which means it might be candid, Dorothea Lange could have asked him to make that face or that was just how he felt at the time. Autobiographical: Dorothea Lange was a documentary photographer who always tried to provoke the thoughts of americans with her amazing and thoughtful photos. She was born in the year 1985, in Hoboken, New Jersey. In 1913 she moved to New York City and it changed her life forever. After working in a photography studio she decided to become a photographer. She attended the University of Columbia for photography. In 1918 she was living in San Francisco with her own photography studio and a family. She started documentary photography in the 1920s photographing Native Americans. Then in the 1930s with the great depression in full effect she started taking photos of labor strikes and breadlines in her local state of California. She then went all around the United States taking impactful documentary photos about the great depression. Her photos conveyed hard intense times during the great depression. After the great depression she took photos of the Japanese internment camps that similar to the great depression photos showed hard times in America's history. Dorothea Lange died at 70 years old from esophageal cancer in 1965. Steinbeck:
1. George is constantly getting Lennie out of trouble. They are tramps living off cans of beans and looking for work wherever they can get it. Lennie is more irresponsible than George. 2. "Your aunt Clara give you a rubber mouse and you wouldn't have nothing to do with it." "It wasn't no good to pet." In this part Steinbeck may be talking about how in the great depression the workers were very replaceable much like the mice that Lennie's aunt Clara gives him. Then when you have something that will last longer like a rubber mouse you will have to pay more. No one wants to pay more when moneys tight.
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