Week 10 Blog

Paul Strand

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This image captured my attention due to the oddity of its composition. While very good it is more unconventional of a composition. The wood of a building or shack is a frame for the snow and trees in the background. I think he may be using a telephoto lens because the trees and house behind them seem to be smashed together and almost a little flat. The texture and tones of the wood grain really makes the trees in the background pop, and even with the intense amount of light outside of the door it is not blown out. A great print and picture.

Edward Weston
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I am intrigued by the thing itself in this photograph. Weston has a knack for making the viewer really examine the subjects of his photographs. By my eye I would assume that these are rocks that have been decaying from water for hundreds of years. The light tones within the indented rock is very interesting because usually I relate these spaces with dark tones. The lines in this image guide ones eye around the photograph weaving between texture and tones. He also has captured some really great textures as well.

Walker Evans

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The first thing I noticed about this photograph is the repetitive textures against the more subtle background of clouds. Evans still gets a lot of information out of the clouds while getting everything he could want out of the pallets and wooden boxes below. This leads me to believe he burned the sky in or else it may have been blown out. The smoke stacks further the depth of the picture while adding a bit of variety. Still vertical repetitive lines but also diagonal lines cutting through the clouds. Also the subtle reflections in the puddles in the foreground really add a nice touch that may not be noticed from the viewer right away.