Charles Moore Photograph

This photo describes a story of hate towards another human being a hate so strong that the people in the photo will go to horrific extremes to push their beliefs on others. The picture of the cross burning in the night show the darkness of the act much like the Islamic extremist burning the American flag and pictures of our President because they hate our way of living and our beliefs.

Week 1 Assignment

Sorry this is so late my daughter had her tonsils removed and she has been having a little bit of a hard time recuperating so I am playing catch up>>>>>>

After reading the MSN report and looking at videos on you tube it really makes me mad that we as Americans can be swayed so much by the media and or what small terrorist groups put on the Internet.

My opinion of the war? I wish we had never entered it but now that we did I think we should finish what we started. When Bush SR was in office it was an unpopular idea to go in and finish the job and congress at that time mostly democrat pressured the withdraw and in my opinion made things worse when it came to terrorism. Now we are in the same situation what do you or the news media thinks will happen if we pullout now? Will we have another Vietnam? Will be safe from terrorism here in the states?

My thoughts are, we will make the terrorist even stronger and I believe that the groups will grow and get larger especially with the way they use the modern devices to spread their distorted messages. We need to prove there messages wrong and get Iraq set up in a government that benefits all involved. The factions are going to have to come together but we are dealing with a culture that we don't really understand.

Sometimes I think we just need to close our borders and worry about just the US and stop being the Savior of all the other countries.

Historic Photographer

For this Assignment I have partnered with Kevin Cox and we have decided to do our blog on photographer Annie Leibovitz because of her with work with many notable people and her work with Rolling Stone magazine. We also like her interesting style of photography by almost catching her subjects in a simple but intimate form and at time controversial . For example some of her subjects have been John Lennon, The Rolling Stones, Warhol, and countless other personalities.

Not only did she do photographs for Rolling Stone Magazine she also served as a concert- tour photographer for the Rolling Stones in 1975, as a featured portrait photographer for Vanity Fair and Vogue, did the advertizing campaign for American Express and has also has published 6 books of her various works.




Annie Leibovitz was born in Connecticut in 1947. In 1969 she went to King Solomon’s temple in Israel. In 1970 she had her first photograph published by the magazine “Rolling Stone.” She graduated in 1971 and became “Rolling Stones’ principal photographer later in 1973. Her main photography influences were Henri-Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank.

She went on tour with the Rolling Stones in 1975 where she became their official photographer for their world tour. Much of her work is referenced from the time she spent with the Stones.

Shortly before John Lennon’s death in 1980, Leibovitz took a picture of Lennon naked with Yoko Ono, which is now a very famous picture. After all, it was the last picture before the murder.

In 1983, Leibovitz became the first contributing photographer to “Vanity Fair”, producing several portraits throughout the years. In 1984 she was named photographer of the year by the American Society of Magazine Photographers.

In 1985 she photographed the World Cup Games in Mexico. 1987 is when she produced the ‘Portraits’ campaign for American Express. This production won her many awards including the Decade award from Advertising Age (1987).

She opened her own studio in New York City in 1990 and shortly after received the Infinity Award for applied photography from the International Center for Photography. She became one of only two living photographers to have an exhibition of her work at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. Finally, in 1999 she was made a member of the Art Directors Club ‘Hall of Fame’.

Cartoons

This image moved me because before 911 we seemed to have taken a lot of our freedoms in this country for granted. Who would have ever thought that another country or terrorist group would inflict so much pain

and fear to us the US.

Many things changed that day, I would say the country came together in a time of crisis. Patriotism was way up and the thoughts in Washington was more unified, party lines were dropped and the government actually worked together instead of bickering over who was going to have more control. Its just sad that was short lived.

This image shows the rising of something good and patriotic out of devastation. One thing I noticed the bloom is not a huge ever growing site. It is not totally healing the the original site but looks as though it is stunted unable to keep going because the patriotism is gone and the idea of politicians working together seems to have been pushed to the wayside.

Let me tell you a bit about myself

Hi!!! I am 40 something mother who is currently a student at IPFW in Warsaw, Indiana. I am pursuing a career in the medical field either in Radiology or Nursing. I have not quite decided which one I would like to do more so I am just taking it one step at a time and hope the right choice will fall into place.

Believe it or not I am having alot of fun, I think more fun now then I would have if I had gone to college directly out of highschool. I believe its becauseIam more focused on my goals and how want to achieve those goals.

I Stay pretty busy with my childrens activities they are heavily involved with 4-H, soccer, basketball and track so by the time one season is ending another one is starting.

The reason for doing this blog is for my J210 visual communications class.