Connie Wanek and Louis Jenkins

For this slideshow, the assignment was to take photos that would match up with poetry. The poetry was from Connie Wanek and Louis Jenkins. I believe that the photos and quotes that appear in my slideshow are very self-explanitory. They describe the poetry as best they can without being corny.

Monopoly by Connie Wanek

Slideshow

Helvetica

The movie we watched in class was called Helvetica, and it opened my eyes so much more to the world around me. The font you use is more than just the way you want something to look. It is supposed to describe the feeling, mood and how you was the words to be portrayed. I used to just use what looked pretty, but now I've been trying to look for the fonts that describe my words. I use more legible fonts, and to my surprise it actually looks better than before. The movie has taught me so much, and I'm very thankful for that. I enjoy playing with the font, the size, the color, and the transparentness.

While paying homage to Helen Levitt I must keep in mind how, and what she photographed. In this photo the people were not posed, and they were concentrated on something. The shadows, I believe, make this photo come to life. The way the shadows start from the feet, and don't stop in the frame is pretty cool. Also, this photo is in motion, and the colors contrast well together, along with the different shapes. The object that I believe just tops off the photo is the small circle benches in the middle ground. The texture of the cement is my favorite part about this photo though.

Helen Levitt

Helen Levitt was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She dropped out of school and taught herself about photography. At that time she was working for a commercial photography company. She went on to teach small art classes to the children. The children then were photographed by Helen doing their artwork. Like drawing with chalk on the streets, or playing with friends. Her photos moved from children as the subject matter, to just about everything on the New York streets, which was a lot. 

Helen Levitt is a great photographer.  She captured the streets of New York city as they really were. Her photos are amazing in detail, especially extraordinary due to the fact of her having no formal education in photography. Helen most of the time took photos of random people on the streets. She managed to get mostly blank backgrounds, which is hard to do being on the city streets.

William Eggleston was born in Memphis, Tennessee on July 27, 1939. His father was an engineer, and failed at being a cotton farmer. His mother was the daughter of a prominent judge in the city.  Having those people for parents must have helped him in many ways. It helped him become as artistic as he is. Eggleston is a very artistic photographer. He has been given a lot of credit for taking color photography into the art world. He does his prints in a large format to make the photo more dramatic without editing it. William also doesn't pose anything in his photos, he takes them as he sees them. The photos are never staged. The ones with people in them, he takes before the people notice he's taking a photo of them. In my opinion William Eggleston is a wonderful and creative photographer.