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The History Of Photography

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I went to the Arts block in Riverside CA. The exhibition was of Mexican arts and photographers: Guillermo Soto Curiel, Ruben Ortiz Torres, Consuelo y Marisa and Graciela Iturbide. The exhibition was one of a collection of Mexican photographers of the twentieth century and the permeant exhibition of the history of photography. As well as the current exhibition of Mundos Alternos an Art and science fiction in the Americas. There are four photographs by Guillermo Soto Curiel, Manuel Carrilo, Graciela Iturbide, and Ruben Ortiz Torres. The first photograph is Ritmo de Vida III 1981. This is by the photographer Guillermo Soto Curiel who is Mexican and was born in 1952. Ritmo De Vita III was a gelatin silver print. This photograph is a city or …show more content…

The photographer reveals the nature of perseverance. The second photograph is Untitled by Manuel Carrilo, undated. Manuel Carrillo was born in 1906 and died in 1989. He is Mexican photographer; this photograph is being a gelatin silver print. The photograph is an aerial shot of a hotel window it seems like a white car turning a corner while a man crosses the street. The black and white photo, with a blurry focus as if it was a snapshot. The street scene that seems to be a random moment in time. The fact that the man is more blurry and lighter than the rest of the photograph. The man is blurrier than the car makes it even more of a spur of the moment shot. The reason being the man looks in mid-moment of walking and that the photographer touches up the photograph, so the eye navigated toward the awkward hat and half sunken walk. The exposure seems to be high as if it was a sunny day just after it rained, or it was very brightly over cast. The composition of the stag whiteness of the car and the sharp corners of the street with the small points of light of the man’s hat. All gives a collective flow to the photograph as if the viewer is following the steady turn of the car. Lines of the street and the lines of the body of the car pointing to the hidden man that also muddles with the wet street. The photograph does look cropped to make it more symmetrical and less crowded. The

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