Yousuf Karsh: A Brief Biography

“For she was a woman of surpassing beauty, and at that time, when she was in the prime of her youth, she was most striking. She also possessed

To begin, pathos is shown greatly here. The model is positioned in the foreground looking over her shoulder at the camera with

“He established his reputation with award-winning photographs taken while disguised in Afghan.” [Chamber Harrap] He won four different awards between the year’s 1984 – 1992 World press award: For General News 92, Daily Life 84-85, Nature 1985 – 1991, Photo Children’s Award 92.

shot to death. Most of his work is taken in the United States, Europe and Asia. Generally

The image I chose for this paper is titled A Rose. The image is a painting painted in oil on a canvas and was painted by Thomas P. Anshutz. The painting was produced in Pennsylvania during 1907. I researched this image on ARTstor by using the term realism and then I narrowed down my search by selecting a filter to return paintings as well as setting the geography filter to North America. The painting belongs to The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection and is on display in the American Wing in the gallery of Images of Woman from 1880 to 1910.

During Thanksgiving Break, I visited the St. Louis Art Museum in my hometown. Through many floors of sculptures, painting, and other objects, the one thing that caught my eye was the portrait called Women Seated on Sofa in Interior. This piece was by Fredrick Carl Frieseke an American impressionist painter. He favored quiet, interior scenes of women. Frieseke used the setting of the portrait to explore the interplay of light, color, and pattern. The medium of this canvas is oil and it’s dated back sometime between 1912 and 1914. The exact date is unclear.

In the exposition we meet our protagonist who is a young women of Islam who wears the traditional veil that muslim women are advised to wear under the law of the Quran were it says, “And tell the believing women to reduce some of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which necessarily

Many symbols and gestures can be interpreted in many different ways. Symbolism and Body Language are naturally open to more than one meaning and interpretation. Let us exercise the rational abilities that God gave us to think critically toward the topic and examples offered while yet using our spiritual gifts to discern in the Spirit the Absolute Truth of the matters as

The space, time and usage of dynamics were powerful yet elegant-elements that added to the overall quality and tone of the work. The solo dancer used her body to perform various movements with specific ranges of motion, showing her ability to control, express and properly connect to the audience through her performance. In this performance, there seems to be a spiritual side when the dancer, Marilyn Banks, sits on the bench and starts to swing her arms in wide semi-circles to show looks of anguish and despair. Ms. Banks also varied movement by quivering her hands-movements such as a shaking or slight trembling with her hands when reaching outwards. She also used a lot of ornamentation or embellishment through her movements. Her body and her path of movement embellished her gestures since she was performing spins across the stage.

It was a daguerreotype, a photograph taken by an early photographic process. It is detailed and sharp, and has an iodine-sensitized silvered plate and mercury vapor.

In this portrait, the artist has portrayed herself, wearing a black color dress that covers her completely only leaving her face uncovered. Moreover, a poem in Persian language is stated on her face, and a rifle is segregating her face into two components. The artist’s eyes gaze intensely towards the viewers from the both sides. She opted to portray herself as a muslim woman to shed light on her religion and to explain the distinction amongst Islam and western culture. According to Syre, the poem inscribed upon her face narrates the belief of many Iranian Muslim women in Islam. It is their believe that as per Islam, all men and women are equal, and the Chador that covers the woman body from head to feets, leaving her face naked prevents woman from becoming a sexual

Spring Valley junior high school students Mason Strokes and Brian Kasaba discovered skeletal remains Friday at midnight along the wooded area off of Clemson Road.

German photographer took a picture of him to show the Germans how ill prepared the

Set against the backdrop of World War II and its aftermath, the episode examines how photographers dealt with dramatic and tragic events like D-Day, the Holocaust and Hiroshima, and the questions their often extraordinary pictures raise about history as seen

To begin, the proportion of the woman’s gaze accentuates perfection. The eyes introduces a sense of nobility to the piece acquiring a softness at the gaze. Painted with a spherical shape, it allows the appearance to emerge mysteriously throughout the portrait and I quote “Through their roundness, therefore, the mind, knowing itself, is sometimes forced to reveal the secrets thoughts of their