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    American Civil War which lasted 4 years (1861-1865) I chose this painting to represent Langston Hughes, “For a Dark Girl”. The main character in “For a Dark Girl” is a nameless young girl who lost her young Black lover to a lynching. Funnily, the first image that came to my mind when I read the poem was the young man. I wondered what caused him to be lynched and why. After the Civil War, lynching became particularly associated with the South, and with the first Ku Klux Klan, founded in 1866. The first

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    Pictorial photographs and writings made him one of the most influential photographers of the second half of the 19th century. Henry Peach Robinson's 1858 photograph,”Fading Away”, Robinson combined five separate negatives and produced this intimate image of a family

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    and sculptures. They reconstructed the life of humans in the past, because humans were now able to capture images of physical objects. It changed the access people had to different time periods, which gave a unique visual on people and objects that were not of modern day. Photography can be used a form of advertisement. To do so, “The Great Northern Railroad used photographs to sell its images of the “vanishing” Blackfeet to the American Public” (33). Photographs are one of the most modern types of

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    Ever since my parents bought me my first camera, I’ve been hopelessly attached to it. Film was always something that intrigued me, and I spent most of middle school with a camera in my hand. That didn’t end when high school began. As I furthered my knowledge of film and photography throughout school, I found more opportunities to create something bigger than myself. Using my passion for film and photography, I aided with Tri-M Music Honors Societies community outreaches and events. I have been involved

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    Gertie, Felix was a studio character, which meant audiences could see him again and again, while affording Messmer and his team the opportunity to explore the possibilities of ongoing character development in animation. The merchandising of Felix's image was successful and paved the way for the later marketing of animated

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    In doing so, he is merely giving these images a better title by gathering the simple information duplicated of a pervious existence by camera. For example, he renames the piece Monarchique et repentir as “Lovers eating rabbit stew”, after not seeing anything more than a realistic, yet puzzling, posed images. This is in result to how Charles views the image as being boring. He describes the images by the lack of interesting factors in this dull and literal replicate

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    Dorian Gray Meaning

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    Jesus Gonzalez Art Appreciation 103 12/11/2016 Research Writing Assignment Ivan Albright Picture of Dorian Gray 1943/44 Oil on canvas 215.9 x 106.7 cm (85 x 42 in.) The painting is a self-portrait of the fictional character Dorian gray. The painting was used in the film where the character had asked a portrait of him as a handsome man. Dorian gray trades in his soul for him to remain forever young and handsome. Gray lives a life where he does things that are morally corrupt. Gray continues not

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    Dorothea Lange was born on the 26th of May, in 1895, in New Jersey. When she was young, she suffered from polio, a paralysis, which left her crippling for the rest of her life. More than once, Lange stated that her condition made her more sensitive to the suffering of others, which was a fundamental aspect of her work. In August 1935, Roy Stryker offered Lange a job with Resettlement Administration, which she took immediately. She worked for the Resettlement Administration until 1943, documenting

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    provocative fashion photography and minimalist portraiture. Richard did works for the huge fashion magazine Vogue, he also worked for the magazine Harpers Bazaar. Richard told the models he worked with to show emotion and movement to create a better image; this was rare in the fashion industry and wasn’t the norm, most fashion photographers would make their models stand still and strike a pose. Richard thought different and he made fashion photography his own and did what he thought was good and it

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    barrier to seeing, the camera itself. He cites the Susan Sontag, who claims that “a way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also way of refusing it-by limiting experience to the search for the photogenic, by converting experiences into an image, a souvenir.” This position that Sontag takes shows that she believes that the camera clouds are memories of an event, only showing the most perfect part. I believe this to be true, with a few limitations. Sontag’s claim that the camera only serves

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