Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Annie Leibovitz


In Annie Leibovitz pictures she uses many different aspects, ideas and poses to show what she wants to express through photography. An example was when we saw the Celebrity pictures she pictured the attitude of the celebrities by expressing it through the way they posed and what they were wearing and whats around them. This can influence my own style of photography because i can see some other styles of photography and the way another artist expressed what they saw in a pictuere.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Photoshop



What are the advantages and disadvantages of photoshop? The advantages of photoshop are the new ways of editing pictures and being able to explore new parts of photography which people have never had before. The disadvantes of photoshop is the impact on society when people take pictures of models and retouch them to make them look perfect, taking wrinkles away, adding abs, making their legs longer, teeth white, and adding shades and coloring to their skin. This is negative because people look at these want to have this perfect look that can only be acquired using photoshop.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Harlem Rennaissance


To understand the Harlem Renaissance we need to understand the experience of blacks before the 1920s. From 1619, the beginning of slavery in the Americas, up until the Harlem Renaissance African-Americans have went through a tough history in the United States. In 1860 they went through the civil war and Abolition of slavery by the 13th amendment in 1865. Bill “Bojangles” Robinson was an American Tap dancer and actor during the Harlem Renaissance. Bill Robinson was Born, William Luther Robinson on May 25, 1878 in Richmond Virginia. The nickname Bojangles came to be his nickname from the word Jangler meaning contentious. The name started when he was young and stuck throughout his career. As a boy he was orphaned and began his tap-dancing career at age six. Bill Robinson’s form of tap-dancing changed Tap from a flat-footed dance to pushing the dancer up on his toes. Throughout his career Bill Robinson had many successful appearances and highlights. His most famous act is most likely the famous stair dance. Bojangles appeared in 14 films mostly along side Shirley Temple. With Shirley Temple he danced along side her in the 1935 movie “The Little Colonel”. Bill Robinson was also in the cotton club and was headlined with Cab Calloway several times. Although the struggles with racial tension in his art, Bill Robinson conquered both stage and screen and triumphed as a legend of Harlem.