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 Assignment 4: Portrait Part A Part B

Part 1: Motion Stop motion Blurred Motion Panning Long Exposure Part 2: Self-Portrait Self-portrait For the self-portrait assignment, I applied some techniques we discussed in class to capture the two stop - motion pictures and one blurred motion picture.  Research Cindy Sherman is an American self-portrait photographer. In her works, she often plays the role of many different characters and settings throughout her career and has brought many different stories. That is an interesting thing about this photographer. She is also a versatile artist because in order to create an image, she has taken on many different roles: model, makeup artist, hairdresser, etc. Her works represent the contemporary art. "Sherman’s obvious use of prosthetic body parts and theatrical setting compel the viewer to think about the posturing and modeling of the original historical sources. For this reason, many critics have praised Sherman’s deconstruction of overtly masculine visions of the female in the h...

  Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) is an American photojournalist. Her pictures are black and white which best describe the sadness may have in the immigrants’ stories during the Great Depression. The composition in her photos is normally irregular. Her idea for the pictures stems from the Great Depression’s unemployed men wandered San Francisco’s streets by the time she was out of money also. Another inspiration for her was the migrant people that she lived with some time.      Walker Evans Walker Evans (1903-1975) is an American photographer. He had the same kind of pictures which is black and white, and the same irregular composition as Lange. However, instead of focus on people only, his pictures are variety. Therefore, his inspiration came from many things, too, like the essence of American life or subway portrait.  Sources:  1. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dorothea-Lange 2. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walker-Evans 3....