The Secret Behind what Grls are Really Texting (Photo Essay)

Through campus life you experience girls always texting and most of the time talking about drama

Girls constantly texting  about the girl sitting next to them using forms of verbal abuse. Throughout campus girls talk about their past weekend and partying and the drama about other girls they dont like.

Most girls cannot ignore the drama especially if a juicy text message. Even when girls dont want to get involved, they still talk crap back secretly.

All over campus you see girls secretly hiding their phones so they can talk crap about a girl next to them or in their view without making it obvious.

In conclusion, girls none the less are known to cause drama and text eachother about other girls they find annoying throughout campus

secretly.

5 photos toward my guide

Sontag and Specific Questions

Through out Sontag's "American, seen through Photographs, Darkly" she is giving us the idea that there is no specific object that is beautiful or person that is better than another. Only that we have that there is not standard of what makes a photo beautiful. She talks about Diane Arbus who takes photos of specific objects and people who would not commonly be known as beautiful that are ignored in our society because of politics and the common model of what men and women should look like.

1). On page 31, what is Sontag referring to when she says Whitman's Poems are psychic tenchology for chanting the reader into a new state of being? Is this the idea that we don't see what is common and idea of creating a new perspective of the world.

2) . On papge 33, I understand that Sontag is trying to  prove that a photograph doesn't have to be a certain kind of beauty and that every person/object is unique and beautiful, but what does she mean when she says Diane Arbus's work enrolled in one of art photogrphy's most vigorous enterprises? Is this the idea that Arbus is entering a whole new world of taking photos and what is common and beautiful?

3). On page 34, What does Diane Arbus mean in the second paragraph when she says there's another world? Is this her world or world of general photography?

4). On page 36, WHy does Diane Arbus photograph people why is she trying to show everyone the people who are not beautiful or known to be appealing.

5). On page 38, If she was so known for her photography then why did she kill herself?

6). On page 39,  How can a phot5o be dangerous to someone ? If its just a photo.

7). On page 40 Why did Diane Abrus enhoy taking photo's of life's horror and reality and pain?

8). On page 41, How is photography like a lisence where you can go take a bunch of photo's and feel free eventhough she already told us that from taking photo's of war there were consequences of death.?

9). On page 45, What does Sontag mean when she says they offer no opening to mockey, and no possibiility of finding freaks endearing as do films of Warhol and Paul Marrissey? Why does she say this about Diane Arbus's photo's and what could they possibly represent?

10). On page 48, What is meant by America is just a freak show, a wasteland, cut-rate pessimism typical or reduction of real to surreal? Why does Diane Arbus see the world in this way?

Susan Sontag photo

This resembles Susan Sontag's photo because its the idea of "A photograph is like the whole world"

Daily events we go through within our lives such as traveling and the simple idea that we cannot turn back our life which is symbolized here with the no u-turn sighn.

Questions for 2/16 on photos

. What do the photos mean to Eggleston? In most cases the photos that Eggleston has taken they have represented his life in the southern culture, His interests and memorys through out his southern life and where he used to live. Technically there is no way of knowing exactly what his photos mean, because only the person who takes the photographs can know the true meaning behind them.

2. What do they mean to you?
Through out Eggleston I have felt that he is a simple type of guy that rather take photos of objects or people that have a meaning to him even if we dont exactly know what that meaning is, in the long run I feel that he is using his interests and the simplicity of life to inspire his photography.

3. What does it mean to be a viewer of Eggleston's photos? (What does it mean to view something that you know has a personal meaning to someone else, but not know what exactly that meaning is?) It means that the photos can be interpreted by you no matter what the photographer meant by his photos. Everyone has their own meaning within what a photo represents and that exactly what gives photography such an implicit meaning and almost anyone can make their own accuasations on what a photo possibly means.

4. What makes these photos ART and not just snapshots? (why should we care?) These photos are ART because they mean something to someone. Someone put thought into what would make the photo a good picture and thought it would be important to show to other people or even other photographers, these photos are meaninngful to the person even if no one else understands why and thats the beauty of it and what makes it more than a snapshot.

Source for the History of Photography

I found a help site on the Oxford Art Online database. Its called Photography "History & Influence", this here gives a very large and detailed passage about the early stages of photography and photos taken as well. Tells us about two main systems that were used for making the first photos which are the daguerreotype and the calotype. Using these two systems Nicephore niepce and his partner produced pictures on silver coated copper plate.

The first system of making photos became more popular over time with the public than the calotype because it was more simple to use however soon became a problem because it took way too long for the photos to come out just right, expecially for portraits.
 This is only some of the facts i found about the camera back in the day and history with photography.

Possible Thesis Statement for Unit 1 Essay

Photography has always evolved throughout our history, from the existence of the pinhole camera to our daily digital cameras that you see today. Photographers all have unique ways of portraying a photo; often times these photos consist of hidden meaning within them that only the photographer knows because they know why they took that particular photo.  In many cases the photographer takes photos of sceneries and objects that have a close meaning to their hearts. William Eggleston’s uses the technique of taking photos of sceneries he is interested in throughout his book showing photos that symbolize his life in the South.