Lara Meisner Paragraph about Final Project Photo 202 I am photographing storefronts/restaurant fronts. I am interested in photographing these types of locations because they remind me of first impressions. When we see people for the first time, we tend to make assumptions about them and follow the cliché by “judging a book by its cover.” We don’t only do this with people though. We do this with actual books, houses, movies, and storefronts/restaurant fronts. My goal for this project is to make my viewers want to walk into the place I photographed and get to know it better; just like they would with a person if they started talking to them, or a book if they looked past the cover. I will continue to make work over multiple weeks by finding more and more storefronts to photograph while trying to make them look more interesting than they may seem. For my outcome, I expect my images to become more interesting ...
Robert Frank Robert Frank first started out photographing fashion for high end magazines. He grew tired of the lack of creativity and decided to take a break from that world and work on his own. Frank wanted to capture something more than just a single person posing, he wanted something with meaning. In 1955 and 1956 he traveled around America to capture his own style of photography. This is when he created his most famous book, The Americas . This book caused a lot of commotion when it was first published. It was unlike any other at the time for its realistic story telling photographs. Each photograph told a story, instead of having it planned out and posed, Frank capture the real hard truth of America at that time. His use of black and white film helped to capture the mood and feeling he wanted to portray. In the book I took out from the library called “Story Lines” is a collection of images he photographed in Paris, Peru, London, Wales, Coney Island, and Chicago from 1948-2004....
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