The title of this project is “Identity: A Anger Exploration”

The societal/cultural issue I want to explore with my photographs is the anger of identity in our society. I aim to capture the anger aspects of identity.

I want my audience to feel a profound connection to the human experience and anger. Through my photographs I hope to evoke anger among viewers.

I will get inspiration and develop my ideas by looking for photographs that showcase anger and various backgrounds. Exploring the works of photographers who capture anger will be good inspiration helping me work on my own artistic vision.

This project aims to show anger and show a understanding that comes from a anger identity.

Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus (1923-1971) was an American photographer known for her portraits. Her work is often associated with street photography and documentary photography. Here’s an overview of her work and its significance:

1. Portraiture: Diane Arbus is best known for her portraits. She had a ability to capture the life of her subjects. Her subjects included people from different subcultures such as transgender people, dwarfs, giants, nudists, and circus performers.

2. Challenging Norms: Arbus’s work challenged societal norms and conventions pushing what was considered ok in portrait photography during her time. She want to confront and question ideas of beauty. Her portraits often exposed the hidden aspects of human existence that many ignore.

3. Ethical Controversy: Arbus’s work has been a subject of ethical debate. Some people have questioned whether her approach to photographing individuals crossed ethical boundaries. While some view her work as exploiting people argue that it show those who were often separated by society.

4. Documentary Photography: Arbus’s work is often associated with the documentary photography genre as it captures real people in real-life situations. Her photographs show into the lives of her subjects and the subcultures they were a part of.

5. Influence: Diane Arbus’s work has had a significant impact on the field of photography. Her different approach to portrait has inspired many photographers and artists to explore the human condition.

6. Legacy: Diane Arbus took her own life in 1971 at the age of 48. Her work continues to be celebrated and exhibited across the world and her photographs remain a source of fascination.

Diane Arbus’s work is a power of photography to challenge social norms and a view into the lives of those often separated. Her help to the world of photography continue to be influential to this day.

In the photograph there is a line in the middle. The colour is black and white. There is a circle shape. The photo has three people and two of them are sitting and one is standing. The photo have something in the background.

Harold Davis

© Harold Davis

© Harold Davis

© Harold Davis

© Harold Davis

© Harold Davis

The 5 characteristic of Harold Davis is  abstract, saturation, pattern, shape, and color.

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In the picture the shapes were represented well.

My second, third, forth, eight, and nine picture worked because the object was centred and the texture was correct. My first, six, and seven because the object was not centerd.

The photographer might be interested in taking shadow, coulor, and shape. I would call it Two Yellow circles because the first thing that I saw were the two yellow circles. The photographer used texture which is only visible in the darker part of the pictures, shapes which was only visible in the lighter part of the picture, and color since the object is most of the picture.

The Pictorials Movement was a way of photography that would try to make a scene look more manipulated and give it more of a artistic impact. The tool use for Pictorials photography are soft focus, color tinting, and manipulating. Straight Photography is a type of photography that doesn’t use manipulating, darkroom, and digital process. Straight Photography was popular because it would have sharp in focus and rich in detail. Edward Weston and Aron Siskind were influenced by Straight Photography because it helped created Abstract Photography. The photos of Andreas Gursky and Uta Barth are abstract because they would take pictures of landscapes, delusion, perception, and non places. Andreas Gursky and Uta Barth are both straight photographers. They are straight photographers because they don’t use manipulating, darkroom, and digital procese.

Bahrain I 2005 Andreas Gursky born 1955 Purchased with funds provided by David Roberts 2007 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/P79322

Untitled (00.1) 2000 Uta Barth born 1958 Presented by Tate Publishing 2000 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/P11676

Unedited Photos:

I used the line rule for the first photo which help bring your eyes to the center of the photo. For my second photo it was just a close up of an object which has geometrical shapes. For my third picture I made the entire picture out of focus and make it have an increase ISO.

For my edited pictures I change the colour curve for the first picture to make it have a more darker feel. My second picture I change the colour mapping to make it have a red colour to make it stand out more. My third picture I made it into a grayscale picture to make it have a diffrent feeling.

• What is the purpose of rules in photography?

The purpose of rules in photography are to make sure you take a good photo that people can be pleasant to look at.

• In your mind, what are (some of) the most important rules in photography?

Some important rules in photography are making sure your subject is in focus, colour contrast, lining, and computation.

Oliver was a peasant in France before the French Revolution happen. He joined the group that stormed the Bastille in 1789 July 14, trying to overthrow the royal family that kept France in a despair. After the revolution continued on for a couple years, the violence and gore increased. He started beginning to doubt the revolution as they did more and more gruesome stuff like executing the king and the royal family. After a while when the Reign of Terror started he officially started to hate the French Revolution, the mass killing during the Reign of Terror was able to sway his mind to hate the Revolution.

The French Revolution was a success in the change of the monarchy which helped improve a lot of lives for the peasants. However with all of the violence and deaths that took the lives of a lot of innocent people. The Reign of Terror was the darkest period in the French Revolution, thousands of people were executed without a trial. The revolution was a successful in achieving its goal of overthrowing the monarchy and give better lives to all of the peasants, but all of the violence and killing that happened during the French Revolution tempered the original goal of the French Revolution. The improvements that the French Revolution did includes the abolition of feudalism, the elimination of privileges, and the adoption of a constitution that guaranteed basic human rights, which did greatly help a lot of French citizen after the French Revolution.