This website is the testing ground for what we learn.
Some of these points tackled from last semester to this semester are:
● Hover link color changes
● Float lefts
● Float rights
● Enlarged images on hover
● Article headlines with images and text both linking to the article of interest
● Cites for articles, photos and images
● Appropriate fonts, colors and articles
● Best practice for HTML5 and CSS3 as we learn
● Responsive or Fluid Design
As to content for this blog, for me, I usually start the week with a blank slate. “I cannot think of a thing to post or find”, but there is always something new, and always something someone has figured out a better way to build and for us to find and to report.
More than often real life articles found in daily news pieces are better than anything we could make up. Therefore, I will attempt to make this blog factual and fun to read with always an eye on the bizarre yet true Internet news.
I hope to make presentation, structure, content, interest and good spelling my priorities.
If Cows Could Fly: This is how a herd of flying cows appeared to Nate in one of his dreams one night.
Mr Niles, of Paxton in Massachusetts, created the set of photographs after his 10-year-old son told him about the adventures he had been having while asleep at night.
Their conversations marked the start of the six-year project, which began when Nate was just four years old.
French photographer noted for his photographs documenting the architecture and street scenes of Paris. (An inspiration for the surrealists and other artists, his work gained wide attention only after his death.)
A photographer famous for his pictures of the Dells of the Wisconsin River and surrounding region taken between 1865 and 1908. The popularity of his photographs helped turn the city of Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin into a major tourist destination.
German photographer, sculptor, teacher and artist who worked in Berlin, Germany. (He is best known for his close-up photographs of plants and living things, published in 1929 as Urformen der Kunst.)
American photographer and documentary photographer. (She is best known as the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet industry, the first female war correspondent (and the first female permitted to work in combat zones) and the first female photographer for Henry Luce's Life magazine, where her photograph appeared on the first cover.)
Raised in London, England, photographer who photographs exclusively in Africa, one of his goals being to record a last testament to the wild animals and places there before they are destroyed by the hands of man.
Hungarian photographer, sculptor, and filmmaker who rose to international fame in France in the 20th century. He was one of the numerous Hungarian artists who flourished in Paris beginning between the World Wars.
An influential twentieth century American photographer, Callahan was one of the few innovators of modern American photography noted as much for his work in color as for his work in black-and-white.
An early 20th century photographer who became a key figure in the development of American pictorialism. (He became the first major photographer to emphasize the visual potential of elevated viewpoints and later made some of the first completely abstract photographs.)
Norwegian artist. Her first project “Daughters” which was exhibited several places both in Europe and U.S. won an honorable mention in Leica Oscar Barnack Award in 2007, and her book “Daughters” was published in 2009 (Trolley, London).
American artist. In one of the longest careers in the field of fine art photography, DeCarava produced five major books, including The Sound I Saw and The Sweet Flypaper of Life as well as landmark museum catalogues and retrospective surveys from the Friends of Photography and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
American photographer. He is widely credited with increasing recognition for color photography as a legitimate artistic medium to display in art galleries.
French photographer noted for his photographs documenting the architecture and street scenes of Paris. (An inspiration for the surrealists and other artists, his work gained wide attention only after his death.)
American photographer and artist. In the 1960s and 70s, working primarily with 35mm cameras and black and white film, Friedlander evolved an influential and often imitated visual language of urban “social landscape”, with many of the photographs including fragments of store-front reflections, structures framed by fences, posters and street-signs.
American photographer. He first gained attention in the 1970s with his intimate portraits of his wife, Edith, and her family. (Later he turned his attention to the landscapes of the American West, taking aerial photographs of places that had been changed by humans or nature, including the Hanford Site, Mount Saint Helens, and the Nevada Test Site.)
After fleeing Nazi Germany for being a Jew, Gutmann acquired a job in the United States as a photographer for various German magazines. (Gutmann quickly took an interest in the American way of life and sought to capture it through the lens of his camera. He especially took an interest in the Jazz music scene. Gutmann is recognized for his unique “worm's-eye view” camera angle. He enjoyed taking photos of ordinary things and making them seem special.)
In 1843 painter David Octavius Hill joined engineer Robert Adamson to form Scotland's first photographic studio. (During their brief partnership that ended with Adamson's untimely death, Hill & Adamson produced “the first substantial body of self-consciously artistic work using the newly invented medium of photography”.)
American sociologist and photographer. (Hine used his camera as a tool for social reform. His photographs were instrumental in changing the child labor laws in the United States.)
A photographer and filmmaker noted to for his ironic approach to both media and his extensive use of unusual photographic techniques in the context of photojournalism and fashion photography. (He was ranked 25th on Professional Photographer's Top 100 Most influential photographers.)
Czech photographer. His pictures of the events became dramatic international symbols. In 1969 the “anonymous Czech photographer ” was awarded the Overseas Press Club's Robert Capa Gold Medal for photographs requiring exceptional courage.
The artist executes her compositions using a combination of photography, painting and digital manipulation, working usually features young children and is influenced by a variety of sources.
American amateur street photographer, who was born in New York City but grew up in France. After returning to the United States, she worked for about forty years as a nanny in Chicago, Illinois. (During those years, she took about 100,000 photographs, primarily of people and cityscapes in Chicago, although she traveled and photographed worldwide.)
American photographer, known for his large-scale, highly stylized black and white portraits, photos of flowers and nude men. The frank homoeroticism of some of the work of his middle period triggered a more general controversy about the public funding of artworks.
American photographer, best known images were populated with dolls and masks, with family, friends and neighbors pictured in abandoned buildings or in ordinary suburban backyards.
A street photographer, and portrait and landscape photographer - Meyerowitz is the author of 16 books including Cape Light, considered a classic work of color photography.
Austrian-born American photographer. (Know for her close-cropped, often clandestine portraits of the local privileged class already bore what would become her signature style: close-up, unsentimental and unretouched expositions of vanity, insecurity and loneliness.)
Italian photographer, model, actress, and revolutionary political activist. (Attracted to the performing arts supported by the Italian émigré community in the Bay Area, Modotti experimented with acting. She appeared in several plays, operas, and silent movies in the late 1910s and early 1920s, and also worked as an artist's model.)
American photographer, noted for his "environmental portraits" of artists and politicians. He was also known for his carefully composed abstractstill life images.
American photographer prominent for his early use and experiments in color photography. (Outerbridge was a fashion and commercial photographer, an early pioneer and teacher of color photography, and an artist who created erotic nudes photographs that could not be exhibited in his lifetime.)
American photographer, musician, writer and film director. (He is best remembered for his photographic essays for Life magazine and as the director of the 1971 film, Shaft).
American photographer most known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes. Penn's career included work at Vogue magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Issey Miyake, and Clinique. His work has been exhibited internationally, and continues to inform the art of photography even after his death.
American modernist artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. He produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all. He was best known in the art world for his avant-garde photography, and he was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. Ray is also noted for his work with Photogram, which he called “rayographs” in reference to himself.
The primary subject of Lucas Samaras' photographic work is his own self-image, generally distorted and mutilated. He has worked with multi-media collages, and by manipulating the wet dyes in Polaroid photographic film to create what he calls “Photo-Transformations”.
Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist. (Sebastião Salgado began a project named "Genesis," aiming at the presentation of the unblemished faces of nature and humanity. It consists of a series of photographs of landscapes and wildlife, as well as of human communities that continue to live in accordance with their ancestral traditions and cultures. This body of work is conceived as a potential path to humanity’s rediscovery of itself in nature.)
American photographer and film director, best known for her conceptual portraits. (Sherman has sought to raise challenging and important questions about the role and representation of women in society, the media and the nature of the creation of art. Her photographs include some of the most expensive photographs ever sold.)
Born in Angri, Italy and raised in Brazil, Frederick Sommer earned a M.A. degree in Landscape Architecture (1927) from Cornell University. (Sommer’s known works, his drawings, glue-color on paper, photographs, and writings, it is only these scores that have been a part of his creative life throughout the entirety of his artistic career.)
American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator. He was the most frequently featured photographer in Alfred Stieglitz' groundbreaking magazine Camera Work during its run from 1903 to 1917. (Steichen also contributed the logo design and a custom typeface to the magazine.)
American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century. His diverse body of work, spanning six decades, covers numerous genres and subjects throughout the Americas, Europe and Africa.
British inventor and photography pioneer who invented the calotype process, a precursor to photographic processes of the 19th and 20th centuries. (Talbot was also a noted photographer who made major contributions to the development of photography as an artistic medium.)
American photographer, and was the forerunner of photomontage in the 20th century in America. ("Jerry Uelsmann is said to be one of the few select group of artists who can be said to have altered the very language of their discipline. Through the use of composite print, this brilliant technician has invented a unique poetic universe that has extended the definition of what is photographic.")
Max Waldman focused his medium, photography, on the nude, the actor and the dancer, with a palette of texture, form and light. (Waldman's black-and-white photographs of theater and dance performances were simply composed, yet dramatic in their ability to emphasize the performers' movement or emotion with clarity and sympathy.)
Weegee, a pseudonym of Arthur Fellig, a photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black-and-whitestreet photography. (Weegee worked in the Lower East Side of New York City as a press photographer during the 1930s and '40s, and he developed his signature style by following the city's emergency services and documenting their activity.)
A 20th century American photographer, Weston has been called “one of the most innovative and influential American photographers”, and “one of the masters of 20th century photography”.
American photographer born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. White earned a degree in botany with a minor in English from the University of Minnesota in 1933. After serving in military intelligence during World War II, he spent two years studying aesthetics and art history at Columbia University under Meyer Schapiro and developing his own distinctive style. (The “equivalents” of White were often photographs of barns, doorways, water, the sky, or simple paint peeling on a wall: things usually considered mundane, but often made special by the quality of the light in which they were photographed.)
Garry_Winogrand was a street photographer known for his portrayal of America in the mid-20th century. (John Szarkowski called him the central photographer of his generation.)
German photographer, Lothar Wolleh had a very individual style with strict principles in his photo work. He used a characteristic square format for his images, with mostly symmetrical compositions. Throughout his career, Wolleh made portrait photos of at least 109 artists.