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The last photo is of make up and this time I'm focused on the girls face because they make her face look so flawless it makes you feel like if you used this product your face could look like hers.

Those next type is more like a political portrait. It's trying to show the president to look wise and trying to make him appeal to America.

This type of photography is for fashion and it changes your view because your focussing on the model and the clothes more then the photo it self. You aren't analyzing the light and composition.

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This picture is of a dog who has been mistreated extremely. I cannot bear to look at it, but seeing it makes my emotions stir with anger and sadness, to think people would harm an animal. This picture was taken to show the public that there are extreme cases of animal cruelty and people are doing us, and hopefully to makes us realize how important of an issue it is.

This picture was taken during a Steelers home game. It shows all the Steeler fans in the audience. It shows all of their emotions during this game. I believe this picture was taken to show all the fans , their excitement and how they feel about there team, how much this game means to them. My reading of this picture makes me excited and proud that these fans really do support their team.

This picture was taken in Iraq. I believe this picture was taken to show us how the children in Iraq think differently then the children here in the US. Them being surrounded by war and violence, are brought up to think differently about these situations. In the picture the child in the middle does not look happy and shows fear while the other two holding the weapons just smile and seem to not think there is anything wrong in doing this. This picture affects me, i think its wrong for a child to even think like this, it changes my view on another country and how children are living there.

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This photo was taken at my family reunion in Tennessee. I believe it was taken as a memory of how much fun we had. It reminds us of how much family means to us and how we will always be there for each other and love each other.

This photo was taken during the Holocaust in a concentration camp. It portrays how badly innocent people were treated in these concentration camps. I believe this photograph was taken to acknowledge everyone what happened during these horrible times and how we learned from these events.

The first time I ever visited Arcadia University, I took this photo of the Castle. I think the reason I took this picture is because its a very nice view of the Castle and it is an amazing shot. The purpose this photo was taken was just pure interest in photography and it gives a good perception of Arcadia University.

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"Cows Grazing".Not your typical cow. Kind of doesn't even really look like a cow. In other parts of the country, this is all cows get to eat. Some don't get to graze in large fields. I think this picture is sad because it's shocking to see something so different than what we're used to. This shows how cultures can differ and how it's reality.


At first glance this may look like a typical homeless man on the street. When I read further, I found out he actually teaches tolerance and acceptance to large crowds. The purpose of this photo is to show that you can't judge a book by its cover. Many think homeless people are illiterate and dumb but they're not. This photo proves that.

I think this photo is very strong in portraying its meaning. It's about child abuse. I didn't quite understand the mascara dripping at first but then I read on. It says 9 years older for her age instead of 9 years old. It's saying that she must act like she's 18 because of everything she has gona through, this is also why she has mascara dripping. This picture is sending a message for a cause.

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My first picture is an ad for Planters Peanuts. I chose this picture because it shows how easy it is for us to identify him because we've seen the picture so many times.

My next picture is a picture was taken by my friend Jeff at my friend's surprise party. The picture was taken as a snap shot to remember a certain time, I also think it turned out to be a pretty awesome photo.

This last picture is from the Invisible Children website. It shows a man at one of the displacement camps in Uganda. I think the purpose of this photo is to inspire you to take action. After looking at this man's condition most people would want to help in some way.

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This image I believe was taken to show the harmful effects of animal abuse. This dog looks very unhappy, and it is behind a chain link fence. This picture can make someone very emotional by looking at it, it is as if the dog has human emotions. I believe the purpose of this was to make people think about more than just themselves.

I believe that this photo was taken to show just how impoverished some people of the world are. This little girl is clearly in terrible health. And this photo was probably taken to show that there are people that need help, and this might have been used for a help the children campaign. It certainly seems likely that this is what it was used for.

This image depicts a couple on the day of their wedding. This picture was taken outside, and there is a fair amount of shadow in it. I believe that this picture was taken simply to capture two people who are madly in love. A wedding is a momentous occasion and a photograph is a way to remember the good times. Even the way their heads are close furthers the image of closeness.

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This photo was taken for an advertisement and is meant to portray a typical american family at dinner.

This is a wedding photo, taken for sentimental purposes to preserve a memory of someone's wedding.

This is a photo of railroad tracks, taken for artistic purposes. Because the tracks go off into the distance without any end in sight, it think it was supposed to represent how life and the world keeps going on.

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You hear in the news that our troops should be pulled out and come back home. People even argue that they are disrespecting the civillians over there, and that they are giving Americans a bad name. But this picture proves that theory wrong. I think the reason this picture was taken to show that our troops are doing the best that they can with whatthey have, and that even though it may be hard for them over there, they still have enough respect for anyone they see, even if they are citizens of an enemy.

Someone sent me these pictures in an email, subject: Albino Peacock. That headline just makes you curious, so when I opened it, I didnt know what to expect. But when I opened it, it was of this beautiful bird! Peacocks in gerneral are so fun to look at, but this one kind of amazed me. I think these pictures were taken to remember such a wonderful sight. No matter how hard you try to explain what it looks like, only the actual picture of it can show its beauty.

I chose this picture because it's of my home state -- New York. When i first saw it, I thought it was a picture of fires that had spread throughtout, and I thought that it was such a cool image to look at. But when i read about the photo, I learned that it is not of fires, but of the "city that never sleeps." The yellow are the city lights that never go out. And I thought that that is even cooler than the fires.

This shot was taken by a friend at a party, of our friend Ben. He's doing poi, which is spinning strings with small flammable balls on the end. He's in the process of trying to work with steel wool which is what is creating the sparks. It was an amazing shot and it was taken just because it would be a really interesting long exposure shot.

I love this photograph, taken during a memorial service for 9/11 in NYC. I think the artist took this shot to inspire, and invite the audience to mourn and remember.

This photograph of wildflowers on the San Andres fault line, taken by Zoe Strauss, is a photograph that doesn't seem at all like a photograph, but rather a water color painting. She said she was driving through California and couldn't figure out why the mountain sides were these colors, until they got closer and saw it was thousands of wildflowers. I think she took this picture simply because its beautiful.

Why Photographs are Made

This Picture, "Big Duck, Route 24, Long Island, NY" by Naomi Harris, is part of the 50stateproject. Photographers from each state are given an assignment in an attempt to showcase their state. The assignment for this piece was Landscape.



This is a picture of Margaret Bourke-White meant to exemplify her life. Here she is sitting on an eagle hanging off of the Chrysler Building. Bourke-White was a fearless and groundbreaking photographer. She was the first female photographer on Time's staff, was the first woman photographer to enter the battlefields of World War II where she survived a helicopter crash and documented the liberation of Buchenwald. She was also the first Western photographer allowed into the Soviet Union and the last to interview Gandhi, mere hours before he was assassinated.

This picture, by Oded Balilty, won the Associated Press the Pulitzer Price for Breaking News Photography in 2007. It is meant to document the removal of Jewish settlers by the Israeli army from an illegal settlement in the West Bank. No matter what your views on the issue are, this photograph shows that it is clearly an emotional issue.

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This photo was taken as a professional family portrait, with the intent to preserve memories and family history. 

This photo is used for surveillance purposes, this picture could also be used as evidence. 

This picture was taken to document a crime scene, so that the vehicle can be used as evidence. 

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This photograph was taken to remember the beloved Princess Diana. She was very involved with certain charity work. I had to read the article in order to fully understand this photo.
In the 1980's, people thought you could contract AIDS by touching someone or being around them. She was one of the first well-known celebrities to be photographed with a victim of AIDS and helped change people's attitudes towards the disease.

This photograph, along with several others, was the beginning of a new era in fashion. The model shown here is Lesley Hornby, also known as Twiggy. Before Twiggy, models were fuller-sized. Twiggy introduced the thin look and her trademark pixie haircut. Her look changed the face of fashion, and this photograph helped do that.

This photograph was taken for advertising purposes; specifically for the designer, Jimmy Choo. The photograph definitely catches your attention. There's something really empowering with seeing the model walk away from the burning car and being confident and taking the lead. I think that's a way to persuade you to buy the product(s)- because it makes you want to feel like that too.

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This photo was taken by William R. Curstinger. This was actually a photograph taken in Patagonia, Argentina. I think this photo was made because the photographer wanted to catch something that hard to get a snapshot of. If you've ever tried taking a snapshot of lightning, it doesn't always come out right, but when you do, you sometimes get these cool looking designs. Personally, I like the way lightning looks during a thunderstorm. So basically, this photo might have been made to show you what the eye can't really see.

My first impression of this photo was, "Oh, hey! This little boy looks so cute and innocent! I wonder what his story is?" because I found this photo looking through the National Geographic website under "One World, One Tribe." I thought the gallery would just show different tribes of people, so I didn't think it would be anything bad. Just photos showing us what the tribes were like. This photo was taken by Reza, AÏNA. (Aina, is some sort of humanitarian group). When you read the caption of the photo, it tells you that they boy's father had disappear from the beginning of some war and his mother has been taking their family from village to village in search of her husband. In the end, it says that the boy actually doesn't know that he is about to reunite with his father. I think this photo was taken to give you the impression of an innocent child, but then when you read it, you kind of feel bad that he hasn't seen his father in forever.

This photo was taken by Sam Abell. It is a picture of a gondola ride in Venice. I think this photo was made to make things look more appealing, like a tourist attraction. The use photos like these as visual aides to make people want to come visit their countries. These kind of photos would probably be used in brochures or travel guides. The people taking a ride in the gondola are actually newlyweds.

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This photograph was taken by Alfred Eisenstadt in the 20th century after the Japanese had surrendered. It one of those photos where Alfred was in the right place at the right time. In the streets of New York that day, the sailor had grabbed the nurse, who he didn't know, and kissed her because of the joy of the news. When I first looked at this I thought it was a love photo, that they were a couple kissing in the streets of the city. Knowing why the picture was taken makes me look at it very differently.
This photo was taken by Charles Ebbets. This photo is of 11 men eating their lunch high above New York City. The photo was taken during the building of the Rockefeller Center. It was taken to be put in a news paper during that time. He had also taken another photo of these men laying on a beam taking a nap. I think the photos were taken to maybe show the construction of the Center. It does somewhat change the way I looked at this photo. At first I had thought that it was posed, but to look at it knowing that it is what the men were actually doing, makes it a very interesting picture.

This photography is taken to remember all those lost during September 11th 2001. I think this photo was one of the more famous ones used throughout books and newspapers. I think this photo was taken to show patriotism. The firefighters placing a flag over ground zero symbolizes a lot about what the US was like the weeks following the attacks. Knowing that the photo was taken for these reasons does not make me look at it in any different way. I still look at it to remember what happened and to remember all that was lost.

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Edward Steichen took this picture of Gloria Swanson in the twenties. It looks like he was playing up the aura of mystery and superior elegance that Hollywood had in its early days, to capture the dramatic beauty of the times. It's an example of using photography to make something beautiful to look at, and a way to monumentalize a person or a time. Knowing she is a movie star changes how I look at this photograph; it makes more sense. The lace is kind of like the glamour and elegance seperating her from the viewer, the realm of average people, turning her into more of a piece of art than an actual human being.

Edward Weston was obsessed with taking pictures of peppers. I think he was really trying to get the viewer to look at things differently, to look at things the way he does; I think he saw beauty and importance in every ordinary thing. Before seeing this photograph I never knew peppers had such elegance! Knowing that this wasn't just a one-time project, that he really spent hours and hours trying to create the perfect pepper picture, changes the significance of this photograph. It makes it feel even more confident and powerful.

This photograph was taken by Duchenne de Bologne, a french doctor in the late 1800s. It was included in the first medical book containing photographs. This particular photo was used to help explain the muscle mechanics of human facial expressions. It is a perfect example of how photography is used to spread knowledge or clarify and support a point. Knowing this is a medical photograph certainly makes it easier to swallow; it's a very unsettling image if you don't know why it was made.

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This photograph was taken by Elliot Erwitt in North Carolina in 1950. Obviously, it is an example of the segregation that was a part of everyday life for people at the time. I think the point of this photograph is to remember. Though it was horrible time period, it shouldn't be forgotten. It does not change my reading on the photograph since I believe it was taken so that people in future generations would remember.

This is one of my favorite pieces by Andy Warhol. I think the quote speaks for itself. Obviously, he's saying that everyone should love everyone. Though it will never happen, I'd have to agree. Andy made this picture to make a point. The fact that he was making a point, along with the point he was making, does not change my reading of the photo. A point is clearly being made, and I think it is a beautifully complicated point.

This is a very famous photograph taken by Dorothea Lange. She was a documentary photographer and photojournalist, known most for her photos taken during the Great Depression. I think this photograph was taken to document history and to show just how bad the conditions were during the Depression. She didn't want people in future generations to forget this tragedy. The woman and her children are wearing dirty, ratty clothing and appear to not have bathed in a while. The woman looks discontent and her children appear to be crying. If I am correct, then it doesn't change my reading of the photograph. I still look at it the way I always have.

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This is a picture of a 2-year-old pug competing in a Dog Surf-A-Thon in California. I found it to be rather humorous. It was a picture found on the website, but it was taken by a professional photographer. Knowing that it was taken by a professional photographer does not really change my view of the picture. I still look at it and laugh.

This picture was made to document history, but a different kind. My friend took a somewhat candid shot of me having my first coffee of the trip in Switzerland. This picture is not meant to be taken seriously; it’s just a memory of a really good time.

This picture was obviously made to document history. It is a very powerful picture, because it is such a significant part of history. It opened many eyes across the world, and challenged people to go above and beyond.