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    personal statement

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    believe that images help to reconnect us all. No other form of communication is as powerful‚ nor can speak to so many people across the world as the universal language of photography. It fascinates me how a simple click of a camera can capture a moment that will remain in the memory forever. I am relatively new to photography‚ really only expressing a genuine interest in the last twelve months or so‚ and my passion for it has grown and continues to grow‚ using books‚ magazines‚ videos and various

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    are Gregory Crewdson‚ Nicholas Samaras‚ and Ansel Adams. Although all of these photographers capture the perception of beauty and nature‚ they show some similarities but differ in many ways. Gregory Crewdson captures American realist landscape photography‚ Nicholas Samaras captures the sea underwater and its creatures to bring out the beauty of the marine life world‚ and Ansel Adams a very well-known photographer takes pictures of America’s natural wonders. Gregory Crewdson grew up in Brooklyn

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    Lorna Simpson

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    "Biography ­ Lorna Simpson Studio." 2008. 21 Mar. 2014 ​ <​ http://lsimpsonstudio.com/biography.html​ >    4. TRAINING (PHOTOGRAPHIC OR OTHERWISE): went to high school at the High School of  Art and Design. She earned her BFA in photography from the School of Visual arts in NY‚ she  studied painting but switched to photography before getting her BFA. She also earned her MFA  from the University of California in San Diego.     ​ "Biography ­ Lorna Simpson Studio." 2008. 21 Mar. 2014 ​ <​ http://lsimpsonstudio.com/biography.html​

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    from its subjective basis with the input of other people. Nan Goldin’s photographs stand as a obsessional recording of her life‚ as she puts it ‘I don’t ever want to loose the real memory of anyone again’. Goldin manoeuvred into a career in art photography after she was given a camera in her teens‚ a few years after the death of her sister. Her early photographs are taken more as overt play than photographs with a concept of their own. Poses for the camera are taken after the fashion shots of Vogue

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    Henri Cartier-Bresson

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    20th century. His photographs appear in most popular magazines such as‚ Life‚ Harper’s Bazaar‚ Vogue and also co founding Magnum Photo Agency. Cartier-Bresson pursued photography with an impulsive passion that he refined into a photojournalistic art form. He is also well know for coining the phrase “The Decisive Moment” in photography‚ which is capturing the moment something is happening creating a photograph that leaves the viewer waiting. In better terms the decisive moment is “the one that fixes

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    led to the outbreak of war. The new advent of war photography would display the horrors of this war to the american public. One of the pioneers of this new form of photography would go down in history‚ as Alexander Gardner. Alexander Gardner was born in Scotland in 1821.

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    Irving Penn

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    -Biography of Irving Penn Irving Penn was a very famous American photographer. He was well-known for his fashion photography‚ portraits‚ and still life. Irving Penn was one of the greatest photographers in the 20th century. Irving Penn was born on June 16th 1917‚ in New Jersey‚ United States. When Irving Penn was 17‚ he was in the Philadelphia Museum School of Art‚ studying advertising design with his teacher – Alexey Brodovitch. At the same time‚ Irving Penn worked for Harper’s Bazaar

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    environmentalists as a monument himself‚ and by photographers as a national institution. It is through his foresight and fortitude that so much of America has been saved for future Americans."  Ansel Adams has long been hailed as a master of photography. Environmentalist and photographer‚ he was born February 20th‚ 1902 in San Francisco California to Charles Hitchcock Adams. He was the grandson of a wealthy timer baron and he grew up in the sand dunes of the Golden Gate Bridge. His family ’s fortune

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    Career Goals

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    some more than others. I feel as long as you enjoy your career that’s all that matters. I personally would rather have a career that I love and enjoy that pays less than a job I dislike and pays well. The careers that I chose are Cosmetology and Photography. I choose Cosmetology as a career I would like to pursue for many reasons‚ one of them being because cosmetology takes a lot of work not just with your hands but also your mind because for cosmetology you have to be very creative. To be a cosmetologist

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    Introduction My biggest concern with documentary photography is that there exists the notion that documentary photography should be truthful. During my studies I’ve learned allot about narratives and photographic strategies‚ but little has been mentioned about ethics. Documentary photography has been described as a form‚ a tradition and a style however there is not one single definition of the word. I’m interested in the line between the photograph as a document of something and the photograph as

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