Magritte at LACMA Dec. 2006 (art by Acevedo)


Analysis of a Vernacular Photograph:
Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida
October 2005


The Strange Tale of William Mortensen

(PowerPoint)

MFA PROJECTS/LINKS
gallery
View all MFA work in this gallery (under construction)

the bicycle series
photographs of traces, remnants & signs of urban culture

 

 


J250 | J350 | J450 | J455 | MFAMA Thesis

 

graduate studies papers

· Leni Riefenstahl at the Fahey-Klein Gallery Propaganda as Art?

· Representation of Tragedy in Photography
Does a photograph's iconic value mean that we must forever be exposed to horrific images? This essay discusses Yaro's RFK assassination photo and Smith's Minamata classic

Mary Ellen Mark and Anthony Hernandez at the Getty
October 2006

· Robert Frank and Helen Levitt
As seen through the filter of Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

· You Look Beautiful Like That (Part I)
Malian portrait artists Malick Sidibe and Seydou Keita


· You Look Beautiful Like That (Part II)

·The Directorial Imperative in Documentary
Previsualization, Purism and Propaganda, and their role in the way photographers often direct their images (2005)


W. Eugene Smith

·Education and Photography
The influence of photography in education; includes examples of youth-oriented programs


© 2005 David Blumenkrantz
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