Langston Hughes

I read for 20 mins. My favorite Langston Hughes poems are: Let America be America Again, Life Is Fine, Quiet girl, and The dream keeper.

Gordon Parks

this is an environmental portrait. It looks like the other girls are looking down on her or looking at her in a negative way. She is in the shadows and her eyes are cast down and it creates a sad effect.

cover history

Cover types 1. Early Magazine Covers 2. The Poster Cover 3. Pictures Married to Type 4. In the Forest of Words Early Magazine Covers In the mid-1700s, the earliest magazines dedicated the opening page to a title and table of contents. When early magazines used covers, they provided only a title and publication data. There were no descriptive words indicating what would be found inside the magazine. Generic covers appeared without any cover lines indicating the contents, or, at times, with a line or two unobtrusively tucked under the standard design. The Poster Cover Pictures that need no words. From the 1800's to the 1960's, one cover could be said to dominate the magazine field. It produced many memorial covers and issuses of numerous magazines. The covers of many of these oversized magazines looked as if they were printed to be framed and hung on the wall. Although magazines have traveled far from the all-visual art-poster approach so many magazines took toward their covers in the early part of the 20th century, the poster cover did not die. Pictures Married to Type While many magazines boasted artful poster covers, others relied heavily on cover lines to draw readers inside in a more definite way than the cover art could accomplish. By the late 1800s, cover lines were common, and in the early1900s, magazine cover lines started the ongoing dialogue that they have been carrying on ever since with cover art. Placement of type on the picture contributes to the sense of depth obtained by the layering of planes, as we will often see again in covers 80 years later. In the Forest of Words Though the path is irregular, with many creative byways, there has been a general movement of magazine covers away from the artistic poster cover and toward covers that integrate intense photography with an amazingly large number of vivid cover lines. A powerful picture is rarely enough for magazine covers of this period. On today's covers, fashion models and celebrities practically rent space on their own bodies on which the magazine can advertise its contents.

portrait

Fashion ethics

There were a lot of changes made to the model's face but these are the onces I noticed.They raised her eyebrows and made her eyes bigger, added volume to her lips, raised her head and made her neck appear longer longer and narrower and lowered her hairline (a little bit). I think it is wrong to change the model's face that much digitally. If they didn't like the model's neck size or the volume of her lips or the other things they didn't like, they should have used a different model. Changing the shape of a model's face would be worse than anything. It is ok to fix water spots, scraches, rings, etc. (maybe discoloration on her face, it depends how noticeable it is)

ethics (photo manipulation)

University of Wisconsin-Madison officials inserted a black students face digitally into a photograph of white Badger football fans in order to promote the University as a racially diverse campus. The doctored picture was used on the cover of their undergraduate application. University officials are now considering reprinting covers for some of the 110,000 brochures, which had been completely revamped for the first time in several years. The decision to use the digitally altered photo came several weeks ago, while UW officials were deciding what photo to use on the cover of the application.

I thought it was wrong for the university officials to alter the photo because the black student wasn't really a part of the fans and it doesn't show that the university was racally diverse, it shows that they pretend to have a diversity but they really don't. It was obvious that the black student was not a part of the picture.

I think it was wrong for newsweek to edit McCaughney's teeth because they shouldn't edit ones teeth just because they don't like they way they are. It's basically saying "it's cool that you had septuplets, but we hate your teeth."

I don't think its that wrong to move pyramids closer together to fit into vertical space. As long as editing is used to fit space and not becasue you just don't like the way it looks.

captions

taking care of business Airplane crashes into deserted building. Apparently, the pilot had to use the bathroom really bad and didn't want to land the plane before going to the back to take care of business. Letting go Boy clings to computer as father pulls him away. They decided to let go of the DSL computer so they can swich to roadrunner.

Serious nicotine

Crazy man smokes an estimated 400 cigarettes at once for fun. He died five minutes later from nicotine overdose.