OUTLINE

Margaret Bourke-White
1. Background of her life
-how she became a photographer
2. Pictures of Architecture
-her career consisted of these
3. Some pictures of herself
4. About a book she wrote
-she didn't get a chance to finish it, but there is a lot she wrote.
5. She took a variety of pictures of important people and other things.
-Gandhi, a family that took poison, and others.
6. Accomplishments such as her jobs, why she took pictures, etc...
-Time, Life, and others
7. She has a story of her death, so we would describe it.
-she died before she could finish her book.

Margaret's Photographs

This photograph contains many different elements that make it one of the greatest of Margaret Bourke-White. There are many shapes and lines that draw your eye from one thing to the other. The man walking in the tunnel shows the greatness of the tunnels and how big it is. There are more lines than anything else, and it takes your eyes all over the picture. This photograph would not turn out very well in color because the shadows and lights on it would not be as dominant if it were.



This photograph is another popular one of here that made the cover of LIFE. The picture draws your eyes from the bottom of the tower right to the top which also makes it a photograph that shows architectural strength. Her architectural photographs show all portrayals of what man can do. The rule of two thirds is very obvious in this photograph because two thirds of the picture is of the building.








This photograph deals with many different elements of photograph. You can mostly determine that it's main element is near to far because of the lines drawing you from the top of the paper where it is close to the bottom where it is farther away.

Hate

This photograph shows the hate that was shown on the church. For some this hits a little to close to home and it wakes you up because this happened in our world not to long ago.
I agree with Mr. N because I find people not caring what is going on in the world, they only care about the moment and what is happening to them. When it hits them to close to home they find themselves wondering what is going in the world and journalists are people that show you what isn't seen in our world. We live in a country that is wealthy and we can just put our problems away and buy ourselves out of them. What we don't realize is the truth and photojournalist show the truth.

Illegal Pilgrim

In this sketch it is a Mexican saying that we need to stop bashing on them being illegal immigrants because we came over and took over this land hundreds of years ago. I do not agree with this sketch because it is too over dramatically stating that we can't say they are coming over here, without citizenship and being "illegal." I still think illegal immigration is a problem and they need to be taken care of.
Hispanic people are coming up here and doing things they shouldn't. They are stealing identities, selling drugs, and doing other things that are wrong. If they have such a problem with it, they need to behave so that we don't have to buckle down about them coming to America and stealing our jobs.

War Pictures

Each picture has someone in the center in order to make the viewer sense the importance of the picture. The pictures that come out at you are the ones of the people pointing at you, or gesturing to you. The ones that pull you in are the ones that aren't looking at you, or there is something more going on in the picture. I think the designers made things come out at you just to grab your attention. Each of these posters consist of things that catch your eye. They were trying to produce propaganda, which is something to tries to get your attention about war and pull you into the war.

You need to know the situation, the problem, and the point of the war in order to understand in depth, what the posters want. But if you have no idea, you might see the poster and just be like "okay, i support the war!" You need to know your audience and you need to know what they might know in order to get the right affect.

It wouldn't be able to show exactly what you want if you used a photograph instead of a painting. You can make a painting anything you want, but sometimes photographs are stubborn and you can't bend and twist them as you might want. It would make it more realistic, but it might also hurt the affect of it.

Posters

The four movies are all made in different time periods. You can tell this just by looking at the stylization of the poster. The Wizard of Oz from prior knowledge was made in and this is recognizable by the text of the poster, and the pictures are very old. i know Joaquin Phoenix, so I know that this movie was probably made the late 90's. I have never heard of Vertigo, but by looking at it you can tell it was made about 40 or 50 years ago. The last movie was made probably four years ago because of the way it is computerized shows it can't be more than a few years old.

The Wizard of Oz looks as though it is portraying a happier movie because of the colors and cartoons. Buffalo Soldiers looks as though it is a comedy because of the text on the top and the way he is standing. Vertigo is definitely a romantic thriller because of the embrace and Hitchcock was the writer of it. Because of the guns, it seems the Matrix is a movie that will consist of action sequences.

Colors tend to evoke emotions and each of these posters has one main color to bring out the emotion they wanted to show.

The first to posters have visual fields that are not as obvious, this is because of the very bland squares and lines they have. In the Wizard of Oz, the scarecrow is the dominant thing that brings your eye from the bottom left to the top right. In Buffalo Soldiers, the lines on the flag take you from right to left. Vertigo goes from the bottom where all of the subjects are to the top where all of the writing is. The Matrix has the most dramatic visual path from because of the streaks of green lines that go through it.



These poster were made during any time of war. I know this because of all of the propaganda that is trying to get you to join or support the war cause.

The different uniforms are a main hint that they are from a different country. I don't know much about uniforms, but some of them are certainly not U.S. Made.

The color can show patriotism and emotion, as did the movie posters, but mostly colors to try and get you to support the war. These definitely wanted to show patriotism and support for the war.

With the posters that are pointing at the viewer, the path goes from the hand to the tip of the finger. You are also drawn to whatever it is the subject is looking at in most of the pictures.

native

Each of these photograph's show a different side of the native American life. Two of the photographs are a close up view of the Natives and it shows many emotions. It seems that with these two photographs, the photographer wanted you to feel what the subject is feeling. In one photograph, the man looks very aged and upset, and in the other, the person looks almost joyful and you sense that when looking at each of these and comparing them. The one of the person making the fire shows actions and how their people had to live. The beautifully set up picture of the group traveling had to be done with perfect timing. The sun was at a perfect level, the people were in the right place, and the photographer set it up so there was just enough of everything. Altogether, the photographer captured all of the right things in these four pictures.

Native Americans

Rhetorical Analysis

All of these pictures were very common theme altogether. They both were showing America that women can easily take over a man's job when the man is away. It portrayed women working on engines, planes, and many other things that have been called a "man's job." They got out and did what had to be done, and the photographer wanted to capture their strength and show that women and just as equal as men. Equality and the endurance of women can be shown in many ways, but the photographer decided that this is probably the most effective way of doing this.

Working Women

All of the above images are by Alfred T. Palmer