Photo Essay

Whenever a person meets in an area with another person, it is almost inevitable for a greeting interaction to take place between the two.

There are many forms of greetings that take place between certain individuals.

Depending on certain cultures, there will be many variations on how an individual will greet one another.

Some greeting sign have their own way of being interpreted differently.

  Greetings have also been used a a sign of departure and complete opposite interactions, such as saying 'goodbye'.

In conclusion, greetings and goodbyes signals are used by almost everyone and they can vary in many different ways according to the individual.

Leaving Babylon Summary

In Judyth Har-Even's essay, Leaving Babylonian: A Walk Through the Jew Divorce Ceremony, she describes the process a Jewish woman, like herself, has to undergo in order to get divorced.  There are many key components within this process that are exclusive to the Jewish tradition.  In order for the woman to be officially divorced, she has to receive a get from her husband.  A get is a written document expressing consent from the husband to approve of the divorce.  The husband has full control in a traditional Jewish marriage.  Even if the wife wants the divorce and the husband disproves of it, the divorce is off and the couple remains married.

Considering the above laws of this ceremony, to me, it all seems very one sided and sexist.  Not only does the women have no say but she also has to receive the get from the husband it what seemed to me in a very degrading manner.  She could not just simply take it.  Overall, these rules and long dragged out ceremonies were probably made this way because divorce was highly frowned upon in the religion.

5 picture guide

First 10 pgs of "America, Seen through Photographs, Darkly"

In the first ten pages of Sontag's "America, Seen through Photographs, Darkly", she puts a focus towards the beauty of all subjects in photography.  One of her strongest statements of this may just be, "No moment is more important than any other moment; no person is more interesting than any other person" (28).  She then compares and contrasts the exhibitions of Edward Steichen and Diane Arbus.  Steichen's contains various photographs of beautiful looking people all photographed by different photographers.  Arbus's collection is completely different in that it contains photos of ugliness and disturbance of people in awkward poses that were all taken by one photographer.

Sontag related photo

Site Analysis

http://www.corcoran.org/exhibitions/eggleston/

This website is a study of Eggleston's work and life.  It starts out with an analysis of his photos.  This site focuses generally on his work with color photography.  The second section contains his biography.  It tells of his childhood in Tennessee and how he got into photography.

This website will be helpful to writing my upcoming paper.  I can use their analysis of his photo when I, myself, analyze his photos.  I can compare and contrast our different views as well.  His biography may also help me in determining influences of his photos.

MoRe Sources

http://www.corcoran.org/exhibitions/eggleston/

http://www.egglestontrust.com/hasselblad_weski.html


These two websites contain biographies on Eggleston's life.  Also, the second one contains criticisms on Eggleston's work

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