Category: Newseum

For each photo– Which photo (use info from capture sheet), find the originals online if possible, feelings for you from photo, what drew you to the photo.

After both photos– If you were taking the image, could you separate your job as a photographer/journalist from being human? Can you identify struggles of being a photojournalist?  What are the rewards if any? I am looking for a thoughtful paragraph, don’t rush this section.

Link to the Pulitzer Prize can be found here.

2nd exhibit:

Name of exhibit, what made you like it, favorite piece or artifact in it, how did it fit into the overall Newseum?  This should be written in a way to convince people to go see this exhibit.

Photographs:

World Trade  Center Attack by Steve Ludum in 2001

 What drew me to the photo was how perfect timing the photo is it capture the fire in the best way and I could not imagine the face of the people in the towers.

Ebola Ravages West Africa By Daniel Berehulak in 2015 What drew me to the photo was the face on the boy that the people are carrying. How he look like he was froze in time . Also people carrying look like he had no emotion. I could no be a photographer.

If I was a photographer I could not bare to take the that I choose. I could not just watch the people that I am taking the photo for I would help or the I would regret it for a long time. I would rather be human and accept what happens then just watch. The struggle of being a photographer is just watch  not helping the people and the thing you have seen though the year. The reward of photograph is you get people to see thing and make some noise about problem they did not know about.

Another exhibit I visited is the “First Dog” the exhibit is about the president  dogs. It fit in a to a little walkway it really fit in because while you walked around the floor it was a little board around it was nice.

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My first photo was Babe Ruth’s Final Farewell in the year 1948. 50,000 people came to the Yankee stadium to watch and say their final goodbyes to Babe Ruth. I think I could take this picture because I would just have to get a picture of him from the back about to hit. This picture makes me have mixed emotions because it is sad that hes leaving but happy he played out his days. 

My second picture was the Kenya Mall Massacre in the year 2014. The photographer Tyler Hicks got a tip of a shooting and rushed to the mall. He saw crowds fleeing and ran in to take pictures. I dont think I would be able to take this picture because I would not have the guts to run in the mall while a shooting is taking place. This picture makes me upset because many good people lost their lives. 

The 2nd Exhibit I went to was the FBI. I thought it was really cool to see the things the cops do and the secret places they put bombs like in their shoes. I would definitely go there again and would love to see even more.

The first picture I chose was of Babe Ruth in his final game saying goodbye. There were 500,00 fans that came to watch him and say goodbye to him. This picture makes me feel inspired because he inspired so many people that 500,000 people felt the need to go see him. It shows how influential people can be. I think i could take this picture, because even though it would be sad to see the end of his career, it would be a happy moment because of all the success he had.

The second picture I chose was “Ebola ravages in West Africa”. In the picture we can see 2 heavily suited up people carrying a child who is infected. this picture makes me sad because it shows how this disease affected everyone, young, old, and if affected people very greatly. it is also sad how people so young lives could potentially be taken from them. I would be able to take this picture because it is important for others to know how this affected people in West Africa.

My favorite exhibit was the 9/11 exhibit. This was my favorite because as something that is fairly recent that I personally never experienced, it was interesting to learn about. The image below is all of the magazines and newspapers featuring 9/11. I really recommend visiting this exhibit and the Newseum because you can learn so much about major events that have happened all around the world in an interactive way.

Photographs:

World Trade Center Attack taken by  Steve Ludum in 2001:

 What drew me to the photo was that it was taken right after disaster struck in New York. This makes me think about all the people in the building that just experienced what just happened. I fell glad that I didn’t have to experience it first hand like so many others did.

Crisis in Haiti taken by Carol Guzy in 1995:

 What drew me to the photo was the expression on this mans face. He looked frozen while all the chaos is going on around him. I feel like it would be a very difficult job to try and contain  what is happening.

Extra: I don’t think that i would be able to take some of these pictures that these photographers take. It would make me feel to bad that I am just standing by watching all this happen and only being able to take a picture of it. Even though it was my job, i wouldn’t be able to bring myself to take these pictures. The only reward as a photographer that I can think of is getting paid for your work but that still would not be enough for the emotional scarring that comes with it.

 

2nd Exhibit: The other exhibit I decided to visit was the 9/11 exhibit. The best part of the exhibit was the wall of all the newspapers that were let out the day after the disaster happened. They also had a mangled piece of the twin towers that was salvaged from the wreckage. It almost had its own level because there was so much to put in the exhibit. I liked it because it gave me the information in a new way that I hadn’t heard it before.

 

 

I used the Fire Escape photo by Stanley J. Foreman in 1976. As they were coming down from the fire escape, the ladder fell and the 19 year old kid died while the two year old kid lived. This is photo was very sad and felt to the heart. People around thought that they would be okay but they weren’t. I was drawn to the photo because the setting and scene of the photo was very capturing.

I also used the photo Camera Captures Horror by Charles Porter IV by 1995. The fireman holding the baby from the deadly terrorist attack. This photo is very sad and touching. The photo had very good lighting and it was a good photo.

If I was taking the photo, I don’t think I would be able to separate being a person and photographer during these times because it was very tragic and emotional. Most photographers had to separate their personal life and job during these attacks. For the ones who did a good job, their photos turned out well and really captured the moment and what was happening at that time.

My favorite photo was the FBI exhibit. I liked the artifacts and readings about the bombings and attacks. They were very interesting and caught my attention. I thought it stood out to me compared to all of the other exhibits. The FBI exhibit had many  different stories and attacks that were told in detail. For example, there was a story about how ISIS captured one of ours and held him hostage while torturing and eventually killed him. Therefore, the FBI exhibit was one of the best exhibits I saw at the Newseum. bye now.

Link to the Pulitzer Prize can be found here: http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/217

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 This photo is very sad. It is of a kid being pulled away from his family because he contracted the deadly disease of Ebola.

 This picture is of a kid starving and a vulture ready to eat it.

Being a photographer would be very hard because there would be photos that I don’t want to take, but they can inspire people to make a change in the world. I would take amazing photos and I would get noticed for them, but some would be very hard to take.

The Pulitzer Prize photo that was taken in 1972 by Huynh Cong Ut called “The Terror of War” was a photo taken when planes dropped napalm in South Vietnamese, and shows a naked girl on fire screaming,”Too hot, too hot, please help!” while running in the street. This photo made me feel sad and sorry for the children in the photo. Another Pulitzer Prize photo that was taken in 1948 by Nathaniel Fein called,”Babe Ruth’s Final Farewell.” was a photo taken that shows fans cheering for Babe Ruth as he struggles to stand up while leaning on his bat because he is violently ill. This photo made me upset because babe Ruth was sick and ended up dying 2 months later.

If I was the one who was taking these photos, I would be able to separate myself as a photographer from being a human, this is because I would want to witness the struggle of other people and be in their shoes. The struggles of being a photographer is see all the sad thing and having to take pictures of it so others around the world can see what is going on. I do think there are rewards to this, such as being able to see what other people’s lives are like outside your own.

By favorite 2nd exhibit is the Don Bolles Story. what made me like it and find it interesting was that the man who died was a photographer who had made many enemies along the way. This exhibit fit into the Newseum very well because this reporter sacrificed his life for the new. This exhibit was very interesting because it shows the car with the bomb under the seat that he died in.

 

 This picture represents a child i Africa during a drought and a famine  she had a disease and the man how had took the picture could not help her cause he would get the disease a year or 2 later the man killed him self because  he could not help the child.  

 

 

 

 

This  picture represents Nigerian woman relay team coming third in the  Olympians  it was a big achievement for the woman’s team to come in the top 3 as one country and not individually and for them to be representatives of there country. 

 At the Newseum went to see the Pulitzer Prize Photo section and I saw an image that I thought was crazy. It was a picture of Lee Harvey Oswald being shot by Jack Ruby. Lee Harvey Oswald was the person who shot John F. Kennedy, and he was being taken into custody by the police. If I were the photographer I would be scared out of my mind. First off, I’d be scared of Lee Harvey Oswald because he killed the president, then when the shots were fired I would have been gone, I wouldn’t have the sense to take the photo.

My favorite exhibit was the Black Panther Exhibit. The exhibit had the events  protest and sit-ins of 1967. I enjoyed seeing all the unknown people who helped us get closer to equality, and I liked the rules that college students at BLANK made about the sit-ins