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One of the Pulitzer Prize photos that I was the Starvation In Sudan by Kevin Carter and the other was the Fire Escape Collapse photo by Stanley Forman. The Fire Escape Collapse photo has two little kids being thrown out the window because of the fire.The Starvation In Sudan had a picture of a very skinny little girl who collapsed on her way to a feeding center, with a vulture watching over her. All theses pictures made me sad and it was heartbreaking to see someone go through all that.

If I were a photographer I think I would separate my job as a photographer because it would be sad to leave a person feel the type of pain and I would bad to leave a person like that.

My favorite exhibit was the Civil Rights At 50 I liked it because everything was basically right in front of you.The stools, the table the signs,and etc was all there.It does fit into the overall Newseum because the Newseum has a lot of things about news and history and the Civil Rights movement was a big part of history.It was really interesting to see everything in real life.

Link the photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/6pnZyuHR8yKJftat2

 

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black background

https://photos.app.goo.gl/ulVCGHT4kO8FqnAm1

We had to take pictures with a black background, you have to put the camera on a setting and put the spotlight on the person so there face shows. When we changed our light from an orange light to a bright one it worked better. It didn’t work to be in the center of the room.

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Rule of Thirds

The things that worked  with rule of thirds is picture with depth or picture where thing is something else besides them because you can tell that were your eye looks. My thoughts on rule of thirds is i only works on some picture but on other ones it does not work that well. My thoughts are that it can be useful sometimes but other it is just annoy to use or think about.

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This photo is very cool. It is the last game for the  greatest baseball player, Babe Ruth. It is very touching because it’s sad to see him leave baseball.

This photo is very sad because an African girl is about to die and the vulture is going to eat her. It drew me to it because of how sad it was.

If I were the photographer I wouldn’t be able to separate my job from being a human. The struggles are seeing the terrible things you see. The rewards are praise.

My second exhibit is the 9/11 exhibit. At the 9/11 exhibit we saw all of the newspapers with the twin towers on the cover. This was cool because every paper in the world had it.

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White Backround

First, we went to the TV studio to take our photos.  When we were done we came back to the computer lab to use Photoshop. We all worked as a group to get our photos done. It was hard without that many lights in the background.  During the white background we had to let in more light compared to the black one. The black background was a lot easier.

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I think a big struggle of taking these images is actually being at the event. This is because some events are very dangerous, like a war or a shooting. A  reward is winning the Pulitzer prize and making money. No matter what, you will always remember the event that you were at, whether it was good or bad. For the picture on the right, even though he couldn’t help the little girl out, I would not take a picture and find something to do to help her. For the one on the right, I could definitely take the picture since it’s pretty happy. Although, I wouldn’t be able to climb up the mound of bodies. The Berlin Wall was very cool. I think this is cool because they had a piece of the wall in the exhibit and it had cool graffiti on it.

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My feelings for the first photo (Columbine Massacre) are extremely sad because you can see the hurt on the boys’ faces. I was drawn to the photos because of the strong  emotions the image puts off. My feelings for the second photo (Historic Campaign) are inspired because Obama seems very determined to be making the speech in the rain. I couldn’t be an intense photographer like this because I wouldn’t be able to help the people, just take photos. This is obviously one of the struggles of the job. The rewards could be in the happy photos you take.

The second exhibit I documented was the 9/11 Memorial Exhibit. My favorite part was the fact that you can write about your feelings on the event and submit them. 9/11 was an event that changed American history for good and I think it fits perfectly into the Newseum because of it’s significance. I think everyone should see this exhibit no matter how old in order to fully understand the horrific event altogether.

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There have been many Pulitzer Prize photos over the years, and almost all of them capture the sorrow of people all over the world.  Even though I did not go to the Newseum myself a few of the photos really caught my eye.  For instance, a picture taken by Toshio Sakai in 1968 called “Dreams of Better Times.”  It captures an american soldier from the Vietnam war sleeping on a pile of sacks.  He is sleeping after a battle in the poring rain, and as Sakai describes it, dreaming of a better time.  What drew me to this photo was the seeming peace of the solider in the mist of so much chaos.  He was in a living hell but he still was able to rest his head and dream under the shelter of a poncho.  Despite this soldiers seeming peace this photo still fills me with immense sadness.  What was this man and his comrades fighting for?  Why was he sleeping outside after a battle as it rained sheets upon unfamiliar ground?  Why was he away from home where he needed to dream of a better place?  It doesn’t feel fair and I wish that all those men had not had to experience so much death and discomfort.

Another photo that really struck a cord with me was “Illinois Sate Schools for the Retarded’  by Jack Dykinga.  This was another photo that created a feeling of sadness and disgust I almost can’t describe.  It depicts a man who was a patient at this “School for the Retarded”.  He was naked and without a blanket, curled into a tight ball on the middle of a cot.  It’s plain to see how desperate this man was, hanging on by a thread.  This poor man, and these poor patients.  These people who obviously couldn’t care for themselves were left unclothed and uncared for.   This picture made me lose a little more of my faith in humanity and our ability to care for those who can not care for themselves.  We are selfish creatures, leaving others of our kind who are helpless to suffer and rot in a pile of their own waste.

I have the upmost respect for the photographers that took these photos.  Having this job could not have been easy and being able to capture the pain of others on a film is a true skill.  I wonder if I would be able to stomach such a task.  To watch the horrors of our world and capture it with the snap of a lens.  I wonder which part of me would rule; the human part of me that wants to help others, or the photographer in me trying to capture the world with a glance.  Maybe I would sacrifice the perfect shot to help someone.  Or maybe I would shut myself away in the job to protect my mind and my heart from breaking in any terrible situation I might subject myself to.   Maybe I would act selfishly and save myself in a dangerous environment instead of someone else.  I’ll probably never know, but both are totally plausible scenarios.  I would like to think that I would help those in need, but when push comes to shove you can’t predict your actions in a situation like that.  It must be a hard decision to make and a hard life to lead.  I bet that many photographers go into this profession hoping to change the world with their pictures.  Only to come out tormented and damaged with a new understanding of the way things work.  I think it would take a special person to be able to take these eye opening photos and still come out trying their hardest to change the world.  It would take an amazing and incredibly strong person not to come out of these experiences broken and limp and lose their resolve in the process.

Here are the pictures mentioned above.  Sorry for the long post!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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.

Photo from it here 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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.