Principle of Design: Unity, Structures

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Principle of Design: Variety, Structures

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Documenting the Blues in Mississippi Delta

Hi All, I decided that I would choose this photo. We chose this one because there is a variety of 2 people, a net, fish, water, trees, and background. I had a hard time choosing between this photo and the first photo which can be found here. The picture had a sense of unity and belonging since fish, boats, water, and fishermen all have a unity that interlocks with each other.

Principles of Design: Rhythm, Structures

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Gordon Parks part3 and 4

1. My definition of being successful is doing what you like and eventually doing it well. In order to be do something well, you need to be passionate.I want to be a good badminton athlete when I growup

2. I have given up sleep. Sleep has been given up in order to continue working on what I want to improve on, such as for a certain class or for a sport that I love. 
3. Parks had to give up family time and marriages in order to become successful in his multiple fields of photography, film, and music.
4.  Genevieve Young's father was Claurence Kuangson Young. 
5. Parks was advanced $10,000 and this book was called The Learning Tree.
6. Elijah Muhammad offered Parks half a million dollars
7. Parks refused the money because he felt that Elijah Muhammad might try to influence Parks and his work.

8. It was the first time that an African American would direct a major Hollywood film.
9. Shaft was a black superhero that inspired other African Americans to not be intimidated by racism. Shaft was a reflection of Gordon Parks.
10. Gordon Parks' choice of weapons were photography, writing, music, and film
11. Genevieve Young said that separation was like living in a washing machine because she never knew what was going to happen next.
12. The recent feature film that shared the similar story is 12 Years A Slave. 
13. Gordon Parks, Jr. is the oldest son of Gordon Parks. Gordon Jr. was a director, who directed Super Fly. Gordon Parks, Jr. died in a plane crash. He seemed to follow in the footsteps of his father as a director and photographer.

14. My favorite Gordon Parks photo is of Muhammad Ali because it pictures one of the most important athletes in history.

15. I will remember Gordon Parks in 10 years as a historic African American man who fought segregation and racial injustices through photography, music, writing, and film.

Principle of Design: Proportion

Principles of Design: Repetition, Structures

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Principles of Design: Pattern, Structures

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Principles of Design: Movement, Structures

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Your eyes move from the pine cone and finally it moves towards the unclear background to see that there's a sign behind the pine cone.

Principle of Design: Emphasis, Structures

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The picture shows emphasis on the design of the ceiling and the lights. It shows perpendicular lines to show more design

Principles of Design: Balance, Structures

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This shows balance through the separation through the angle that separates the railing portion of the photo and the entrance part of the photo.

Elements of Art: Texture, Plants

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Exposure +.85

Highlights -47

Shadows +47

Whites +25

Blacks+1

Elements of Art: Color, Plants

Elements of Art: Space

Elements of Art: Form, Plants

Half Past Autumn

1. Born November 1912, Gordon Parks was born dead but was given life when a young white doctor dipped him in an icy cold tub of water.
2. He was born in Kansas.
3. She told him that black people rarely go to college because they are simply "not college material".
4. Gordon Parks was 15 when his mother died.
5. His mother's dying wish was for him to move to Minnesota to live with his sister. 
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7. He walked into Frank Murphy's store, a high end store for women's clothing, asking to shoot models.
8. Double exposure is when the camera shutter is opened more than once in order to get subsequent images over the original.
9. After shooting the photos for Frank Murphy, he caught the attention of Marva Louis, wife of the famous boxer Joe Louis.
10. Gordon Parks played the piano.
11. The purpose was to document rural conditions and to promote the programs of the RA.
12. He assigned Gordon Parks to go to high end stores in Washington D.C. He was smacked with the racial segregation in D.C.
13. She was the model in the famous picture by Gordon Parks, American Gothic 
14. Gordon Park's version of the American Gothic inspired Grant Wood to take a similar picture also known as American Gothic
15. He learned how to approach people as well as that the people in front of the picture are more important than the person behind the photo.