Documenting the Blues in the Mississippi Delta- Element Variety

We chose picture #2  because it shows a variety of principles or elements of designs and art we learned in class such as lines, shapes, form, space, and texture. The trunk of the tree shows lines and texture. You can see that there is a variety of things happening in the picture. You would first see the fishermen holding a net and your eyes will be diverted to the fish they are catching. The viewers eye then notices the trees and surroundings where the fishermen are at.

Rhythm

Exposures: +21

Contrast: -18

Highlights: +24

Shadow: -11

Movie Monday Half Past Autumn Part 3 and 4

1. What is your definition of successful?
    My definition of successful is being happy with who you are, what you do, and living with no             regrets.

2. What have you given up to become successful?

    I have given up.....nothing(that I can think of.)
3. What did Parks give up to become successful?  
    Gordon Parks gave up a stable, loving family to become successful. 
4. Who was Genevieve Young's father? 
    He was a rich business man.
5. How much was Parks advanced to write his first book (and eventual best-selling autobiography)?  
    He advanced to $10,000 for the first 7 pages. 
6. How much money did Elijah Muhammad offer Parks to do a story on The Nation of Islam?                 $50,000
7. Why did Parks refuse the money? 
     He didn't believe in the religion and felt like it was wrong. 
8. What was significant about the movie The Learning Tree? 
    It was the first movie to be directed by an African American. 
9. What was significant about the character Shaft? 
     Shaft was a role model and gave a sense of hope to many African Americans.
10. What was Gordon Parks' choice of weapons?  
       It was a roll of film and a camera.
11. What reason did Genevieve Young give for the divorce? 
      She did not like the fact how unexpected he was and how she cannot plan her life minute by               minute. 
12. In 1984, Parks directed Solomon Northrup's Odyssey. What recent feature film told the same               story? 
      12 years a slave.
13. Who was Gordon Parks, JR? 
       He was a Gordon Parks son who died from a plane crash. 
14. What is your favorite Gordon Parks photo? American Gothic, Washington D.C.
15. What will you remember about Gordon Parks in ten years? 
       I will remember he was a photographer who wanted to do what he want and gave up his family            to travel and take photos. 

Proportion

Exposures: -15

Contrast: +7

Highlights: -14

Shadow: +21

Whites: +12

Repitition

Exposures: +14

Contrast: -12

Highlights: +16

Shadow: +4

Patterns

Exposures: +14

Contrast: -16

Highlights:+20

Whites: -4

Emphasis

Exposures: +17

Contrast: -6

Highlights: -5

Shadow: +12

Black:+19

Structure- Balance

Exposures: +21

Contrast: -11

Highlights:+16

Plant Life- Texture

Exposures: +35

Contrast: +22

Highlights: +13

Plant Life- Color: Green, Right Corner

Exposures: +14

Contrast: -12

Highlights: +4

Shadow: -12

Whites: +20

Plant Life- Leaving Space

Exposures: +5

Contrast: -4

Highlights: +11

Plant Life- Forms

Exposures: +17

Contrast: -4

Highlights: +13

Shadow: -7

Whites: +5

Half Past Autumn- Gordon Parks Part 1

1. On the day Gordon Parks was born, how did the doctor save Gordon's life?
    By putting him in a tub of water and rubbing ice on him.

2. Where was Gordon born? (what state?)

    Fort Scott, Kansas

3. What did Gordon's class adviser, Ms. McClintock, tell him about college?

    She told him that few blacks go to college. She advise him not go to college and spend his money,       because they were all gonna end up as porters and maids.

4. How old was Gordon when his mother died?

    Age 14

5. Where did Gordon move after his mother died?

    To St. Paul,Minneapolis, where his relatives lived.

6. Did Gordon graduate from college?

    Yes, He graduated from Princeton University later in his life.

7. How did Gordon begin his fashion photography career?
    He went to stores to ask for models where he can take pictures of them.

8. What is a "double exposure?"
    Too much light.
9. Who was boxer Joe Louis?
    He was a boxer whose photograph was taken by Gordon.
10. What instrument did Gordon play?
      Piano
11. What was the purpose of the Farm Security Administration?
      To show the situation of the Great Depression.
12. When Roy Stryker hired Gordon for the FSA, what was Stryker's first assignment for Gordon in           Washington, D.C.?
      To go to a store and buy a coat, then go eat at a restaurant, and lastly, go watch a movie.
13. Who was Ella Watson?
      She was a women who swept floors and Gordon took a photograph of her.
14. What was the inspiration for Grant Wood's American Gothic?
      To be positive about American values.
15. What did Gordon learn from Stryker about photography?
      He learned about bigotry and disrimination.