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      Minimalism is a style of art using a very small amount of components. It usually contains color, shape, line, and texture. This style allows the viewer to determine the meaning of the piece.       This photo is an example of minimalism because the background is empty, and all there is in the foreground is a line of seven birds. It is very simple with almost nothing in the picture, yet it is very interesting to look at.       This is a minimalistic photo because the picture is basically all white. There is one person who is walking along the wall. It makes me very curious about the angle that the picture was taken at because the room looks like it is round.       This is an example of minimalism because there is just one small brown leaf in the center of the foreground. The background and the thing that the leaf is sitting on are both green which makes it look like it is ou...

       The image of "The Last Girl" is very large. It is put on a wall of a big building. It almost covers the entire building. It is a close up picture of a small girl's face. The girl's skin is very white, she has bright blue eyes, and her lips are chapped. Her skin also looks very white and fair. She has light brown, curly hair. There are multiple construction workers who are putting up the large image. It looks like one continuous picture, rather than a bunch of images put together, but it is also kind of hard to tell. To be able to mount the photo, you have to have a whole crew to help. It is a gigantic photo that needs a lot of bolts to stay up on the wall. It also has to be very secure because if it were to fall down, it wouldn't be good at all. Because of this, I think the size of the image says that it is very important and popular to many people in Ireland.        The location looks very industrial. This is because there are a coupl...

        This is a picture of a girl's face with a tiny man climbing on her face. This is an artistic photo because it is very unique and it doesn't show any historical events. This image is also photoshopped because the man can't be that tiny compared to the girl's face. Without the man climbing on the face, I think it would be a little less interesting because it would just be a picture of the woman's face. I think the meaning is to not let people walk all over you. You should stand up for who you are and not be afraid to speak up. 

QUESTIONS      1. The general premise of the video is that everyone is so sucked in to the internet and their phones that they aren't concerned with anything else going on around them.      2.  Yes, the video is effective in conveying it's intended message. This is because it shows you a ton of different scenarios and situations when people use their phones. It shows how the one girl jumped off the building and killed herself and the inly person who cared was the little boy. The rest of the people just sat there and took a video of her.      3. I feel this is more of an cautionary story because I don't think we are that bad as a society yet. I feel like a lot of the examples they showed were happening now, but we aren't that bad yet. I think hey are trying to tell us that we are really close to becoming that kind of society, and nobody is trying to stop it. 

DESCRIBING PHOTOGRAPHS! TELEPHONE POLE WITH LAUNDRY PHOTO      This picture was taken at an unknown place. It is an image of a field with a lady hanging clothes on a telephone wire. She is on a ladder trying to hang some clothes up with the other clothes that are already on there. In the background there are a bunch of birds in the sky and the sun is bright. There is a barn off to the side. In the foreground is the lady hanging up the clothes. She has a smile on her face and she looks like she is having a great time. This causes the image to look very relaxed and it is vey colorful. It doesn't look like the photographer tried to make the image look very formal. FISH WITH HOUSE ON A LAKE PHOTO       This is another picture where we don't know the location it was taken in. This shows a fish that is underwater with a house on top of the water on it's back. In the foreground you can see the huge fish underwater. In the background, you can see...

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What Is Photography?       1. What question does Erik pose to the audience?           Erik asks his audience "Is it photography?"       2. What was Erik's first real passion?            His first real passion was drawing.       3. What conception of photography did Erik previously hold?           His previous conception of photography was it was all about being at the right place at the right time.       4. How did this inspire him?          This inspired him to create something different. "Something where the process starts when you press the trigger.        5. What common goal do Erik's photos have?           It could have somehow been captured as a photograph and it makes you think if it is fake or is it is a real photo.     ...