Edward Weston was born during the spring of March 24, 1886, in Highland Park, Illinois. He was the only son out of the two kids. His older sister, Mary, who was nine years older than him ended up being his mother figure after their mother, Alice Jeanette Brett, died when he was just 5 years old. He would call her “May” or “Maize” and they were very close to each other and it was one of the most important relationships in Edward Weston’s life. Especially after their father, Edward Burbank Weston, remarried a woman with another son. They both did not get along with their step-mother or step-brother. Though they did not get along with the new additions to the family that did not mean that they didn’t get along with their father.
His father encouraged
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Many things ended up impacting his style of photography and one of his favorite muses were his lovers. He had many love affairs that continuously made him grow as an artist since he liked different things about them. His first love affair took place in the year of 1913 with a woman by the name of Margrethe Mather. She influenced him to go from the pictorialist style to more of a landscape and nudist photographer. He started photographing nature such as plants and vegetables and nudes.
His second lover, Tina Modotti, inspired him to go to Mexico where he ended up opening up a photography studio which he opened up in the year of 1923. He came to be one of the great photographers of the region. Several Mexican artists of the time, including Diego Rivera, David Siqueiros and Jose Orozco, called him a pioneer of 20th century art which is one of the highest compliments you can receive from your fellow artists.
Tina Modotti didn’t turn out to be his final love affair though and in 1934, he met Charis Wilson. They started a passionate whirlwind relationship which ended up with him taking several intimate photographs of her which included one photo that would later become one of his most famous works of art titled, “Nude, Santa Monica, 1936”. This photo portrayed her posing nude on a balcony in Santa
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He believed that no matter what the subjects are, they can be vegetables, landscapes, shells or bodies, he was able to capture the essence of its life force and the fundamentals of its form. (all made of the same thing, same building blocks of life) Johnston also states that “it’s not the camera, but his eyes. He is a man who can search energetically and patiently for the places he likes.” He empowers his prints with an intrinsic grace and elegance. I learned that his photographs combine the essential of physical assion with a desire to go beyond the transitory to a discovery of eternal form. His works are monuments of sensual realism. In his search for the ideal, Weston concentrated on the fundamental physical aspects of his subjects. Johnston says that “looking at his photographs, it is often interesting to forget what they are about. To ask not what the pictures are but what the shape reminds me are.” The lines and shapes in his photographs often lead people to think deeper below our conscious
The person I am doing for my essay is Wesley Isenhour (my dad). He has a wife named Liane and two kids named Macy and Maddy. He works for the United States postal service and does reviews on post offices all around North Carolina. The reason I chose my dad is because he always makes people smile and makes everyone's day better. He is one of the best people in my life and is always there for me. I hope you enjoy my essay on Wesley Isenhour.
Holt Renfrew- The company that was to become Holt Renfrew was founded as a hat shop in Quebec City, Canada, in 1837, by Irishman William Samuel Henderson. In 1849, William introduced furs into the business and three years later sold the shop to his brother John. In 1860, G.R. Renfrew became a partner to form Henderson, Renfrew & Co. After another change in partnership in 1867, John Holt joined the company that would officially become Holt Renfrew & Co. Ltd. in 1908. Historically renowned for fine furs, Holt Renfrew received the prestigious honor of five generations of royal warrants under Queen Victoria's reign and appointed Furrier-in-Ordinary to her Majesty. In the 1930s and 1940s, international designers were added and the oldest existing
Russell Edwards, the owner of a 126-year-old shawl, which was claimed to have been found at one of Jacks murder scenes, states that he has found DNA evidence identifying Jack. The shawl was believed to have been found at Catherine Eddowes’, the fourth victim, murder scene. Edwards claims that he has a letter that proves that the shawl belonged to Sergeant Simpson, who was on duty the night of Eddowes’ murder (Conner). According to record, Simpson never washed the shawl of the blood and put it into storage, where it stayed until being sold to Edwards. With the DNA samples and the descendants, the blood found on the shawl was a match to Eddowes, and upon discovering semen on the shawl, a match was made to the Kosminski family. Jari Louhelainen,
“Nothing, they never did. And heed my warning, a few years after my son disappeared, a wealthy attorney from Chicago, by the name of Wendell Gladfree, who was himself an adventur-ist, started petitioning the park fathers. Gladfree wanted them to release pertinent information about scores, I’m talking about scores of people who went missing in the park from 1920 to 1969. I met Gladfree myself and got to know him well. For a while, I thought he might be the one to crack the code of silence. And believe it or not, the fathers were court ordered to produce certain documents and things for
Edward Mandell House at first/before other things happened) "Huis" which became "House") was born July 26, 1858 in Houston, Texas, the last of seven children. His father, Thomas William House, Sr., was a person (who enters a country) from England by way of New Orleans who became a well-known/obvious Houston businessman with a large role in developing the city and served a term as its mayor. Edward Mandell House went on to study at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in 1877 where he was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi (organization of men)/brotherhood.
Francis Abel, after thirty-five years of service, is a retired high school music educator. He was also the former Minister of Music for the Memorial Presbyterian Church of Roosevelt, NY and the former Gospel Choir Director for The Lady Of Loretta, The St. Marths’s and The St. Ladislaus Catholic Churches of Long Island.
William Wells Brown was born a slave but died a free man. He wrote an autobiography about his life as a slave. He went into detail of how he and others were treated so cruelly. His master had owned forty slaves, they lived on a rather large plantation and their main production was of hemp and tobacco. This plantation was located some forty odd miles from St. Charles, Missouri. The master had no family but kept a female slave in the house with him to oversee the plantation. Every morning at four, a bell would sound, this was the signal to get up, eat and get to work. If any slave was late to the fields they would immediately receive ten lashes from the negro-whip. Brown was not a field slave so he had only heard and witnessed from a distance of this lashing. He
In my lifetime and even before, there are many people who should be remember whether they were famous or not. Matthew Stafford is a professional football player and plays for the Detroit Lions. Matthew Stafford is the quarterback for the Lions and have led the team to a lot of success. Even though the Lions might not have been to a super bowl, they haven't had much of a team or coach to work with. Matthew Stafford is easily the best quarterback the Lions have ever had and one of the best in the NFL right now.
At age 14, Abelardo Morell realizes that he discovers his passion of photography through the photography books or magazines at his uncle 's house. According to the National Geographic
From birth, it’s the experiences that shape who we become. James Farmer was a boy that was the first generation born out of slavery. He was born in Marshall, TX to a father who was a minister and a mother who would stay at home. My intellectual development was simpler than that of James Farmer, due to the time period in which he grew up in that affected his education, the way he was parented and because of the color of his skin.
The church during the 1500’s, was changing greatly. This was the time of the reformation where the protestants took over from the Catholics, and therefore causing the Catholics to create a counter reformation. The shift from henry VIII to Edward VI was also a shift from Catholicism to protestants. This amount of change in religion created an immense change in what music was produced and what was actually composed as these two religions had very different ideas about music.
Robert Alton Harris was born January 15th, 1953 in North Carolina. HIs mother, Barbara Harris was only six and a half months pregnant when she had to deliver Harris due to her husband kicking her in the stomach. Harris’s father accused Barbra of having an affair with another man and thought that the child was not his. So, in a drunk fir of rage, he pushed and kicked his wife, causing her to have to deliver Harris at onlysix and a half months. Barbara felt resentment towards Harris, and in turn began abusing him just as her husband abused her. While most of the nine Harris children were abused in the household, his siblings agreed that Robert was abused the most. As a child, Harris had a speech impediment, as well as a learning disability, Harris became a target for bullying in his school. Harris would come home from being teased at school, to being abused at home by his parents. As a young adult Harris would often take his frustrations out by killing animals, mainly cats and dogs, while laughing maniacally according to his brother, Daniel Harris By the age of fourteen, Rover was sent to a federal
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He is known for painting art that reflects the lives of people and the environment. For example, he would paint the lives of the working class and natives that lived in Mexico. While in Italy, Diego then found a liking for painting murals which he brought back home to Mexico where the government funded him to create a series of murals. These murals reflected the country's people and it’s history.
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