Who Is Paul Strand's Photography

In his memoir, Planet of the Blind, Stephen Kuusisto details his experience of living with a disability of sight, including his initial denial of his legally blind status. His tiring work at passing and his parents’ own denial and support of his refusal to be openly blind both stem from and reflect views of society at large. Members of Kuusisto’s life, just like many people today, ignore blindness and the challenges those with visual impairments have and continue to face. It’s not until he’s struggled for years pretending to see that he fully accepts his legal blindness and begins using a cane and a guide dog.

photographs. His most famous work is his "The Brown Sisters" portrait sisters. He has photographed porch life in the rural south, schools

Through this he gains a false impression. He says the movies describe the blind as “The blind moved slowly and never laughed. Sometimes they were led by seeing eye dogs” (1). This is a

His pictures were very realistic and many people told him that he had a good sense of color. However, in 1948, his life and career changed

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

He has many popular photographs with completely different styles. One of Ansel Adams, more popular pictures would be a beautiful black and white photograph of a landscape. From the angle, Adams took the picture you can see trees with mountains in the background. In the mountains, you barely see a waterfall on the right side of the photograph. The sky is not clear but it is cloudy.

In the short story “Cathedral,” the narrator largely bases his judgements of his wife’s blind friend, Robert, on stereotypes. He assumes that Robert will be an unhappy and depressing person. His assumptions of Robert are based on what he has seen or read: “My idea of blindness [comes] from the movies. In the movies, the blind [moves] slowly and never [laughs]” (20). He even assumes that Robert will need extra assistance due to his blindness.

Throughout the story the narrator was treating Robert as if he had a disability and the wife treated him as if there was nothing strikingly different about him. Today people who are blind are treated as an outsider because people believe that they can’t do anything because they have a disability. In “Cathedral” the reader can see that being blind doesn’t slow Robert down or make him feel like an

Because of this the husband was completely ignorant about blind people and could only rely on his preconceived notions about the blind to interact with Robert. The husband thought all blind people always wore dark glasses and used a cane or guide-dog. He didn’t think blind men smoked because they couldn’t see the smoke. He even says “My idea of blindness came from the movies.” Those movies had portrayed blind people as slow, never laughing, and being guided by guide-dogs implying and enforcing the stereotype that the blind/disabled are helpless, weird, and/or inferior. Kemp says in a paper from 1981, the same year “Cathedral” was published, that there are three main ill-mannered views of the blind: non-acceptance, the blind are helpless and dependant, and the sighted must help the blind. These are all negative and are representative of the way the blind were viewed during the time of the story showing how the husband saw Robert as a blind man.

“My idea of blindness came from the movies. In the movies, the blind moved slowly and never laughed. Sometimes they were led by seeing-eye dogs. A blind man in my house was not something I looked forward to" (274). This first preconception starts to build up the narrator’s set of mind and the fragile reality he was living in when he is taking as a fact what he has seen in movies: no one wants a blind man, they’re inefficient, they have to wear sunglasses, they are an obstacle.

The individuals that were blind viewed their disability as a liability. In the first video, the girl felt restricted because she didn't know how to operate in the real world. In the second video, the girl felt very overwhelmed when she was in the big store trying to find different things. In the third video, the family felt like they didn't know how the were supposed to live their own lives with their son's disability. However, each situation adapted and learned how to live life in this way.

The story “Cathedral” demonstrates that lack of sight does not necessarily prevent one from perceiving things as they are, or live their life to the fullest. In the story, a middle-age blind man, who is a friend to the narrator’s wife, and used to be her boss at one point, visits the narrator and his wife. The narrator has never interacted with blind people before, and all he knew about blind people was what he had seen on television. Blind people are stereotypically portrayed on television as slow moving, dull people, who never laugh. Based on this perception, the narrator was reluctant to meet the blind man and doubted whether they were going to connect. This is evident when the narrator states, “I wasn’t enthusiastic about his visit. He was no one I knew. And his being blind bothered me” (Carver 1).

Many people make an assumption they are not blind to life itself whether ignorance plays a part or pride. In Cathedral by Raymond Carver, it describes a few myths that society has portrayed and opinions of the visual impaired. The main focus is getting to know the person before drawing a conclusion. Its not fair to anyone to be neglected whether you are visual impaired or have the functionality of what is considered to be a normal human being.

One service user who was blind was hard to settle, because he couldn’t see it was hard to communicate, he was unable to express himself verbally and he was very anxious and depressed. He had moved from Bala where he was brought up many years ago

People who are blind face many different problems in accomplishing everyday activities and becoming an independent individual. Some are able to overcome this issue while others struggle through it in their lives. In “Helen Keller’s Address before the New York Association for the Blind, January 15, 1907” she makes an appeal to the audience that the blind should be helped and made independent so that they can stand up and support themselves. She uses pathos or emotionally packed words, examples and anecdotes and cites from a prominent source to convince her audience that the blind are not helpless, but they are in need of guidance from people who can see in order to live and thrive independently.