Vintage colorization

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Peer Critique

          I chose to critique Sara's photo weaving project. When you look at it you can see an eye perfectly clear, but when you look closer there is a second eye hidden in the photo. You can see two different colors within the eye but the way they come together make it look like it's one single picture. The eyelids and the eyelashes appear to match up. She used shape and color to make the two photos blend.
         In the photo, Sara used two similar pictures where the skin tone looks similar and the eye shape looks almost exact. One of the photos is clearly lighter than the other but because of how well the eyes piece together, it's hard to tell what the original photos looked like. The use of shape and color give the photo a mysterious, and beautiful appearence.
         To me, this picture makes me think about how things aren't always what they appear to be. Sometimes you need to look closer to see what's really there. I believe that's the message this picture sends. The fact that there is an eye in the picture is taking the title of the piece "seeing things differently" literally, but it also means you need to look deeper, to see what is really in the photo. I believe the whole idea of this work is very creative which is why is really stuck out to me.

Antique Photo

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Morph Me Photo

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        I believe this photo is successful because I look almost unrecognizable. If I woke up looking the first picture I don't think many people would know who I was. I believe this photo is also unsuccessful because it still slightly resembles the original photo.

Iconic Photo Analysis

                     

Post-mortem, unidentified young girl
Southworth and Hawes

              Southworth and Hawes were post-mortem photographers. They would lay a corpse on a sofa or table, and set them up to make them appear to be sleeping rather than dead. Many people wanted them to take these pictures as a way to remember their loved ones in a peaceful state. Southworth and Hawes used daguerreotype photography, which was a difficult and time consuming process but the photos came out mirror like and very detailed.

             This photo was interesting to me because it has a somber feel to it but it also looks peaceful. At first when I saw this picture I thought it was a sleeping child. I didn't realize she was dead until I read the title.

             In the 1850's, around the time this photo was taken, most of America shared the belief that America was the "inventor and owner of the present, and only hope for the future".  We were enthusiastic and began free market capitalism, territorial expansion, and supoorted republican causes abroad at a time of strife which would eventually lead us to the Civil war. The news of the daguerrotype came to America in the 1930's which was around the begging of a period of time called "the era of Young America." This is the era when Southworth and Hawes teamed up and begain capturing the faces and views of young America.