Hans Photography

      Alex Webb is best known for his vibrant color photographs especially in places like The U.S.-Mexico border and recently American cities. Alex is a big believer in photos asking questions rather than giving answers. He has been working for Magnum Photos since 1974 and became a full-time employee in 1979.  He has been in Color Photography for about 30 years He has published many books and has received many awards for his work in color photography. There are two reasons why I chose Alex Webb, one is because he shares my name which I know is simple, but the other is by looking at his pictures and just seeing how vibrant and fun they look. For example, the two pictures below show one in Chicago with many people showing their support for the Cubs and the man in the front with the 2016 World Series Shirt on. The Crazy thing is that the old man has never seen a Cubs World Series Win before considering there was drought of 108 yea...

     Steve McCurry is a very well-known American Photographer specializing in contemporary photography. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and studied cinematography at Penn State University. After working for a newspaper for 2 years he made a trip to India with nothing much other than his clothes and film. He made his way to Pakistan right before the Soviet Union invasion was happening. He disguised himself as a villager and made his way into Afghanistan where he would get his most famous picture to date. The picture of an Afghan girl with bright green eyes showing. He took many other pictures of the devastation that the Soviet Union caused within their invasion of Afghanistan. The picture below of Afghan girl made it onto the National Geographic on best pictures in 1985. It really captured the pure emotion that effected the whole area of Afghanistan.      The eyes really pop out in this image which is what the main point of the picture was to grasp...

       I never really thought about this topic before and every time I take a picture with my cell phone, I don't think about why I'm doing it. After going through Photography Changes Everything and really understanding what it was trying to say, I started looking at all my pictures on my phone and around my house on the walls. Photography is everything in this world and more importantly to me it is memories and nostalgia. While this might be a common and maybe boring answer, it is all I think about. Seeing pictures of me at like a concert or a big sports game makes me rethink about myself being there at that moment and think of all the smells and how I was feeling at the time even if the picture itself didn't capture that. In the reading, it even mentions memories in photography in its own little section near the end. It discusses how our memory is foggy and photos help remember our own individual experiences. I have used photography so much in my daily life and don...