It's a cool crisp day here, and I am as grumpy as ever! Why? I have no idea, but it started yesterday when we drove around Harvard Square for thirty minutes trying to find a parking space, and ended up just paying at a garage. Anyways, I have recently picked up a copy of the new Dorthea Lange biography, A Life Beyond Limits. I started to study here in high school, and then thoroughly in college. She is the speaker of one of my favorite photography quotes. "A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera". When I first entered AIB I did not really understand it, however by the time I graduated I fully understood. Photography makes us aware of many different aspects of the world and the life we live. After looking at many different photographic projects, we are able to objectify and identify American consumerism, war, home, love, depression, anything really. Seeing different portfolios has made me more aware of the world around me. Now it helps me think of different ideas and projects! I would very much like top start a project on American tourism. I could not believe the strange "realities" that I saw at Disney World, even more so that people choose escape the "real world" every year to visit. I have never seen so much fake imagery and (stuff) in my life! Don't get me wrong, I had fun on my honeymoon, but the amount of writing that could be done about this place is endless....I'm going to investigate that. Anywho, I have inserted Lange's infamous image, "Migrant Mother" taken in Nipomo California, 1936. xoxox -L
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