Michelle's Research Blog

      Myriam Boulos was born on 1992 and she started her photography career at 16 with looking around her surroundings of where she lived.  Myraim was in national and international collective exhibitions. The collective exhibitions she took place in where places like Amsterdam, Paris, and Beirut exhibits. Boulos photos are a voice for her and thats what she loves about photography so much. All the images that I've seen show a sense of the individuals story.    Boulos quote "I obsess about things and I don't know how to deal with these obsessions in any other way both through photography" explains on her interpretation when taking her photos. Boulos images are images that tell different stories or different people. It's showing the individuals personality and it can give people viewing the picture to feel different emotions. The topics that Boulos seems to discuss are more of a dark and serious issues. With capturing a dark and serious issue with the individ...

          Anthony Giocolea is a Cuban American artist his artworks are depicted as wanting to give different personalities when an individual is in a group versus when they're alone. His artworks describe how personalities are influenced by their surroundings (Anthony Goicolea). Goicela's perspective on his photos is intriguing and distinctive from other photos using a similar concept. His interpretation of his photos makes his own personality stand out and gives a story. Goicolea's audience is given a story that can either be related to or be given more awareness of their own or others' actions.                The way to describe Giocleas work is its like a mirror of himself. The different types of facial                  expressions and actions that he puts an each individual image gives a sort of identification of his               pers...

      Ernst Haas was an Austrian photographer who was one of the 20th century's influential photographers. Haas was commonly known for being one of the few pioneers in color photography. Haas started off as an independent photographer until 1949 when he joined Magnum. Haas decided to experiment with Kodachrome color film and it caused him to be officially established as a color photographer. Haas's photos were shown in the LIFE magazine and it was one of the biggest exhibits in New York.     The exhibit showed 24 page colored images of New York City and it was such a big event since it was the first time LIFE magazine released images in color. Haas started to do more traveling and photographing while working for LIFE, Vogue, and Look. Proceeded with making four books that show images in color during his travels. Then Haas won a Hasselblad award in 1986 but it was around the year of his death. Haas's legacy is continued as more of his work is shown around the wor...