Japinese Anime and American Animation:
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This 4 page paper examines the similarities and differences between the animation styles of the Japanese and Americans. This paper highlights a number of technique examples to illustrate the point that there are indeed many similarities and differences between the two. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Lewis Carroll as a Photographer
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A 5 page paper which examines the famed author of “Alice in Wonderland’s” foray into photography, including the type of photographic process he used, descriptions and possible meanings behind some of his more well-known works, and some of the other artists and photographers he associated with. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: TGlewcarpix.rtf

Man Ray -- “The Poet of the Dark Room”
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This 24 page report discusses the photographer Man Ray (1890 - 1976) who Jean Cocteau referred to as the “poet of the darkroom.” He was born Emmanuel Radnitskyi n Philadelphia in 1890. After he became Man Ray, he also became one of the 20th century's most admired and innovative photographers. His work demonstrated the fact that photography truly is an art form and convinced countless critics that it offered a legitimately artistic way to present a unique and personal form of self-expression. He was also a painter and filmmaker and thought of as one of the avant-garde of Paris in the 1920s. However, it is his photography that has remained as the most lasting representation of his view and representation of the world. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
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Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971)
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(10 pp) Margaret Bourke-White (1904 - 1971) is the kind of woman you want to read stories about to first yourself and then to any and all girl children that might come into your area. She was a dedicated professional photographer at a time when it was an unheard of activity for a woman. Her name remained on the masthead of Life magazine until 1969. This discussion will look at the woman and her work. Bibliography lists 6 sources and three visuals.
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Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971): An Overview
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This is a 12 page paper discussing the life and professional career of Margaret Bourke-White. Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was considered by some to be the most famous photojournalist of her time. Born to open-minded and progressive parents, Bourke-White learned at an early age to be independent with an assertive motto of “you can”. Although she graduated with a degree in the sciences, Bourke-White soon gained a reputation as a competent industrial photographer which attracted the attention of Henry Luce the editor and publisher of Fortune and later Life magazine who hired her as the first female photojournalist. Bourke-White was the war correspondent for Life magazine and the U.S. Air Force and was also the first female journalist allowed in combat. During her war years, she was the first correspondent in the Soviet Union and captured the bombing of the Kremlin by the Nazis on film, was torpedoed in the ship which was taking her to Northern Africa and accompanied Patton and the United States troops on their tour of the concentration camps in Germany. Back home in the United States, in collaboration with her second husband, novelist Erskine Caldwell, on several photo texts on the inequalities of the American social and class system. Bourke-White continued to be an inspiration to feminists and photojournalists during her entire career and in the mid 1950s when she discovered she had Parkinson’s Disease and could no longer take photographs, she wrote her autobiography during over eight years. Margaret Bourke-White died in Connecticut in 1971. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Music Photography During the 1960s and 1970s
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A 5 page paper which examines why the work of certain photographers has become so valuable (is it because of their style or the artists they photographed), and also discusses the historical effect of music photography on contemporary design, the design movements that relate to music photography and how the study of music photography can help the fledgling student photographer formulate ideas and develop a distinctive visually aesthetic style. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Painting and the Invention of Photography
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A 10 page paper which examines painting prior to and after the invention of photography. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Patriotism
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A 7 page paper which considers what it means to be patriotic. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Photographer Bruce Weber
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This 6 page paper considers the life and accomplishments of photographer Bruce Weber. His interests and work in fashion photography, filmmaking and portraiture are explored. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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