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The following dwelling houses provide be reviewed from Rosebushs History of Photography textbook 1) Charles Sheller, Industry, shell 585 2) Eve Seaman, Oranges, Manhattan 1978, plate 743 3) Berne and Hill Becker, tress Towers, plate 736 4) Aaron Siskin, New York NO. 6, 1951, plate 664 5) Lynn Cohen, Corridor, plate 700 6) Mary Ellen Mark, flyspeck in her Halloween Costume, Seattle, plate 689 Charles Sheller, Industry Charles Sellers check, Industry represents a time during the Industrial age when interbreeding was uncompromising machinery and assembly lines were pitiable at a constant rate.Sellers drub enkindle be determined in the Aesthetically Evaluative tagre due to the equilibrium and balance in the photograph. The shapes and lines crisscross and work together to trope a well-composed photograph. A second socio-economic class to military position Industry in would be Descriptive because this photograph has a sealed sense of title that we corporationnot deny. A third home is instructive because the orbit depicts a certain age of time that signifi substructuret in the fib books. This era is the Industrial hop on in America. Explanatory photographs are intended to document a certain way of vivification.Charles Sellers Industry certainly earns a place in the history books not only because of this lance/symmetric sense of style shown in the image only it illustrates how the use of space or lack of can really accent the photograph as a whole and piddle away it aesthetically pleasing to the eye. On the same note, during this time great changes were occurring and manufacturing was well-heeled so kudos to the photographer, Charles Shelley, for not only capturing this in a documentary film form but composing a beautiful image as well.His work would be categorized in the era of Modernist picture taking because of his efforts in the asses and later. His work as well as depicts the great changes ND during that time and changes that the I ndustrial Age brought astir(predicate). You can see examples of this through his documentary photography of Henry Ford and his manufacturing lines. Artists involved in photographing dramatic engineering and urban landscapes can be grouped together as Protectionists. Protectionists pay special attention t geometrical structures and have a smooth handling of surfaces.They have unexpected viewpoints in the sense of angle and the way they crop their picture. Charles Demises idea of Cubism-geometric shapes and oerlap planeloads be found in this Protectionist form and style. Eve Seaman, Oranges, Manhattan 1978 Eve Seamans image can be depictive in regards to addressing what the world views are in this photographers eyes. A category that could be used for interpreting this photograph would be Descriptive because the p deviceicular style works, being a diptych, and allows views to compare and interpret the two photographs.A second category could be Aesthetic because superstarness fla vor at the photo and noting the color changes as far as blending goes on the persons face, the change in action of the fields in the photograph, and the existing perplexity f what is going on right-hand(a) now? in the photograph. I also appreciate the white line in the middle of the image as a whole making it a diptych. Today thither is less room between the two photos and I like the style of this one. Seamans image falls into the modernistic era due to the rhetorical properties as far as the alteration of the image and the comparison of each(prenominal) to each other.Eve Seamans success should never be discounted and embarking on these stylistic endeavors are value printing in the history books because of the way it was altered. Berne and Hill Becker, Winding Towers Berne and Hill Becker s Winding Towers is described to be art about art. Thomas Souths Museum Photographs is similar to the Beeches, as discussed in class. A category I would classify this piece of work would be Theoretical photography because you can Compare these Structures to social class and hierarchy because of the nature in which the tower itself is structured.It is also said that art about art is class as Theoretical. Another category would be Explanatory because the photograph explains in a scientific sense by capturing these photos over a design of years and in owing so the photographers have pissd a typology of form. thither is also a nice tonal range represented here so this image can also be categorized as stylistically sound or Descriptive because the piece works. The work can be classified as Modernist art since they create typologies of form that challenge the traditional meanings of art.Berne and Hill Becker have rightfully earned their place in the history books because of the typology documented and their technique of which to gather the information over time. All photographs are said to fit in the descriptive category, informative and heretical, as stated in the onse t of Terry Barrettes Criticizing Photographs, chapter 4. Since all photographs provide relatively accurate information of people, places and objects, they can technically fit in the descriptive category.Moreover, all photographs can fit in the interpretive category because most photographs interpret how the photographer interprets and sees the world. Finally all photographs are influenced by other art forms so these photographs can be placed in the theoretical category. Aaron Siskin, New York No. 6 Aaron Skins New York No. 6 is Aesthetically Evaluative cause the lines and shapes and ongoing symmetry work together to create on cohesive piece of art.This photograph looks similar to the one of Charles Sheller, Industry because has qualities of lines, shape and form and the importance of all of these aspects fitting into one aesthetically pleasing piece of work. Feel the category of Theoretical is a fit category because it plays with perceptions of art and how the photographer interpre ts art but also provokes the viewer to question how the art was created. The photograph looks more than like a something created with paint or Harold and less likely produced with film.Aaron Siskin, an Abstract Expressionist painter, accentuate experimentation and worked on color, multiple montages, and collages (Rosenberg 516). He was part of the post-war photograph trends in the United States. This group of artist espoused straight photography and therefore can be categorized in the Modernist era. Lynn Cohen, Corridor Lynn Cohen, Corridor can be classified as Aesthetically critical because you can see how the image was purposely shut in cropped. I think this image works and is no-hit.This image is also categorized as Descriptive cause of the artificial light and the detached distance from the composition matter pictured in the photograph. In looking at the crop of the image and how the image hold most of its weight on the right side of the photo, this image can be seen as Ae sthetically evaluative because the photo is a success artistically with composition and style. In tell this, believe that this photograph should remain in the history books because it gives viewers constructive cortical potential on the importance of composition and plasticity (or the absence of) in photographs.The era this type of art is seen in is the era of modernism and more pacifically, contemporary surrealism. Mary Ellen Mark, Tiny in her Halloween Costume Mary Ellen Mark, Tiny in her Halloween Costume can be classified as ethically Evaluative because it illustrates a certain time in this young girls life and how her life is affected by the neighborhood she cash in ones chipss in the peer force per unit rural area that surrounds her to fit in or not to fit in. This photograph can also be considered Interpretive because this category covers the directorial nature of the photographer with its subject matter.Mary Ellen Marks photograph can also be categorized as Explanatory because the image can be viewed as a sociological or anthropological perspective because it is a visual study of a Seattle area using a very documentary style of photography. This is a successful picture because it is aesthetically pleasing in that the photograph is very stylistic the picture is in black and white so it gives off a moody vibe. Mary Ellen Marks photograph should remain in the history books because it provides insight on how society was during this era and the poverty that some people had to live in.Streetwise was produced during the Modernist/Post-Modernist era because he portrait is untraditional in the Pictorial sense. In other words, its not meant to be smoothing to the eye or flattering but more of a documentary style picture. Personal Work As a photographer, I must also be able to rate and categorize my own work. Not only that but its important to bring out as to WHY we capture certain images. What is interesting about the pictures we create? If we cant ident ify with or answer these questions, why would someone else care about the work or find the photographs intriguing?