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JAMES VAN DER ZEE A Closer Look James Van Der Zee once said, "I tried to pose each person in such a way as to tell a story." In the studio he used elaborate backdrops and scenery but in this...
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DOROTHEA LANGE A Closer Look Dorothea Lange has been called the greatest American documentary photographer, in part because her pictures gave dignity to people who had lost everything. This family may...
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BRIAN ULRICH A Closer Look This picture, like all the photos in the Copia series, is candid, meaning it isn't posed. Brian Ulrich shot the series using a waist-level viewfinder so that he did not have...
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Maria Manhattan is a painter, computer graphic artist and teacher who grew up in New York City. Her early computer piece "Nancy Reagan Takes the Subway" was recognized as the first interactive comic...
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Listen to spoken word artist, Tabu Hazel, performs her poem, Superwoman. Used with permission from Tabu Hazel.
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Orson Welles and H.G. Wells A Closer Look Today it’s hard to believe Orson Welles’ broadcast of The War of the Worlds caused a nationwide panic. We are used to media productions that are not what they...
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John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address (1961) A Closer Look John F. Kennedy rode to his inauguration with the outgoing president, Dwight Eisenhower. Robert Frost read one of his poems at the ceremony...
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Line: Artists often start out working with line. Look at the outline of the spotted horse. This is called a skeletal shape. The long hairs in the horse’s mane and tail are lines. Several horizontal...
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Painter Jonathan Green says, "I have found that all of the subject matters in school has helped me out tremendously in becoming an artist. Reading, writing, and arithmetic. I read as much as possible...
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Jonathan Green shares the series of paintings that he was working on at the time of the interview (2003).