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• How should the photographer shoot this series of images?  Move around the subject or be stationary? In my opinion i think staying steal is the best thing so that way you are getting close ups of everything in the frame so it will go together.
• How do joiners give the illusion of time and space? Time because depending how long it takes you to take the pictures outside, the sun could move and cast a shadow on other things or other effects. Space so the objects could be more spaced out and not so squished.
• How is physically arranging the photographs like arranging the photographs in Photo Shop? Because you’re trying to put the photos all together but then in different spots as well in make it look good.
• What are some pros and cons of Photo Shop joiners vs. physically printing and joining the images? Pros of photo shop would be that its way easier digitally, a con would be that you could lose all of your work. Pros of physical would be that it would be was easier to put everything together a con would be that if the photos get ruined or lost.
• Do you prefer the very ‘organized and exact’ style or more ‘broken up’ style of joiner? Why? I like organized and exact if it is a setting but broken up if its a portrait of different time.

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Photo 1: Flag Raising

It is but a speck of an island 760 miles south of Tokyo, a volcanic pile that blocked the Allies’ march toward Japan. The Americans needed Iwo Jima as an air base, but the Japanese had dug in. U.S. troops landed on February 19, 1945, beginning a month of fighting that claimed the lives of 6,800 Americans and 21,000 Japanese. On the fifth day of battle, the Marines captured Mount ­Suribachi. An American flag was quickly raised, but a commander called for a bigger one, in part to inspire his men and demoralize his opponents. Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal lugged his bulky Speed Graphic camera to the top, and as five Marines and a Navy corpsman prepared to hoist the Stars and Stripes, Rosenthal stepped back to get a better frame—and almost missed the shot. “The sky was overcast,” he later wrote of what has become one of the most recognizable images of war. “The wind just whipped the flag out over the heads of the group, and at their feet the disrupted terrain and the broken stalks of the shrubbery exemplified the turbulence of war.” Two days later Rosenthal’s photo was splashed on front pages across the U.S., where it was quickly embraced as a symbol of unity in the long-fought war. The picture, which earned Rosenthal a Pulitzer Prize, so resonated that it was made into a postage stamp and cast as a 100-ton bronze memorial.

1. This picture impacted America because it was a sight of freedom and hope.
2. I like it because it shows how the soldiers were successful and faught for our freedom.
3. The emotion I get from the picture is heartwarming because we know we are free.
4. To respect the people who fight for your freedom.
5. How its black and white and has a group of men on a battlefield putting the American flag up.

Photo 2: Nazi Party

Spectacle was like oxygen for the Nazis, and Heinrich Hoffmann was instrumental in staging Hitler’s growing pageant of power. Hoffmann, who joined the party in 1920 and became Hitler’s personal photographer and confidant, was charged with choreographing the regime’s propaganda carnivals and selling them to a wounded German public. Nowhere did Hoffmann do it better than on September 30, 1934, in his rigidly symmetrical photo at the Bückeberg Harvest Festival, where the Mephistophelian Führer swaggers at the center of a grand Wagnerian fantasy of adoring and heiling troops. By capturing this and so many other extravaganzas, ­Hoffmann—who took more than 2 million photos of his boss—fed the regime’s vast propaganda machine and spread its demonic dream. Such images were all-pervasive in Hitler’s Reich, which shrewdly used Hoffman’s photos, the stark graphics on Nazi banners and the films of Leni Riefenstahl to make Aryanism seem worthy of godlike worship. Humiliated by World War I, punishing reparations and the Great Depression, a nation eager to reclaim its sense of self was rallied by Hitler’s visage and his seemingly invincible men aching to right wrongs. Hoffmann’s expertly rendered propaganda is a testament to photography’s power to move nations and plunge a world into war.

1. This picture impacted the whole world because it shows how big hitlers army was and filled them with fear.
2. I like the way the photographer took the picture because you could feel the fear just at looking at Hitler.
3. The emotion i get off of this picture is disgust because what Hitler did makes me sick to my stomach.
4. To show how much power Hitler had.
5. The sea of people that Hitler had praising him.

Photo 3: Falling Man

The most widely seen images from 9/11 are of planes and towers, not people. Falling Man is different. The photo, taken by Richard Drew in the moments after the September 11, 2001, attacks, is one man’s distinct escape from the collapsing buildings, a symbol of individuality against the backdrop of faceless skyscrapers. On a day of mass tragedy, Falling Man is one of the only widely seen pictures that shows someone dying. The photo was published in newspapers around the U.S. in the days after the attacks, but backlash from readers forced it into temporary obscurity. It can be a difficult image to process, the man perfectly bisecting the iconic towers as he darts toward the earth like an arrow. Falling Man’s identity is still unknown, but he is believed to have been an employee at the Windows on the World restaurant, which sat atop the north tower. The true power of Falling Man, however, is less about who its subject was and more about what he became: a makeshift Unknown Soldier in an often unknown and uncertain war, suspended forever in history.

1. This picture impacted the world because it showed them how bad terrorism is because its bad actions on innocent people.
2. The reason i like this picture because i like how the photographer took it because it showed the sadness in the moment because people were killing themselves since they didn’t want to burn to death.
3. The emotion from this photo is disbelief and heart break because its of someone committing suicide jumping off a building.
4. To show what people went thru, how they felt, and how they were affect by 9/11.
5. The point of view of this man jumping off.