World Changing Extra Credit - due 12/15/10, limit of 2

www.jamesrotz.com - There is a limit of 2 World Changing responses that can be done for extra credit. They are worth 10 points each. They responses need to be posted by next Wednesday.

Weekly Statement - 12/7/10

Lewis Hine - various websites and books - One good example of how artists help change society and how it operates. Hine was photographing child laborers around 1908 and his photos helped enact child labor laws.

World Changing - 11/30/2010

Matt Siber - http://siberart.com/ - from his series The Untitled Project. Interesting work dealing with public advertising. Basically photographs a public space, removes all the signage, and displays them side-by-side.

Weekly Statement - 11/30/2010

James Griffioen - http://www.jamesgriffioen.net/ - This is from his Feral Houses series. He mainly works in and around Detroit. He also has an interesting blog Sweet Juniper.

Weekly Statement - 11/23/10

Joel Sternfeld - High Line - Photography Now - Here are a couple of links to his work. He has a website but there is nothing on it.

World Changing, 11/16/10

Robert Polidori - he does not have a personal website, but I have listed some that will provide some visuals. He has several books that are very interesting. Edwynn Houk Gallery - Nicholas Metivier Gallery - Steidl books - the links provided displays work that examines the Chernobyl dead zones.

Weekly Statement, 11/16/10

Mitch Epstein - http://www.mitchepstein.net/ - http://whatisamericanpower.com/ - from his American Power series. This plays of the Amish aspect of the last lecture and how we decide what technology we accept and how it contributes to our community and society.

Weekly Statement, 11/9/10

Daniel Shea - http://dsheaphoto.net/ - from Shea's recent work entitled Plume

World Changing, 11/2/10

Edward Burtynsky - http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/index.html - Recycling subset from the China series

Weekly Statement, 11/2/10

Laurne Greenfield - http://laurengreenfield.com/ - from the kids + money series.

Phoebe, 17, at home in Pacific Palisades, CA, the week before leaving for her freshman year at Wesleyan University.

World Changing, 10/26/2010

Alejandro Cartegena - http://alejandrocartagena.com/ - from his Fragmented Cites series

Weekly Statement, 10/26/2010

Beth Dow - www.bethdow.com

World Changing, 10/12/10

Custom Creature Taxidermy - www.customcreaturetaxidermy.com

Weekly Statement, 10/12/10

This is one piece from Shuli Hallak series dealing with container ships simply entitled Cargo on her website.

World Changing, 10/05/10

Giulio Di Sturco - VII Agency - A photoessay on India's Ganges River. It is predicted that by 2030, the Ganges will have dried up due to global warming, water pollution, and the construction of dams.

Weekly Statement, 10/05/10

A refrigerator is both a private and a shared space. One person likened the question, "May I photograph the interior of your fridge?" to asking someone to pose nude for the camera. Each fridge is photographed "as is." Nothing added, nothing taken away.

Mark Menjivar - http://www.markmenjivar.com/ - make sure to check out his taglines for each photograph, too.

Weekly Statement, 9/28/10

Earthworks - http://www.cskdetroit.org/EWG/ - Earthworks is one of the larger urban farms in Detroit. They supply a soup kitchen nearby run by Capuchin monks.

Weekly Statement - 9/21/10

Brian Ulrich - www.notifbutwhen.com - This is from a chapter, Dark Stores, that is part of a larger series entitled Copia. In this series, Ulrich is examining various aspects of American consumerism.

World Changing - 9/21/10

Sze Tsung Leong - www.szetsungleong.com - From the series Cities. Cities is a series depicting urban fabrics throughout the world. Differences, parallels, and variations between built environments are revealed through consistent composition and viewpoint. Disparate locations are juxtaposed and a new geography is outlined.

Weekly Statement - 9/14/10

Chris Jordan - www.chrisjordan.com - this is from his Midway series. It is about albatross chicks that are fed a diet of plastic and refuse by their parents.