
2011 Spring Basic Class Category Archives:


A River Runs Through It

Philadelphia Neighborhoods

“Mt. Moriah cemetery” The tombstone of Vietnam War vet lies in a pile of tires by the entrance of the cemetery. – Bella Pezzati, Basic Photography Spring 2011

“Fishtown, Girard Ave.” A backyard full of cats outside of a rowhouse next to an on-ramp for I-95. – Bella Pezzati, Basic Photography, Spring 2011

“Fairmount Park” Six Geese sit next to the water by Boathouse Row on Sunday, April 3, 2011. -Elizabeth Stevens, Basic Photography Spring 2011

“The Wissahickon Creek” A 19-year-old Jersey boy makes the biggest catch of the day on Sunday, April 3, 2011 at the Wissahickon Creek. -Sarah Froehlich-Hull, Basic Photography Spring 2011

“The Wissahickon Creek” A fly-fisherman waits just before a waterfall on Sunday April 3, 2011. – Sam Margulies, Basic Photography Spring 2011

“Old City” Custard the dog sits with his owner in front of the Second Street Bank of the United States at 4th and Chestnut streets on Monday, April 4, 2011. – Erin Dungee, Basic Photography Spring 2011

“Reading Terminal Market” A pianist shares a tune with a group of young girls on Wednesday, april 6, 2011. – Liz Giacalone

“Reading Terminal Market” The basement of the Reading Terminal Market can only be accessed by employees (or photography students disguised as employees). The length of the ceiling is lined with brick arches, presumably to support the immense weight of the trains which once visited the terminal. April 2, 2011. – Dillon Mast, Basic Photography Spring 2011

Addiction, Obsession, Attitude and Fads

Kimmel Center

Life on Society’s Margins

"Physical" Sam Margulies, Basic Photography Spring 2011 "If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit." -Matthew 15:13, New International Version

"Age" Megan Minner, Basic Photography Spring 2011. "Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength" -Betty Friedan

"Religion" Courtney Cellissimo, Basic Photography Spring 2011 "Luke 12:15 And He said unto them, Take heed and beware of coveousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth."

"Economic" Sam Margulies Basic Photography Spring 2011 "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" - Richard III, William Shakespeare

"Gender" Sam Margulies, Basic Photography Sring 2011 "We forthwith acknowledge our awareness of the sensitive and emotional nature of the abortion controversy, of the vigorous opposing views, even among physicians, and of the deep and seemingly absolute convictions that the subject inspires." -Justic Blackmun's opinion on Roe v. Wade

"Gender" Mike Yosko, Basic Photography Spring 2011 "We are all androgynous, not only because we are all born of a woman impregnated by the seed of a man but because each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other—male in female, female in male, white in black and black in white. We are a part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it." - James A. Baldwin

"Gender" Bella Pezzati, Basic Photography Spring 2011 "Progress? There's no such thing as progress. There's only change. You dig a hole in the ground, you build up a city, and you fight a war, and you call it progress?" -Charles Manson

"Ethnicity" Ning Shao, Basic Photography Spring 2011 "In the long run, one of the great threats to this country is its tendency to dissolve along the lines of race, ethnicity and language." -Pat Buchanan

"Intellectual/Race" Ariel Shuhart, Basic Photography Spring 2011 "Black Power means that black people see themselves as part of a new force, sometimes called the 'Third World,' that we see our struggle as closely related to liberation struggles around the world." - Carmichael & Hamilton (authors of Black Power)

Night, Experimental

Portraits

City Hall Field Trip

Visual Elements II
