Assignment 4: ICP Museum of Art Visit
Title: Susan Meiselas Invades the Photo Centric World of Men
Student: Enid Farber
Mentor: Raul Manzano
Date: October 18th, 2008
Susan Meiselas and Mary Ellen Mark have not only survived the once heavily male dominated domain of hard-core photojournalism but they have thrived. War, strippers, prostitutes, dangerous and hostile arenas that little girls [...]
Susan Meiselas Invades the Photo Centric World of Men
Abstract Expressionism: My Fascination
Assignment 3: Metropolitan Museum of Art Visit
Title: Abstract Expressionism: My Fascination
Student: Enid Farber
Mentor: Raul Manzano
Date: October 18th, 2008
I am admittedly fascinated with abstract expressionism and here’s why. I have dedicated most of my life to the photography of Jazz and the bold, graphic, spirited, often wild and improvisational nature of abstract expressionism is fundamental to [...]
Religious Artistic Interpretation is Fundamentally Flawed
Assignment 2: Cloisters Museum Visit
Title: Religious Artistic Interpretation is Fundamentally Flawed
Student: Enid Farber
Mentor: Raul Manzano
Date: October 4th, 2008
I believe: religious art is prone to excessive subjective interpretation, depending on the background and strength of the viewer’s own religious convictions, therefore it is fundamentally flawed. Prior to our class group visit to The Cloister’s Museum, I [...]
Picasso’s Les Desmoiselles d’Avignon
Assignment 1: MOMA Museum Visit
Title: Picasso’s Les Desmoiselles d’Avignon
Enid Farber
Mentor: Raul Manzano
Date: September 20, 2008
It seems like all humankind is preoccupied with sex and sexuality. Sexual themes are common in art and seem to permeate all mediums. Our modern culture has pretty much rendered sexual taboos obsolete. But this was not the case during the [...]
