ICP Museum Visit and MOMA Visit

Visiting the International Center of Photography on February the 10th really broadened my horizons to my views on photography. The exhibition of Weegee: Murder Is My Business described through photography the struggles in New York City during the 30's and 40's. The part of the exhibition that caught my eye and attention the most was the photos showing tenets in their apartments. The photos truly capture the pain and struggle these people went through. Some photo show how there are children sharing one small bed, there was up to 9 children in one bed. Weegee being a photo journalist really helps to show the true emotion of these people. You can see the fear in their eyes and the true pain and struggle in their faces. There is sheer horror in the eyes of these children that are malnourished and filthy. These children who are photographed look like they have lost all innocence and youth they had left.

The other part of the exhibition showed the crimes that happened in the New York City area, and the blood and horror of these crimes. There was many photos showing the dead bodies of the victims of these crimes. These images really capture the emotion and show people what these crimes really are like being there close up.

The exhibition really showed the other side to New York that people don't get a chance to see. Capturing these images of such hard and despair times in history it gives you the perspective of being there. You never get to see what Weegee saw being the photo journalist he was, you get the inside look.

http://www.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/weegee-murder-my-business

Going to MOMA I visited the Cindy Sherman's Live exhibit, it was very interesting. She took many pictures of women, when she took these pictures she usually used more natural and typical women. She would take these women and use them in a way that a model takes pictures. It made the images seem real compared to seeing these models who are so beyond skinny and Photoshopped, it was nice to see a real women who is more realistic and in a way to show her beauty. 

She also takes images of women in a unnatural setting, dressing up in odd clothing or like clowns for example, also putting the women in a setting you wouldnt expect to see them in.

She really just really captured women in a natural way. She also showed like stereotypical women like house wife's, working out women, and just the pretty blonde. She just captured many pictures of women that were interesting and really opened my eyes to capturing images of women and people in general. 




http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1170