We have spent the last couple of weeks using Photoshop and taking digital photos. I would like to know what you think about what you have done so far. Write a blog post about your thoughts (about 3-4 paragraphs). This will be due by Thursday, February 11.
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New Media Assignment
You have begun work on your collage. Be sure to upload your completed collage to our Flickr page (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluffsmediaclass-upload instructions on our Moodle site). Once you have completed that, choose at least 3 projects from the handout to do. When you have completed them, upload each to your blog.
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Joe Rosenthal
Joe Rosenthal was born in Washington on 9th October, 1911. He was interested in photography and after finishing college joined the Newspaper Enterprise Association in San Francisco before becoming a staff photographer with the San Francisco Examiner.
Rosenthal applied to join the US Army at the start of World War 2 as a military photographer. He was rejected from active duty because of his poor eyesight-interesting since he was then assigned to cover the Pacific War as a photographer. In March 1944 he photographed the American progress toward Japan, including the invasions of Guam, New Guinea and Guadalcanal.
While on Iwo Jima, Rosenthal took some very dramatic pictures of the invasion. On February 23, 1945, at the top of Mount Suribachi, Rosenthal took one of the most famous photographs of the war: Raising of the Flag on Iwo Jima. Of the six soldiers, three were killed within the next few days.
The Raising of the Flag on Iwo Jima, was published throughout the world. Rosenthal was later accused of staging the photograph. From Rosenthal, “On February 23, having captured Surabachi, a small volcanic hill and the highest point on the island, some marines raised a small flag at its summit. They were photographed by Sergeant Louis Lowery for the marine magazine, Leatherneck. Rosenthal, having talked with Lowery, decided to get a shot of the flag himself. When he arrived, he found the marines raising a larger flag, attached to a pole so heavy it took six men to lever it into place in a small mound of rocks. He stepped just inside the volcano’s crater and snapped the photo with his Speed Graphic.”
After the war Rosenthal became chief photographer and manager of Times Wide World Photos. Later he worked for the San Francisco Chronicle.
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