The photograph that really struck me was The Jewess by Lewis Hine. I think what first struck me was the name-“Jewess” being an archaic word for a female Jew. What I found interesting about the photo was the fact that she is not looking directly into the camera, or at the viewer. She is looking slightly off to the side as though she does not really care whether or not her picture is taken and seems to be concerned about something else. I think that this also an example of how the subject of the picture can b centered and the photo can still be a very good one. I noticed that while she covers her hair out of modesty, she does not do it completely like some of the Sicilian and Slavic women did. I also noticed how the light falls on the subject. Half of her body is covered by light while the rest is in the dark. I think that in black-and-white photographs use of light is even more important because it adds to the myriad of possible colors that you could use. Overall I really enjoyed the picture because of its simplicity.

Like I mentioned today in class, for some reason i seemed to have this strange bias against going to the Brooklyn museum. I think it was because i felt that there would be no art that would grab my attention or that since there was an assignment that I had to do, it would not be possible for me to take a moment and enjoy the paintings.
I was very impressed by the Egyptian section (I’m a sucker for anything ancient) and I had enjoy many of the paintings and had really warmed up to the place. My group and I had already completed a discussion about one of the Egyptian sarcophagi and were on our way to pick out another thing to talk about when we were all struck by one painting. It depicted three french peasant women walking away from a field after a hard day of work with the sun setting behind them. The painting was right after the revolution that occurred in the 1850’s, which had finally put an end to monarchy in France. We decided that we should record another discussion. I do not want to say that when we discussed the Egyptian sarcophagus that we were simply making up stuff in order to complete the assignment. We genuinely felt that it was a noteworthy piece of art and many of the points that we brought up were real, but when we discussed this painting we never felt like we needed to find something else to keep talking about. I think that we could have gone on and on talking about this painting but after we finished recording, we looked at it for another second in silent admiration, and continued on our way.
Overall I really enjoyed the experience and I know that I will definitely return to the Brooklyn Museum.