A_World_Away

A World Away Today was my first time at the Chicago Cultural Center and I enjoyed it to the fullest. In this paper I am supposed to critique an art exhibit but I truly don’t know where to begin. Every time I turned around, there was yet another amazing picture staring me in the face. Photos taken by Chicago based photographer Larry Snider. If I could I would talk about all of them I would but I chose four to elaborate on. The gallery was a piercing white that seemed to make the photographs jump out and engulf you. Photo after photo, I stopped and I studied. The faces were so real it was like looking the actual subject in the eye. I never knew that black and white photography could be so calming. It was like you could feel what these people felt, as they smiled, you could in a sense, feel their happiness. The first photograph I chose was titled Monk Near Stackna Monastery (2003). It was a really good example of limited depth of field. The way the Monk stared at the camera drew you in so close that you would feel like you were the photographer. Every hair in his photo, woman, three, just, feel, about, time, taken, first, every, amazing, white, truly, trouble, soon, sense, seen, pipe, pictures, picture, photography, photographs, photographer, photograph, old, monks, monk, monastery, long, little, herself, happiness, hair, face, exhibit