From Lindsay Walsh:

 I enjoyed reading this article because it discusses my 2 favorite aspects about the history of photography. First is the idea of photography becoming an art and the change in photographs and the process behind it. Second is the relation to advertising. 

    After being introduced to the notion that in the 1880's, photography was trying to compete with other fine arts in History of Photography 1, I am glad that we are going more in depth in the second half of the course. I am a photographer, and I really appreciate the whole idea of pictorial photography and the changes the "founders" made to photography to make it an art. Things that seem so basic now like having compositions just like painting, and playing with lights and shadows and forms and lines are all new in the time period we are learning about now and I gain a whole new sense of appreciation for photography because of it and I love learning about it. I found it interesting in the article how the author talked about avant-garde photographers all across the world and how they compare to what other avant-garde photographers were doing. 

    As a Communications Major with a focus in Advertising and Event Planning and an Art History Minor, I was hoping someday the two would relate and I enjoyed reading about something in my major and applying it to my minor. I took a persuasion class last semester and in that class they did not discuss the history of the ideas that artists in the 1900's had on persuasion and visually tricking people to buy products. One quote I found fascinating was by Harry Hollingworth when he said "The lines, forms, relations, colors, and distribution of elements should so far as possible reflect the character of the goods or the mood desired in the reader". All of this is true and what I love about art and advertising is how certain lines and placement of words and images really do define how well people respond to the advertisement. The classes that I have taken in my major did not have the artistic perspective that this article did and I was really interested in learning about this in a  new way.