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Posted on January 20, 2012 – Copyright 2012

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Lingerie: Victoria's Secret

Posted on January 1, 2012

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……….Elizabeth currently studies English at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She hopes to pursue the field of Public Relations upon her graduation. She sought out modeling at the end of May 2011, and currently spends her free time partaking in shoots. She was signed to Reinhard Agency in Philadelphia in August of 2011. She hopes to continue modeling full-time upon graduation and model internationally.

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Her interests include volunteering at the Camden County Animal Shelter in Blackwood, NJ. She specifically nurtures felines in preparation for adoption. Other interests include: tutoring elementary age children, fashion, reading the classics, baking, traveling, and attending cultural events in the Philadelphia area.

Copyright 2012

Silf-Portrait 2011

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Tony Ward

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……….I would like to thank all of the contributors, friends and colleagues who have supported TWS over the course of an extraordinary year of growth. You have made this a very special year for the audience that follows TWS. Your contributions have been most inspiring. I look forward to the coming year with great enthusiasm, anticipation, and the expectation that our audience will continue to grow and expand – well in to the new year and years to come.

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I would like to especially thank my colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania for providing an exceptional venue to share information, and most importantly, the students who have taught me the joy and importance of teaching. Happy New Year!

Hat

Posted on December 27, 2011 by Ted Adams

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ARTIST STATEMENT

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I’m generally interested in what things look like (as opposed to any sort of inherent meaning), although sometimes events converge to create irony, humor or interesting juxtapositions. These usually happen by accident – I think that when you’re actually taking the pictures, you have to react to things in an immediate, visceral way – then something akin to “meaning” creates itself later when you’re looking at the negatives and deciding what to print.

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Money

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Glasses

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Picture-taking also has a psychological aspect which reminds me of going fishing or sifting through junk at a flea market: It involves an obsessive-compulsive drive to put your line in the water to see what you reel in – a subtle mood, an ambiance, a visual structure that tickles your brain.

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Rose

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I’m also interested in photography as a way of cropping the world into rectangles, as a way of selectively taking things out of context – which often results in stripping the original meaning out of the subject matter, or at least in making the image open to interpretation. Kind of the opposite of photojournalism, whose intention is to create “narrative” and “context” rather than to discard them.

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Throne

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Photography is, in its very essence, the art of cropping – whether in the camera or in the darkroom.

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Love on the Rocks

About The Author: Ted Adams was born in Louisville, Kentucky USA. The artist resides and works in Philadelphia as an Art, Street and Documentary photographer. He is also Owner/Director of the Southwark Gallery, Philadelphia. To learn more about Ted Adams’s work log on: www.TedAdams.net.

Tophat

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Raven Willis

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……….In each photograph, there is a distinctly decorated mannequin, which was created by myself for an installation project. Each of these mannequins creates a symbol around the themes of a woman’s body and gender norms.

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Final Option 1

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The model’s interactions give these symbols a new layer. Furthermore, the interactions tell a story throughout the shoot: is she embracing the mannequin, defeating it, resenting it, or using it?

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Stand and Kneel

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Sitting Down

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The juxtaposition of the model and the mannequin brings up the question of our current beauty standards – which travels much farther from the face. The model’s body type is not the same as the mannequins; however, she is still beautiful, sexy and confident and comes off this way in the images.

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2 Chiekos

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It is actually the mannequins that suffer from no head, legs or arms and sometimes look bruised and wounded. The end product is that, in addition to the mannequins, the model is also interacting with herself – which brings in a dialogue of reflection and scrutiny of one’s self and one’s body.

About The Author: is a candidate for B.A. in Economics, Urban Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Class of 2012 – Copyright 2011

Tree

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Opening Reception: Friday, December 16th, 2011 – 5:30 to 7:30
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The Print Center
1614 Latimer Street
Philadelphia, Pa. 19103
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Dirt

To learn more about Robert Asman’s work log on: www.Alchemy-Ink.com

Yang Hu

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Yang Hu

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………My age is misleading – as a graduating senior in the college, I always think I’m a 5-year-old at heart. I like stuffed animals, bright colors, and cartoons which appear in children’s rooms; I love zoos, toy stores, and amusement parks that are filled with kids. My stress reliever is not heavy metal hits, but many children’s songs I learned 15 years ago.

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Yang Hu

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For the second assignment, my initial ideas were to shoot a toy store or to shoot my stuffed animals in different places. A toy store could be restrictive in terms of composition, while the second idea had appeared in previous students’ works. TW told me great photographers present photographs that people have never seen before. Following his suggestion, I went to the Please Touch Museum in Fairmount Park. I was the only visitor on that day who did not come with a child, and I got awarded a sticker for how special I was. The whole museum is full of fresh colors squeezed from the color tubes and expressive shapes presented in different installations. I felt like a lost child finally back at home at the museum, and the camera in hand gave me a powerful tool to build a wonderland in my head. High speed film released me from the tripod, and at the same time made the shooting process more tangible. I felt the weight of the camera when I exposed a frame, and therefore became more careful about every exposure. Indoor settings were a challenge, but the objects in the pictures coming out of the darkroom seemed to have a magical glow. This reminded me of what Susan Sontag once said: “so successful has been the camera’s role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.”

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Self-Portrait by Yang Hu

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I want to own a carrousel in the future.

About The Author: Yang Hu is a senior enrolled in the College of the University of Pennsylvania. Class of 2012