Photography and Text by Wing Hei Emily Cheng, Copyright 2018. . Book Review . Looking at Photographs by John Szarkowski . After reading John Szarkowski’s Looking at Photographs, I was struck by the obstacles that photographers faced in the pursuit of the perfect shot. As a lifelong digital photographer, it was inconceivable to me … Read more
Photography and Text by Eileen Ko, Copyright 2018 . Book Review . Looking at Photographs by John Szarkowski . Beauty in the Ordinary . John Szarkowski’s Looking at Photographs is a simple picture book. He selected pictures from the The Museum of Modern Art’s photography collection and wrote brief, eloquent essays about the history … Read more
Photography and Text by Anisha Arora, Copyright 2018 . A ROLLER COASTER . Life is always such a roller coaster. You never know when that sharp turn takes you from a high in life to a low trough. It entirely depends on your attitude, whether you enjoy the ride or come out complaining. … Read more
Photography and Text by Rongrong Liu, Copyright 2018 . EMOTIONAL FLUIDITY . The first acquaintance with the word “schema” was in my psychology class. Referring to a pattern of thoughts that people use to categorize information, schema is like a tree. When thinking of emotion, our thoughts branch out to pleasure, anger, sorrow … Read more
Photography, Video and Text by Wing Hei Emily Cheng, Copyright 2018 . THE MASKS WE WEAR . At Penn, we struggle with expressing our emotions. “Penn Face,” hiding our hardships and failures behind a perfect facade, is a well-documented phenomenon on campus. We work so hard to maintain the illusion that we have … Read more