10 Images Defining My Time

1. Twin Towers Burning
2. “Mission Accomplished”
3. Bush Dodging Shoe
4. iPhone
5. Google
6. Barack Obama
7. Economy Fails- Unemployed Executive
8. Youtube
9. Soldiers in Iraq
10. Disappearing Snow on Mt. Kilimanjaro due to Global Warming

10 Classical Paintings

1. Caillebotte- Les Raboteurs de Parquet (The Floor Scrapers)
2. Carvaggio- The Calling of Saint Matthew
3. Titian- The Rape of Europa
4. Raphael- Alba Madonna
5. Da Vinci- Ginevra de’ Benci
6. Michelanglo- Doni Tondo
7. Rubens- Henri IV Receiving the Portrait of Marie de Medici
8. Botticelli- Primavera
9. Van Gogh- Starry Night
10. Degas- L’Absinthe

3 performance photographers and examples of their work:

1. Cindy Sherman- Self-portrait as a corpse
2. Nikki Lee- The Hispanic Project
3. Nan Goldin- Misty and Jimmy Paulette

I really enjoy journalist photography. I think that it is really admirable to capture the current state of things in a few photographs to give the public a visual to truly relate a news story to reality. These are photos taken by Moises Saman for the New York Times of Machu Picchu; they capture the pulchritude of the ruins, and the harmony with the vast landscape. I think these photos are simply beautiful.

These images are some of street artist Kurt Wenner's work. Kurt Wenner is a sidewalk artist who does amazing 3-D work with a real sense of perspective and visuals to make them "fit into the surroundings." Wenner focuses particularly on the fantasical in his work, especially the idea of demons in hell and the underworld, like those in Dante's Inferno.