Joseph Rodriguez, 58, is what you might call an old-school cat, a straight talker who is a bit rough around the edges. As a photojournalist, his past is his starting point and his palette.

Any New Yorker could immediately peg him for a true Brooklyn guy. It was in Brooklyn, where he was born, that Mr. Rodriguez learned to survive and persevere in the face of poverty and crime.

Sandra C. Roa Joseph Rodriguez

“Photography kind of saved my life,” he said in a recent interview. “It gave me a sense of focus.”

Mr. Rodriguez did time on pikers Island for burglary in the 1970s. During a second term on pikers, he realized he was getting trapped in a cycle of incarceration.

On release, he bought a used East German camera for $54 and loaded it with Teri-X black-and-white film. His family members and daily street scenes were his first subjects. For the more than 20 years since then, Mr. Rodriguez has been focusing on marginalized families and their daily challenges.

He has spent years in poor neighborhoods exploring not just physical violence but what he calls the “quiet violence of letting families fall apart, the violence of segregation and isolation.”

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Basic design improvements over the pinhole camera include:

(1) a means of aiming the camera that will also allow image composition (a viewing system);
(2) a light-bending optical device fitted into the hole to focus light from subjects at various distances onto the film’s surface (a lens);
(3) a mechanism to move the lens closer to or further from the film so the lens can sharply focus near or far subjects onto the film (focusing control);
(4) a mechanical device that adjusts the size of the hole (called the aperture ) so more or less light can pass through it (aperture-controlling diaphragm);
(5) a light-blocking gate that can be opened to let light reach the film for a predetermined and very precise time and then shut to keep light away from the film (a shutter); and
(6) a film-changing mechanism that enables several pictures to be taken in succession (film advance system).

The choice of cameras is seemingly endless, but all function on the same basic principles.

All cameras are fundamentally the same - a light-tight box containing film, with a hole that will let light in to strike the film (or the CCD, in the case of digital cameras) and thereby record an image. A home-made pinhole camera costing pennies and a sophisticated, top-of-the line model costing several thousands of dollars both work on this principle. The differences between them are in how well they perform this function. The pinhole camera is the simplest design, and the least versatile. As features become added to its basic design, the resulting improved cameras progressively provide the photographer with less restrictions and greater ability to take better pictures under a wider variety of circumstances.

10/23/2009

I saw picture three lady they are talking each other and they look upset.

I saw picture two lady talk a man they have a basket. in the basket they have a food.

I saw the pictures the woman have long hair and she had long necklace.

the daguerreotype was far more popular particularly because by 1843 it made excellent portraits it seemed as if every in Europe and the united states wanted to take pictures or have their pictures taken.

The camera by Joseph Wallace 2000 common place publishing ll c new Canaan connecticut

• 1837
  Louis Daguerre's first daguerreotype - the first image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under thirty minutes of light exposure.
• 1840
  First American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera.
  http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/Photography.htm
• the camera is my historical innovation the first was was called the camera obscure ''Aristotle in ancient Greece and the Arabs around 1,000 A.D. were familiar with the principle of what we now call the camera obscure ''(wallaea11). In 1802 Thomas Wedgwood thought to use chemicals to make a photograph (wallace15). 1827 Joseph nicephore made the first permanent photograph in France (wallace17).
• The problem this innovation solved was being able to take permanent pictures of people and things.

the camera by Joseph Wallace 2000 common publishing llc new Canaan Connecticut.

NHD 10/8

John Thompson teams up with the journalist Adolphe Smith to investigate and show the day to day conditions of the London poor. The series of pamphlets resulting from this, Street Life in London

john Thompson street life in London him family poor and sad. the woman had a baby and upset.










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3. help sick people in the hospital or nursing home.