This exhibit was well worth its money. I left with many photos still in my mind and a new list of photographers that I have interests in. My favorite pieces were Ansel Adams, Kian Mokhberry, Robert and Shana Parkeharrison, and Beaumont Newhall. The main shots that stood out to me were Kian Mokhberry and my favorite Robert and Shana Parkeharrison. Kian Mokhberry’s shot was a park at sunset but the rays of light were coming through the streets and lighting up the whole photo at a bright orange. It was described as life and death. For every beginning there is an end. Sunset park showed the end of that day but the beginning of a day somewhere else. It was very interesting.

My favorite of the whole exhibit was Robert and Shana Parkeharrison. Their piece was called Edison’s Light. It consisted of performance, photography, sculpture, and painting. It was of a man on a unicycle machine hooked up to lights and rods cycling towards a storm where lighting bolts are hitting the ground close by. It was so different than all the other photographs and had a theme of failure. No matter what, they described, there always will be failing, and that is just part of life. This piece stood out to me because it had so much creativity and adventure. Just looking at it can create a story. It reminded me of a book I read as a child called the Time Machine. All in all the exhibibit was great and was probably the best out of the four I went to this semster.

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