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      Yes I have so many memories to remember so far during my Senior year.  All the laughs and all the smiles.  I am really going to miss BETA especially since it is like a second family to me.  I will try to make as many memories as I can.  I'll miss all the clubs with all the fun activities.  I'll miss the hanging out with friends to prepare for competition or to just talk about fun stuff.  I have so many memories so far.

Generation of Nincompoops?

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     I believe that our generation is just weird and we do strange things.  That is why we are called the Y generation for "why do you do things like that".  We can sometimes be Nincompoops, but this doesn't apply to all of us.

Famous Photographer: Lee Miller

Elizabeth "Lee" Miller

Background

• Birth

• Born April 23, 1907

• Birth Place

• Poughkeepsie, New York

• Other Facts

1.  Parents were Theodore and Florence Miller

• Had 2 brothers one younger(Erik) and older(John)
• Raped

• About 7 yrs old
• Contracted gonorrhea

• Education

• Attended L’Ecole Medgyes pour la Techique du Thtre

Professional Life

• Modeling

March 1927 Vogue edition

• Was photographed by father
• Vogue

• Age 19 stopped from walking in front of car Manhattan by Conde Nast
• Conde Nast is the founder of Vogue
• Launched her modeling career

• She appeared on the cover of March 1927 edition of Vogue 

• Illustration by George Lepape 

• For next 2yrs she was one of the most sought after models

• Photographed by Edward Steichen, Arnold Genthe, Nickolas Murray

• Numerous appearances in magazines

Fashion image taken by Lee Miller

• Photography

• She traveled to Paris to apprentice herself to surrealist artist Man Ray

• Became apprentice, lover, and muse

• Began her own photographic studio

• Took over Man Ray’s fashion assignments so he can concentrate on painting
• Many of photos credited to Man Ray are believed to be Lee’s
• Together with Man Ray she rediscovered technique solarisation

Solarisation

• Active participant in surrealist movement
• Her friends included Pablo Picasso, Paul Eluard, and Jean Cocteau
• Left Man Ray and Paris 1932
• Returned to New York and established portrait and commercial photography studio

• With brother Erik
• Included in Modern European Photography exhibition at Julien Levy Gallery
• 1933 Levy gave Miller the only solo exhibition of her life
• Portraits of Joseph Cornell, actresses Lilian Harvey and Gertrude Lawrence
• Also African American cast of Virgil Thomson-Gertrude Stein opera

• Abandoned her studio to marry Egyptian businessman

• Married Aziz Eloui Bey
• Photographs from Egypt regarded  some of her most striking surrealist images

• Lee grew tired of Cairo and returned to Paris

• Met future husband British surrealist painter and curator Roland Penrose

• Photos were not in exhibition until 1955

• Work displayed in The Family of Man
• In Museum of Modern Art

• Photography World War II

A chapel after bombing

Miller in Army uniform

• Miller was living in Hapstead, London during outbreak of World War II with Roland
• Was there when bombing began
• Miller embarked on a new career in photojournalism

• Official war photographer for Vogue
• Documented the Blitz(September 6, 1940-May 10, 1941)

• Accredited into the U.S Army as a war correspondent for Conde Nast Publications
• Teamed up with American photographer David E. Scherman
• She traveled to France less than a month after D-Day and recorded

• first use of napalm at the siege of St. Malo
• the liberation of Paris
• battle for Alsace
• horror of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau

Miller in Hitler's bathtub

• Photograph by Scherman of Miller in Hitler’s bathtub one of most ironic image
• Miller also photographed

• Dying children in a Vienna Hospital
• Peasant life in post war Hungary
• Execution of Prime Minister Laszlo Bardossy

• Continued to work for Vogue for 2 more years covering fashion and celebrities

• England

• Lee started to suffer from severe episode of clinical depression

• Began to drink heavily
• Uncertain of her future

Farley Farm House Fashion photo by Miller

• 1946 she traveled with Roland to the U.S

• Visited Man Ray in California
• She discovered she was pregnant with her only son Antony
• She divorced Bey
• 1947 married Roland

• In 1949 they bought Farley Farm House in Sussex

• Farley Farm House artistic Mecca for visiting artists

• Miller continued to do occasional photo shoot for Vogue
• Started to drop photography
• Her war experience had harsh effects on her health and her relationship with family
• Miller died of cancer at Farley Farm House in Chiddingly, East Sussex 

Lee Miller Biography

Significance and Importance

• She recorded some of the most surrealistic images
• Her life story was turned into a musical Six  Pictures of Lee Miller with music and lyrics

• By Jason Carr
• Premiered at the Chichester Festival Theater

Photographing concerts

I would like to see and photograph a Sugarland concert.  I would publish my photos for magazines and post them online.  Yes I would like to create an on-line photo gallery because it would help to exhibit my style and my photos.

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A day in the life of Amanda

Amanda walks around her neighboorhood in Mission, Texas after a long day at school

Amanda plays in her pretend kitchen after finishing her assigned homework

Amanda experiments with different outdoor plants in her play station outside

Amanda feels a drop of water hit her head while rain clouds rolled in and the sun started to set

Amanda plays in the light driziling rain during the  dry, humid day

Amanada climbs a tree trying to see if anymore rain clouds were heading her way

Do you have what it takes to be a photojournalist?

It's really fun to be a photojournalist because you see the world through the a lens.  I believe a photojournalist has to be prompt and enthusiastic and should be able to tell a story.  They have to be able to tell the stories of other people and have to be willing to go the extra mile to get a story.  I would like to be a photojournalist, but I would prefer a video camera instead of a photo camera because I like to work with a video camera and I find it interesting.

Photographic Fakery

Since the existence of software like Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro photographers have found ways to fake there photographs.  With this controversial issue how can photojournalist expect to be believed in world where people can't trust what they see.  I believe that at this point in time it is going to be really hard for photojournalist to be able to uphold his credibility.

Beginning of a new School Year

Another year of school has started at BETA. Many teachers have already started the work load, while other teachers don't even have enough books to go around.