Response to Dick Blau

It was interesting to see the difference in quality of the camera Dick Blau compared to the quality of all the high resolution cameras that exist today. As someone so interested in psychology, it was interesting for me to see him do such a good job at capturing the culture and different religious beliefs of the people he documented in his videos. Although I am not a religious person myself, so it is hard to relate to their passion, I believe Dick Blau did an amazing job at capturing it in his films and what he documented really shows depth to the people in his films. I liked his still photos a lot because he was able to tell such an exciting story in one photograph, instead of in moving film, which can be very hard to do. The excitement and joy of the people in the photographs really leaps out at you and you can't help but feel similar emotions. I thought it was cool that his Polish photographs in the gallery were displayed by the escalator, so you could see them just long enough for them to catch your eye before you were on to the next photograph. Overall, I like his photograph, but his films tell less of a story to me, especially the one about the whistles that had the children in it. The creatures looked a little bizarre to me and I didn't understand why they were there. I did like his realistic photos of the Polish people, however.