Photographic Strategies
(1) LaToya Ruby Frazier: LaToya Ruby Frazier is an American photographer from Braddock PA which is a town outside of the main city of Pittsburgh. She is well known for photography that tells a story and focuses on the ideas of social justice, cultural change, the inequality in America and just the overall American experience. She uses her photography as a way to address topics important to her such as industrialism, human rights, communal history and according to the video she speaks specifically on the steel industry, the environment and the healthcare system can affect communities and humans specifically. She wants to bring awareness to important topics like these and she does it throughout Straight/documentary photography. Earlier in this class we watched a video about different art movements and one of the art movements was straight photography. Straight photography wanted to show what was really there and what was true and do what painting could not. ...





























































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