Sally Mann's photos

Acutally, I think Mann's photographs of her children are interesting to me. In these photos, I like the facial expressioin of her children; they are very natural and not weird. Mann combine her children and the background in a natural way. Besides, although her children are naked in these photos, her photos are always presented as black-and-white photos. Therefore, I think they do not give us any sexualized and sensual feeling. She expresses her emotions to her children and records their childhood by these images. Moreover, I don't think she tries to provoke audiences because I believe that she just takes these pictures to show her art attitude in a different view.

However, some people might not accept her photos with naked children. In my opinion, it is not fair for her. There are a lot of artists in the world, and they use all kinds of angles to express their ideas to invent their works of art. Maybe, some of them violate the normal boundaries of social taboos. I think that is their freedom. We should try to accept and not critcize for them.

The feeling of my first seminar presentation

I am glad to have such a nice experience to do my first presentation. First of all, I think beginning is always the hardest part in our presentation. In fact, we could not decide everything quickly, so we need to discuss our idea repeatedly. However, communication is very important way to learn and share opinion each other. Moreover, we can practice our English in our process!

By the way, I was a little worried about finishing our all papers when we talked about "like a prayer" on time because we only discussed and not begin to assign every work to do in our group. Finally, we summarized most ideas, then, I started to design the powerpoint. I really like it! Therefore, I found some picture in the Internet, and I used photoshop7 to modify and design the background. I hope everyone like the picture.

In the presentation, I am still a little nervous, so I am going to try relaxing in the next presentation.

Therefore, I like Jamie's singing in the class, it is very brave and funny. That indeed need the courage, haha.

Our topic is about Madonna. When I meet Madonna, I would prefer to ask her how she has so many ideas to invet in her music? That is very cool and interesting.