What is Homage?

Homage: is the public expression of respect to someone or something to whom or to which one feels indebted, as through an honor, tribute, reference, or citation.

So what i think homage really means is respect. Like respect to the pubic. And when someone is being respectful to the public, for example not throwing thing on the street, so instead they are being respectful by throwing there stuff in the garbage, not the ground.

So how am I going to pay homage to my photographer?
I am going to take pictures of kids. Like my niece's for example. Like how Hellen took pictures of kids of the New York streets. So, i am going to take pictures of kids. I am going to do similar things that she did; like kids playing around outside in the park. Just things like that. I am going to be respectful to my photographer, so i am not going to plagiarize what she has done.

Hellen Levitt

Hellen was born on August 31, 1913, and passed away on March 29, 2009.

Levitt grew up in Brooklyn. Dropping out of high school, she taught herself photography while working for a commercial photographer. Using East Harlem and the Lower East Side of New York City as frequent settings, Levitt caught the humor, frustration and delight of everyday life, particularly among the city's poor. She was quick to recognize an extraordinary scene and quick to react. She took pictures of kids playing with chalk.
"People think I love children, but I don't," Levitt said in a 2001 interview with the New Yorker magazine. "Not more than the next person. It was just that children were out in the street." She pioneered the street photography in the United States in the 1930s, taking pictures, with all the drama with the help of an inconspicuous Leica camera that she bought. She never got married. She had a brother named William. When she was 80 years old, she got an award. The award was accompanied by a major exhibition of her work, "Crosstown"

Hellen Levitt photography.

There was a crisis in the 1930's. Photographers wanted to expose the problems of what was going on during that time. But Hellen didnt want to do that. So, she took a different path. She took pictures of children of he New York neighborhoods. She was fascinated with the sounds, dance, books, and foreign films. She went to college for photography for years. While she was in college, she was taught three lessons: that the picture could reveal mystery and fantasy within a daily life, there can be poetry in pictures, and that what she takes pictures of is art. The picture is of two girls playing with tissue paper in 1942.

American Photography History

When I was watching american photography history, i learned that in 1900 the first camera ever invented was the box camera. It was in stores for about 80 years. Later on in the year, they made photography post cards. For families, so the grandparents could see there grandchildren. It was really popular at the time.
In 1908, thats when they started putting pictures in newspaper. And then there would be people batteling on who had the best news paper, just by the pictures. If people wanted to have pictures in there books, they would have to glue them in.
Later on, they started taking pictures of child labor. Just to show the people that it was wrong, that was a good way to attract people to read the newspaper.