These two photographers may seem very different but they are some key elements that tie them together. The biggest thing that ties these two photographers together is the fact that they both use a film camera which requires them to have to develop the photos in a dark room. Another thing that ties these photographers together is that both seem to take there images from a somewhat straight on view meaning that the subject is very centered and the background doesn't really play a lot with the image. Both artists also seem to focus there ideas on one subject, wether that be a building or a group of people. Although Arbus and Becher hold some technical similarities they also have many differences. To start the Becher's focus there work on landscape, they travel the world together looking and photographing different elements created by humans, Arbus works along, traveling the streets taking photos of unordinary people. The images that come out of each photographer also look very different, the Becher's add many photos of the same type of structure together to create a collage, while Arbus's work is just one photograph. Both artists worked on showing things through there art, Arbus wanted to shed light on the social issues that affect the world today while the Becher's wanted to show the relevance from structure to function. Both photographers work helps to show the overlooked beauty in the world.

Overall both Arbus and Becher's photographs were interesting, I liked the way that at first glance it seems that the photos in Becher are all the same when if looked at closely they are actually many different structures that all have similarities. I thought this was interesting because it created the idea that things are the same yet also different. Arbus's photos where much more focused which I thought was interesting because they showed different sides of life and the subject was interesting. Both of these artists work make me look at the photos differently and in an intriguing way. One thing that I didn't like about Becher's work is that all the photo looked the same and so there was never really a change with each photo, even though the figures in the images were different the images still looked the same, I felt that they lacked creativity.

For my inspired photos I chose to take Diane Arbus's idea of having the focus of the image be the middle and the background secondary and not as important. I chose to take pictures of goats, the idea being that the face of the goat in the most important part of the image while the background is less important and could be replaced with anything and it wouldn't change the image.