RINKO KAWAUCHI "Illuminance" (2011) This picture is by Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi and it's called Illuminance. Kawauchi is known for doing art exhibitions (solo and group) around the world, as well as publications, all of which won her several awards and prizes over the years. Illuminance shows a lighted up rose in the center at night. The rose that's lighted up stands out more compared to everything else in the background. It also has certain light and dark areas that make the image look stronger. It even contains traces of pink and green to make the illusion that it looks white when it's actually more colors. LEE FRIEDLANDER "America by Car: Nebraska" (1999) This picture is by American photographer Lee Friedlander from his America by Car series, this one is called Nebraska. Friedlander is known throughout the 1960s and 1970s for imitating visual landscape of urban "social landscape," taking numerous photographs of store-front reflec...