Response for Chapter 1 After read the book of Susan Sontag’s On Photography‚ the idea of essential of photography comes into my mind. Photography is really important in our daily life. It can capture the moments of the life‚ whatever it is happy or upset. In this book‚ the writer discusses how perspective changing through by photography. In chapter one‚ Sontage gives readers a idea which “the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole
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With the touch of a single click a picture is taken and forever revitalized. Photography takes the essence of memory and seals it into the history of those involved in the process. Susan Sontag’s didactic text “On Photography” digs deep into the meaning of photography and claims that it has unlimited power within modern society. Her exclamation that “cameras are fantasy-machines” exerts the idea that photography brings the world closer together‚ yet seems so distant as if it were all but an illusion
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The current event I decided to write my report on was the Avedon Fashion Photography Exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. This exhibit is a temporary one and will be held in the museum until January 17‚ 2011. Photographer Richard Avedon between the years 1944-2000 shot the photos used. He is considered to be one of the behind the lense the twentieth century. He was the modern push that made fashion photography what it is today. Avedon used women as his subjects in imaginative portraits
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How Photography Changed the World Photography is the creation of art and science‚ it created images by recording light. Photography is a fantastic invention‚ thanks to photography‚ videos were created‚ cinema was created‚ television‚ and all the things that relate with a picture work that’s to the invention of photography. The photography was invented by Sir John F.W. Herschel in 1839; he called it photo ("light") and graphein ("to draw"). Few years after photography was invented‚ not
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Photography is a medium that has been documenting everything over years throughout history. A practice that is often debated and discussed about the relationship of the action and photograph itself. In the chapter entitled In Plato’s Cave from her book On Photography‚ photo theorist Susan Sontag refers to various photographs and photographers and analyzes the wider questions that individuals should be discussing in regards to the medium. Exploring her thesis as she states that “a photograph is not
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Basic Photography Photography is the art‚ science‚ and practice of creating durable images by recording light by means of an image sensor. Typically‚ a lens is used to focus the light reflected or emitted from objects into a real image on the light-sensitive surface inside a camera during a timed exposure. The result in an electronic image sensor is an electrical charge at each pixel‚ which is electronically processed and stored in a digital image file for subsequent display or processing. Photography
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Explain the central purpose of the book and briefly explain how it is set up to accomplish this purpose. So‚ thanks to James Elkins‚ this task‚ for me at least is a little difficult to do. The title of this book‚ What Photography Is‚ may lead one to think that it’s a book based on aperture‚ focus‚ FOV‚ white balance‚ etc. Not so‚ this book dives deeper into an image then I myself could ever do. James Elkins‚ is Chadbourne Chair in the department of Art History‚ Theory‚ and Criticism at the school
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Photography is an art though the process involves science. Fundamentally speaking‚ science is associated with this art; it is an art but with technological advancements and invention of digital camera. In the time to come‚ it is expected that this art of photography would function with the support of science and many artists would continue to do the art work in this field of photography. Ever since 1839‚ photography has become an essential means of communication and expression. As stated by Beaumont
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Photography Write-Up: Separation The camera I use has been rented from the ERC on a regular basis‚ and is a Canon 600D or 700D. The photo’s i’ve captured for this project were shot on the standard lens‚ with a variety of settings. I also often use a mini LED light with a daylight filter in order to create more depth in the shadows in my images‚ I usually place this somewhere away from the camera in order to create angled shadows instead of images being frontlit. To start this project‚ I experimented
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Photography was introduced in 1839. From 1839 to now‚ photography is improving a lot and affect the world in many ways. In science way‚ we can see the improve of photography to help a lot of ways to discover the things we do not know‚ such as astronomy‚ etc. In science‚ we can use the camera and telescope to capture the thing what is in a Thousands of light years. In 1840‚ John William Draper‚ the Professor of Chemistry‚ who captured the first photograph of the moon and it to be the first photo of
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