“Photography is only a mechanical process that handles all the work. So how can photography be art?” This might be the argument most people use to prove that photography can not be art. It is not so complex like drawing a beautiful painting and spending hours on that. A photographer just needs to use one button and here we go. But is this really the truth? How do people think about Art and Photography today and how did they before? In this essay i want to compare on main focus two totally different
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Truth in Contemporary Photography Assessment Item: Major Essay Susan Sontag defined the photograph as a ‘trace’ directly stencilled off reality‚ like a footprint or a death mask. Every photograph is in some sense a document of something else‚ therefore giving it truthful merit. Photography is seen as a record‚ a piece of evidence that something happened at some point somewhere‚ in that time or place in front of the camera‚ holding its moments in stillness.[1] The photograph seeks to achieve information
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relation to photography of a realist aesthetic‚ in particular the genres of tableau and documentary. Tableau ’s roots are in early pictorial photography which strove for balanced and harmonious compositions1. Borrowing from classical painterly aesthetics tableau photographs are made for the wall; to be looked at from a distance like paintings.2 A defining feature of the majority of tableau‚ and the images referred to in this essay is the use of models‚ or “posing”3. Documentary photography does not
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Forensic photography is not just photography‚ the purpose of the pictures taken is not meant to capture the artistic ways of a crime scene. Forensic photography is a piece of evidence utilized as such in courts and investigations. The photographs taken at crime scenes must convey the information needed for others to be able to recreate the scene as if they were actually there. For this reason‚ there are techniques and processes in which forensic photographs must be taken. Practical
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camera is a device that records/stores images. These images may be still photographs or moving images such as videos or movies. The term camera comes from the camera obscura (Latin for "dark chamber")‚ an early mechanism for projecting images. The modern camera evolved from the camera obscura. Cameras may work with the light of the visible spectrum or with other portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. A camera generally consists of an enclosed hollow with an opening (aperture) at one end for
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Photo 1 Photo Assignment #2 The first picture is an image of a cafeteria table. This was taken in the cafeteria. It shows the point of view of a bird. This picture shows the design element of shape. The straight blue squares next to the diagonal blue and while squares add interest to the photo. The lines on the floor shows diagonal lines. The circle table with circle seats adds even more interest to the image. This image is a high key picture because it looks bright and there is a lack of shadows
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These types of uses for photography often put it in odds with other artists who wanted to use photography to distort reality and convert it into a new art form. Both of these differing uses of photography appeared in the case of Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony in 1884. This case was focused on the authorship of two photographs taken of Oscar Wilde. One was
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Task Three According to Christian Metz‚ there are many differences between photography and film. The first difference would be the “spatio-temporal size of the lexis”. The lexis is a unit that one reads or receives a piece of art through. The lexis for photography would be the paper that the photo is printed on‚ whereas the lexis for film would be a cinematic screen. The cinematic lexis is larger than that of a photographic lexis as the film can be ‘enlarged’‚ in multiple ways‚ by sounds‚ images
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15142 Name: Student ID: History of Photography The history of photography started with advances in the field of chemistry. Some key people for photography were Joseph Niepce. In 1830‚ Joseph and help from Louis Dagurre where experiment with silver oxide. Fox Talbot was known for capturing image in paper (negatives). George Eastern introduces the Kodak Box Camera in 1980. This was a huge step for photography because it popularized photography and amateurs. The way to had permanent storage
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The seven most comments concerns for not having photographs taken professionally I get it. Photography is a considered purchase that doesn’t usually require specific action by a deadline. I understand that some see it as a luxury whilst others don’t see it as a necessity. Unless you take the time to really consider and make that judgement‚ you could be making a big mistake. Common concern #1 It’s not the right time (aka I’m too busy) With this one I totally get it. As a small business owner‚ mum
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