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    Analysis Of Elizabeth Portrait Portraits in the Tudor times were used to show what a monarch was doing at that time and it spreads the word to all the people of what the monarch at the moment is doing or is she helping you. It was also used to tell people how she looked if she was still fashionable and looked beautiful. They used portraits because they had no other use; there was no email‚ television‚ telephone or newspapers. In this portrait of Queen Elizabeth it shows Spanish armada in the right

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    Photography had so much more of an influence on the Impressionist movement than just photography in its own right. Photography influenced artists in their paintings‚ in their pastel works‚ in their sculpture and in seeing the world around them in a different way. Modern artists were influenced by the invention of the camera because it gave them a cropped composition and showed the tonal effects of light and dark in much finer detail than they could interpret with the naked eye. This technology made

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    In her lecture “War and Photography‚” Susan Sontag discusses the role of photographs in raising awareness about human rights issues while simultaneously looking at the effectiveness of graphic images. She asks her audience to engage with how they respond to images that are a result of “concerned photography‚” and how those images impact their understanding and memory of the human rights event. Sontag also grapples with how shocking images lose their effectiveness over repeated viewings‚ or over the

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    huge fan of making self portraits. It wasn’t because I had trouble with shading‚ value or drawing faces‚ it was more of an issue that I had to draw myself. Taking pictures of myself is one of my least favorite things to do‚ so this project just seemed to be a cumulation of this But in the end‚ I did complete the art assignment‚ so I managed to overcome those challenges. I suppose at some point I dissociated myself with the picture‚ and permitted myself to approach this portrait in the same way I would

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    Kudler Fine Foods Photography Analysis VCT 236 September 15‚ 2013 . Introduction In order for Kudler Fine Foods to continue being successful‚ our technology should be constantly updated to keep up with our competitors and stay in line with upgrades.  The company must modernize the ways in which consumers identify and differentiate with the Kudler Fine Foods brand.  Investing and developing a strong marketing plan using impeccable photography will help increase our retail‚ online

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    Mackensie Archibald History of Photography October 15th‚ 2012 Portraiture‚ expressing people since photography was born Before discussing what portraiture is and the history of it‚ what first needs to occur is to understand the true meaning of portraiture. Unlike several other areas of photography‚ portraiture is a personal experience. It is based on the interaction between the subject and photographer. Portrait photography is an act which involves both the photographer and the subject to reveal

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    out. What makes Barbara Kasten’s photography unique? While other photographers take photographs of people or landscapes‚ Barbara Kasten takes photographs of objects that are not usually used in photography. By taking photographs of a bunch of random objects as subjects makes her style one of its kind and her style like no other photographers. Barbara Kasten‚ an American photographer‚ studied to become a painter while going to college‚ but stumbled onto photography. She is known for using interior

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    ruler of Holland and Hainaut in the Hague around 1422‚ when he was already a master painter with workshop assistants.Van Eyck painted both secular and religious subject matter‚ including altarpieces‚ single panel religious figures and commissioned portraits. And he was highly influential and his techniques and style were adopted and refined by the Early Netherlandish painters‚ who is often considered one of the founders of Early Netherlandish painting school and one of the most significant representatives

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    American photographer who is best known to this day for his black and white nature photography. Adams was influenced by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson was an American poet in the 1800’s. Adams was sponsored by Albert Bender‚ who in the 1920’s was a top supporter of artist in San Francisco. Paul Strands was one of the main reasons Adams perused photography. Strands convinced him to give all of his talent and effort to photography. Adams felt he that he was not up to the standards of Strands and other artist

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    One of the most notable features of James Joyce ’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the use of Stephen as the main character‚ as well as a sort of literary device. Joyce‚ whose life so acutely resembles Stephen ’s‚ gives the character the surname "Dedalus‚" after the fabulous artificer of Greek mythology. As Stephen tires of his "borrowed" Irish culture‚ he starts to compare himself to the original Daedalus‚ who built wings for himself to escape the prison of King Minos of Crete. Like

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