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    Portrait of a Lady

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    First written in the 1880s and extensively revised in 1908‚ The Portrait of a Lady is often considered to be James’s greatest achievement. In it‚ he explored many of his most characteristic themes‚ including the conflict between American individualism and European social custom and the situation of Americans in Europe. James proclaimed that “The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent reality.” Plot was for him but the extension of character. The novel must

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    others. The world of photography is opened through understanding of the different kinds of photography‚ different styles‚ and salary ranges. Firstly‚ there are many different kinds of photography‚ such as; wedding‚ military‚ medical‚ and wildlife photography as Zeke from New York Film Academy explains. With wedding photography‚ the goal is to create memorable and crisp shots of the groom and bride. Military photography focuses on taking photographs

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    The Development of Photography By Jennifer Lewis Humanities-303 Professor Dewberry How Photography Started “A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels‚ in the deepest sense‚ about what is being photographed.” ― Ansel Adams. When it comes to photography it has changed this world in many ways whether they were good or bad Photography has made us look at things in a totally different way. Today when people think of photography‚ they think of breathtaking

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    Forensic Photography

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    Photography Photography is the art‚ science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation‚ either chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film‚ or electronically by means of an image sensor.[1] 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

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    Photography has to transcend description. It has to go beyond description to bring insight into the subject‚ or reveal the subject‚ not as it looks‚ but how does it feel?”  ― Duane Michals Our understanding of War has been profoundly affected by the invention of photography. This can be seen through the use of different approaches though which photographers have demonstrated their perspective of how they think war can be presented through the medium of photography. They have depicted both the

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    Photography has been around for over 150 years. It has evolved and expanded since it’s introduction in 1839 but it still remains to be seen as the perfect medium for documenting reality. Art critic and author Andy Grundberg tried to understand the medium in 1974‚ stating that “photography was still perceived primarily as an instrument of social reality‚ able to represent the way things really were in the world.” As technologies changed‚ so did cameras and photographers were able to produce more

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    Although photography wasn’t invented until the early 19th century‚ its basic concept first emerged about 2000 years ago with the advent of a device called the camera obscura (history.com). Also known as the pinhole camera‚ this device was either a darkened chamber or box with a small hole on one wall which reflected an image of what was outside the chamber onto the opposite wall. The resulting image was an obscure mirrored reflection which was projected upside down. The camera obscura was prevalent

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    * Merits and Demerits of Digital technology in still photography. Digital Technology: A digital system is a technology that uses discrete‚ discontinuous representations of information or works in a discontinuous manner. This is contrasted with continuous‚ or analog systems which behave in a continuous manner‚ or represent information using a continuous function. Although digital representations are discrete‚ the information represented can be either discrete‚ such as numbers and letters or continuous

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    Renaissance Portraits

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    Five Early Renaissance Portraits Author(s): Rab Hatfield Source: The Art Bulletin‚ Vol. 47‚ No. 3 (Sep.‚ 1965)‚ pp. 315-334 Published by: College Art Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3048279 . Accessed: 19/05/2013 05:42 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars‚ researchers‚ and students discover‚ use

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    Portrait by a Neighbor” Have you ever had a neighbor that just did everything against your morals? Edna St. Vincent Millary must have based on her poem “Portrait by a Neighbor”. This poem states a clear main idea that their neighbor does everything differently from them and they don’t like it. This poem is about a neighbor painting the reader a picture of her neighbor in which she has very different values and opinions then them. It states that she is always outside doing things such as tanning

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