Honors English 9 11 May 2009 Why is Photography Art? Introduction Life is filled with many fun filled moments‚ beautiful surprises‚ and an inspiring world that cause people to show many emotions. These emotions can be shown to others through many different ways. Emotions can be personal or like photography can be shown to others by the act of creating a picture. Photography was invented during the first three decades of the 19th century
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have come through an artificial lens‚ but a camera is a close cousin to both a magnifying glass and a microscope. It is not only the ability to see things in more detail that commands our attention. It is something else‚ something about the art of photography that forces us to examine the world as we don’t normally do. Normally we don’t see things as they are. The familiar is forced into the background of our focus. Objects become ideas. Our couch is no longer a collection of darks and lights‚ patterns
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PINHOLE PHOTOGRAPHY Also called the Camera Obscura‚ the pinhole camera was originally a pitch dark room in which a hole was made on one side in the wall. This allowed for a small amount of light to come in and expose the photo paper. A pinhole camera is the simplest type of camera. Usually made of cardboard‚ it is a light tight box which consists of a shutter‚ a pinhole‚ and some type of photo paper on the other end of the pinhole. A pinhole is a small hole made in a piece of foil‚ tin‚ or aluminum
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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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Draper‚ Robert. “The Power of Photography.” National Geographic Oct. 2013: n. pag. Print. (Article) Draper goes on to explain to the people that it is essential for photographers to bring their cameras everywhere and capture everything to get better. It is like there own child that they have to look after all the time. It just like a phone where people cannot live without having it by their side. You will have to travel to get the things you want to capture. Draper explains the struggle and a photographer
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When it comes to putting together a photography business your plan should be carefully thought out. One of the great things about staring your own photography business is that you do not have to take big risks. You can start building towards it while you are still in employed‚ taking the photos for friends’ weddings etc. Here is an outline of questions
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this essay I will explore notions of truth and reality in 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
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An Informative Essay On Diabetes Mellitus Diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death listed in the United States. Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness. "In 1996 diabetes contributed to more than 162‚000 deaths"(Lewis 1367). "Diabetes mellitus is not a single disease but a group of disorders with glucose intolerance in common" (McCance 674). Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder characterized by hyperglycemia (increased blood sugar) and results from defective insulin production
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In order to answer the title of this essay question I will be undertaking research into the main theme of distortion within photography. On top of this I will be incorporating the background information and series of work from two photographers who also base their work around the theme of diction however they achieve this by using two very different methods. Distortion is the alteration of the original shape (or other characteristics) of something such as an object‚ image‚ sound or waveform. Distortion
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Black and white photography can be misunderstood in a modern artistic perspective. This type of photographic depiction is captivating and speaks through the image into the mind where it processes the lack of color by visualizing the depth and contrast vividly. An image that used in colorless photography was seen prior to the 20th century as the normal way to take pictures‚ but now we have color photography. However‚ photographers are still finding that black and white images are important to documentation
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