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    War Photography

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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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    Truth In Photography

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    What is truth in photography? Answer this question with reference to two photographers studied in this subject. What is truth in photography? Common sense suggests to us that there is a found link between photographic images and truth‚ this topic has been constantly debated over the last several decades and whilst photography has the potential to tell the truth‚ photographs can also be seen as a distortion of what is real and logical; and with the advent of Photoshop as well as other digital manipulation

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    Portrait Photography

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    Portrait Photography the humble beginings Portrait photography was born when Frenchman Joseph Nicephore Niepce‚ father of photography and first-ever portrait photographer‚ successfully set an image onto a metal plate in 1827. Later‚ in 1844‚ photography made its way to China‚ courtesy of Jules Itier of France. The rest is portrait photography history.    In 1885‚ George Eastman created paper film. Later‚ in 1889‚ he fabricated the more recognizable celluloid film. His first camera‚ a box-shaped

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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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    Ajeng Savitri 1306439270 Deepening Our Understanding of the Target Audience and the Competition After selecting the target audience we have to understand the them. There are several things we need to know to make them change their behavior. First‚ we have to know what make them want to do their usual behavior than changing it to the behavior that we will promote. Is there any benefit of their current behavior? And what cost do they see to do their current behavior? Second‚ we need to know their

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    Photography and Jeff Wall

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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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    Narrative in Photography

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    will explore and examine the use of narrative in contemporary photography. Narrative photography suggests to us that the image‚ or images presented to us may have a story to tell‚ a message to communicate or a philosophy to convey. That story could be familiar to us in some way‚ drawing on references to art‚ cinema‚ theatre‚ or literature or may refer to personal values‚ shared beliefs‚ moral attitudes or have some significance within our perception of modern society and culture. The unfamiliar narrative

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    The media distort our understanding of what is happening in the world? Discuss. Justify your answer with the use of examples. Discussing whether the media distorts our understanding of the world creates the question of what the actual role of the media is. In a democratic society‚ the role of the media is to provide the public with enough information for them to be able to elect a government. As well as this‚ the role of the media is supposed to be to represent the public and act as a watchdog

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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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    Photography In The 1800s

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    Photography has been around since 1800’s and stories have been around forever‚ so putting them together Photojournalism becomes possible. Putting stories and pictures together have shaped magazines‚ newspapers even lives. Action is captured by camera lens and told by writers that share stories needing to be heard. With the increasing technology process Photography has become known to all and becoming more common. The digital world is taking over Photography and will keep getting better as the future

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