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    Photography Final

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    Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face‚ the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited‚ and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man‚” said Edward Steichen‚ a well-known American photographer. To those who discover it‚ photography is a life enhancing and fulfilling profession and hobby. It is a creative outlet with low barriers of entry and accessible to all‚ at anytime and anywhere. It provides the photographer

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    Balakrishnan 1 Haripriya Balakrishnan English 111 Johnson 30 October 2014 The Essence Of Photography Duane Michals once said‚ “Photographers tend not to photograph what they can’t see‚ which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise we’re going to go on forever just photographing more faces and more rooms and more places. 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

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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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    History of Photography

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    Nicéphore Niépce History of photography camera obsucra (Leondardo Da Vinci) Photography was not invented earlier then the 1830’s. It started with two distinct scientific processes but not until they were combined together did it make photography possible. The first process was ‘camera obscura’ which is the dark room; the dark room had been in existence for at least four hundred years. There is a drawing of a ‘camera obscura’ (dark room) by Leonardo Da Vinci‚ dated 1915.The second process was

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    Fashion photography has‚ in essence‚ become an art movement in its own right. With cultural references‚ old-meets-new‚ surreal deconstruction and challenges against ideas of ‘beauty’‚ it’s more than just fashion these days‚ darling – but it’s more fabulous than ever. A new book compiled by art director Paul Sloman‚ “New Fashion Photography” (Prestel)‚ illustrates and profiles more than 30 artists from around the world. A collection of some of the most visionary images of this century‚ exclusive

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    Basic Photography

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    Basic Photography Photography is the art‚ science‚ and practice of creating durable images by recording light by means of an image sensor. 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 charge at each pixel‚ which is electronically processed and stored in a digital image file for subsequent display or processing. Photography

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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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    Paper Abstract Photography      Dear friends finally I am able to take some time for sharing the behind the scene secrets on paper abstract work with you all. I hope you will enjoy it & ignore the delayed publication of this article. How it all started ?      I love to shoot all subjects which attracts me irrespective of what it is ! I have not yet restricted myself to any specific genre in the photography. I am not a professional photographer & can only utilize my weekends/holidays time for

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    Photography In The 1800s

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    newspapers‚ and check things on our phones we expect to see photographs accompanying everything. Photography is an amazing area of technology and art that was developed throughout the past centuries. Unknown to most people‚ photography like other types of art‚ has been around for centuries. It became well known and used by the masses since the 1800s so it is a relatively new field. It is so amazing how far photography has come; first cameras taking a whole room to take a picture‚ to present times now having

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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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