In the short story of‚ “Regarding the Pain of Others”‚ we see the author‚ Susan Sontag writes about how images are a powerful influence on the world and people around us. She uses many examples throughout history to back up her ideas. Such as on page 650 when she talks about how images of diseased and cancerous lungs are being placed on the outside of cigarette packs in Canada. This is so the owner of the cigarettes understands what can happen if smoking becomes a serious habit. Also to give the
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Article Summary Sontag‚ Susan. “Regarding the Pain of Others”. Caroline Shrodes‚ et.al‚ Eds. The Conscious Reader. Boston: Longman P. 2012. In Sontags article she is trying to explain why we humans are so interested in pain or violence being brought upon other people to where we find it as being somewhat amusing and are aroused by this occurrence. When we encounter an event of pain and suffering we tend to keep watching and hope the event furthers instead of just looking away. The viewing
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Though Sontag speaks and disagrees with the form of interpretation of art that can be invoked as a stereotype for art critics/interpreters in the modern world today‚ Aristotle’s representational view of art battles that notion and challenges the view of‚ whether imitational art is a art form in itself‚ or just simply the product of the egos that critics possess in hopes of polishing their appearances as an connoisseur of finding the latent contents in artworks. In “Against Interpretation” Sontag
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Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about‚ but doubt‚ seems proven when we’re shown a photograph of it. In one version of its utility‚ the camera record incriminates. Starting with their use by the Paris police in the murderous roundup of Communards in June 1871‚ photographs became a useful tool of modern states in the surveillance and control of their increasingly mobile populations. In an other version of its utility‚ the camera record jus tifies. A photograph passes for incontrovertible
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Tourism is a good representation for photography. Every year people travel away from their homes‚ breaking their daily routines to visit other locations. It is almost unnatural to go on vacation without a camera. Tourists snap pictures of everything to record and prove that they have been to some location. These pictures serve as memories later for the tourists. Photography and tourism are in a sense intertwined. Photography is the mechanism by which tourism can be documented. Photographs play
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The evolution of photography of Digital Photography Name Here Computer Operating Systems Professor Name September 2005 A brief history of digital photography Throughout history‚ man has attempted to record his exploits for whatever reason or occasion. These early attempts were simple carvings or drawings that can be found throughout the world. Contrary to what many believe‚ the concept of capturing an image as the world has come to know it is not a process that is relatively new. The
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the humanities that photography did not impact. Throughout all of history and the advancements made in technology photography has been used to do everything from prove a theory in science‚ to record a special event in a person’s life. In today’s modern world the impact of photography can be seen daily. Developments such as Photo identification‚ films‚ photojournalism‚ and thousands of other advances in life have all come from photography. Though all these aspects of photography are amazing in themselves
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Record photographer Thomas E. Franklin had just gotten back from an assignment in the Dominican Republic. As soon as he arrived in The Record photo office‚ an editor immediately informed him of what had just happened. He started driving down to the World Trade Center on the Turnpike when he heard the second plane crash. Franklin hitched a ride on one of the tug boats across the Hudson River‚ arriving at the scene around noon. He took pictures of the scene for about an hour. He was “expecting to
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Photography Photography is an art form like drawing and painting. The word photography is a noun‚ derived from the Greek phot- for "light" and -graphos for "drawing“‚ together meaning "drawing with light“. Photographers use their camera to make us see life in a different way‚ feel emotions‚ and record stories and events. On 1834‚ in Campinas‚ Brazil‚ Hercules Florence‚ a French painter and inventor‚ wrote in his diary the word "photographie" to describe his process. But on March 14‚
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MODULE NAME : Digital Photography BCT1403 Module Details Course Location : LUCT Cyberjaya Unit Controller/Examiner : (Hafiz Safwan) Co-examiner : (Hafiz Safwan) Pre-requisite : (nil) Co-requisite : (nil) Credits : (4) Contact hours : (4 per week) No. of weeks : 14 + 1 weeks No. of assignments : 2 Portfolio : 4 assignments + 1 Folio Presentation Venue : TBA Day : TBA Time : TBA Prepared by : (Hafiz Safwan) Checked by : (
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