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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Abstract Art is very complex. It is a reflection of the different views people have of their heritages and generally involves a lot of emotion when being created. A few examples of different types of art include: music‚ dance‚ carvings‚ sculptures‚ paintings‚ architectures‚ and theater. Painting/Sculpture Painting is the process of art using paint‚ in a picture‚ as a protective coating‚ or as decoration. As with many other forms of art a person can express anything that they feel with
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Documentary photography is defined as a form of photography that is used to capture every moment as it happens in order to express a message of what is occurring around the world (Documentary). Photographers who focus on documenting capture photographs that attracts public attention and tells stories of situations that happen in our daily lives (Documentary). I have always found interest in documentary photographers because they are able to tell a story with a click of a button. Of course it is more
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Do you ever wonder where and how photographers start up their own business and what made them decide to go into that business. Or what about wondering what the life is like being one. Well in this essay I chose a specific photographer/photographers to interview and ask some of these questions. Some of them just very simple and others more complex to really get an understanding of their reasonings. The photographer I had interviewed for this essay is named Les Lederman. Him and his wife Danielle
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American artist‚ Nancy Holt began her artistic career in photography and video after graduating from Tufts University with a degree in biology. Holt is primarily associated with land art‚ although she was also involved with other mediums consisting of film‚ photography‚ sculpture‚ as well as publishing various books. In 1963‚ three years after graduating‚ Holt married an earth art pioneer by the name of Robert Smithson. Together they composed a collaborative film titled Swamp in 1969. It is said
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Introductory Speech Name: Jennifer Wagner Specific Purpose: To inform my classmates about who I am‚ to introduce myself using an object that characterizes me Speech Title: A life through the lenses. Introduction: Someone once said; a picture paints a thousand words. To me that’s a hundred percent true. I started photography when I was at a young age‚ around twelve. I carried my camera everywhere I went to capture every memory‚ every scenery that was around me in one simple photo. I love the
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Constance Whitney Warren’s bronze sculpture entitled‚ Equestrian Portrait of Diego Velazquez 1924 is located between the General Academic Building and the Physics Building at the University of North Texas Denton Campus. Gift of the Harlan crow family in 1994 but the reasons remain in mistery. The composition of the ten foot bronze sculpture was created inspired by the American West and specializing in bronze equestrian statues‚ portrays the famous Spanish painter Diego Velazquez who is riding a horse
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What we previously know or believe greatly impacts how we view the world and the visual culture that surrounds us. John Berger argues in the first chapter of his work written in 1972 entitled “Ways of Seeing”‚ that art “embodies a [different and unique] way of seeing” and an artist’s perspective of the truth may not necessarily correlate with what actually occurred. Whilst viewers may assume that what they are seeing within an artwork is historically and culturally accurate‚ the reality is that they
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are several stages a beginner will go though until their first jump without an instructor. First let me tell you about the training that I went though in my quest to fulfill my childhood dreams. Since I had been trained in basic airborne operations (static line jumps) this made an easier to transition into skydiving operations for the instructors. The initial training begins with what we call tabletop drills. An instructor places everyone on a tabletop and talks you though the basic movements techniques
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Caliban is the most complex of all the characters in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest‚ but he is actually a static character. Caliban lives a low life as a servant for Prospero. The life of a slave. He provides comical relief as he gets steadily drunker throughout the play‚ but remains devoted to his sole mission throughout the play‚ to take over the island which he “rightfully owns”. You’d think Caliban was evil‚ wouldn’t you? In reality‚ Caliban is the byproduct of his mother’s death and Prospero
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