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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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    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: A contemporary portal to artistic truth. By Alan Oakes Self Portrait‚ Annie Leibovitz You don’t have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger and more revealing than truth through a portrait. - Annie Leibovitz Robert Alan Oakes Art 480i Seminar The search for visual truth is a continuing quest. A pondering of ontology pushes our efforts and abilities as a homogenous culture

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    In 2017‚ we are constantly consumed by photography‚ we sometimes forget the power a photograph can have. A photograph can represent or misrepresent‚ someone or something - an object‚ a person‚ an event. A photograph is based on the perceptive of the photographer. A photograph is the visual representation of a moment in time. Photography is about memories and history. History in a textbook is not necessarily the only truth. Personal histories are the truth‚ but universal history comes from different

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    1862 as a fashionable architectural‚ still-life‚ portrait‚ and landscape photographer. Aesthetically sensitive and technically adept‚ he was the most acclaimed and influential photographer in England during this period and did much to establish photography as both an art and a profession. Fenton had a strong interest in Orientalist subjects and he also made (1852) a series of photographs of Moscow and Kiev. Sponsored by the royal family‚ he was commissioned in 1855 to document the Crimean War. Working

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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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    Photography‚ meaning “drawing with lights” in Greek‚ is an art as well as a science of capturing light and storing it on a medium with unprecedented accuracy. Yet‚ up until the late 18th century‚ history was mainly recorded through the techniques of painting and the press. These mediums unarguably contained a certain degree of a truth‚ though‚ it was not uncommon for events‚ such as war to be composed with glorified details‚ or an unfavorable bias from the artist at hand. Beginning in the 1830’s

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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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    Photography Taking pictures is the world’s most popular hobby. We use it to document family milestones‚ capture beauty‚ reveal the ugliness of war‚ and stalk celebrities. Photography has changed the world way more than any other thing in the media (because photography is used in film and television). Our world no longer has its focus on words and paintings‚ but now it is focused on the photograph. There are several effects on how photography has changed the world: the civil war‚ social network

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