Honors English 9 11 May 2009 Why is Photography Art? Introduction Life is filled with many fun filled moments‚ beautiful surprises‚ and an inspiring world that cause people to show many emotions. These emotions can be shown to others through many different ways. Emotions can be personal or like photography can be shown to others by the act of creating a picture. Photography was invented during the first three decades of the 19th century
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“Photography is only a mechanical process that handles all the work. So how can photography be art?” This might be the argument most people use to prove that photography can not be art. It is not so complex like drawing a beautiful painting and spending hours on that. A photographer just needs to use one button and here we go. But is this really the truth? How do people think about Art and Photography today and how did they before? In this essay i want to compare on main focus two totally different
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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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2. “Analogue photographs have always had the power to manipulate and transform reality” (Biro 2012). Discuss. When analogue photography was first invented‚ its overwhelming power came from the fact that it recorded nature more realistically than any other art form had ever done before […] people trusted it and believed it portrayed ‘reality’ and ‘truth’ (Lodriguss 2000). The camera was seen as a revolutionary instrument that enabled objects‚ people and landscapes to be documented in the highest
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camera is a device that records/stores images. These images may be still photographs or moving images such as videos or movies. The term camera comes from the camera obscura (Latin for "dark chamber")‚ an early mechanism for projecting images. The modern camera evolved from the camera obscura. Cameras may work with the light of the visible spectrum or with other portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. A camera generally consists of an enclosed hollow with an opening (aperture) at one end for
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Photo 1 Photo Assignment #2 The first picture is an image of a cafeteria table. This was taken in the cafeteria. It shows the point of view of a bird. This picture shows the design element of shape. The straight blue squares next to the diagonal blue and while squares add interest to the photo. The lines on the floor shows diagonal lines. The circle table with circle seats adds even more interest to the image. This image is a high key picture because it looks bright and there is a lack of shadows
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Draper‚ Robert. “The Power of Photography.” National Geographic Oct. 2013: n. pag. Print. (Article) Draper goes on to explain to the people that it is essential for photographers to bring their cameras everywhere and capture everything to get better. It is like there own child that they have to look after all the time. It just like a phone where people cannot live without having it by their side. You will have to travel to get the things you want to capture. Draper explains the struggle and a photographer
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Farhana Yasmin Digital Photography Period-4 Before I came into digital photography class‚ the most I knew about photography was that you point at whatever you want to take a picture of and then you shoot. After I took this class I have learned that there is countless more factors involved in taking a good picture. The first I thing I learned in photography were the different parts of it. I also learned the difference between a DSLR and a point and shoot camera. Then I learned that in a picture
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Black and white photography can be misunderstood in a modern artistic perspective. This type of photographic depiction is captivating and speaks through the image into the mind where it processes the lack of color by visualizing the depth and contrast vividly. An image that used in colorless photography was seen prior to the 20th century as the normal way to take pictures‚ but now we have color photography. However‚ photographers are still finding that black and white images are important to documentation
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photographer is a career I have been interested in for a long time. I am interested in the art and the creativity of it all. Photography is fun and enjoyable. It allows the photographer to capture memories of family and friends. I like the idea of traveling to different places and taking photos for people. Meeting new people and seeing new things is a very good benefit that comes with photography. There will be some challenges concerning how to get a job in this career such as budget. However‚ I am still very
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