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    double exposures‚ collaging negatives and drawing and scratching directly onto the processed photo. Barrows was a key influence in the Brazilian art and design movement. He started of a painter and then as his work progressed he decided to try out photography. He used the camera like no other photographers at the time because it had only been used to document. Borrows decided to try and use it as an art and an expression. He would scratch his negatives and do double exposures as well as cutting into

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    understand your essay is about‚ is the way even when photography is good‚ it will always be manipulated‚ someone bad will always use this good thing for wrong. Your question at the end of‚ how do we combat this? How do we make sure we get the truth? really will pave the way for the rest of your essay and more development on your topic as well as other authors. Through your first paragraph you make a lot of good connections of your topic to Susan Sontag and her essay “In Plato’s Cave”. Like when you connected

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    Photography Essay Title: Self Portrait with Cat Date: 1998 Artist: Floria Sigismondi Born: 1965 Media: C Print Size: 121.9 x 162.6cm Floria Sigismondi is an Italian photographer & director‚ who has played a major role in many productions of photographs such as “Self Portrait with Cat”‚ and the directing of music videos working with major artists such as Katy Perry‚ Marilyn Manson‚ Christina Aguilera‚ David Bowie and Muse‚ but is best known for the writing and directing of a 2010 release

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    Pinhole Photography

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    PINHOLE PHOTOGRAPHY Also called the Camera Obscura‚ the pinhole camera was originally a pitch dark room in which a hole was made on one side in the wall. This allowed for a small amount of light to come in and expose the photo paper. A pinhole camera is the simplest type of camera. Usually made of cardboard‚ it is a light tight box which consists of a shutter‚ a pinhole‚ and some type of photo paper on the other end of the pinhole. A pinhole is a small hole made in a piece of foil‚ tin‚ or aluminum

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    Photography has been around for over 150 years. It has evolved and expanded since it’s introduction in 1839 but it still remains to be seen as the perfect medium for documenting reality. Art critic and author Andy Grundberg tried to understand the medium in 1974‚ stating that “photography was still perceived primarily as an instrument of social reality‚ able to represent the way things really were in the world.” As technologies changed‚ so did cameras and photographers were able to produce more

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    How Is Photography Art?

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    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 In The 1800s

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    Photography has been around since 1800’s and stories have been around forever‚ so putting them together Photojournalism becomes possible. Putting stories and pictures together have shaped magazines‚ newspapers even lives. Action is captured by camera lens and told by writers that share stories needing to be heard. With the increasing technology process Photography has become known to all and becoming more common. The digital world is taking over Photography and will keep getting better as the future

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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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    Photography in the Civil War Although the civil war was a very gruesome war killing 600‚000 people‚ looking back on history without  photography it could not have been a modern war  (Brooks). Throughout the civil war photography was a very big part of making the civil war a modern war. Also  photography made the civil war a modern war because of the Job photographers had to do‚ people and companies‚ and the effects  photography had on the war. Since photography was so important in the War‚ people

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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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