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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relation to photography of a realist aesthetic‚ in particular the genres of tableau and documentary. Tableau ’s roots are in early pictorial photography which strove for balanced and harmonious compositions1. Borrowing from classical painterly aesthetics tableau photographs are made for the wall; to be looked at from a distance like paintings.2 A defining feature of the majority of tableau‚ and the images referred to in this essay is the use of models‚ or “posing”3. Documentary photography does not
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In this essay we will explore and examine the use of narrative in contemporary photography. Narrative photography suggests to us that the image‚ or images presented to us may have a story to tell‚ a message to communicate or a philosophy to convey. That story could be familiar to us in some way‚ drawing on references to art‚ cinema‚ theatre‚ or literature or may refer to personal values‚ shared beliefs‚ moral attitudes or have some significance within our perception of modern society and culture
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Re-examination of the “Chinese nationalism” and Categorization of the Chinese in Malaya: The Case of the Chinese in Penang‚ 1890s-1910s SHINOZAKI Kaori‚ Ph.D. student‚ Graduate School of Arts and Sciences University of Tokyo Email: kaoris@pd.jaring.my ABSTRACT It is often described that the Chinese in Malaya strongly oriented towards China before the independence. Their activities were all explained by the "China factor"‚ described as if it was always developed
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“Photography has to transcend description. It has to go beyond description to bring insight into the subject‚ or reveal the subject‚ not as it looks‚ but how does it feel?” ― Duane Michals Our understanding of War has been profoundly affected by the invention of photography. This can be seen through the use of different approaches though which photographers have demonstrated their perspective of how they think war can be presented through the medium of photography. They have depicted both the
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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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Nicéphore Niépce History of photography camera obsucra (Leondardo Da Vinci) Photography was not invented earlier then the 1830’s. It started with two distinct scientific processes but not until they were combined together did it make photography possible. The first process was ‘camera obscura’ which is the dark room; the dark room had been in existence for at least four hundred years. There is a drawing of a ‘camera obscura’ (dark room) by Leonardo Da Vinci‚ dated 1915.The second process was
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The Development of Photography By Jennifer Lewis Humanities-303 Professor Dewberry How Photography Started “A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels‚ in the deepest sense‚ about what is being photographed.” ― Ansel Adams. When it comes to photography it has changed this world in many ways whether they were good or bad Photography has made us look at things in a totally different way. Today when people think of photography‚ they think of breathtaking
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Film Photography vs. Digital Photography My love of photography started at a very young age‚ long before I was able to buy my own camera. Whenever my step-father would get the camera‚ I knew something important was happening; he didn’t waste film on just anything. That was true with most every family in the 60’s and 70’s because film wasn’t cheap and neither was the developing. I remember sending the film off in a special envelope that required not one‚ but two postage stamps; that was a considerable
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Portrait Photography the humble beginings Portrait photography was born when Frenchman Joseph Nicephore Niepce‚ father of photography and first-ever portrait photographer‚ successfully set an image onto a metal plate in 1827. Later‚ in 1844‚ photography made its way to China‚ courtesy of Jules Itier of France. The rest is portrait photography history. In 1885‚ George Eastman created paper film. Later‚ in 1889‚ he fabricated the more recognizable celluloid film. His first camera‚ a box-shaped
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