Just One Picture example essay topic

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Photographs are a lot like art because when you take a picture it can take on a totally different meaning. I may interpret a photo or a piece of art differently then someone else. There is a picture that I have seen when Bill Clinton was President. The President is walking his dog and holding hands with his daughter and wife. I would interpret that the President is trying to be like the rest of the world in that he is a family man who likes animals. In the picture you can not see their faces so you can only conclude that they are having a nice walk.

The picture is the way the photographer wanted that scene captured. That is how an artist is because they paint their view on something or the way they see it. In all reality we know that Bill Clinton was an adulteress and so the picture is not so much real to me. It is hard to believe that this is a true setting.

I do not see him as a family man at all after having the affair. The World Trade center bombings were another tragic event in my time. We have seen plenty of pictures on this event. We have seen pictures of people at ground zero where their faces are covered with dust and every one looks the same.

There are no black and white people. The picture symbolizes what America should be like. In art we see the same thing used. Artist uses things to symbolize what they think should be real. There is this art picture by Werner Horvath that has President Bush real big with lots of colors, mostly red, around him. In the bottom left corner is the World Trade Centers just as the plane was going into one of them.

The bottom right corner is where the whole city is up in smoke. Pictures are like this because in technology today we can create any image that we want to. We can put two or three pictures together and make the picture more realistic. I think that photographers have a great advantage.

They can take a hundred pictures of the same thing. Then they can pick just one picture and it may look like a totally different event. Artists are the same way, because an artist can paint their view of something and that is the way it mostly comes off to the people. There again I may view something entirely different then someone else does.