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Photojournalists Wally And Win McNamee
721 wordsGENERATIONS: PROBITY IN PHOTOJOURNALISM? With the existence of first-rate technology, depletion of society moral standards, and ethics for sale on the street corners, has the general public lost the original intent of a photograph? For photojournalists Wally and Win Mcnamee, a father and son who are well known and respected in the photojournalism field, probity reaches out through their photos with the presence of its' own soul. Elizabeth Anstead, the author of the article, was all too convinced...
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Adam Fuss And Roland Barthes
2,535 wordsLife, Love and Death: The work of Adam Fuss Peanut butter and jelly, a common combination of two separate entities, most people have heard of this duo, many enjoy it, but only one manufacturer packaged them together in a handy snack. Much like the tasty treat that is Goobers is the tasty duo of Adam Fuss and Roland Barthes. Two separate men, Adam Fuss and Roland Barthes put together in one reading, complementing and accentuating each other. Fuss and Barthes, they share an interest in photography...
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Photograph Form And Balance
524 wordsHenri-Cartier BrenssonHenri Cartier-Bresson, the French photographer, was born in 1908 and later studied painting a number of years before gaining interest in photography around the 1930's. He began photographing with a small hand-held Leica rarely using lens filters and developing his photographs on gelatin silver prints. Cartier-Bresson had a "remarkable ability to create images that invested moments in time with enduring mystery or humor" (Rosenblum 512). Naomi also points out that Cartier-Br...
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Gap Ad
602 wordsAdvertising relies on the consumers inter peration of their product or corp rate image, but sometimes that interpretation is altered due to the context in which they appear. In order to prove how context can alter the interpretation of an ad I have chosen two advertisement images to compare. One advertising was done for the GAP franchise by a well known photographer Duane Michaels, and the other is an advertisement for the Altoid product by an unknown photographer. Each of these ads intend to pr...
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Harold E Edgerton
486 wordsAble to photograph a bullet in flight, Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton was born in April 6, 1903 in Fremont, Nebraska. Harold Edgerton studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where from 1926 to 1931 he (and his associates) developed the modern stroboscope. Edgerton applied his discovery of the modern stroboscope to a wide range of fields. His discovery aided under-water photography and sonar research, photography in nature, and motion pictures. He taught thousands of students at MIT, ...
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Models For Witkin's Theatrical Photographs
810 wordsWhen dealing with human beings when does art cross the border between ethical and unethical? Is it how the human being is being depicted within the art? If so, Joel-Peter Witkin's photography is teetering on the borderline between ethical and unethical. In ethics, the belief that right and wrong differs from one society to another and one person to another is known as relativism. This belief is perfect when talking about Witkin, and any art for that matter, because one person could look at his p...
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Billingham's Photographs
2,047 wordsRichard Billingham has established himself as one of the quintessential British artists of the 1990's. While in many respects, his aesthetic style remains distinctive from that of other young British artists, his work concerns issues often explored by his contemporaries. In this essay, I will discuss a selection of what I believe to be his most interesting and definitive photographs, in addition to a comparison of Billingham's work, ideology, and myth with those of principal yBa's. The son of an...
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Lisette Model
443 wordsLisette Model was a modernist photographer and is best known for her portraiture photography. She is identified by her unique compositions and for exposing the reality of her subjects whilst capturing historic images of Vienna and Paris culture. Lisette Model was born into a wealthy Viennese family where her Italian / Austrian Jewish father was a well-off doctor, her mother a French Catholic. Consequently her education was an international one. By travelling a lot she learnt three different lang...
