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Analog Image Into A Digital Image
2,120 wordsThe Process and Difference of Digital Imaging and Their Effects The traditional photographic process that has defined image reproduction for over 150 years involves a long drawn out series of chemical reactions beginning with the capture of light on silver film and ending with the fixing of the image onto paper or a transparency through the development processing. The final image is analog, which means it is composed of continuous gradients that are analogous to the gradients seen in the world a...
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Most Shocking Image
553 wordsSeeing isn't always believingUnderexposededited by Colin Jacobson Vision On 35, pp 247 The great lie is that pictures never lie. History can be reconstructed visually in any manner of ways. Scissors, retouching ink and now Photoshop, and similar programs, can allow the cynical to recreate events in the crudest ways. Photographers can be complicit by ignoring some images that do not fit their agenda while focusing on others. Photographers can be manipulated too by governments and organisations th...
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Bresson Photographs
397 wordsOne of this century's icons in photography Henri-Cartier Bresson, thought to be the Father of modern day Street Photography, transformed the field through his concept of the decisive moment. He defined it as the simultaneous recognition in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as a precise organization of forms that give that event its proper expression. In other words, the dramatic climax of a picture where everything falls perfectly into place. Bresson photographs exc...
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Image
556 wordsAnalysis of a photography after 1917. A. AUBREY BODINE. "BUILDERS IN LINE". (1961) Aubrey Bodine's photographic career began in 1923 when as an office boy with the Baltimore Sun he was a newspaperman covering all sorts of stories with his camera so this gave him opportunities to travel throughout the region and learn about it in every tide, wind, weather and season and out of this experience came amazing pictures of farming, oystering, hunting, soap boiling, blacksmithing, clock making, bricklay...
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Photograph's Original Version The Image
3,670 wordsMemory has been and always will be associated with images. As early as 1896, leading psychologists were arguing that memory was nothing more than a continuous exchange of images. (Bergson) Later models of memory describe it as more of an image text; a combination of space and time, and image and word. (Yates) Although image certainly is not the only component of memory, it is undoubtedly an integral and essential part of memory's composition. Photography was first utilized over 100 years ago in ...
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Student Artists And The Class
513 wordsThe word censorship is a frightening concept in education. One of our roles as Art teachers is to try to make the next generation more open minded, tolerant and respectful of differences, insightful, and creative. The use of overt censorship defeats our ability to do this. We should be creating an environment so that the students themselves know the limits between self- expression and vulgarity, taunting or hurtful acts, or inappropriate behavior. I certainly don't want the next generation of pa...
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Look At The Picture
344 wordsArtist's Statement If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera. ~Lewis Hine Any photograph I take I want one to dissect their own imagination, searching within themselves the story the picture tells, to draw out ones imagination. To taste the substance of what the photograph is, what they hear and feel from the image. To not just look at the picture, but to actually see it, and understand it under their own terms. I want someone to look at my art and wonder, what's...
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Coles Thoughts About Lange And Human Actuality
1,614 wordsDocumentation " The documentary tradition as a continually developing "record" that is made in so many ways, with different voices and vision, intents and concerns, and with each contributor, finally, needing to meet a personal text" (Coles 218). Coles writes "The Tradition: Fact and Fiction" and describes the process of documenting, and what it is to be a documentarian. He clearly explains through many examples and across disciplines that there is no "fact or fiction" but it is intertwined, all...
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Images Of A Customer's Cat
735 wordsHelmi Flick lives in Bedford, Texas with her husband, Ken, a freelance writer who also does the lighting and cat wrangling for her, plus her 4 cats. Having spent 30 years of her working life in administrative office positions in computers, medicine and law, Flick came to her new career by the route most people only dream of: by turning something she loved to do into a new profession. After years of photographing her own cats and those of friends as a hobby, Helmi was encouraged by her husband Ke...
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Representation Of Images Into Meanings
801 wordsSymbols and images have a more than significant impact on one's views of the world. Since childhood, a person's brain uses representation of images into meanings to make sense of their world. These images then go on to being either the truth or falsehood and base a person's views of the world for the rest of their life. All this can be explained through the idea of representation of everyday cultural mediums; such as advertisements and the television. Representation is the way a person interpret...
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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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One Photographer
660 wordsA Memorable Experience in Photography To experience photography, one must have a certain style of photographs to really appreciate or admire. Photographs are picturesque images and views that really catch the interest of the photographer. For me to experience and admire photography, it took me only one photographer to really appreciate the power it has his name is Robert Capa. Robert grew up in Hungary he experienced the political unrest and turmoil. He lived under the oppression of Horthy and k...
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Known For His Photographs In War
463 wordsRobert Capa Robert Capa was born in Budapest, hungary in 1913. Robert Capa is most known for his photographs in war. Known for obtaining photos taken during a war that shows what it is like to be in a war. Showing things like the hardships that soldiers have to endure and the suffering of people whose homes and cities were destroyed as a result of war. His photos are divided into three categories: images of battle, images of the effect of war on individual soldiers and civilians, and the images ...
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Art Photograph
1,002 wordsMan Ray's Violin D'Ingres is a perfect example of a modernist photograph. Man Ray pushes both how photography is perceived and what is possible within a photograph in this example. Man Ray himself was an American, born as Emmanuel Rudnitsky, but moved to Paris and engaged in very non-American photography. Europe lacked the American ideals about what "strait photography" should be. While American schools of photography believed that an art photograph should only be made with a large negative with...
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Jerry Uelsmanns Photographs
930 wordsJERRY UELSMANNS JOURNEY INTO MYSELF by Alex The photograph is a photomontage of a females head just lower than center, a larger negative print of a face at the top, and two hands joined together at the bottom of the photograph. The females head seems to be a young female staring out in space with an expression of someone who may be reflecting on something or daydreaming. The larger face is in the background that appears to be lying down with the eyes closed. In the foreground are two hands holdi...
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Laughlin's Photographs
630 wordsClarence John Laughlin was born in 1905 in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He lived on a plantation near New Iberia. He attended high school for one year in 1918 due to the death of his father. He then worked at many jobs from 1924 to 1935. Laughlin's interests were with the writings of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and the French Symbolists. They inspired him to write poems and stories. In 1934 he began to take photographs. His first one-man show was held, in 1936, at the Isaac Delgado Museum, New Orleans. Lau...
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Sherman's Characters In The Untitled Film Stills
972 wordsCindy Sherman was born in New Jersey in 1954 and raised in suburban Long Island. Sherman attended the State University College at Buffalo, New York, where she initially studied painting. While studying painting, she often did many self-portraits and realistic copies of images she found in magazines and photographs. She failed the requisite introductory photography course because of her difficulties with the technological aspects of making a print, and she credits her next photography teacher wit...
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Invention Of Photography
376 wordsSir John Herschel first used the word photography, which is derived from the Greek words for light and writing, in 1839, the year the photographic process became public. There had been previous attempts to make photographs using two different methods, but they had never been successfully combined. The first method was optical. Since the 16th century artists and scientists had made use of the fact that light passing through a small hole in one wall of a dark room, or camera obscura, projects an i...
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Photographs With Text Accompaniment
1,086 words"The text of the photo-essay typically discloses a certain reserve or modesty in its claim to "speak for" or interpret the images; like the photograph, it admits its inability to appropriate everything that was there to be taken and tries to let the photographs speak for themselves or "look back" at the viewer" (516). In being told to take a position on this very controversial issue, I didn't know whether I agreed, disagreed, or both with W.J. T Mitchell's claim that photographs not accompanied ...
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Freelance Photographer For Life
513 wordsW. Eugene Smith W. Eugene Smith, one of America's most famous photojournalists for more than three decades, was highly respected for his compassionate images and uncompromising positions concerning craftsmanship and the social responsibilities of the photographer. In the early 1970's, Smith advocated the photographer's right to direct editorial control over the layout of images, captions, and text for publication and exhibition. He was known to study his subjects in painstaking detail before sho...
