...ILLUSTRATED ACADEMIC ESSAY ON CHILD PHOTOGRAPHY Contextual and cultural referencing in art & design UNIT 3 TASK2 LORRAINE ABELA HND2 Contents Focusing on Child Photography along the years ............................................................................................................................................ 2 Daguerreotype ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 2 Victorian Era .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Pictorialism ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 10 Straight photography .................................................................................................................................................................................... 12 Documentary photography ......................................................................................................................................................................... 15 Contemporary Work .................................................................................................
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...We would like to speak with you regarding photography and the importance of hiring a professional wedding photographer, as opposed to allowing a family friend with a decent camera to capture your special day, leaving it to your guests or hiring a photographer who does not specialize in weddings. We have briefly touched on this topic in a previous article, however, we strongly believe photography is a part of the wedding that is crucially important to perform accurately! There are numerous horror stories about people being let down by the results that a non-professional photographer has produced. Couples choosing to let ‘a friend’ do it, or ‘I know someone with a good camera’, or ‘we’re just going to let our guests take the photos’. This is perfectly fine to do and you may feel that you will be saving money by doing this, but in the long run, we can guarantee it will not turn out how you expected. Your wedding photos are the only lasting memory you will have of the day, and if they do not turn out as you dreamt, then your memories will be ruined. Grand Lens Photography shares...
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...Picture perfect! Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder and as a professional photographer our whole exitance is to capture the beauty of an image. And while I appreciate, Brandon Stanton vision I strongly disagree with his excessive use of sentiment to attract his audience. At his best his images are ‘street photography’. And his capture is fetishized. Author, Photograph, Blogger- Brandon Stanton started this journey with the attempt to photograph 10,000 New Yorkers. He took his success to Facebook posting, pictures of men, women, and children with sentimental caption’s he clams this inspired him to start adding quotes which led to full interviews to all his social media images. And well he has had a (New York Times) best seller in 2013 it still leaves one to wonder how something that is perceived so positive can still leave one so unsatisfied. Going to Google to view the site I type in humansofnewyork instagram page and choose http://www.instagram.com/humanofny. Once on the page I randomly pick through the images to get a feel for the site. Undirecting my attention in the...
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...I first discovered my passion for photography when I was eleven years old. At the time my only desire was to become a better photographer for the sake of advancing in the art. However, as time passed I came to realize the possibilities available through this form of self-expression. During my freshman year in high school I recognized my potential as a photographer and started my own business named Bold Photography. At the time, I captured anything I could with the ultimate desire to become a better photographer through experience. As time passed, and business increased, my goals changed. My sole desire was no longer to capture every type of photography, but to become an international photographer who specializes in professional portrait and...
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...your camera with you wherever you go? These hobbies can help you have extra money. There are many ways through which you can earn extra income with the use of photographs. One example is Stock Photography. It is a method of uploading pictures online with no upfront payments or fees. You can earn a certain amount each time a user views or downloads your photos. You can have the pleasure of uploading as many photos as you desire. This means having greater chances of earning more! There are several websites that offer stock photography, like iStock, Shutterstock, and many more. How does a website like this work? These sites take photos from you and vend them online. The most common way that you can earn through these sites is by selling copyrights or by royalties. These stock photography websites have a wide range of clients and buyers. Examples of buyers are magazine owners, publishers, and many more clients who constantly seek quality photos. They pay you in exchange of their privilege to use your photo, but the photo can still remain on your account and others can still view and use it. You can also get royalties every time one downloads your photo and whenever someone views it. Each of these websites has its own methods of creating an income. If...
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...“snapshot” and what is “photography” if I can draw your attention…? A snapshot is basically just point the camera and shoot very quickly. A photography, on the other hand, requires attention to detail—lighting, positioning of the object, and choice of an interesting background. In short, a photography is deliberately on purpose. There are similarities and differences between Snapshot and photography. Both require a camera and have the same meaning to record things as they look. Furthermore, the differences between snapshot and photography are composition, process, and equipment. One key difference between snapshots and photography is composition. When taking a good photograph, there are a lot of elements to bear in mind. These elements include your method of lighting, whether they are effective, and your subjects, whether they are interesting and intended to be an interpretation of the photographers’ view of the subject that will automatically create a sense of mood or emotion. The composition of your shot in photography is an important element. Snapshot, On the contrary, there is no organization of the visual space. Its means in same area of the image serve no purpose at all. For example, birthday party A second difference is processing. Snapshot is incredibly easy to create. Grab a camera. Point it at stuff. And click. Snapshots often do not require much planning usually without artistic intent. For example, Demonstration taking a picture.is so essay just take camera and...
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...I really enjoyed reading the essay by Kim Zorn Caputo. As I began reading the essay, I immediately imagined myself in her place. I then thought of my own memories of going to community pool entered my mind. When Kim spoke about artists yearning for the past, I interpreted this as her speaking of artists (including herself) wanting to rewrite their own history through their art and wanting to go back to yesteryears. When creating art, you can create any feeling or illustration you wish. When she talks about Thamyris and her feeling of great loss, I imagine her speaking of being punished for longing. She speaks about longing and wanting something so badly and being punished by not being able to have them. I really liked what she said about the drive to remember and that the creation of art is driven by memory. This is true, I suppose because without memory, how would you create art. In photography, I think this applies really well because your photographs are your memory, they are your creation. I love being creative and expressing myself through art, so what she wrote really spoke to me. I sometimes find myself with the desire to create art and find deep meaning in life and I felt this feeling being explained in her essay. She talked about the many years of ancient voices, sacred texts, laboratory rats, Capitol Hill, and CNN and I believe this shows her passion for history and for finding purpose. Every generation learns more and discovers more and passes this on, benefitting...
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...Marie Foard EN1320 Comp 1 Professor Patnode Module 2 Shaping Ideas Essay 2.1 Drafting an Essay April 4, 2016 As a young person I wanted to try different things. I knew that I did not want to be a clown, comedian and I did not want to be a cashier for the rest of my life. So I really had to take a minute to think about different things I would be into to doing for the rest of my life. Deciding what to do for the rest of my life is the biggest decision I ever had to make. My thoughts were to try out photography, accounting and computers. All of this sounded interesting even though I did not know much about any of them. The first major I thought about taking up was photography. I wanted to learn how to take good pictures. Taking pictures is a lot of fun and it is a way of making memories last for a long time. It is good to have pictures to look at to help remember the good times. Photography has its pros and cons just like anything else. In order to be good at taking pictures you should know how to hold and adjust the camera just right. If you know how to do this your pictures will turn out just right. When purchasing a camera you should think about the different types. You have your professional and non-professional cameras. Professional cameras cost more but take better pictures. After you purchase a camera you should also buy care products to keep your camera in good condition. Keeping your camera in good condition means keeping it clean and storing it in a safe place...
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...On Photography: Agree to Disagree Photography has become a big part of everyday life. Susan Sontag, who was a famous American writer, teacher, filmmaker, and political activist, had a negative look on photography and what it means to us. To be honest I see where she is coming from. Nowadays you see people taking selfies, pictures of funny moments, or just something that doesn’t seem to have much meaning. But to a certain person, that one photo could hold so much more than just sentimental value than what we see from an unknowing and non-understanding mind. “Strictly speaking, one never understands anything from a photograph. Of course, photographs fill in blanks in our mental pictures of the present and past…” wrote Sontag in a claim on her opinion of the concept of photography. She then continued with,...
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...Question 3 was answered by image-based essay. Two publication technologies, which are the Daguerreotype process and mobile camera phone, were investigated and compacted their impact on social relationships. In order to explain and focus on photographic publishing aspects, I believe that visual image based essay is the most suitable form to correspond with this topic. The question is about how publishing changes along side the society. From the 18s, photography became popular in the western culture, as people took photographs to record their lives. Photographs also act as a role to express human feelings, people are able to communicate and make meaning by photos, like art. Photography was not common to all the people in the society. It was an expensive publication technology in the 18th century. With the evolution of the technology in the photographic industry, photo taking as a practice has become more assessable to the people. The Daguerreotype process of photo publishing was an activity that required different...
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...Humanity has always had a fickle obsession with capturing the world around them and putting them into little boxes. The art of photography became a device for that. ‘On Photography’ by Susan Sontag successfully captures the elusive effect a photograph can have on a human being, and the true nature of the supposed knowledge it imparts on those who experience. The age old phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words”, is a lie, and Sontag’s essay assures us of that. Words can carry knowledge, an ability to assure understanding in a reader, and photographs, as Sontag so astutely points out, act in the opposite manner - they eliminate understanding. Our society, as the essay to astutely points out, often takes photo’s as unassailable proof of...
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...Research Essay 1 This essay is to be no less than 2 pages long. Susan Sontag’s essay Regarding the Pain of Others brings forth many atrocities of war. I would like you to choose an atrocity mentioned in the essay which will be the basis of your research paper. As you research you will come across pictures and photographs that are suppose to “show” you what was occurring during the time of the atrocity; however as you view such photographs I would like you to address ONE of Sontag’s ideas below which will become your essay topic: 1) Photographs do not assist in the comprehension of a situation, that is up to writers to create narratives that help in understanding 2) Meanings from photos are free floating, and can only be grounded by words 3) The photograph is not an objective mirror, but an expressive medium capable of portraying multiple realities. 4) Intentions are not inherent in photography, meaning is situational and in flux – this is in keeping with the previous key idea. The photograph itself is capable of “speaking” for itself only so much. It requires an interpreter. And it is the agenda of this interpreter that the photograph assumes. The photograph itself has no agenda; it takes on the one of who is interpreting for it. Part Two You are to create a power point presentation of the atrocity you discussed in your research paper which is to include both pictures and text. You may also choose to streamline videos...
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...Alvin Haskins II Essay 3 Dead Gi’s On Buna Beach In this George Strock’s black and white photograph, Dead GI’s on Buna Beach, 1943, showing three dead, rotting, bodies of American Soldiers lying face down in the sand in Buna Beach. As a result, President Roosevelt decided to lift the censorship that held so many photojournalists photographs out of the media. His desire was for Americans to become more supportive and develop a greater resolve to win the war. This tactic was very successful in enraging the American Public, creating support for the war effort both on American soil and in Europe. “Dead GI’s on Buna Beach” is now well-thought-out to be a war classic. In that September, this photo and other horrific and graphic pictures of WWII were finally appealed by the Office of War. President Roosevelt dreaded that the American community might be growing content about the war and its horrific toll. In the picture, the Americans’ faces were not shown–a practice continued until Korean War to preserve soldiers’ privacy in death. This picture is not just photo of dead American’s, but a photo of dead American’s lying neglected and disregarded in the sands of a foreign country attracted to the pathos of the American community by striking them where it meant most of. They were not just “American Soldiers”, but brave compatriots, brothers, neighbors, fathers, sons, husbands, and friends. Even though black and white was the only thing obtainable during that time, the usage of...
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...Cheyne Brown Rachel Stevens Writing 121 7 October 2014 How Charles Simic Might Approach Vivian Maier’s Photography Imagine a black and white photograph overlooking a New York City street circa 1953. The Chrysler Building dominating the background skyline, you notice a group of commuters waiting on an El train platform looking down below as people congregate near shops and restaurants lining the street in the foreground. This might be an adequate insight into a Vivian Maier photograph. Although accurate, the description feels lifeless, and lacks the amazing nostalgic detail Poet Laureate Charles Simic might put on it. Simic, the author of the essay “The Life of Images” might ask himself questions like: “Where are the commuters going? What is the group of women doing by the hardware and appliance store?” Maybe Simic has eaten at Joe’s Restaurant (large signage in Maier’s photograph), and that brings back a flood of memories. It wouldn’t take him long to weave a detailed story about what these people in the photo were doing, or even conversations they might be having. Simic writes, “A photograph…, where time has stopped on an ordinary scene full of innuendoes, partakes of the infinite” (576). I feel Simic would approach Maier’s photographs the same way he approached Berenice Abbott’s photos, referenced in “The Life of Images”, breathing life and imagination into them. First I should give you a little background on who these three people are. Charles Simic is a writer, most...
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... Early History: Robert Frank was born on November 9, 1924 in Zurich, Switzerland. He is best known for his documentary photography book The Americans however he has released additional books and documentary films as well. Robert Frank was raised into a wealthy Jewish family, his father of German decent and a photographer as well, and a Swiss mother coming from money. In an interview that Frank gave to the NY Times, he stated, ‘‘My father married my mother because of money. It became the most important thing in order for them to feel good. If my father had a good day, dinner would end and my father would take out his wallet and give my mother 100 Swiss francs." (DAWIDOFF) At the time of his upbringing, the beginnings of WWII were also in play where by Frank states remembering the speeches of Adolf Hitler via the radio in his youth. Frank later studied as an apprentice under a commercial photographer by the name of Herman Segesser. It was then that Frank had thoughts of exploring elsewhere to shoot photography. Although safe in Switzerland, growing up during the Holocaust years and the oppression that he witnessed took it's effect of Frank, this of which pushed him into traveling to America to pursue broader interests in photography. Coming to America: In 1947, Frank immigrated to America to explore photography in new ways and other outlets than he had done before. Upon arriving, Frank landed a short stint as a fashion photographer at Harper's...
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