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    Allison Smiley Ms. Silver DC American Literature 24 February, 2015 Evolution of Photography We all take pictures but do we really know how it all happens? Just snapping a quick easy picture and having it appear on a screen is pretty mind blowing. Photography has a humble beginning and is evolving from trying to capture light with a piece of metal, to the Polaroid camera giving instant pictures using film, and has progressed to digital photography today. “1800: Thomas…

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    What would the world be like without photography? Well to begin with it wouldn’t be anywhere near to what we have converted it into currently. We wouldn’t be able to capture memories or beautiful views, nor would we be able to pass on certain ideas for educational purposes. But, brilliant people such as Mo-ti to Eugene F. Larry, brought all their ideas together like a chain and contributed to the development of the camera. The concept of creating images besides drawing them started hundreds…

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    This photograph, taken in 1908, is of famous ballerina Tamara Karsavina, and was made by a notable photographer named Baron Adolph de Meyer. This image is an excellent example of modern photography and the technology involved during this rapidly changing and evolving time. Meyer was a Pictorialist photographer who was attempting to elevate photographic portraits to the same level of painted portraits. This is an example of early autochrome photography, which is a very rare, modern revelation,…

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    A Distorted Reality They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Photography, once used as a form of capturing memories, now serves as one of the biggest forms of communication. Photos have changed from being a source of freezing a moment to remember to actually becoming the moment. With the new types of media and the need to show off what is being done in a visual manner has resulted in people capturing a moment rather than living in it. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the evolution…

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    During a speech addressing attendees at the Jones Library in Amherst in 2004, Daria D’Arienzo spoke of the unveiling of Emily Dickinson’s daguerreotype which had been thought to be lost. “Like Dickinson’s own story, full of twists and turns and mystery. There are more questions than answers,” D’Arienzo states as she finishes speaking. The life of Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was diligently dictated through verses of poetry by the woman herself in hundreds of notebooks throughout her life. The…

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    hours and even weeks to do can now be done within a matter of minutes. Over the past one hundred years’ photography as a whole has been revolutionized by modern innovation and technology. One hundred years ago cameras used film, originally named Daguerreotype, to capture images. Original film works by the reflection of light—which travels at different wavelengths for different colors—striking the film, and an inverse image is burned into the film. The chemicals in…

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    Pinhole Camera History

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    inventor, Joseph Nicephore Niepce burned the first permanent photograph using heliography, also known as sun drawing. To accomplish that, he used a wooden box to take photographs. Niepce and another man came up with a process of photos called Daguerreotype process in 1836. They would coat copper place with silver and treat it with iodine vapor to create his sun drawings. The plate would be sensitive to light, so exposing the photo after it’s taken to mercury vapor or just salt, the image would…

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    Child Labor History

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    workplace, machine, or task the child is involved with at the time. Most of the children in Hine’s photographs probably never had their picture taken before. Quite often the children appear to be stiff and even rigid, as if turning themselves into daguerreotypes, and most are solemn, utterly serious, and occasionally forlorn. When a group photo was taken, you can see the different ways the children confronted the camera also the wonderfully varied expressions. These expressions varied from being…

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    Photography’s Effect on Art When I was a senior in high school, I was able to attend a technical school for the second half of my day each day to take photography classes. I had always been interested in photography, but without any real knowledge on composing, taking, or editing pictures, I was unable to pursue the interest. I was nervous at first, a lot of the students there were in their second year and many of them had part time jobs in industry. It took a lot of work, but I started to…

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    When does the Rococo begin in France? What historical events help influence the rise of Rococo style? Roccoco style is a style of structural planning, starting in France around 1720, advanced from Rococo sorts and recognized by its rich refinement in utilizing distinctive materials for a sensitive general impact. It is described by softness, class, and a rich utilization of bending, characteristic structures in ornamentation. The word Ornate is gotten from the French word rocaille, which…

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