College Essay About Photography

I never considered paintings to be the beginning of photography, nor have I ever considered rough sketches of city streets to be its humble beginnings either. I have never gone to an art museum and thought, “hm, maybe this artist was using some sort of camera obscura technique to help see an image clearer, or to see different angles of the image at the same time.” From now on, I will. It is an extremely innovative technique that has never once crossed my mind. Looking at the images in the power point, it is now easy to see the mechanical and photo like qualities some of these rough sketches and paintings feature, such as Alberti’s cityscapes or Vermeer’s paintings. The bridging of various art forms such a painting and drawing into the genre of photography surprised me the most. …show more content…
I found the physionotrace to be one of the far more interesting contraptions I have seen as far as making portraiture easier and faster to use goes. It reminded me of the silhouettes my grandparents have at there house of their parents. The more I look at them the more photographic they become. The phantasmagoria has to be my favorite advancement towards photography thus far. It may be because I am a sucker for anything remotely related to Halloween, and the phantasmagoria can project spooky things such as ghosts or skeletons or because onto walls and ceilings of play rooms. I also like it because it created a newer art form that could be shared as a collective group to see things only imagined or saw in more of a two-dimensional concept