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 understand exposure and aperture, how to get lighting to convey a message, and how use Photoshop and develop film. Photography is something I enjoyed, and something I miss. It’s able to connect people, capture priceless memories, and walk the line between
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We studied Van Gogh, and learned to take photos in a similar way to how he painted. We learned about Supremacism and how the idea of a fourth dimension took hold in many photographer’s art.
A Brief History
In 1826, the first photograph was taken by Nicephore Niepce, a French scientist who used the photo sensitivity of bitumen of Judea (Syrian Asphalt) to permanently affix a landscape and land himself the title of “Inventor of Photography”. But the story reaches back much farther than this, to the Renaissance, when the camera obscura was used by many artists. The camera obsucra was a dark box which projected an upside down image of objects outside of the box. The basic principles of a camera where, therefore, known long before the ability to use chemical reactions to permanently set an image was discovered. View from Window at Gras (1826) – First Photograph on …show more content…
These photographs serve as technical documents for the scientific world, but can also serve as art. A well-constructed photomicrograph is haw strong composition, good structure and color, and is open to several layers of comprehension and appreciation. The images are often perceived as abstracted art, although they’re just close-ups of real life. It is thought that the invention of photomicrography may have influenced early abstract artists. Abstract art creates intangible unreality using color, composition, and shape. You can see in the works below, there are similar themes between photomicrographs and abstract art. I think it’s likely that abstract artists took from early microphotography and now photomicrographers take from abstract art. Like many of the other movements that have influenced or been influenced by photography, the extent of influence is hard to tell. In all reality, most artists would likely be upset to think that they were strongly influenced by photography, because photography has become so main stream, but I think that the two are interconnected in a deep, complex
We studied Van Gogh, and learned to take photos in a similar way to how he painted. We learned about Supremacism and how the idea of a fourth dimension took hold in many photographer’s art.
A Brief History
In 1826, the first photograph was taken by Nicephore Niepce, a French scientist who used the photo sensitivity of bitumen of Judea (Syrian Asphalt) to permanently affix a landscape and land himself the title of “Inventor of Photography”. But the story reaches back much farther than this, to the Renaissance, when the camera obscura was used by many artists. The camera obsucra was a dark box which projected an upside down image of objects outside of the box. The basic principles of a camera where, therefore, known long before the ability to use chemical reactions to permanently set an image was discovered. View from Window at Gras (1826) – First Photograph on …show more content…
These photographs serve as technical documents for the scientific world, but can also serve as art. A well-constructed photomicrograph is haw strong composition, good structure and color, and is open to several layers of comprehension and appreciation. The images are often perceived as abstracted art, although they’re just close-ups of real life. It is thought that the invention of photomicrography may have influenced early abstract artists. Abstract art creates intangible unreality using color, composition, and shape. You can see in the works below, there are similar themes between photomicrographs and abstract art. I think it’s likely that abstract artists took from early microphotography and now photomicrographers take from abstract art. Like many of the other movements that have influenced or been influenced by photography, the extent of influence is hard to tell. In all reality, most artists would likely be upset to think that they were strongly influenced by photography, because photography has become so main stream, but I think that the two are interconnected in a deep, complex