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Think about your grandparents, your graduation, your favorite vacation, or a memory that you cherish more than anything else. Now think about that without visualizing a photograph. Unless it was an extremely private moment, you had to dig past the memory of a photograph in your head in order to find a memory. That is because photographs do a great portion of our remembering for us, which is both good and bad. A photo can mean an endless amount of completely unique things to any individual.…

Art is inspired by the world around it. The techniques, tools, and technology all effect how art is made at a certain point in time. Prehistoric men used cave walls to print their paintings, the subject matter usually being nature or the supernatural. Millions of years later, our artists are still being influenced by the world around them and the tools available. During the Industrial Revolution paint began being sold in tubes, and the realm of those who enjoyed and purchased art was expanded.…

audience with a visual image. By having a visual image with the poem, it becomes easier to analyze art and poetry together because the reader can use both works to explore the author’s purpose. In 1842 Tennyson wrote the “Lady of Shalott,” and in 1888 John Waterhouse painted a picture illustrating Tennyson’s character, the Lady of Shalott. Although Tennyson and Waterhouse use different mediums, they both illustrate the position of a nineteenth century woman and Waterhouse uses images from the…

with credible information; however when it comes to photographs, when does the public know if they are saying the truth? At this moment in time it’s very easy for journalists and editors to manipulate pictures and images which rises speculations among the people. Manipulating an image or photo has plenty of ethical issues which are that people can lose their trust in the journalists/editors and lose credibility in their work. The journalists/editors reputations will downfall and they will much…

compositions stand out to the viewer so individuals can generate an idea and connect with the picture. They can have repeated geometric shapes that take social forms and used for different motivations to create an infinite combination of scenes. These three images taken by different photographers, Karl Struss, Over the House Tops, 1912, Tosh Matsumoto, Untitled, 1950, and Dan Weiner, Bus Boycott, Montgomery, 1956, all have related geometric figures…

In my everyday life, I’m bombarded by television, movies, commercials, billboards and especially magazines with images that are fake. With the creation of programs like Photoshop, it is now easier than ever before to alter photographs. Go to any grocery store and the woman peering out from the pages of each and every magazine, appear with flawless features, only made…

This world is filled with some amazing creatures like Giraffes who's legs are taller than the average human size. (Society, National Geographic. Giraffes, Giraffe Pictures, Giraffe Facts. National Geographic)On the other hand, what if there was nobody to capture these majestic animals? That is what Animal Photographers do. Taking pictures of these beautiful and bold animals is not all Animal Photographers do. Being an Animal Photographer whether it is land or marine animals, is a very unique job…

Photography is a form of art that I’ve always believed I could understand/relate to the most. I’ve always enjoyed being behind the lens and observing others photographs. The way that Sally Mann discusses her own photography and different methods represents how I would want to approach photography. She explains that the meaning behind all of her work is simply because it’s fun, even if that’s hard to believe. I like the idea that she does photography simply because she loves it. She goes on to…

inspired Muybridge to take his ideas further. He went on to invent a high speed film, able to capture the image of a moving animal faster than the human eye can see. The world at this time was in the midst of a global change in technology with the rise of the railroad system and still photography. Muybridge took photography and motion to a new level by creating the zoopraxiscope which projected his images of animals in motion on a screen, creating moving pictures. Muybridge’s photo experiments…

I have a very simple question to ask you. Why do we take pictures? For hundreds of years pictures have been taken to capture the moments of things important to us. Every day millions of pictures are taken from our smart phones and posted to social media to document our every move. Who you’re hanging out with. What you ate for lunch. Maybe you went to a concert over the weekend and took a picture of your favorite band, or went hiking and captured the view from the top of a mountain. And let’s…