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the sense that it is a framed canvas hanging on the wall. But it is not quite a ‘painting’ as most people are used to experience it. Artist doesn’t use any components normally recognizable in painting: color, brushstroke, perspective. There is no image! Though we can argue that artist uses some composition by placing text almost in the middle of canvas (page?). White plain canvas, thin frame, typography, simple font remind me of typed piece of paper. Thus the painter is turned into writer.…

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It is often said that artists portray their experiences and thoughts through their work. Photographer Dorothea Lange and author Eugenia Collier both capture the setting of the Depression Era with corresponding works, “Migrant” and “Marigold”. The photo “Migrant” is a photo a “fatigued mother of seven” during the Depression Era. And the story “Marigold” is about a young teenage girl living with her family during the Depression Era. The photo was taken just outside the doorway of a canvas tent…

Distinctive images can portray a wide range of ideas that individuals have on themselves, others and the world around them. Such images can influence the way of which we view themes and other individuals around us. This concept is demonstrated in John Misto’s ‘Shoe-horn Sonata’ through the use of the themes of music and symbolism. Themes of symbolism and visualisation are explore in the music video of Missy Higgin’s ‘Oh Canada’ (directed by Natasha Pincus). Both of these texts discover the…

Assignment 3: Video & Image Editing I realize that there is an internet social media culture that enjoys taking pictures and posting them online for their friends, family, and the world to see. I have friends that post pictures multiple times a day seemingly storing their pictures on social media for all to devour anytime they choose. Many of the photos that my friends post online are edited with some sort of software that they have downloaded or with software that is included in their…

results as it manipulates our human perception with the use of optical illusions to make objects appear larger, smaller, farther, or closer than they actually are.Photography also uses forced perspective a lot as well to give a certain feel to an image. Depth perception: Three tips are “technique takes advantage of the visual cues humans use…

composed by Gregory Petsko, the writing focuses on images that were captured by accident and how these images later on became iconic. These iconic images are moments in time that impact and shape the culture and society of which we live in. There moments in your own personal life that shape and define who you are as a person and who you will be in the future. You may not realize just how impactful they were until you look back on them, just how the images that turned out to be iconic although…

The revolution from printed word and drawings, to photography completely changed the way a story could be told. Our visual system evolved to process images quickly, whereas text, which only appeared a few thousand years ago, translates concrete information into abstract markings, which removed context , and requires our visual system to scan each individual characters, one at a time, recognize them, and piece them together into words, then sentences, and so on . Although, written word and…

introduced by Louis Daguerre, a French artist and inventor. By discovering that "exposing iodized silver plates to light left behind a faint image that could be developed by Mercury fumes," the new creation came about with the help of Joseph Niépce (Andrews, 2015). This creation was simply a sheet of silver that, when exposed to light, would produce an image. The invention eventually was released to the public, becoming popular around the world. While the daguerreotype was one of the first…

“collector,” because he likes to collect everything related to his family. In The Ontology of the Photographic Image, Andre Bazin argues that the ontology of photographic image creates an ideal world with its time after the death. An old photography from Jonathan’s grandfather carries out a long history of a family secret. Therefore, Photography is not a visual art only; the presentation of the image of Jonathan’s grandfather and…