Digital photography

In this world of technology people would share every single moment of their lives if they could. Images play a critical role in American society to a point that everyone is using them to express their feelings and unspoken attitudes. However, in the past, people thought their lives were more important than to be constantly taking pictures all the time. People thought that their private images have a great value just for them, and they felt a need to be away from people’s eyes. The question here…

nudes, street life and fashion. Penn declared “that ‘photographing a cake can be art,’ his later work showed an astonishing ability to find the beauty in the commonplace” (Bernstein and Shapiro). But Penn’s contributions to fashion and editorial photography may have influenced and changed the field forever.…

that he writes about how photography is a process of taking what we already see, it is based on selection not synthesis. We do not get to create what we want to see when taking photos of the world, is all about how we see it that makes a photo interesting, “the world itself is an artist of incomparable inventiveness,” (Szarkowski 3). So a photographer’s job is to see the art that the world has created and to capture it, to express what he has seen. This shows us that photography is a…

Manipulation is defined as moving or controlling something by hands, for instance when people are editing their photos they are manipulating it. In the modern world manipulating pictures is almost normal and it is becoming very predominant in today’s society. Editing pictures is nothing new, but the real question is, what happens when photo-journalists start to manipulate their work? Why do so many people agree that it is right to do that? When they do that, they are losing their credibility…

The use of camera, including camera angles, shot sizes, and camera movement, can influence, alter, and strengthen the viewer’s perception of onscreen characters. Each of these aspects of camera use is important to the film as a whole, but more specifically each of these aspects can help to portray and define the character in terms of both personality and reputation within the film. The use of camera can influence, alter, and strengthen the viewer’s perceptions and opinions towards onscreen…

In American society, we idolize the celebrities we cannot seem to escape. There’s social media, television, magazines, and phones that provide easy access to a different world, where images of celebrity bodies and lives are posted every second. Imperfections are not reflected in their images. Some say this is due to celebrities intense workout routines and diets, yet others say it is as simple as the editing apps that are accessible through phones and computers. Daniel Harris’s claim that we…

In today’s society people are surrounded by what the perfect body should look like and what one should strive for to obtain this image. The standards pounded into people’s minds can and will have negative effects not only to the body, but also can lead to psychological concerns that can become hard to recognize or treat if needed. The role social media plays in today’s society consumes the majority of everyday people’s lives, through the ideas of body image expectations versus reality,…

Distinctive images immerse us in the lives of others and as result, our preconceived ideas and views regarding those people can be challenged and reshaped, leading us to be exposed to a more personal account of history. John Misto Shoe Horn Sonata illustrates personal accounts of the protagonists Bridie and Sheilas time at war, and their suffering in imprisonment, something of which unknown and unpublished to the common public. Similarly Kegan Wilcox’s ”porcelain unicorn” depicts a…

The lack of confidence in one's body from viewing social media results in eating disorders. Comparing body types causes depression in many women. Depression causes the mind to feel uncomfortable with one’s own body, resulting in eating less as they do not have the desire to eat because of the effects it could do to their body. In an article comparing a dieter versus a non-dieter, dieters tend to feel more depressed when social media present images of thin girls. Although they are already thin,…

Visual Imagery can be either internal or external (Shambrook and Bull, 2004) which is backed by Selk (2009). External Imagery is viewing yourself from outside of your body, much like seeing yourself on TV (Mahoney and Avener, 1977 in Callow and Hardy, 2004). This is backed by Selk (2009) and Shambrook and Bull (2004). Internal imagery on the other hand is like seeing the scene you are imagining through your own eyes as you are competing (Mahoney and Avener, 1977 in Callow and Hardy, 2004). This…