Documentary photography

phone’s camera, I became curious about the history of photography and wanted to discover how the art changed over time. Naturally, I did some research on the origins of photography, on how and why it adapted, and finally looked into modern adaptations and uses. Less than 200 years old, photography is a relatively new art form that has continually undergone changes and improvements in its short existence. Even though the exact origins of photography have been debated, the invention of the…

Today’s society is revolved around one thing: social media. Teenagers and young adults all around the world are addicted to their cell phones and, most importantly, their social media profiles. We live in a world of likes and followers where the higher numbers you have, the more “popular” you are. Teenagers and young adults are exposed to edited pictures of men and women, which causes them to have a pessimistic body image about themselves. They tend to believe that these are real life images,…

Against the background of the First Opium War (1840–42), Western photographers visited China for the first time, accompanying Western military personnel, missionaries, and consular officials. The earliest recorded photographic activity in China by Western photographers was in July 1842, only three years after the invention of the medium. Dr. Richard Woosnam (1815–1888) and Major George Alexander Malcolm (1810–1888) made daguerreotypes at Yangtze (Yangzi) River during the final stages of the…

Human beings are by nature, more visual learners than anything else. They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, and that’s true. Visuals are seen everywhere in the media and on the internet to grab the audience’s attention and to draw emotion needed in order to be effective. Effective visuals must contain the right combination of argument, purpose, and tone. A powerful and effective visual is the one that grabs at the audiences heart strings or emotion and makes them sympathetic to the…

In Benny’s Video the audience saw how graphically intense a scene was when we did not actually get to see it at all. Haneke in a way blind us from the film, when Benny shoots the little girl for the first time all we see is her moving out of the frame while she screams. The sound of her screams is all we hear from her, while we see Benny freak out and try to reload the gun as he shoots her again. This take happens all in one single frame, so Haneke forces us to see this girl getting shot to…

SWA #4 (A Picture to Remember) The picture that I selected is the that shows three firemen raising a flag during on in the midst of one of Americas hardest times, September 11, 2001. The scene was captured by Thomas E. Franklin. The photo sets a real sorrow mood with its back and white colors. The fact that its in back and white makes the scene look even more meaningful. I think that the picture was chose to be printed in black and white to show how dark of a day it was for America. The…

This paper is going to give you a brief history about the famous photographer Ansel Adams. He was a known photographer from the twentieth century but with a childhood that wasn’t always the easiest. But threw this paper we will be able to see the amazing things that he was capable of accomplishing. Ansel Adams is a photographer known for his outstanding photos also for being an environmentalist. He was born in San Francisco, California, and was the son of Charles Hitchcock Adams and Olive Bray.…

Ezra Stoller has an uncanny ability of careful attention to capture the perfect vantage point, lighting conditions and framing composition — building, or non-architectural element — as a trinity to comment on the structures. Due to this, architects would commission Stoller to “Stollerize” their buildings for his photographical technique to manifest in their architecture. Stoller’s iconic images are typically shot in crisp black-and-white to extensively define modernist architecture (in the late…

The main people featured in the movie are the photographer Raúl Cañibano, the photography professor Ron Herman and the Director Mary Skinner. The film is talking about the Cuba photographer Raúl Cañibano's photos taken in Cuba. In the movie, it shows us a large amount of photos taken by Raúl Cañibano. The film is 28 minutes in total. It talks about the background of the photos, which are the everyday life of the Cubans. The photographer go back to the cities that he lived when he was young and…

will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.” My thoughts: It is tempting, but too easy, to think of Ansel Adams as simply the Norman Rockwell of landscape photography, immensely popular but insignificant. Every year there is yet another books produced capturing some aspect of his career, another calendar featuring his breathtaking black-and-white views of Yosemite Valley in California. Adams photographs…