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I chose to write this paper on photography because it’s something I’d be happy to do for the rest of my life as a career. It’s not a career where you have to do something a certain way. Everyone has their own touch when it comes to photography and there are all sorts of photography fields you can go into so you’re not tied down to taking pictures of just one thing all the time. You could become a nature photographer and capture the beauty of the world, or take pictures at weddings and feel the…

sharing their pictures or comments. But how much “likes” or “sharing” a picture can help? CRS (Crisis Relief Singapore) launched a campaign called “linking isn’t helping,” this campaign provides powerful images and messages. The picture for this rhetorical analysis consist in a black and white image, where the audience can observe a young girl struggling in the middle of a flood, surrounded by a numerous amount of thumbs up. Combining a sad scenario with a positive and overused expression, CRS…

Photography is beginning to wind up as the world's best pastime. We are able to utilize photography as a hobby to explore the world. Susan Sontag, author of On Photography, has an alternate point of view on photography. Sontag infers that photography lets us know of how we think about the world on the off chance that we acknowledge it as the camera records it. Essentially, photography is taking pictures, but it involves the photographer's view utilizing a camera to record both a physical…

Chuck Close Essay When it comes to a Chuck Close and one of his paintings you can barely tell the difference between it and a photograph. He is an artist who creates large photo realistic portraits using specially made tools and equipment because he has a blood clot in his spine. Chuck Close has had many obstacles in his life that he has had to overcome such as his many health issues and that inspires people to always look on the bright side. Chuck Close was born July 5th, 1940 in Monroe…

Steve McCurry is a world-respected photographer who has several masterpieces including his photograph of Sharbat Gula known as “ Afghan Girl” which is the most recognizable photograph in the National Geographic. Although his work is world-renowned there are many critics and controversies over his photographs because of his misuse of Photoshop. Many photographers use Photoshop when editing their photos, but the extent that McCurry used it questions his integrity as a photographer. He did not…

This image represented the most typical portraits of the grand siccle in the French court. In his period, Charles le brun created a new genre of painting as an artist which he named the state portrait. This image is an example of a state portrait which showed how the artist was endowned with artistic skills. The artists of this period painted without using any particular setting or apparatus but this image brought the beauty which was highly desirable for…

retouched by photoshop similar photographic enhancements? Photoshop is an Adobe software used to edit images.. The use of photoshop to make people look perfect is wrong. When people look at these magazines with photoshopped images they think that this is what they're supposed to look like. However, photoshop itself is not a bad thing. As Ms. Summers says in Don’t let Photoshop Make You Feel Bad “Altering images has been a standard practice for centuries. Photoshop allows photographers to create…

Books are tools which people use find truth and wisdom; pictures are the important role for more understanding. After years and years of improving, pictures have become an important part of readings, especially in the range of Encyclopedia and history; therefore, considering a picture for a certain part in history is critical in different circumstances. For example, consider a picture for CPR, well known as the Canadian Pacific Railway, there are three pictures available: The first one is…

exhibition I chose to study belongs to Hank Willis Thomas and is called What We Ask Is Simple. Just with reading the name alone I was intrigued. To view this image you as a viewer would have to step into the photograph and use your flash on your camera to view the photograph. According to Thomas, this is so “the viewer can step into the role of the image maker.” Hank Willis Thomas is a conceptual artist. Thomas was born in New Jersey and currently recides and works out of Brooklyn, NY…

just strictly visual, it is influential, subjective, objective, and impactful. It is a means and a medium to bring about change in society or the world. The camera is a small but powerful tool to bring about social change but to also share an image, an image captured in a moment of time. In a quote by renowned American photographer Aaron Siskind, “Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after…