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photorealistic paintings in America. Most photorealist would create still art (motionless objects that are recreated through art) but, unlike them Audrey felt she couldn’t reach her audience through still life art and was more focused on creating images for people and their emotions. An example of one of her early photo realistic paintings that was sociopolitical and emotional was called “Kennedy Motorcade”, (see fig. 3, to left) painted in 1964 with oil on canvas for the medium. It was from…

There are specific requirements to be a photography teacher, although anyone can teach someone how to hold a camera and how to take pictures, photographer instructors are experienced and have specific skills, that they have learned from majoring in photography, which are crucial for teaching a photography course. Those skills, according to study.com, are, “instructional and organizational skills, photography, patience, entry software, Microsoft Access, graphics or photo imaging software and…

“Photographs create collisions of time…They reveal what the eye cannot see.”(LIFE Magazine). Photography can be a truly unique and beautiful form of art. They can give the human eye details and imprint images within their head’s, images that will never be seen in person. Photography in science can allow doctors to see inside of the body and even inside of cells. Photography can be a very powerful tool and can change lives. In Donald Murray’s article The Stranger…

different. Her illustration of “The Boating Party” is an ironic piece of art that uses an outing by three people to speak for women’s rights. At first glance of the painting, “The Boating Party,” people would almost say that it is a happy image. In the image there is a man, woman, and child settled a boat. It can be assumed that they are a family going for an outing on a nice summer day. With the lake filling up at least half…

Professor Zig Jackson once said, “A camera is a very powerful tool.” Photography is the way in which you express something and show it to world. People see a camera just as a tool to take pictures, but cameras go beyond taking pictures, it puts into image what can’t be described in words. As many of us have heard before, a picture is worth a thousand words; this is exactly what I feel with Candy Cigarettes by Sally Mann and Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park by Diane Arbus. These two…

Objectifying both women and men with provocative images and deceptive expressions supply consumers a false idea of reality. PlayStation and Sony Computer Entertainment present a provocative image in its PS Vita advertisement that draws a reader’s…

pictures for a reason. That picture meant something to them. They wanted others to view it, therefore they posted it. Are they posting these pictures to convince others or themselves of who they are? In this generation digital images are more popular than printed images. For the most part every teenager and young adult has an Instagram and Facebook. On these social media sites the pictures one posts are trying…

In John Berger’s book Understanding a Photograph, he argues that there is a distinct discontinuity between an individual viewing a photo, and the actual photo. A picture solely preserves a single moment in time, and while they often act to tell a story, the medium cannot be fully interpreted without knowing the story that surrounds it. Although there is a definite connection between a photograph and the narrative that corresponds with it, the photo is only a visual aid for the story; it does not…

My Response to Ritchin and Balsamo. From the four reads of the week by Ritchin and Balsamo, my main takeaway from Ritchin was the advancement of digital photography and how it has made it easier for photographers to tell their story through imagery, plus the added effect that tells a false story and Balsamo the unconscious consequence of technological innovations on culture. “Photography, as we have known it, is both ending and enlarging, with an evolving medium hidden inside it as in a…

Though Susan Sontag claims in “Why We Take Pictures” that photography is a defense against anxiety and a tool of power by allowing an individual to control what the subject of the photograph is, thus controlling the environment. Since Sontag wrote her opinion, photography has evolved to be a more casual experience that documents daily life. Through the mass incorporation of social media into our lives and how it allows us to have constant access to others lives and others into our own, we…