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audience with a visual image. By having a visual image with the poem, it becomes easier to analyze art and poetry together because the reader can use both works to explore the author’s purpose. In 1842 Tennyson wrote the “Lady of Shalott,” and in 1888 John Waterhouse painted a picture illustrating Tennyson’s character, the Lady of Shalott. Although Tennyson and Waterhouse use different mediums, they both illustrate the position of a nineteenth century woman and Waterhouse uses images from the…

Introduction Thesis: Why was photography important during the Civil War. Hook: Photography, meaning “drawing with lights” in Greek, is an art as well science of capturing light and storing it on some medium. Photographs have been used for over a century now for capturing moments of mankind and things around him, although photography dates back to 4th century B.C. But since its use, arguments have fired up to know whether photography can reflect the truth, the reality or instead push us away…

Robert Mapplethorpe was one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. Coming in on the scene in the nineteen-sixties, Mapplethorpe was considered scandalous and controversial at best. Most of his work had been seen as homoerotic or simply just pornographic. Instead of looking at his work from this perspective however, I will be taking the stance of his work as being technically beautiful as well as arguing that he uses photography to push our popular perceptions of sexuality and…

the video, I will be focusing on the Sally Mann art work which I find very interesting to look. Sally Mann use of glass plate handled on the spot bring the image nearly immediate flaws that result from hand coating the collodion emulsion on each piece of glass- streaks, drips, uneven surface, and edges. She shoots under the sun overexpose her image however she tries to take perfect picture at the same time, she embraces the accidents that actually make the picture faultless and spontaneous.…

words that they should in their images. The different broadcasting forms have corrupted the perception of beauty into something surreal, incredible, and, very often, unhealthy. It is no secret that beauty standards portrayed in pictures from magazines, and other similar mediums, make adolescent girls vulnerable to these false representations of beauty early in their age. Beauty fabrications are beginning to face an increasing opposition that is often expressed with images that depict their…

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…

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…

This photo, taken by Gustave Le Gray in 1857, is one of the first examples of a combination print. To produce this image, Le Gray combined two separate negatives (one of the sea and one of the sky) into one composite seascape. During this time period, photography was often regarded as an objective record of truth and reality, a notion that Le Gray challenged in performing this manipulation. In addition, by working with two separate negatives, Le Gray was able to overcome the inability of early…

your camera become a camera? How was your camera able to print your picture? Well take a second to think about it and get ready for the information your about to hear! First let’s start with the definition of Camera: A device for recording visual images in the forms of photographs. Camera’s are important because they collect memories and over time they stay the same and never change. So enough about the present camera let’s talk about how the Camera became the camera. It all began with…

By 1826 he was able to figure out how to use these two things together to create the first ever photograph it took him eight hours of light exposure to create an image and not long after all that hard work the image fades away. Another French man by the name of Louis Daguerre also was trying to figure out a way to keep an image which took him about 12 years to figure, but it technique worked a lot better because all it needed was only 30 minutes of light exposure. Nicéphore Niépce and Louis…