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picture perfect shot for the camera. No wonder why food ads appear one-hundred percent better than reality. How do people not realize they’re being lied to straight to their faces by food ads? The answer is photography. The art of capturing the perfect image has evolved from the unscripted Kodak moment to the fake, scripted Hollywood moments people see on TV every day. People can manipulate pictures at the push of a button in today’s culture so why not alter the way food is photographed too. By…

Before the camera was invented it was really difficult to record an image. You had to stand very still for a long time for the picture to be taken. If you moved just a little bit the picture would turn out blurry. In the year of 1881 George Eastman started making dry plates (Dry plates were round disks that were used instead of film). Then in 1883, George Eastman created a thin strip of paper covered in gelatin emulsion and silver balide, which is what we call film. Finally, he invented the…

Eadweard Muybridge was the first photographer to capture motion with still images, create a new medium, and invention. His first work of art capturing motion was his piece called “Cantering, Saddled” on December of 1878. Printed on collotype, a method of printing high-quality prints by using hardened gelatin without the use of a screen, on 19x24 ⅛ inch sheet, can now be viewed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Collotype uses heat and cold water treated dichromate-sensitized gelatin which is…

‘darkened room.’ It uses a lens and a sequence of mirrors to project an image of the surrounding landscape onto a viewing surface.” (http://www.scopex.co.za/files/Camera-obscura-ML-1207.pdf) “The principle of optics that makes it work was light travels in a straight line and when some of the rays reflected form a bright subject passes through a small hole in thin material they do not scatter but cross and reform as an upside down image on a flat surface held parallel to the hole.”…

An image alone has the ability to be worth a thousand words, but paired together with poetry, it expresses much more. Emily Dickinson, an American poet, created true works of art that often had ambiguous meaning. Dickinson’s poetry continuously constructed dominant images that, needless to say, didn’t need illustrations. Emily Dickinson’s Civil War poems specifically, contain descriptions of graphic images that also fit well with the photo taken by American Photographer, Timothy H. O’Sullivan.…

I have a very simple question to ask you. Why do we take pictures? For hundreds of years pictures have been taken to capture the moments of things important to us. Every day millions of pictures are taken from our smart phones and posted to social media to document our every move. Who you’re hanging out with. What you ate for lunch. Maybe you went to a concert over the weekend and took a picture of your favorite band, or went hiking and captured the view from the top of a mountain. And let’s…

compositions stand out to the viewer so individuals can generate an idea and connect with the picture. They can have repeated geometric shapes that take social forms and used for different motivations to create an infinite combination of scenes. These three images taken by different photographers, Karl Struss, Over the House Tops, 1912, Tosh Matsumoto, Untitled, 1950, and Dan Weiner, Bus Boycott, Montgomery, 1956, all have related geometric figures…

The revolution from printed word and drawings, to photography completely changed the way a story could be told. Our visual system evolved to process images quickly, whereas text, which only appeared a few thousand years ago, translates concrete information into abstract markings, which removed context , and requires our visual system to scan each individual characters, one at a time, recognize them, and piece them together into words, then sentences, and so on . Although, written word and…

nation. Photographers captured images of everyday life, battle scenes, but most influential, the aftermath of the war. This essays aims to discuss how the war was represented through the use of photography as well as, how war photography affects people. These war photographs produced feelings of devastation, and desire and it exposes a partial truth…

media’s attention, the National Portrait Gallery of Australia’s National Photographic Portrait Prize 2018 accurately depicts the psychological inner life an individual and the constraining forces that make them into the individual portrayed in the image. The exhibition displays 43 photographs from photographers around Australia, the collections representing modern Australian youth culture and the issues and beliefs that shape its own identity in a bravely optimistic manner. The works of Filomena…