Photograph

Childhood Memories I chose to research the study, “a picture is worth a thousand lies: using false photographs to create false childhood memories.” This research study was done by Wade, Garry, Read, and Lindsay. The participants were given four photographs to look at from their childhood. One of the photographs was doctored; it never happened. The goal of this experiment was to see if the doctored photograph would be enough to produce a false childhood memory in the participant. In this…

To manipulate one’s audience, one must “give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.” Award-winning director, Christopher Nolan clearly portrays this in his films through his trademark directorial style of editing with specific use of non-linear narrative and mise en scene to create tension for his audience Through closely analysing the open scenes of Nolan’s Memento (2000) and Inception (2010), the audience can understand Nolan’s directorial style and the…

A photograph has a lot of meaning to it, as in the article “Essay: Icons as Fast, Fiction and Metaphor” by Philip Gefter says. When we think about a historical event, we tend to think about a photograph first just like how Rosa Parks picture reminds us about the civil rights moments and equality. Gefter talks about how some photograph makes us think that we are actually in there even though we are not. There are a lot of stories, emotions behind a photograph and it is not easy to identify. We…

ink, and other media to create their own art. One artist, Ralph Goings who painted McDonalds Pickup in 1970 which has an old-fashioned car with bright sky, however, there is no one in the image. This image looks like a real photograph, but it was painted to look like a photograph. According to Goings, the location of the Mcdonalds “A McDonald's branch on a highway somewhere in the American South; in a parking lot out front, a white pickup truck in the merciless noon…

technique requires him to device simple and complex models and sculptures to photograph and they include aspects of everyday life and take inspiration from history. His work is usually associated with a photographic movement known as the “The Pictures Generation”. The photograph that I chose to discuss is a part of Casebere’s collection of flooded images he began in the late 1990s: Yellow Hallway #2. Yellow Hallway #2 is a photograph of a flooded yellow hallway between two staircases. The…

number of people using the camera throughout the centuries continues to proliferate and with the increase in popularity for this new media came various expansions and technological advancements to the camera as well as the methodology of taking a photograph itself. These advancements did not happen suddenly; the technology and advancements in photography we have today is the product of many centuries of work through a collective effort from many different intellectuals, artists and…

got extremely furious with insurance company after they posted her mourning photograph beside her husband’s hearse for the purpose of advertisements. The company did not even bother to seek the widow’s permission or rather inform her about it. Heidi Kirkpatrick was extremely distressed when she found out her emotional photograph over the facebook, posted by net finance relief to advertise their promotions. The photograph was not something to be publicly used for advertisement purposes said the…

The photograph provides me with the idea of “stuck in a box.” Maier was taking this photograph in the low angle, which makes the focus point on the boy’s face, and the viewer can clearly see his lonely eyes. I can clearly see a hopelessness from his eyes, which they also make me feel nostalgic. It could be said that he looked out the window and was waiting for someone such as his parents, friends, house, or neighborhood, which I believe that Maier was deeply understanding the inside feeling of…

depict a study involving 352 male and female high school students that were shown the effects of a victim's clothing on where the vignette was accompanied by either a photograph of the victim dressed provocatively or through a photograph of the victim dressed conservatively, or no photograph at all. For the students that viewed the photographs of the victims the students believed that the victims who wore more provocative clothing were more likely…

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 photographs are very well known all around the world, they have characteristics that make them stand out, have a certain way they were taken and they make a statement to society. First of Candy Cigarettes by Sally Mann was made in 1989 and is located…