Photography

In Richard Misrach exquisite photograph, it displays a portrait of Border Cantos as a land separated by a dark red fence and a split road heading three different ways. The purpose of art is evoke emotion and thought in the viewer. Admirers of the art piece will see the physical characteristics, or the explicit portion and the deeper meaning and emotion, or the implicit portion, of the art. As you look at this artwork that portrays the 2,000 miles long border between the United States and Mexico,…

There are so many options and ideas around photography in advertising, I love a challenge and during my research I came across the idea to photograph gemstones. Fire and brilliance are two categories under which we would find gems stones and diamonds. Optical gemology is the identifications term used to describe the characteristics of the color, transparency and luster of these breathtaking stones. The lusters the quality of light that reflects from the surface of a stone, observing the…

“In the beginning, photography was my passport to meeting people, learning, and experiencing new cultures. Now it is more than just a passport. It’s a tool for creating awareness and understanding across cultures, communities, and countries; a tool to make sense of our commonalities in the world we share,” quote by Ami Vitale. Ami Vitale is a world known photographer, from being a Nikon Ambassador to being a National Geographic magazine photographer. Vitale has a degree in International Studies…

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…

1) The photography effect had a great impact on the way art was viewed in the 19th century. Photography caused a shift to Romanticism, which emerged as a reaction to the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. It searched for a direct connection to nature rather than subject itself to scientific, industrial rules and regulation. It created an alternate world, one that appreciated the beauty and simplicity of nature, in response to the materialism of the industrialization. This is evident when…

more than thirty years later, the British government tried several times to document their progress in the Crimean War through the use of photography. Ever since then, war photographs have been and will continue to be used as a way to evoke a certain reaction from the public. Leaders will show positive or negative images and use the pros and cons of photography to their advantage to manipulate the minds of the population. Unfortunately, there are many ways that photos can be manipulated to serve…

Here, he met a woman named Gerdna who he taught photography. She would then accompany him on his assignments to photograph the war. They ended up getting engaged, but sadly when he was away on an assignment, Gerdna was killed in Berlin. He met two other women in the future, the first being Elaine Justin…

My long term goal is to be a photographer. I will be telling you many things about photography and why I find it important. Also I will be telling you everything I know about it and how you need to get into a photography job. First you want to start taking art class in high school so you get the feel of art because that ties in with photography most of the time. Also if you don’t break through with photography you could always fall back on art. In high school you would need to work hard at a…

I am particularly proud of the portfolio piece titled “Storyboard Photography - Model Car”. This was a very personal project to me, and I wondered how could I represent and photograph instances of the lifelong adventures I’ve had with my mother’s car. Discovering a replica model car, I realized I would be able to make sets to photograph the car’s story. This story takes place during a seasonal shift, and to show that I had to create appropriate environments. Any household resources I found were…

“Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.” – Berenice Abbott A photograph displays more to the human eye than expected; on “looking” at photographs we are captivated in an artistic narrative formed – it’s said that we are engaged in personal creation that is not provided with given endings, reflections are modified, something’s are altered, memories are re-defined, and “new” memories and expectations develop. With this being said,…