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I chose to do Peter Lik to be my photographer because I think he does exceptional work in taking landscape and nature photographs. My favorite pictures are outdoors ones and I feel I can kinda relate since that’s what I enjoy doing most. Peter Lik was born in 1959 in Melbourne, Australia. He is not yet deceased, but the date of his birth is unknown. He is very well known because he has several galleries open and has traveled tons of places and gets to know them and writes books about where he…

William Albert Allard is photographer of people. Allard was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1937, and studied photography at the University of Minnesota and the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts. He started his photography career as a National Geographic photo intern in 1964. He has contributed to 42 articles in the magazine, not only as a photographer but as a writer. Allard likes to photograph people in remote locations and locations where people would never see other than through…

the last photographer hired by Life Magazine when Larry Burrows died in February 1971. The famous magazine ceased publication the following year. He then joined the French agency Gamma before co-founding Contact Press Images with Robert Pledge in New York in 1976. Contact Press Images is entering…

In today’s digital world, photographs are commonly described with rudimentary adjectives such as pretty, beautiful, or other well used terms to depict how they appeal to the viewer. Years ago, when the world appeared to spin a tad slower and life looked as if it were a little less complicated, people had more of an opportunity to look around and not only see, but feel the beauty of Mother Nature. One better known photographer of this time who portrayed not only beauty, but also emotion in his…

The mural on the side of Roosevelt Community Church depicts a man with his arms spread wide like an eagle. This mural is beautiful but very confusing. It is a man without skin whose arms are spread wide, since there is no skin passerby’s can see are muscles bones and tendons. When I first saw the mural I thought to myself, “what the heck could this possibly stand for?” I sat there staring at the mural and after about ten to fifteen minutes I still just sat there dumbfounded as to what the mural…

What is noise in photography? Why is it a concern for stock photographs? Noise in photography is color specks in areas where there shouldn’t be any. They usually appear when you are using a high ISO or a long exposure. It is a concern because if the image was enlarged, the noise would be more noticeable. 6. The photographer Lisette Model once said, “Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.” What did she mean by this? Do you agree or disagree with her? What is easy and…

the marching band that performed the Christo and Jeanne-Claude inspired production. The best part of the experience was receiving a letter from Christo saying how much he appreciated our recreation of his works on the day we placed 6th at nationals. Images of the artwork also have an emotional impact for me. The color saffron has always made me think of happiness, and greatly adds to the affect of the…

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…

Reconnaissance by artist Christine Hiebert is a shining example of simplistic minimalist art that seeks to demonstrate a wide narrative of meanings and ideas. By creating this piece Hiebert has managed to encompass expansive social paradigms reserved for the most socially attuned artists. Beginning with a formal examination of the piece brings the viewer to their initial inspection of the piece Reconnaissance. Featured in the Davis center of Wellesley College the piece is primarily constructed…

in Beijing China. the Mohist philosopher anya mentioned the effect of an inverted image forming through a pinhole. The image of an inverted Chinese pagoda is mentioned in Duan Chengshi’s book “Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang" written during the Tang Dynasty which occurred in the years 618–907. A Philosopher by the name of Mo Tsu was then the first known person on record to record the formation of an inverted image from a pinhole camera down. The pinhole in the pinhole camera is acting as the…