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Motor oil, Lard, glue, cigarettes, shellac. What do these items have in common? The disturbing truth is they are commonly used in food ads to create a 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…

the visual artist is the medium of photography. Allan Sekula explores what it means to take a picture in modern society. There are many possibilities within the realm of photography. The power of this art form is a point of view without the interpretation of man. The camera is technically the one creating the photograph, so there are minimal effects from the hand of man in photography. Film photography is an art “in which objects preserve, mathematically their forms.” Photography perfectly…

a day seemingly storing their pictures on social media for all to devour anytime they choose. Many of the photos that my friends post online are edited with some sort of software that they have downloaded or with software that is included in their camera applications. Many of them use the photo editing apps to enhance their pictures by removing flaws, enhancing the vibrancy of colors, and putting text over their pictures, just to name a few. I have one friend that apparently thinks she has…

question would be, does it exist? The term "perfect" itself is misleading, as nothing can be truly flawless, especially in society's critical point of view. However, there is a career which has incredibly many possibilities, the only limit is imagination. Notably, photography has captured the creative minds of geniuses for ages, practically since the first camera was invented, and it requires a certain character, someone who is courageous and inventive. Photographers must have a high school…

past experiences and personal reality. Otherwise his images would be meaningless, on an analogical level, technically flawed photographs which would be irrelevant (as according to Talbot’s thinking, they would be regarded as such). Graham affronts the view that every image (of the world), be it “natural” or “artificial”, is a construction. Apparent through American night, where the collection is a calculated grouping of images created to achieve an emotive or psychological response from the…

beauty in the Native Americans and saw the cultural significance of their swiftly dying race. Painters would have created murals to this historic way of life. Poets would have composed sonnets; however, Curtis was a photographer. His brush was his camera. Therefore, he chose to express his respect and admiration for the fading Plains Indians and share it with the world by capturing it with his own unique artform:…

used to shape the public’s knowledge through means such as staged photos, photo manipulation, and photos portrayed in the media. These photos have been used to give a visual taste of history all the way from World Wars to nationwide depressions. The camera has been a very significant part of history due to the fact of it giving the opportunity to see what things looked like during different times. Photographers like Henry Robinson, who was an English pictorialist photographer best known for…

representations. Photojournalism employed images in order to tell new stories of far-away places, including the horrors of war far from the home front. This allowed for ‘virtual witnessing’ of views people had previously never seen before . Soon after, in the late nineteenth-century, the mass-market box camera was available to everyone , which helped to break barriers in class. Both print and photography gave people from all walks of life the capability to communicate ideas, transforming the…

because photographs such as the one I chose, are able to be reflective of events happening away from that area, and rather than creating anxiety for the person being photographed, they form an appreciation for the model’s bravery to step in front of the camera and put their vulnerable self out to the public. In the United States, citizens…

question would be, does it exist? The term "perfect" itself is misleading, as nothing can be truly flawless, especially in societies critical point of view. However, there is a career which has incredibly many possibilities, the only limit is imagination. Notably, photography has captured the creative minds of geniuses for ages, practically since the first camera was invented, and it requires a certain character, someone who is courageous and inventive. Photographers must have a high school…