War photography

mood first before they take the photo. According to “The War Photo No One Would Publish” by Torie Rose DeGhett says, “The image and its anonymous subject might have come to symbolize the Gulf War” (DeGhett 74). A photographer, Kenneth Jarecke, took photos of a charred Iraqi, which show what the true reality of warfare. Photograph gives viewers that were not there during the event a taste of it.…

William Henry Jackson, a man of ambition who loved to paint, write, and explore, but his greatest love was photography. Throughout his entire life, he devoted himself to the scenic and historic sites of the West, producing over a hundred thousand negatives. “He was the first person to photograph the wonders of Yellowstone and other places in the American West, as well as documenting the Civil War in a number of sketches.” (Weiser, 2003) Jackson was born in the small town of Keesville,…

Rethink Photojournalism Ismail Ferbous, photojournalist and freelancer, in his article, “Photography as Activism”, recounts a time a garment factory collapsed in Dhaka, Bangladesh and how photojournalism helped spread the word. Ferbous has “received a host of awards, including ones from the World Bank and the WHO” (Ferbous22). He also helped with a documentary in the New York Times, “The Deadly Cost of Fashion.” Ferbous has done countless numbers of documentary work from climate change and…

1)Production & Values: This photography was taken in New York, 1999. Maier took this image using a film camera in black and white. Her Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex camera is different from a normal SLR camera, as it has different viewfinder system, and enables Maier to view from above at her waist level, which provides the street photograph to be nature. Documentary photography is difficult to set up the camera with the shortage time, especially, the film camera that it takes longer than a…

discussed their views and arguments regarding the essence of photographs and how they affect our culture. However, each author had drastically different views on this topic. John Berger, an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet, argued that photography is not fine art but rather just a picture someone found important enough to record. In his article “Understanding a Photograph.” Christine Rosen a senior editor discussed both the positive and negative sides of photoshop and how it can be…

George became interested in photography when a coworker suggested he take a camera on a vacation to Santo Domingo in 1877. George never made the trip, but consequently this sparked his interest in photography. “ He would toil at the bank all day, six days a week, then spend his evenings… experimenting tirelessly with various photo emulsions” (Zinsmeister). This accidental…

College of Design in Pasadena, California” (Wikipedia). His work is influenced by the Dadaist and Surrealist of Marcel Duchamp. Marcel Duchamp was a French, “naturalized American” painter, sculptor, and writer. Dadaism was an art movement (“being anti-war”) in the beginning of the twentieth century (Wikipedia). Surrealists were members of a cultural movement in the early 1920s, which aims were to…

History Of Photography VM 203 13 October 2015 The Technical Evolution of Photography: 1825-1875 Photography, invented in the early 1800s, is one of the largest growing visual art forms and hobbies in the world today. Through photography, our society captures the present and records the past. It has affected our society socially, politically, and recreationally. Historically, photography provides an objective record of real events, as seen in the late 19th century with civil war photography.…

nudes, street life and fashion. Penn declared “that ‘photographing a cake can be art,’ his later work showed an astonishing ability to find the beauty in the commonplace” (Bernstein and Shapiro). But Penn’s contributions to fashion and editorial photography may have influenced and changed the field forever.…

Since the first apparition of photography it was considered to be a medium that will transcribe the reality. The camera was the first object that allowed us to frizz a moment. At that time only art like sculpture and painting were used to frizz and represent a moment in time. Photography was in a way the next step after the painting; it was the art that would really transcribe the reality by capturing what we all see. But what are the facts that gave credibility to the camera and is this…