War photography

Photography isn’t just being able to take a pretty picture. There are a lot of factors to think about when it comes to taking a picture. The most important thing to me when it comes to photography is when a picture tells a story. One photographer that I think tells amazing stories through her photographs is Margaret Bourke-White. Margaret was a photographer in the 1920’s. When Margaret was in college she did not dream about being a photographer she dreamed about being a Herpetologist. She once…

High School she became more interested in the field of art and began to write and play music. When her father was stationed in Phillippines during the Vietnam War, Leibovitz began taking more and more pictures. When she attended San Francisco Art Institute, she started to study painting and through those years she developed her photography skills. In 1970, she applied for a job with Rolling Stone magazine. “Leibovitz was on the scene at the White House the day President Richard Nixon resigned…

and Balsamo. From the four reads of the week by Ritchin and Balsamo, my main takeaway from Ritchin was the advancement of digital photography and how it has made it easier for photographers to tell their story through imagery, plus the added effect that tells a false story and Balsamo the unconscious consequence of technological innovations on culture. “Photography, as we have known it, is both ending and enlarging, with an evolving medium hidden inside it as in a Trojan horse, camouflaged,…

“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…

analyzes four different documentary projects. These projects include photographs from Richard Pratt, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Francis Benjamin Johnston, as well as amateur photographers. Each of these projects illustrates the different ways photography was used to demonstrate the civilization of Native American Indian children. In addition, they allow us to observe how the meaning of photographs can change over time. Although these photographs were once seen as evidence of the progress in…

Visual Communication Term Paper Introduction The photo The Struggling Girl by Kevin Carter, was a war photograph that brought the attention of millions to the struggle of Sudan. In this paper the photo will be broken down and analyzed into six unique perspectives that the class of COMM 300 learned about all semester. These perspectives are as follow: the personal perspective, which is what my thoughts of the image were after first seeing it. The second is the historical perspective, giving the…

Photoshop is behind many photojournalists’ downfalls. There is a thing line between correcting the color or brightness in the photo and cropping in or out an unwanted object in the photo. Being a photojournalist you have to be extra cautious in order to not cross that line. However, last year in 2016, photographer Steve McCurry was accused of doing this very thing. McCurry was first called out by Paolo Viglione, a fellow photographer, when an image from Cuba was found where the Photoshop editing…

because of that reason the creators produce illustrations as something never seen before such as artwork so profound that the audience is drawn to it and are unable to get drive it out of their minds. This is what links the unnatural liveliness in photography with advertisements, especially in America. Instead of creating artwork for purely visual pleasure, it is formed for the subconscious sale of commodities. Why make miniscule emolument when it is much more pleasant to sell-out and generate a…

The subject of war and death comes with a sense of loss, terror, conflict and pain. Two examples of poetry that present the subject of war and death are Carol Ann Duffy’s poem, “War Photographer,” and Robert Bly’s poem, “Driving Through Minnesota During the Hanoi Bombings.” Both of these poems present vivid images of the battle, show the devastating feelings towards war and provide the psychological impact on those involved in war. It is as if the “War Photographer” has captured similar…

Myra Collier Photography 1 Schroder 25 April 2018 Annie Leibovitz Photographer Annie Leibovitz was a streetwork photographer along with a portrait photographer. She was born on October 2, 1949 in Waterbur Conneticut. She is currenty 69 years old and she is world famous. Her great grand-parents were immigrants from Europe. Leibovitz is the 3rd of six children. She took her first pictures when stationed in the Philippines during the Vietnam war. While in high school she became interested in art…