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19 Th Century Sierra Nevada
1,000 wordsAlbert Bierstadt's Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California is a scenic canvas oil painting on display at the National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC. Created in 1868, this enormous painting is approximately six by ten feet in size (Honour and Fleming, 2000). The subject matter of this piece is typical of Bierstadt, who is known for his detailed landscapes, especially those of the Rockies and Sierras of the American West. Collectively, Alberts works are manipulated and slightly ...
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Dorothea Lange Poor Health
311 wordsDorothea Lange was an American photographer born in 1895 in Hoboken, New Jersey. She began her career in 1914 with professional photographer Arnold Genthe. Genthe gave Lange her very first camera and this began her unbridled passion for photography. In 1917, Lange attended Columbia University where she got the opportunity to study with renowned photographer, Clarence White. Shortly after completing her studies she began her legendary career in San Francisco as a freelance photographer. It wasnt ...
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Work Of Art Jerry Uelsmanns Photography
398 wordsJerry Uelsmanns was born in Detroit, Michigan on June 11, 1934. He began his studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology where he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. He continued on to Indiana University in 1960 and received his Masters degree. Uelsmann's first job was at the University of Florida in Gainesville teaching photography and in 1974 he became the graduate research professor of art at UF. He continues to work at the University while perfecting his metamorphosis ideas in ph...
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Dna Molecule Von Laue
1,115 wordsIn The Double Helix, a reader can find James D. Watson's first hand accounts of the competitive race in science that led to the discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule. The DNA research Watson and his colleagues took part in demanded knowledge in many areas of expertise, but the most important area was that of X-ray analysis. By creating photographic two dimensional pictures of the three dimensional DNA molecule, Watson and his team were able to analyze these pictures and determine that D...
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Cartier Bresson Work Time
624 wordsHenri Cartier-Bresson has been called "equivocal, ambivalent and accidental" 1 since his debut as a photojournalist. Amplified and enriched, the work of the photographer is revealed in all its grandeur. While he may appear to "be a hurried man or a traveler without luggage" 2, to quote a few of his titles, he is a poet, attentive to the act of love made with each photograph, and this is where the genius is revealed. From a desired distance, we discover simultaneously the geographer, who analyses...
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Critical Analysis Of Richard Billingham Photography
974 wordsRichard Billingham has established himself as one of the quintessential British artists of the 1990 s. While in many respects, his aesthetic style remains distinctive from that of other young British artists, his work concerns issues often explored by his contemporaries. In this essay, I will discuss a selection of what I believe to be his most interesting and definitive photographs, in addition to a comparison of Billingham's work, ideology, and myth with those of principal y Bas. The son of an...
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File Format State University
1,050 words... format is relatively old and often creates problems when an attempt is made to print on non-PostScript printers and high-resolution image setters. The PS format also has the problem with gray rectangles appearing when viewed in certain programs. Web graphics are made to transfer information through phone lines as quickly as possible and use the information to display images on the computer screen. Web file formats used for this reason are formats, which are made to display lower resolution, ...
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Semiological Approach Index Ical Film
605 wordsThere are several approaches to the film criticism and each approach provides us with certain information about the movie. Altogether, these approaches allow us to construct a complete characteristic or critique of a film and make it possible to understand better its meaning and its symbolism. In my opinion, semiological approach would be the best in showing information hidden in the movie on that subconscious level, which makes that special impact on the viewer. The word semiology is derived fr...
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History Of Color Photography
1,394 wordsHistory of Color Photography Color photographs have now gained the status of one of the most common commodities of modern living. It is quite impossible for us to imagine newspapers and magazines without them. However, it took a long time for the practitioners of photography to develop a reliable technique of color imaging. In 1777, Karl Shall discovered that silver chloride darkens, after it was being exposed to violet light. Thus, for the first time it became obvious for scientists that color ...
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German Forces Royal Family
917 wordsBeaton had taken pictures from the jungles of Burma and the hillside of China. Cecil Beaton s career as a royal photographer spans almost fifty years, from 1930 until 1979. In that period, he photographed nearly thirty members of the House of Windsor. A severe stroke in 1974 left Beaton paralysed in his right arm, but against all odds he taught himself to photograph with his left hand, resuming his photographic career three years later. Beaton died in 1980. Firstly, Beaton s experience during th...
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Allan Arbus Diane Arbus People
996 wordsDiane Nemerov was born in 1923 in New York City. Her father owned a fashionable Fifth Avenue department store called Russeks. His wife, Gertrude Russeks, family founded it and it is now defunct. The family lived in an apartment on Central Park West as they were comfortably wealthy. They were a very prosperous family which lead to Diane's sheltered childhood. She was educated at the Fieldstone and Ethical Culture schools which were very progressive institutes. This meant an overly protective, ove...
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Henri Becquerel Marie Curie
1,241 wordsHenri Henri Becquerel Henri Becquerel Henri Becquerel, a French physicist, was born in Paris on December 15, 1852. His grandfather, Antoine-Cesar Becquerel, had fought at the battle of Waterloo in 1815 and later earned a considerable reputation as a physicist. He made important contributions to the study of electrochemistry, meteorology, and agriculture. Henri father, Alexander-Edmond Becquerel, also made a name for himself in science. His research-included studies on photography, heat, and the ...
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President Of The United States Elected President
900 wordsIn History Of Photography Daguerreotypes In 1839 the Academy of Science in Paris, France made an announcement that would change our view on the world and ourselves forever. An artist named Louis Jacques Mand Daguerre and a amateur french scientist had developed a process by which a permanent image could be printed on a silver plated sheet of copper and the process could be duplicated and used commercially. France decided to give this gift to the world and thus the first Daguerreotype was born. A...
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Light Waves Light Rays
1,064 wordsToss a pebble in a pond -see the ripples? Now drop two pebbles close together. Look at what happens when the two sets of waves combine -you get a new wave! When a crest and a trough meet, they cancel out and the water goes flat. When two crests meet, they produce one, bigger crest. When two troughs collide, they make a single, deeper trough. Believe it or not, youve just found a key to understanding how a hologram works. But what do waves in a pond have to do with those amazing three- dimensiona...
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Scarlet Letter Energy Source
1,097 wordsHololiterature- A Holographic Interpretation Of The Scarlet Hololiterature- A Holographic Interpretation Of The Scarlet L Hololiterature: a Holographic Interpretation of the Scarlet Letter Comprehension of anything requires a framework already in place in order to place it in out sphere of reference. Especially those that are fuzzy or difficult to nail down. The brain and the atom are not fully understood, but by comparing functions, structures, and similar operations to known items or concepts ...
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Samuel Slater Photographic Memory One
880 wordsAmerican Industry in undoubtedly one of the strongest in the world. Numerous nations are recipients of many of our plethora of exports. From cars, to books, to corn, and everything in between. But where did this amazing system come from? Was it some aspiring urban businessman? Or maybe a tired housewife. It could have even been a son of a farmer. The system itself did not come from one person, but from a factory this person helped to build, with the blueprints in his mind. His name was Samuel Sl...
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Museum Of Art Irving Penn Work
1,085 wordsIrving Penn has always strived for the best presentation of his work, he has become a master printer, revitalizing the platinum-palladium process as well as working with new techniques. The combination of innovative photography and meticulous printing has made Irving Penn one of the most significant photographers of the twentieth century. Photographing a cake can be art, Irving Penn said when he opened his studio in 1953. Before long he was backing up his statement with a series of advertising i...
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Gerda Taro Endre Friedmann Capa
797 wordsRobert Capa The son of middle class Jewish parents, he was born Endre Friedmann in Budapest in what was then Austro-Hungary. He grew up under the dictatorship of Regent Nicholas Horthy but accepted the ideas of his role models, artist Lajos Kass k. Kass ks anti-authoritarian, anti-fascist, pro-labor, and pacifist beliefs influenced Capa and the rest of his life. At age 18 Capa was arrested by the secret police for his political activities. He was released through the intervention of his father b...
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Person Or Place Made You Feel Photograph
567 wordsDifferent people interpret photographs in many different ways. The way the photo is interpreted by a person can depend on what kind of job they have, how old they are, and how or where they grew up. Photos can also have an emotional effect on a person and bring back memories. How do you interpret the photograph on page one? Does it bring back any memories? How does the photograph make you feel? Jean Mohr says what is happening is Great Britain, in the country. A small girl was playing with her d...
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Portrait Photographers Portrait Photography Photographer
664 wordsThe Portrait Photography PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY The miniature portrait had retained its popularity with all social classes until the middle of the 19 th century, when it was replaced by the more intimate and more simply executed technique of photography. The earliest portrait photographers were thoroughly painterly in their approach, since they faced fierce competition from painters. Outstanding from the common run of the early portrait photographers were Mathew Brady, the team of Hill and Adamson...
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