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Hand Held First Introduced
1,065 wordsEdwin Land and George Wheelwright III founded Polaroid Corporation in 1936. The interlocking rings of Polaroid filters have been the emblems of the Polaroid Corporation for over sixty years. Edwin H. Land first demonstrated one-step photography at a meeting of the Optical Society of America on February 21, 1947. Following that, the first one-step camera with color film was invented in 1963. Since then, the company has come a long way. In 1998, the Polaroid Corporation expanded distribution to ov...
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Paris In 1921 Australian Photographer Man
523 words(1890 - 1976), Man Ray was born in Philadelphia, American photographer, and leading figure in the artistic avant-garde in Paris of the 1920 s. He studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City, and held his first one-man show of paintings in 1912. With his friend, the French painter Marcel Duchamp, he helped to found the New York City Dada group in 1917. Under Duchamp's influence, he began to work with new materials and techniques, for example, painting with an airbrush on glass and ...
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Black And White Alfred Stieglitz
1,212 wordsAlfred Stieglitz, was born in January 1 st, 1864, in Hoboken, New Jersey, and died in July 13 th, 1946, in New York City. In 1902 Stieglitz founded the Photo-Secession Group, as a protest against the conventional photography of the time. He took pictures in a time when photography was considered a only scientific curiosity and not art. The controversy over the art value of photography became widespread. Stieglitz began to fight for the recognition of his chosen medium. Alfred Stieglitz, one of t...
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Black And White Tremendous Amount
1,546 wordsIn every crisis situation whether war, deep poverty, or natural disaster children are the greatest victims. They are the weakest physically; therefore they are the first to succumb to disease or starvation. Due to their age, they are incapable of understanding why they are forced out of their homes, why their neighbors have gone against them, or why they are forced in to refugee camps with no explanation. With no responsibility for their fates, they are by definition innocent. They are full of e...
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Photographer Work Life
539 wordsI had no idea that you were such a great photographer. I frequently heard that I was a good photographer, but it never really sunk in. I constantly wondered if I could ever be another Able Adams or Luis De Luca. While choosing classes for my sophomore year, I debated whether I wanted to take a simple wildlife development course or a course that would stimulate me intellectually. Little did I know that my decision would dramatically change my future. Taking photojournalism was definitely a life c...
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Newspapers And Magazines Tim O
1,317 wordsTHE CHRONOLOGICAL STAGES OF PHOTOJOURNALISM The origins of photojournalism can be seen in documentary photography as early as the 1870 s. People were interested as to what far away countries looked like and what famous people looked like but never had the chance to see them. Photographers such as Roger Fenton went out and took photographs of the English troops in the Crimea. Over the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, Matthew Brady brought together many photographers including Tim O Sullivan to c...
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Critical Analysis Of Richard Billingham Photography
1,013 words... trophic and disorienting; still, one might notice that Billingham chose to photograph the old man and then publish the photograph, rather than immediately picking him up and cleaning him off (Lewis). Billingham's behavior can be regarded as one of callousness and distance, or perhaps one of simple routine. As stated by Gordon Burn, every night [Billingham] came in from college and Ray would be lying passed-out on the bed; checking his breathing was always the first thing he did. So taking pi...
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Digital Photography Versus Traditional Film
637 wordsRochester is Kodak town. When people think of Kodak, they think about Kodak film. Film has always been necessary ingredient for the development of pictures. For the past fifty years, Kodak has depended on its sales of film for its profit. The introduction of a digital cameras, which do not require film, is causing a downfall in purchases of Kodak's film. Kodak's dilemma is figuring out what people will be buying in the future as the consumer weighs the merits of film-base photography versus the ...
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Claude Monet Industrial Revolution
1,995 words"The Impressionists were subjective painters, who looked at nature in their own individual ways. The results were, hardly surprisingly, very different, when we consider the divergent styles of say Monet, Degas, Renoir, Gauguin, and Seurat. Perhaps the greatest achievement of Impressionism was to capture the effect of real sunlight on canvas. It is possibly this that made their pictures the most popular, and the most expensive, of the 20 th century. " Impressionism began in the late 1800 s in Fra...
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Time And Space Motion Picture
1,020 wordsHistory of film has been dominated by the discovery and testing of the paradoxes inherent in the medium itself. Film uses machines to record images of life; it combines still photographs to give the illusion of continuous motion; it seems to present life itself, but it also offers impossible un realities approached only in dreams. The motion picture was developed in the 1890 s from the union of still PHOTOGRAPHY, which records physical reality, with the persistence-of-vision toy, which made draw...
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Art Students League Georgia And Alfred Stieglitz
1,826 words'Well, ' He said earnestly, examining the huge canvas with its large bold strokes of deep blue on a background of fantastic yellow patches. 'It looks very strong. The paint is applied with a wild vitality. I'd say it's a man's work. ' 'I told you so. 's aid the first girl who's name was Amy. At least that's what her sweater said. 'Well the label says Stacy Conover. That's a girls name. ' Complained the second girl. 'Jan, it can be a guy's name too. ' This sort of argument occurs at almost every ...
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Kodak Competing In The Digital Age
2,150 wordsKODAK-COMPETING IN THE DIGITAL AGE (1) Since the time when Eastman Kodak Company was founded in 1892, it always strived to maintain a customer friendly reputation, which was one of the most important factors that enabled Company to remain competitive on the market of photographic equipment, up until today. Kodak's advertisement campaigns always emphasize on the easiness with which Companys products can be used. In its turn, this made many people to associate Kodak with the scientific progress, i...
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Going On Instinct Primatology In Film
2,762 wordsGoing on Instinct: Gender ing Primatology in Film Melinda Kanner dwells on popular construction of primatology by the example of the films Instinct (1999) and Gorillas in the Mist (1988). The author is concerned with the question of how cultural preoccupations and tensions are revealed in [these] creations of essentially new versions of professions (Kanner n. p. ) as the practices of medicine, scholarship, and law have been drastically changed and transformed in film and television. The scientis...
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The First Chapter Of John Book Ways Seeing
1,523 wordsThe first chapter of John Berger's book Ways of Seeing, as well as the whole book, is penetrated with the idea that images occupy the central place in peoples life. The author believes that the so called iconic signs are the best way to convey feelings and emotions. Berger writes: It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it The relation between what we see and what we know is n...
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Visual Art Work
319 wordsCosta Sakellariou Visual art can definitely be seen as a language. With every artist there is always some sort of meaning that they are trying to convey to the viewers of their work. The means of how they deliver that message is the language in which their work uses. In Costa Sakellariou? s work I especially felt there was some sort of language being spoken. Photography is a class of the visual arts that one can probably interpret the language being spoken a lot easier. In high school I took pho...
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Floppy Disk Digital Cameras
532 wordsDigital cameras allow computer users to take pictures and store the photographed images digitally instead of on traditional film. With some digital cameras, a user downloads the stored pictures from the digital camera to a computer using special software included with the camera. With others, the camera stores the pictures directly on a floppy disk or on a PC Card. A user then copies the pictures to a computer by inserting the floppy disk into the disk drive or the PC Card into a PC Card slot. O...
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Digital Cameras Police Department
773 wordsThe use of digital cameras for procedures such as collecting fingerprint evidence is also gaining wide acceptance. Digital cameras operate much like traditional cameras except that instead of images being transferred to film, they are stored on the cameras hard drive. Up to 48 images can be stored and then downloaded from the camera to Macintosh computers or Pcs. In Newport Beach, Calif. , a small, affluent Orange County community with a population less than 70, 000, the police department is usi...
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Crime Scene Physical Evidence
3,240 wordsForensic Science: Proper Crime Scene Techniques. Essay, Forensic Science: Proper Crime Scene Techniques. The word Forensic is derived from the Latin forests, meaning of the forum. 1 In ancient Rome, the forum was where governmental debates were held, but it was also where trials were held the court house. From that, forensic science has come to mean the application of the natural and physical science to the resolution of matters within a legal context 2. Forensic Science can be viewed as a tripa...
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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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Margaret Bourke White First Western Photographer Russia
1,761 wordsMargaret Bourke-White was born on June 14 th, 1904, in the Bronx, New York. Her father, Joseph White, was an inventor and engineer, and her mother, Minnie Bourke, was forward thinking woman, especially for the early 1900 s. When Margaret was very young, the family moved to a rural suburb in New Jersey, so that Joseph could be closer to his job. Margaret, along with her sister Ruth, were taught from an early age by their mother. Her mother was strict in monitoring their outside influences, limiti...
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