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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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Lee Harvey Oswald Killer Or Scapegoat
1,086 wordsOn November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas, "the Crime of the Century" took place. President John F. Kennedy was shot in Dealey Plaza while touring through the city in his open-roof limousine. After the shots were fired, police began looking for suspects. One hour after the shooting, Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for murdering a police officer. One hour after that he was charged with killing the President. Was Lee Harvey Oswald the real killer, or was he merely the scapegoat hired by some agency out...
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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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Photographic Influence On Degas Work
1,594 wordsWhat, if any impact did photography play in the role of arts evolution, in particular, what impact did photography have in the works of the impressionist painters. Two obviously conflicting opinions arise through texts by Aaron Scharf and Kirk Vanerdoe. Scharf argues that the impact of snapshot photography and the invention and wide distribution of portable cameras had a significant influence on the works of the painter Degas. Vanerdoe takes the opportunity to question what makes an influence si...
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Art And Technology Schwartz Moffat
1,714 wordsMany modern artists use high technology equipment in their works. Whereas traditionally artists used a pencil or brush to make beautiful works of art, artists in the early twenty-first century are now using sound, video or computer generated images. Digital art developed from simple patterns and shapes made using computer programs to finished works of art which can look as realistic as a watercolour or oil painting. Modern art exhibitions often include more videos and installations than traditio...
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Lieutenant Jimmy Cross Ted Lavender
1,745 words... light. For a few moments, perhaps, they would fall silent, lighting a joint and tracking its passage from man to man, inhaling, holding in the humiliation. Scary stuff, one of them might say. But then someone else would grin or flick his eyebrows and say, Roger-dodger, almost cut me a new asshole, almost. There were numerous such poses. Some carried themselves with a sort of wistful resignation, others with pride or stiff soldierly discipline or good humor or macho zeal. They were afraid of ...
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Polar Regions Magnetic Field
612 wordsPioneer 10 was launched in 1972 and flew within 81, 000 miles (130, 000 kilometers) of Jupiter on Dec. 3, 1973. The probe revealed the severe effects of Jupiter's radiation belt on spacecraft. Pioneer 10 also reported the amount of hydrogen and helium in the planet's atmosphere. In addition, the probe discovered that Jupiter has an enormous magnetosphere. Pioneer 10 was launched toward Jupiter on an Atlas rocket in 1972. After reaching the planet in late 1973, it made the first close-up photogra...
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Spanish Civil War Success And Failure
1,166 wordsPicasso's Guernica is unique and unlike any other photograph or painting of a historical war scene. Historical photographs show scenes and capture moments in time, but when viewing them an intangible "wall" exists between the viewer and the photograph. The difference between photographs and original paintings is that the painting allows the viewer to break through the "wall" and actually experience the feelings and emotions expressed in the painting. "We only see what we look at and to look is a...
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Alexis De Tocqueville Ayn Rand
1,918 words... ark is acquitted. V. THE TWO TRIALS: LITERARY METHOD & LEGAL METHOD The Cortland trial, then, turns out quite differently from the Stoddard trial. In the Cortland trial Roark does not rely on the direct perception of the decision-maker to render a normative judgment. Indeed, he cannot, for it is a way of life that must be judged. Interestingly, we the readers can make precisely the sort of judgment Roark sought in the Stoddard trial because we have been able to perceive the competing way...
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Jacques Cousteau Perpetual Dreamer Edgerton
377 wordsEdgerton enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a graduate student, but he remained there for approximately 60 years. At MIT, Doc Edgerton was a professor of electrical engineering. As a graduate student at MIT, Edgerton developed an electric strobe light with which he produced flashes of 1 / 500, 000 second. When the flash is used in a series, the progressive stages of an object in motion can be recorded on the same piece of film. An example of this would be Tennis by Edgerton...
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Cecil Beaton Firstly Beaton War
1,850 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 ...
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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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Missiles In Cuba Missiles In Turkey
2,642 wordsJohn F. Kennedys greatest triumph as President of the United States came in 1962, as the worlds two largest superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States, edged closer and closer to nuclear war. The Soviet premier of Russia was caught arming Fidel Castro with nuclear weapons. The confrontation left the world in fear for thirteen long days, with the life of the world on the line. In 1962, Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of the Soviet Union, employed a daring gambit. He secretly ordered the place...
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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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End Of The War Queen Victoria
719 wordsMathew B. Brady: Civil War Photographer Mathew B. Brady: Civil War Photographer was written by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk. Elizabeth Van Steenwyk has written many good books for young people including: Saddlebag Salesmen, The California Missions, Frederic Remington, The California Gold Rush: West with the Forty-Niners, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Woman of Courage. Elizabeth now lives in San Marino, California with her husband. Mathew B. Brady was born somewhere between 1823 and 1824. His early life is...
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Photojournalists Need Freedom Picture Was Printed People
763 wordsPhotojournalist need freedom in order to present us with the facts. What would we see if every picture were regulated? Wed see flowers, happy people and maybe the odd kiss. Wed never see the truth about the world. Everything would be a fantasy. If the world was perfect, then by all means, show the happy people. I dont care. But, showing a fantasy is like lying about the world, or denying us of the truth. We need truth, not fantasies. News is news, not some candy coated fantasy that some people w...
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Japanese Americans Life Magazine
1,679 wordsOn " Life Magazine, December, 1941 " Essay, Research On " Life Magazine, December, 1941 " Allan G. Boost Sesshu Fosters prose poem " Life Magazine, December, 1941 " presents a stark and brutally honest commentary on racism during WWII by targeting one of Americas most beloved and omnipresent magazines. On December 22, 1941, fifteen days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, LIFE magazine reached the newsstands and American homes with a large cover shot of the A...
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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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Existence Of Fairies Rational Thought Castle
532 wordsPhotographing Fairies is one man s search for what is real in a world that has horribly disappointed him. After losing his wife the day after their wedding, the main character, Castle, losing all hope and all lust for life. During World War I, he is indifferent to imminent danger and seems to have to compunction about losing his life to a German bullet. After the war, he carries on his daily routines without a smile or real purpose. He goes through the routines of manufacturing photographs of th...
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20 Th Century Forms Of Art
578 wordsPhotography and Fact For many years photography has been used to document the most significant of events, whether they affect an entire society, like a war, or a specific persons life, such as a wedding. The reason that photography is used for such occasions instead of painting, drawing or sculpting is quite simple. It is because photography is the most remarkable of the fine arts. Other forms of art, are aesthetically pleasing and important in their own rite, but photography is so monumental be...
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