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Racial And Ethnic Half Lives
1,652 wordsThe appalling conditions of New York Citys immigrants were disclosed by Jacob Riis in How the Other Half Lives. Being an immigrant from Denmark himself, Riis, felt it was his duty to present others the disturbing life that many immigrants endured, including children. Riis, a photographer, was able to portray the slums as no other person had been able to do before. He brought to light the crime, disease, and hopelessness of the tenements. His book and photographs led to legislation throughout New...
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1,335 wordsMany photographers in the past have had dynamic careers that have influenced many up and coming photographers and will for years to come. Because their work at the time has been preserved in inspirational and innovative images of their eras rock legends and cultural icons, similarities yet progressions can been seen through a comparison of photographers such as David Bailey, Anne Liebovitz and Rankin one of today's most talked about photographers. David Baileys career was at a high between the y...
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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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Second World War Newspapers And Magazines
1,300 words... great, talented photographers we would have a very boring media. Photojournalists cover all sorts of events, from simple everyday things to important meeting with politicians and wars. Carl Mydans was another great photographer of Life Magazine. He followed General Douglas MacArthur to the Philippines in January 1945 this was when America was at war with Japan. Mydans could have easily been killed by enemy fire, but he continued on, producing some great photographs that the public would late...
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Nuclear Family Family History
1,392 wordsSince their inception in the 1860 s, family albums have played an important role as the promoters of familial ideology and treasures of familial memory. Most family photograph albums in containing a great variety of items, both identified and unidentified, from different periods and of varying quality, held together by their collective identity with the family (Schoeman, 1996: 8). The function of familial photography is to fix perception and memory, represent a method of preserving memories, doc...
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Unique Photographers Their Lives And Art
1,924 wordsFrom 1979 to present there have been many famous photographers, but there are three who really stick out: Jerry Uelsmann, Freeman Patterson, and Annie Slivovitz. These three photographers had very distinct photography and viewed photography as more than pictures but as pigments of emotions and feelings. These photographers are very famous for their pictures and one photographer is known for her help in third world countries. The first photographer that I would like to mention in my research pape...
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African American Culture Harlem Renaissance
1,768 wordsFrom April 6 to June 3, 2001, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art is hosting the exhibit Reflections in Black: Smithsonian African American Photography The First One Hundred Years, 1842 1942. This display is a portion of the original from the Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture of the Smithsonian Institution. The original exhibit includes works from 1942 to the present. Deborah Willis is the curator of both the original and Bowdoins abridged exhibits. The exhibit a...
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The Influence Of Discourse On Artwork Cindy Bernard
2,344 wordsThe Influence of Discourse on the Artwork of Cindy Bernard Over nearly two decades, Cindy Bernard's artwork has progressed and she has become one of the truly accomplished contemporary artists of today. Writings and discourses of her work have appeared in LA Weekly, Flash Art, The Serpentine Gallery, and the New Times. For Cindy Bernard, the discourse of her work has not created or transformed her art, but rather, her art has transformed and created the discourse. Cindy Bernard was born and rais...
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Andy Warhol Closely Related
1,504 wordsEnvironmental sustainability of Pop Art The retrospective confirmed Warhol's importance as a painter while simultaneously extending his longstanding interest in environmental art -- or installation art, or more plainly, "decor. " This interest helps us to elaborate on the environmental sustainability of art using Warhols works. Judging from "Portraits of the 70 s, "decor" continues to be at least as important to Warhol as portraiture. Following plans devised by his longtime collaborator, David W...
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Taking Pictures One Year
594 wordsClarence John Laughlin was born in 1905 in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He lived on a plantation near New Iberia. He attended high school for one year in 1918 due to the death of his father. He then worked at many jobs from 1924 to 1935. Laughlin s interests were with the writings of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and the French Symbolists. They inspired him to write poems and stories. In 1934 he began to take photographs. His first one-man show was held, in 1936, at the Isaac Delgado Museum, New Orleans. Lau...
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Digital Imaging Digital Technology
1,298 wordsJulia Short Digital imaging inevitably undermines photography's status as an essentially truthful medium. Discuss. Until recently, at least, it was possible to define photography as a process involving optics, light sensitive material and the chemical processing of this material to produce prints or slides. Today though, that definition is subject to change. Technological innovations are shifting photography from its original chemical basis towards electronics It is not overstating it to say tha...
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Alfred Stieglitz Los Angeles
1,210 wordsEdward Weston: American Photographer Daniel J Brophy History of Photography Term Paper? Weston is, in the real sense, one of the few creative artists of today. He has recreated the matter-forms and forces of nature; he has made these forms eloquent of the fundamental unity of the work. His work illuminates man? s inner journey toward perfection of the spirit. ? Ansel Adams, Date Unknown Edward Weston (1886 - 1958) may seem like he was a confused man in trying to find his photographic goal (s). J...
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Alfred Stieglitz Los Angeles
1,198 words? Weston is, in the real sense, one of the few creative artists of today. He has recreated the matter-forms and forces of nature; he has made these forms eloquent of the fundamental unity of the work. His work illuminates man? s inner journey toward perfection of the spirit. ? Ansel Adams, Date Unknown Edward Weston (1886 - 1958) may seem like he was a confused man in trying to find his photographic goal (s). Just like many other photographers, both of his time and now, he strove to find what tr...
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19 Th Century 20 Th Century
4,737 wordsPhotography is a technique of producing permanent images on sensitized surfaces by means of the photochemical action of light or other forms of radiant energy. In todays society, photography plays important roles as an information medium, as a tool in science and technology, and as an art form, and it is also a popular hobby. It is essential at every level of business and industry, being used in advertising, documentation, photojournalism, and many other ways. Scientific research, ranging from t...
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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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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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Lecture Notes Contemporary Society
1,789 wordsPhotographs do not simply serve as visual mementos of a family's past. Through its inherent conventions the camera and its by-products, the photographic image and the family album, help to construct and perpetuate the ideology of the family whilst simultaneously acting as an equalizing force in society. The function of the family photograph does not dissolve at this point. Family photographs and snapshots also preserve ancestral history and perpetuate memories, thereby acting as a means of famil...
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