Brooks Jensen: Achieving The Real Value Of Photography

Photographs have been circling the world for years now . There are many different types of cameras, but only some have changed and revolutionized the world. The history behind them and the history it has captured throughout the years has impacted the world in numerous ways. It is very important to know how certain things like lighting and angle affect the outcome of photographs. To be able to capture a perfect photograph one will have to understand how lighting , angle , third rule affect a photograph. Not only are there different types of ways to take photographs but different types of photography.

The word photography originates from the Greek words “photos” (which means light) and “graphein” (meaning to draw). Although photography was being studied as early as 330 B.C., the first photograph wasn’t taken until 1827. In 1889, George Eastman invented film rolls. Today, however, most people use digital. (“Career Facts,” Lansing Community College). Digital cameras open a whole new world, making it easy to transfer photos electronically over to computers, hard drives, and other devices. When the picture is transferred to the computer, it can be modified in softwares such as photoshop. Photoshop is used frequently in advertising and by any photographer who desires a change in the

The photograph is a very powerful medium. The French painter Paul Delaroche exclaimed upon seeing an early photograph “from now on, painting is dead!” (Sayre, 2000). Many critics did not take photography seriously as a legitimate art form until the 20th century. With the

In our Unit 2 reading, it explains the art of photography and how it has really complimented paintings an artwork from painters such as Paul Delaroche. As many artists thought that “arts of painting” and “arts of photography” would leave little room for the creative representations painters and photographers provide. However, it turned out that Delaroche and many other were wrong and paintings and photos still thrive.

Lynn Huynh Final Paper 1: How did the development of photography alter the course of art history? What observable changes did it make to art? How does the argument over whether photography is art or science fit into art history during the 20th century? The development of photography altered the course of art history in many ways, it revolutionized artistic styles and critical thinking about the function and role of art.

Between the use of film or digital photography, film is the more effective method when looking for originality and creativity. With the adoption of digital photography, the younger generations, as well as the older and more current photographers are becoming lazy. These groups must recognize that the art of the photograph is being jeopardized by the digital camera and the camera phone. For the current photographers as well as amateur photographers, this essay will serve as testimony to film as well as other chemical methods, and how they shouldn’t be ignored, but preferred. The digital era has had a massive impact on the art world and all of its mediums, but for photography this impact has resulted in the removal of the human from the photograph making process. This intimate process is what makes it an art form. All of films imperfections and unique qualities, as well as its monetary value and scarcity are just a few factors that have made it so precious. To replace this entire process with a microchip is offensive and undermines the importance of the process that is needed to make a photograph. Anyone can take a picture but you must make a photograph, and this skill is being simplified to a digital camera. The impact of the digital era on photography has hindered the process of making a photograph; painting the art form obsolete in today’s society.

When considering art, paintings easily come into mind, however conflicts arises when considering photography. It lies in a standstill between being and artform and being something else entirely. With modern advances in technology, photography has become a “talentless” profession in the sense that it can be easily be created with the click of a single button. Therefore, the aesthetics of photography really an artform when it is captured at the “right” moment rather than being staged and given an artificial meaning.

“Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.” – Berenice Abbott.

I am not a big fan of photography. Not to say that I don’t respect it as an art medium, but personally I would rather look at a painting. As you could probably guess, I had mixed feelings about William Christenberry when I first saw his artwork. When I first looked up his artwork, I was disappointed to find only photography. However, I finally started to see that he also sculpted and painted.

In the first episode of “Ways of seeing”, John Berger explores the change of people’s judgement and understanding of art after the invention of the camera. Throughout the video, Berger explains how a camera’s angles, distance and features, such as zoom-ins and zoom-outs can affect one’s perception of fine art and how art has become ambiguous. This essay is going to explore how the invention of the camera and its features can provide several interpretations to art pieces and images.

At the age of 15 he had to start work on the railways because he had to help with the financial contrubution at home, after his father died, shortly after his first job he worked at WM Larkins animation studio. Then he had to serve at the Royal Air force where he assisted as a photographer, his job was to process the film that came back from the bombers. He use to photograph gangsters for fun, these were mostly people he hanged out with. Durning and for many years after starting to work as a photographer Don used Nikon and Olympus Om 1 and his favourite focal lengths, 28mm and 128mm. The community suggested that his photo’s should be used for the local news paper when the gangster culture became part of the public eye. Being dyslexic

Abbott finds that extensive post-processing often inhibits the creativity of photographers (182). Instead, creativity in photography lies in the selection of significant content, which differs between photographers (Abbott, 183). A good photograph should be a strong statement with direct connection to reality; otherwise it will be worthless regardless of its artistic merits. Thus photographers should strive to develop a keen perspective to pick relevant content. Good photographs are also good documents, as evidenced by earlier works that have survived (Abbott, 184).

Photography is one of the most common form of art people see every single day. It is in magazines, newspapers, all over the internet, even on the products you buy at the store. When it was first invented and used, only few people could actually make a living as a photographer because the equipment was expensive, heavy and harmful. Today, photography has been growing more popular than ever. Being a photographer has been getting easier as cameras have been getting smaller and more accessible. This has caused some scare to the photography world as many professional photographers and even amateurs are afraid that the growing popularity of the art is killing it.

Imagine a world without photography: no news photographs, no advertising photographs, no family pictures, no endless number of magazines with photographs. How would our knowledge and understanding of the world would have been different? What about the culture? Photographs have always been an important part of our lives it affects our lives such that we see what photograph ‘shows’ but we don’t see the photograph as a ‘thing’ and still we cannot think about our lives without photographic existence.

Photographing has been enjoyed by many people for a long time. Today, it is very easy for everyone to own a camera so this hobby is becoming more and more popular. Everyone like taking photograph but their photo is not always beautiful. Having an expensive camera does not mean that you will have wonderful photographs. The beauty of a photograph