Images: The Four Visual Conventions In Photography

Early Landscape photography used the same principles as painters in order to create pieces of art. Before the 18th Century, artists used landscapes as backdrops and as a frame for the principal subject. Towards the later part of the century, however, artists such as Nicolas Poussin started to romanticize the environment, instead using it as a principle subject in paintings.

If you examine a vehicle, you may agree that it is greater than the sum its parts. Individually, the engine, battery, tires, steering wheel, and steel body can’t haul a teen to school or an associate to work like they can when they are all working together as a cohesive unit. Just like any vehicle, the common wealth of a community is greater than the needs of the individuals that make up the community. When the individuals of a community entangle themselves in a web of wants and selfish desires, they tend to loose sight of the well being of the people who surround them, the environment in which they thrive off of, and, in the long-run, themselves. In conjunction, author Scott Russell Sanders’ article titled “Defending Our Common Wealth” highlights these points as well as emphasizes creating a new vision of wealth, encouraging community over consumption and consumerism to his audience.

Critically reflect on the positives and/or negatives of ethnic residential concentration as perceptible within specific landscapes in Sydney.

Mark Twain says greed is another of man’s failings. Of course, man is somewhat greedy. But, lots of men know how to control their greed, and also know to do favor for others. In other words, they are thoughtful (kind) and have mercy. For this moment, numberless charities are gathering the helpers and donations to support others who suffer by hunger and poorness. For a common example, there’s UNICEF. They work for saving children in hunger, teach them basic education and gender equality, try to prevent HIV & AIDS to children, protect children from violence, exploitation and abuse, and do policy advocacy and partnerships. They do these things only for the needy.

For everyday pictures, you can mix things up by telling a story with your photography. Instead of snapping pictures as they happen with no influence on the shots, this style of photography involves planning and executing your vision. The storytelling is completely up to you.

Greed takes over many peoples lives today and it seems that the world revolves around money, wealth and other things and it controls many peoples lives. For example, the four children that own walmart made over 29 Billion dollars a year for owning walmart but they pay their 1.4 million workers so little that they can’t support themselfs. This example should really be addressed because even though they make so much money a year that they could just burn most of it and still be rich when their workers struggle to make a living. On the other hand Walmart started from nothing and grew to where it is.

In “Swollen Expectations”, the authors describe their theory that the population of the United States has become more and more greedy since the simpler times of the late 1950’s. They claim that houses, vehicles, and even food have been victims of our “virus”. While agreeing that our expectations have been swollen, especially when compared to life in the late 1950’s, we think we “need” more things, but we really only want the convenience.

When I analyzed my self-representation I noticed many different things, from the rhetorical message that it gave to people, to the physical aspects that would be interpreted by first time viewers. If someone looks at my visual representation they would interpret that I am a very serious or conceited guy because I am just giving a smirk look. In my visual representation there is ethos and pathos appeals that helps send a message to first time viewers.

A time long ago, before there were large wars to battle and Louis Vuitton bags to murder for, before humans became numbers in the “larger” scheme of things, before there was a broader picture, there were people; families, friends and communities connecting. Connecting on a deeper level than the typical sense of our current era. Due to materialism running rampant throughout America (preferably in Louboutins), citizens are distracted from mankind, value life less, are ungrateful, greedy, selfish and more. Within an impoverished, starving world, we live and contribute to a spoiled country brimming with greed. It’s a completely and pathetically ironic existence to live. Many, if not most Americans are gluttonous, having a surplus bulk of luxury and yet still craving and starving for feelings that cannot be obtained (long term) from the possession of goods. A large amount of Americans are obese, but malnourished in valuable mores, relationships, and feelings.

Discuss the use of imagery in two stories of your choice. How do the various images work in a particular story to bring its subject matter into focus? Is there a central image? And how does this enhance or confuse or complicate the effect of the story?

Hunger and greed are a part of human nature as much, if not more than, any other emotion. The struggle for power and

Conventions in images are able to explore and can construct a representation of a particular group, value or idea. With this image it portrays numerous visual conventions in the photo, such as camera angle, shot size, symbolism, and the focus. These techniques help portray the intended message, ideas, and to represent a particular group from the photograph of how we are still unable to accept gender equality, yet being in a contemporary society where we are able to accept gay marriage, however, still uneasy or still find that traditional gender roles need to be in play. The male gender from the age of 14 onwards is the main intended audience as it is trying to get them to prevent this and not have these thoughts as what women should be doing,

This implies that greed can be a good thing but it is not

Greed refers to the intense desire for something, particularly wealth and power. The desire for materialism has acted as a catalyst for greed to become prevalent in society, especially in the United States of America. The presence of greed in the upper-class dates back to as early as the 1820’s when wealthy oil businessmen exploited sailors into working in extremely dangerous conditions for their own self interest (Philbrick). The greed present in the wealthiest families in the nation has established a detrimental division between the wealthy and the poor. The gap is only growing further and further apart, as greed constructs the desire for the rich to become richer resulting in the poor becoming poorer (JBW). As of right now, the United States has the worst income equality out of all the developed countries in the world (Gongloff).

As Austrian writer Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach wrote,“To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.” History and literature have established that the ideal goal every American has wanted is for his thirst for material possessions to be reached, but even then, the individual isn’t truly happy. Money, and the things it can get you, have long been a part of American culture and the materialist culture of society have been examined in numerous ways from novels to the art of those like Andy Warhol. A life free from the economic woes that plague almost everyone seems like the quintessential existence, but material wealth is not a way to mend issues.