Making Sense Of The World By Jessica Yadegaran

The myth of photographic truth is an important debate in today’s society, the culture of the image, particularly photographs is one of the most important subject, because it influence, mostly through the medias, people vision of our world. While reading this part of the chapter, we notice that we focus on the meaning of the images or recordings, and how even if we don’t think about it, we already have a personal point of view of this image. For example, a picture can be a testimony of the past, and just by seeing it, and with the knowledge of the context, we can determine what is happening in the picture. But an image can also convey an emotion, every person as a particular feeling when looking at an image, sometimes this feeling is wanted

In her memoir, Hold Still, Sally Mann chronicles her own life and the life story of her photographic work. While many aspects of the memoir were compelling to me, I was struck by how visual Mann’s writing felt. Her utilization of rich imagery made the experience of reading her memoir feel distinctly like looking through a collection of her photos. It is clear that regardless of the medium she is employing, Mann is motivated by the same forces. Both her photographs and her writing articulate a strong love for her subjects, and a desire to “hold onto” them and protect them. This isn’t only clear in the photographs of her children but even in the way she photographed the farm where she lived and wrote “heartbreaking love poems” to while in boarding school (Mann,

John Szarkowski’s book, the Photographer’s Eye, is principally an examination of the various impressions often given by photographs. In particular, the investigation entails the study of both photographic styles and traditions. The origination of photography predominantly provided a completely new picture-making technique. However, the unique realm of photography has considerably changed from what it was in the mid-1960s (Marien 417). Today, the field is characterized by galleries, museums, college and university programs, as well as the rapidly increasing market values. All the pictures reproduced in the Photographer’s Eye were made for a number of reasons within a century and a quarter by different men with varying concerns and talents. In the book, John Szarkowski also addresses five codependent features of the photographic images. Specifically, these include: The Thing Itself, The Detail, The Frame, Time, and Vantage Point (Grange 4). These features are believed to have contributed to the establishment of various vocabularies and critical perceptions more often associated with the world of photography.

Photography is commencing to wind up as the world 's most popular pastime. Because photographs surround us, we are able to utilize photography to explore the world. Susan Sontag, author of On Photography, has an alternate point of view on photography. When Sontag implies that photography lets us know how we think about the world, we acknowledge it as the camera records it; this is essentially what photography is all about, but it involves the photographer 's view utilizing a camera to record both a physical reality and an internal reality. Sontag 's claim that photography constrains our comprehension of the world is a great observation; conversely, today’s current photograph manipulation makes it difficult to see what reality truly is.

Growing up having strict parents and many boundaries, it had always put me in a box. I believed that everything had to be perfect, and that there’s only one solution to a problem. I’d thought that for the longest time; until, I met my best friend. A distinct memory I remember of us, was the first time we met, which was in ninth grade English. She was holding a book with huge letters on it that read ‘photography’. My curiosity got the best of me, so I asked if I could see it. Her face immediately lit up, and she opened up the book. I remember seeing pages after pages of beautiful photos, and the vision behind those photos were breathtaking. A certain photo I remember was a picture of a tree. But it wasn’t any ordinary tree. One half of the tree was covered in snow; the other in ice. I found it odd that she didn’t pick one side of the tree

People easily can find their special function with various capture such as ordinary life style, momentary or routine habits. Sharing from user to audience and enough pay attention to value of sharing is the most important focus that Instagram has. Documenting time and less time between taking and sharing photographs encourage audience to follow some images that are not from past and they will not in the future. In actuality, with Instagram, the act of sharing in the taking of a photograph has been changed by the act of sharing in a taken photograph. Also, increasing of photography’s subjects and being time-based indicate lack of the function of pointing out in Instagram. Playing with time in life and having a huge change from a redundancy style to social use in photography is a way that Instagram bring for us. Overall, Instagram is a revolution in contemporary photography which create a new view and relationship between user and audience in a new media (83-85). Recently, Instagram’s movement is an epidemic action which is frankly successful between ordinary people and has an unbelievable influence on family photography and capturing

The attention lavished on an otherwise ordinary arrangement of pixels prompts the question: Why are we so obsessed with selfies and, in particular, the people who take them?

Anyone can take a picture of a beautiful thing, but only a photographer can take a picture of anything and make it appear beautiful. The sights in which I photograph are ones that would normally pass by every other teenager with no second thought, but they happen to draw me in. Stored in my camera’s memory is a diary; although wordless, it tells a story close to my soul, much deeper than words ever

She also discusses the social importance of photography. “In becoming a marker in an elite status, fine art photography has created aesthetic boundaries that separate it from popular forms of symbolic communication.”(Schwartz,

Chapter One “If This Is Art” defies a conventional stereotype of photography. The photographers in this chapter

In examining the methodology of Butler and Azouly to delineate the current practice of photography, one must incorporate their amendments of this tradition. Azoulay opens with the corresponding statements of “citizenship comes to resemble the photographic relation,” in disregarding the prevailing structures of authority, and in alignment to this metaphor, she continues “Exactly like citizenship, photography, is no one’s property”(85). A foundation established only by kinetic integrants, which entail of: “a camera, a photographer, a photographed environment, object, person, or spectator”(85).... Intrinsical to this

Photolanguage: how photos reveal the fascinating stories of our lives and relationships. New York: Norton, 2000.

In the study of Cohen and Orr (2015), it has been demonstrated on numerous occasions that imagination and art therapy are significant tools for passionate wellbeing. It is identified that photography is one such apparatus that an individual can use without going to art school or being professionally prepared. According to Cohen and Orr (2015), present day innovation gives simple to-utilise choices including a mixed bag of programmed modes on simple to use cameras, computerised SLRs (single-lens reflex cameras), and even camera telephones. In other words, anybody

When photography first began, it was recognized as a medium in which one could capture and preserve a moment in time. Photography was seen as the revolutionary way to document reality; events, places, and people. Soon, though, artists got their hands on cameras and shifted the way in which photographs were interpreted. No longer was photography only a tool to create images of the embodied world, but it became an art medium for the imagination, just the same as paint and pastels. The once honest and trustworthy photograph became a piece of artwork that could capture more than what the human eye deemed authentic.

He had been around the globe and back, looking at thousands of photographs, year after year, day after day, second after second, trying to fill this hole he had inside of him. It had been eight years since he lost his mother after a long and hard battle, but it had felt like a century since she was with him. Her love of photography carried on through him, and her work would never be forgotten. Her unique style and perspective was like no other, and throughout his career as a buyer of the most beautiful and most famous photos, he had never seen one quite like hers.