Essay about Modern Photograph and Realism

nineteenth-century photographer from Glasgow, Scotland. His photographs were based on disease-ridden slums and other similar circumstances. In addition, his works gave rise to the despaired laboring classes and inspired their cries for social reform. I believe his photograph “High Street” gives a perfect example on the living situations that the needy had went through, which makes the type of style that was used in the photograph realism. Realism in literature is a style in which figures and scenes are

Dutchman, Johannes Vermeer was born in the year 1632 and passed away in 1675. Over his lifetime Vermeer used a style of painting that causing modern day historians and art lovers to struggle to figure out how he painted such realistic scenes that mimicked photographs. His style combined many pictorial depth cues while maintaining a strong sense of realism throughout the relatively few paintings he produced. Next is Prussian artist Albert Bierstadt, who was born in the year 1830 and passed away in

paper will analyze four pieces of artwork representing the Great Depression through the artist’s eyes. Artistic styles will be explored along with discussion of trade and exchange as depicted from the artwork. Regionalism is an American realist modern art movement popular during the 1930s. Artists during this art movement shunned the city and the rapidly developing technological advances, dubbed the Age of Progress, to focus on rural life instead (Artinthepicture). The Regionalists view was to

effective at making attractive photographs, they earned inspiring expositions at notable institutions. They helped spur the interest of the general public to view photographs as art and the camera as an instrument of pleasure rather than one of work. The look of a photograph during the time was different than anything that came before, and their styles show even in today’s photographs. Especially the work of Weston does not appear “outdated”. It complements modern tastes as well. Separating Pictorialist

and individuality, and Hunt working towards realism, but with moralistic and modern themes. “In elevating color as a sensual element in painting these painters risked affronting those who associated color with what was disparaged as passionate, fleshy, and feminine in art - a lack of control and emotional excess in contrast to the disciplined rigor of sound draughtsmanship (Prettejohn 135).” Throughout the Pre-Raphaelite movement, art was focused on realism, while others strived away from that, and

produce “an article on cotton tenantry in the United States, in the form of a photographic and verbal record of the daily living and environment of an average white family of tenant farmers,” (IX). James Agee and Walker Evans set out to write and photograph an article for a magazine, and ended up experimenting with the form of the novel itself. James Agee was born in 1909 in Knoxville, Tennessee, but was in the urban middle class, so he had no experience with cotton farming. When

to document everything from family portraits, social injustice, sporting events, world news, expressions of joy and sorrow, and hundreds of monumental moments. The camera has given man the power to reveal the truth visually. Throughout history photographs have made enormous impacts on social consciousness and ultimately shaped public opinion on many pressing issues in society. Although photography is often considered a casual pastime, the invention of the camera has contributed to many aspects of

Art. A word that encompasses different ideas and feelings to everyone of us. Boredom, excitement, hate, love, to the themes of politics, portraits, photographs, comedy and on and on. The art of taking a photograph and transporting it to a piece of canvas with paint and acrylic is called photo realism. A pioneer of her time, Audrey Flack did just that. Her name is synonymous with photorealism in the art world. She took the world by a storm with her paintings of people and and their emotions based

the series would give a viewer a much more vivid image or representation of hockey than the one specific image I choose a given instance in time. The second visual concept that will aid in the explanation of my visual analysis is the concept of realism and perception. “Art and images are in one view, a practice dedicated to the visual and material reproduction of things and events in the world. In this view, we might say that there are things in the world and then there are their representation”

This visual can be found in the billboard featured in Margaret Bourke-White’s photograph titled “Kentucky Flood.” The billboard displays a young white family, including a mother, father, two children, and a dog, driving in a car next to the phrase “There’s no way like the American way!” This image perfectly depicts the model life that Americans aspired to live - one of stability and independence. However, this photograph openly mocks and