Photography Is My Destiny And Personal Legend

For this essay the works of Robert Draper, author of “Why Photos Matter,” and Fred Ritchen, author of “Photography Changes the Way News is Reported,” will be analyzed. Though both deal with the topic of photography, their take on the matter is very different. While Ritchen is a photographer who writes on “what professional photographers will be doing in the future,” Draper is a writer for the National Geographic writing on how the photographers of the magazine share “a hunger for the unknown.” Both writers, however, write on the topic of photographers having a deeper understanding of their subjects, Ritchen due to research and practice, and Draper because the photographers “sit [with] their subjects, just listening to them.” In both essays the need for a deeper understanding of the

In “Why We Take Pictures,” Susan Sontag discusses the increase use of technology and its ability to impact the daily lives of mankind. Taking pictures is a form of self-evolution that slowly begins to shape past and present experiences into reality. Sontag argues how the use of photography is capable of surpassing our reality by helping us understand the concept of emotion, diversity, and by alleviating anxiety and becoming empowered. Moreover, according to her argument, people are able to construct a bond between the positive or negative moments in life to cognitively release stress through reminiscing. Therefore, Sontag claims that photography itself can help with reshaping individual’s perspectives of reality by being able to empathize with the emotions portrayed through an image. Thus, giving

Before starting this project, I knew very little about photography, photographers, or exactly how much impact photographical images have had on our society. I have never taken a photography class, or researched too in depth about specific pictures or photographers. This project has allowed me to delve deeper into the world of photography in order to understand just how much influence pictures can have over society’s beliefs, emotions, and understandings’. I have have chosen two highly influential photographers, Diane Arbus and Dorothea Lange, who I have found to both resonate with me and perfectly capture human emotions in way that moves others.

From when I was two years old until I was ten, my parents routinely shuttled my brother and I to the local Sears store every few months to get our pictures taken. My brother and I would sit patiently, smiling, in front of the background my parents chose while the photographer snapped away. After, all the pictures would be analyzed, the best ones selected and picture sizes determined. About an hour after arriving in the mall, my family and I would leave with multiple printed pictures in hand, ready for distribution to relatives or a photo album. Yet, after I turned ten, my mother increasingly opted to take pictures of my brother in I at home with her own camera and printer. This shift from going to Sears to get

Jessica Yadegaran in “Making Sense of Selfies: Taking Selfies Feels Problematic Because We Aren’t Used To Them” explores two elements of the language of photography, namely the photographic attributes and the meaning.

Photography has made me more persistent about my passions and has taken me on new adventures. Twice a month, I would join my cousins’ to take photographs at new locations. It did not matter if it was early in the morning or late at night, sunny or rainy, we would travel to places that were waiting to be seen by us and captured by our cameras. I have been able to visit countless of remarkable and astonishing sites throughout the country and across

Photography’s assigned social uses are to be regarded inimitably realistic and objective recordings of the visible world, an aspect of reality is

Today we use visual images and words to communicate, advertise, and describe our surroundings. Words have been very useful to the world in every way possible. They can be used to read an article, describe a scene you saw, but those words would not give you the exact emotion as a photograph would. Though some people see the words others use more powerful, truly photography has more power. The best way to interpret life is through photography, not words.

Since its arrival in the late 1820’s, photography has become much more common and ubiquitous in our day to day lives. Due to its increased technological presence, our society, purposefully or not, has altered some of its fundamental values. While some of these changes worked in our favor, others resulted in a community that is significantly more divided and focused on the individual instead of the collective society. In a time when we should be working together to create a better future, we are instead significantly more concerned with ourselves and our image. As a result of our infatuation with photography we have altered the way in which we see ourselves and therefore, we have become more self-conscious, self-centered and conceded.

Photography is a creative pursuit. Every photographer has a unique vision of the world. You just have to move away from the traditional imagery that you might be taking and get personal, be selfish, and photograph what you are most passionate about.

My photography is of a commonly unnoticed, mossy hole in the side of a tree, near Nelson Dining Hall. The close-up was shot when the fresh remnants of rain still clung to the tree, giving it its shine and texture. While uncommon in most photos, I took the liberty to make the focus of my piece the drooping center and the layered background.

Three career opportunities that I find most interesting is Macro / micro, nature /landscape and action sport.

When capturing the special moments in our lives have you ever taken a moment to wonder about the evolution of photography? Every day special moments are captured on film, whether it’s your baby’s first step, grandparent birthday celebration, Presidential Inauguration, your wedding, your parent’s anniversary, etc. Whatever the occasion it’s a moment captured in time and a moment that you’ll cherish for many years to come. In writing this paper I intend to express the evolution of photography and explore two companies that has made the way we share our lives in photography memorable moments that last a lifetime.

Susan Sontag said photographs sends across the harmlessness and helplessness of the human life steering into their own ruin. Furthermore the bond connecting photography with departure from life tortures the human race. (Sontag 1977:64)

Humans consume the world visually, and photography is a visual representation of the world. Photographs allow the informant to observe and analyze the photo in their own perception. Visual images are not just the means of data collection or illustration of text but “as a medium through which new knowledge and critiques may be created” (Chaplin qtd. in Pink, 13). Sometimes it is difficult to describe certain objects or the surrounding in