Richard Estes Photorealism

The picture is realistic and regards an event in the real world. The photo depicts natural objects in identifiable form. The artist used one fundamental role when creating this photograph. She wanted to create a visual record of the time. Neshat captured a moment in history.

his first photographic assignment in 1935 when he was working with the FSA. This is where his

Realism was a direct result of the social and economic changes of the 19th century in Europe. It originated in France in the after the Revolutions of 1848, which were a series of political outbreaks throughout Europe. It was around 1906, when Jonas Lie discovered the beauty of impressionism in Claude Monet’s paintings when he went on a trip to Paris while visiting Norway to reconnect with the Norwegian side of his family. He was fascinated by Monet’s use of color and light and incorporated that style in his later works. Lie’s artistic talent in mixing the two art styles is evident, as seen in his painting Dusk on Lower Broadway. (See fig 1.) The brushstrokes look like they were made quickly but with precision, creating a piece of art that looks realistic from far

When people think of professional photographers, they think of people taking pictures for a company or a person. But the reality is, professional photographers are the artists of pictures because they are the ones who make sure the pictures are at the right aperture, shutter speed, and Iso resolution rating. People think pictures symbolize the place setting or a memory of the existence of what they’re taking. For a professional photographer, they see the quality of picture by the lighting in the background, exposure, and the focus that creates that perfect picture. When I think of a good professional photographer, I think of Richard Avedon. Richard Avedon was a professional fashion and portrait photographer who did a wide variety of professional photographs from clothing designers and Motion Blur photographs.

In Ishmael Beahs memoir A Long Way Gone the author’s natural images reveals his scramble to stay mentally stable. Understanding Beah is only 12 years old; Beah is confused as he loses all his family and friends and scrambles to stay alive as he runs from the rebels who have brutality kill anyone who stand in there way. To begin, in the stillness of nature Beah struggles to keep his mind from wondering.

Alex Kotlowitz met Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers in 1985 while working as a journalist. He was interviewing them for a photo essay in Chicago magazine on children living in poverty. The violence that occurred every day where the brothers lived in Governor Henry Horner Homes, or Horner, disturbed Kotlowitz. Lafeyette and Pharoah are 12 and 9 years old at the start of the book but have experienced more than many kids their age. The boys did not seem sure of what life held for them. Lafeyette told Kotlowitz, “If I grow up, I’d like to be a bus driver,” Lafeyette was not sure that he would grow up at just 10 years old (x). Kotlowitz wanted to show what it is like for children growing up in urban poverty after seeing the brothers’

Marcel Duchamp stated that "It was his achievement to treat the camera as he treated the paintbrush, as a mere instrument at the service of the mind” (Biography.com, 2017). In addition, the photogram might seem expressive and abstract, yet on the contrary, it is the precise medium to document the everyday objects in an unrepeatable and somehow uncontrollable way. The artist cannot predict how the selected objects will be recorded under the light sources that were tampered with. From the first glance, the image completely dissociated from its original subject, allowing one’s memory to fill the gap. Yet below its surface, the image is an accurate documentation that captured a moment of psychical intensity. It revealed a new visual experience, using objects in the simplest way. One can say that the use of this medium disclosed reality more preciously due to its invisibility and mysterious representation (The Museum of Modern Art, 2017).

Although Edward Burtynsky’s photography has often been analyzed in relation to the sublime, this aesthetic framework does not account for all that his photography attempts to accomplish. In this paper I will first briefly assess some of recent writing that has positioned Burtynsky’s work in relation to different characterizations of the sublime, such as the toxic sublime. I will then analyze the historical underpinnings of what constitutes the sublime and its concurrent affects. Finally, I will examine why viewing the photographs of Oil solely in relation to the sublime is problematic.

When I first glanced at Duane Hanson’s Housepainter III, I was certain that it was a photograph. While I read that it was a wax figure,

Egle Ruth Photography is a photography studio that is located in Hingham, Massachusetts. Egle Ruth Photography serves the areas around South Shore of Boston, Cape Code, Norwell, Quincy, Weymouth, Braintree, Hanover, Marshfield, and Duxbury. Egle Ruth is a family photographer who focuses in maternity, newborn, baby, child and senior custom portraiture. Their goal is to create photography masterpieces that translate into beautiful imagery worthy of displaying in their client’s home.

What makes his photographs seem real? Its how we perceive the world around us or what we consider real.

The Museum of Fine Arts, located in St. Petersburg, Florida holds a variety of artworks that depict a specific period in human development and cultural aspects. The variety was very helpful and the process to narrow down the search of a painting of my choice became less difficult. The painting that I choose was made by an American artist named Stuart Davis Untitled (Black and White Variation on Windshield Mirror). Davis’s painting was extremely peculiar and I wanted to further examine its properties. The Untitled has three characteristics that are unique: Davis’s background for creating the painting, understanding the types of lines used, and the choice of color schemes.

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

Who is Walker Evans? Walker Evans was one of many influential photographers along with being a writer. As a writer he found it better to explain his work with his photographs. Walker Evans was born on November 3, 1903 in St. Louis, Missouri. There really isn’t that much information on who his family was or what they did but for now we only know that he did have a father, a mother and had no siblings. However he did have 2 spouses before he died but both marriages didn’t last. Evans also was a painter for a while when he was a younger. Evans’s school life was very hectic. For a year he went to Williams College. After his first year he quit school and moved to New York City, which led him to finding work in bookstores and at the New York

He started his business of photography in 1881, advertising dry photographic plates. He moved on to patenting his film in 1884, and then in 1889 he patented a roll film. He introduced his first camera, the Kodak camera (shown in picture two) in 1888 (Carlisle 247.) This is when the magic and joy of photography first began. “He called it a Kodak because he liked the strength of the letter K and reckoned it was a word that would be pronounced the same in every language,” (Buckland and Lefer 250). In 1889, Eastman fit his Kodak cameras with transparent nitrocellulose film. This was a major breakthrough in the photography industry because it allowed easier processing and developing of a photo (Buckland and Lefer 250).