The Importance Of Photography As A Form Of Art

Despite its positive effects, photography can also lead to impropriety. Photography greatly affected America both in the past and in the present. Photography's main intention is to inform individuals about humanity. In relation to the past, photography profoundly impacted the Civil War. Since the Civil war, which lasted from 1861

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

Dorothea Lange and the Farm Security Agency: From 1935 - 1944, the photographic program of the Farm Security Administration, embarked on a nationwide quest to document, collect and create a pictorial record of American life during the 1930s and 1940s. Spanning all fifty states, the photographers produced more than 175,000

When considering art, paintings easily come into mind, however conflicts arises when considering photography. It lies in a standstill between being and artform and being something else entirely. With modern advances in technology, photography has become a “talentless” profession in the sense that it can be easily be created with

I feel as if we have asked the question, “Is photography an art?” and “Can photography be considered a type of language?” many times in this quarter and we still cannot get a direct answer. Additionally, the truth of the matter is that we will never really know if it is because people have different opinions of what is art. For instance, in “Literacy and Picturacy,” Heffernan explains that there is something real behind every photograph. He explains that photographs allows to see the story that is being told instead of simply reading it. Earlier in the quarter we also read “On photography” in which Barthes claims that photography is not an art because it is simply an imitation of reality. In other words, he is saying that photography is just

Photographers involved in this technique look at photography as more of a true artistic impression than as anything else. The argument compares an artist using brush, paint and canvas to create a work of art, while the photographers use a camera, film to do the same.They see the camera as

Kate Sampsell as written an intellectual documentary about photographers the have lived during the Great Depression. In this article Sampsell’s claim revolves around the American artist named Ben Shahn and how photography is equal to paintings on canvas. Shahn was a painter

The dangerous and complicated chemistry of early photography gave way to its practitioners being pseudo scientist-artists, testing metal salts and taking pictures without any particular concerns outside of reproducing nature to the most accurate degree. In not fitting neatly into either category, recognition of photography as art was especially laughable by the people of the 19th century, and did not improve as the technology developed. Even more detrimentally, by the early 1890s with the establishment of The Eastman Kodak Company, photography exploded into a fad that put portable cameras and accessible photo development into the hands of the public, applying greater amounts of stress to the artists who were fiercely trying to defending the medium as an artform. Most famously within this debate, three photographers from the era rose to give similar, yet different, contentions for the aspects of photography which could establish it as being art.

We live in a world where there is nearly no aspect that has been left untouched by the hand of photography. Think of anything and there is photography. We all carry cameras with us at nearly all times of the day; as a society we are obsessed with sharing our own lives and what better way to do this than through photography. The word photography means different things to different people. On one hand we have the artistic practice that looks into the ideas of photography and studies how and why it has become so powerful and intertwined with the world and then on the other, we have the label of photography, something that has become a mindless process. Photography unlike drawing and painting is instant, accurate and effortless. We no longer need to think, just press a button, and hey-presto, a near perfect representation of our

Photographing Indigenous cultures Photography is the art of explaining the natural or conceptual features of given object, lace or phenomena in picture form. This is normally done to reduce the cost of explaining the utmost unexplainable feature of some phenomenon. Since time memorial, there has been lots of understanding of lots

Art is delivered and delighted in by numerous individuals for some causes. Something that art does is stretch and build up our common aggregate photographic dialect. At the point when new visual thoughts are initially exhibited by the craftsman, they are regularly seen as stunning, and maybe even as unimaginable.

Before there were cameras, camera phones, if you wanted a portrait of yourself or a family member you would have to find someone who could paint, and you had to stand for hours posing for a ‘painting’ of yourself. If you wanted to capture the beauty of the landscape you’d either have to paint it yourself or pay someone to paint it for you. Today we’ve come very far since then and today pictures are used for so much more than just portraits and landscapes. One of the major uses for photography is Art. The art of capturing and documenting a moment.

For me, photography is dead. A picture has become not a photograph but a computer generated image produced from an input by a person. Nowadays people rely on technology to remember for them which creates a negative impact on how well they remember their experiences, photos are being manipulated in order to achieve desirable results, and new age photographers believe they hold the perception that professional photographers have. Ever since technology exploded photography has simply lost it’s soul.

Photography is a great source to have for reminiscing on your life. However, it doesn’t accurately depict reality. It has the ability to deceive society of what is really happening around the world and often times has become a “form of mental pollution.” It’s hard to grasp any form of knowledge that isn’t “sentimentalism” because pathos is being used more in pictures, and hiding the truth of the situation. For example, propaganda has been around for a long time. Its main purpose is to lead you to believe something that is everything but the truth. Thus, no political knowledge is gained because due to the fact that people accept the “the world … as the camera records it” because they think it does not harm. Life has to be experienced without

The 20th Century was one of the bloodiest times in human history. It was a time of war, with death tolls from politically motivated conflicts between 175 and 200 million worldwide. Over the course of the century, the nature of war blurred and then wrecked older distinctions between battlefield and