The Photography Of Producing Art

I grew up alongside the wild Rocky Mountain Columbines, where the air is crisp and the winters are long. I spent my time engaging in the arts such as acting, writing, and creating. From a young age I was drawn to the world of imagination and found happiness through producing art. We all face and over come challenges within our lives and whenever I am faced with hardship I find comfort in visually expressing myself.

Early Landscape photography used the same principles as painters in order to create pieces of art. Before the 18th Century, artists used landscapes as backdrops and as a frame for the principal subject. Towards the later part of the century, however, artists such as Nicolas Poussin started to romanticize the environment, instead using it as a principle subject in paintings.

The pencil liberates my stresses and sorrows. Bare and unimpeded, my mind is able to isolate itself from anything that was happening in my life. At my art table, which is merely an escape from reality, my curiosity is able to wander. Within this room, five blank canvas's look in on me as I become a mold of my imagination. A step inside my world develops into a sea of color and exploration. The vibrancy of the walls resonates throughout. Over the years, my room has served as my oasis. It’s my escape from monotonous and mundane routines. It’s my exploration of another side of me. I observe such works of art almost as much as I create. Taking notice of my classmates’ innovations and inspired by their creativity, my paintbrush begins to alleviate stress. I strive to produce pieces others will appreciate, but often find myself to be the true admirer. My pride, in this world, is driven simply by my own curiosity to express myself. I credit this side of me as the “passion” that supplements my insane drive for success. This passion has sparked critical thinking in me as well as how I see failure. Life is a blank canvas and you can truly draw whatever you want, and if you fail, you start over and don’t make that same mistake again! Hard work takes ideas quite far, but true success is derived from ingenuity and the generation of

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

Using a conceptual and practical framework to approach this research, I will compare various scholarly sources to reinterpret the existing ideologies of photography as an art form. This research partly falls under a practical approach, as it largely relies on my own creative experimentation with various mediums that combine both photography and art. This is crucially important, as it will take abstract concepts of photography as an art form and contextualize them into tangible experimentations for further analysis and interpretation. Within the conceptual analysis, I will use a visual analysis format to compare works from established artists that use photography in their pieces, as well as compare and contrast methods to establish a reinterpreted viewpoint on this subject matter.

Between the use of film or digital photography, film is the more effective method when looking for originality and creativity. With the adoption of digital photography, the younger generations, as well as the older and more current photographers are becoming lazy. These groups must recognize that the art of the photograph is being jeopardized by the digital camera and the camera phone. For the current photographers as well as amateur photographers, this essay will serve as testimony to film as well as other chemical methods, and how they shouldn’t be ignored, but preferred. The digital era has had a massive impact on the art world and all of its mediums, but for photography this impact has resulted in the removal of the human from the photograph making process. This intimate process is what makes it an art form. All of films imperfections and unique qualities, as well as its monetary value and scarcity are just a few factors that have made it so precious. To replace this entire process with a microchip is offensive and undermines the importance of the process that is needed to make a photograph. Anyone can take a picture but you must make a photograph, and this skill is being simplified to a digital camera. The impact of the digital era on photography has hindered the process of making a photograph; painting the art form obsolete in today’s society.

The movie industry is for entertainment purposes. For many people, going to the movies is an escape; time to sit back and become someone else. However, once in a rare moment then a movie comes out that is not just foe entertainment and dares to address a controversial issue. “The Blind Side” and “Precious” are two movies that I was very surprised at my reaction to them. My reasons for wanting to see both movies were as different as night and day. I went to see the “Blind Side” because it is based on a true story and Sandra Bullock is the leading lady. Yet, “Precious” doesn’t have a famous leading lady, but the previews were so intense and so realistic that it pulled me in. “The Blind Side” and “Precious” are

“Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.” – Berenice Abbott.

Often times, photography is denied any ground as an art form, for the majority of people would declare that photographers merely “click a button.” That may be the case when it comes to Dad taking a shot of the family adorned in ghastly, matching t-shirts at Disney World; however, creative photography is a complex and personal form of art that commonly requires numerous steps and acute attention to detail. The fine tuning of both the shutter speed and the aperture are arguably the two most imperative steps in this process.

The first of the three studios we visit was the studio of our teaching assistant Mills. Mills’ work is primarily collage based with photographs and clippings from magazines. Mills is now trying to experiment with some instillation techniques as well. One collection of Mills’ work uses photographs of her home and meaningful places in her life, in the piece everything is symmetrical and reflects itself, but forms one shape. Mills uses photographs frequently in all her work, but it is not the only element of her art she also incorporates other materials such as yarn and wood into some of her newer installations. I found all her work very interesting as they combine images and made them into a new story other than the original ones they told. I

Photography captured the attention of many artists since its inception. Besides the main function of creating images, it excites our imagination, evokes memories, and causes various emotions. Photographs help to develop the ability of perceiving and understanding the suffering of others which is significant in the social life of all people; in addition, among different genres of photography, the one that is used to record specific moments of historical events is one of the most significant for our kind.

The image-maker may feel that by printing their film photographs using a gruelingly difficult process, their work is given a different level of credibility, which makes it feel closer to art, or printmaking, as it relies on skills beyond composing and taking the image. Since it has become so easy to take an image on a digital camera and print it out using an inkjet printer, many photographers are turning back to film photography and historical printing processes to provide a unique edge to their work, a more creative effort. Some photographers are combining both digital techniques with historical processes, hooting on film and scanning in the negatives to digitally alter and print, or printing digital images onto negatives or acetate to work with in the darkroom, creating a unique image. It is still expensive to process prints in the darkroom, not only because there are a limited number of darkrooms around the world, but also because the chemicals and apparatus needed are expensive. Kits are available for purchase and contain all the chemicals and other equipment needed to produce prints, with all sorts of different processing kits available. These may be easier to start up processing; however they are still expensive. Photographs printed using historic printing processes have a special allure, each is a unique image handmade with precise measurements and timings, no two images the same. This could be why they are an asset to any family heritage, as their permanence is amazing.

I went to the Arts block in Riverside CA. The exhibition was of Mexican arts and photographers: Guillermo Soto Curiel, Ruben Ortiz Torres, Consuelo y Marisa and Graciela Iturbide. The exhibition was one of a collection of Mexican photographers of the twentieth century and the permeant exhibition of the history of photography. As well as the current exhibition of Mundos Alternos an Art and science fiction in the Americas. There are four photographs by Guillermo Soto Curiel, Manuel Carrilo, Graciela Iturbide, and Ruben Ortiz Torres.

As a photography major, it was never clear to me on why I had to take a drawing class. I dreaded each class because of the known fact that I didn’t possess the skills to be a good drawer. When speaking to friends and family, I would always complain to them saying, “I’m going to fail this class. I have no idea why I have to take these drawing classes.” As the quarter went on and the more I learned about the different drawing techniques such as the use of lighting to create interesting shadows or the use of color to create a sense mood and emotion, I began to realize the parallels that drawing and photography have.

Photography as a form of art is a controversial topic for numerous reasons. There are lot of different warring opinions when it comes to the legitimacy of photography as an art form. Photography is a very delicate matter considering that photography breaks a lot of the normal rules of aesthetics and is such an easy medium to create through, which can be both good and bad.