The Picture Of The Pictures Essay

In the article “Never Just Pictures,” the author, Susan Bordo, addresses the cultural reasons behind the rise in eating disorders. She asserts that modern media and advertising campaigns have played an integral role in this increase. Though unfortunate, the media’s focus is not on the well-being of its viewers, but on the level of cash flow they provide. The advertising moguls use their agencies as double edged swords; they will make ads for McDonalds, then go in the next room and conduct a photo-shoot with a six-foot-two, eighty pound woman. The world of advertising needs to realize their work is being seen by millions of people and is affecting some of those people in extremely negative ways.

Critically reflect on the positives and/or negatives of ethnic residential concentration as perceptible within specific landscapes in Sydney.

A photograph is often known as a window to the past. Through photographs, global progression in areas such as technology, culture and politics can be analyzed. The impacts of photos can be tremendous and define future issues, events and politics. One photo that has significantly defined the twentieth century is the "Bloody Saturday" photo (see Appendix A). The photo was captured by a Chinese-American photojournalist named H.S. Wong (also referred to as Newsreel Wong) on August 28th 1937, moments after the Shanghai Bombing in the midst of the Battle of Shanghai. The bomb was dropped by Japanese pilots as a result of growing tensions between China and Japan. The animosity was so high that only a few years later the two nations entered World War Two in the Pacific. Amidst the fall of rubble and chaos, Wong was able to capture an iconic image of a young, burned child all alone crying in the debris moments after the bombs were dropped. Reactions of public outrage became apparent as well as a dramatic increase in animosity towards the Japanese after the photo 's release. Ultimately, the release of H.S Wong 's "Bloody Saturday" photo, dramatically defined twentieth century politics through its display of Japanese aggression, the alleged scandal behind the photo and its endured global impact.

As skeptical moderns, we often have trouble accepting drawings or paintings as historical records, but we tend to believe in photographs the way that we believe in mirrors; we simply accept them as the truth. Alexander Gardner's photograph Trossel's House, Battle-Field of Gettysburg, July, 1863 might therefore be viewed as evidence rather than commentary. Unlike some of Gardner's other "sketches," this picture includes no perfectly positioned rifles, no artistically angled river, no well-posed men in uniform—indeed, no people at all. The photograph's composition could barely be more prosaic; the horizon slashes the picture in half, and the subject, a white colonial-style house, sits smack in the center. Yet this straightforward, almost innocent

Shelby Lee Adams has a distinct style of making his documentaries personal portraits; he takes pictures of situations that he feels reflects him and his beliefs. When taking his photographs, he chooses intimate moments where he truly believes that he needs to take a picture right there. He shapes the emotions that are being told by the photographs by the people he has formed bonds with and also manipulating the placing of the people. In his documentary, The True Meaning of Pictures, Adams is showing the culture of Appalachian people through the Childers family and the private moments that they shared with Adams. He also inputs himself into his documentary as another source of information for the Appalachian

A series of experiments was performed on glass beads and natural clean dry sands under the objective of the current work of performing parametric studies. Therefore, new techniques and methods were utilized to predict the gradation of the natural cohesionless silica sands tested in addition to the conventional geotechnical laboratory experiments, which were carried out to predict the mechanical characteristics of such soils. Moreover, ideal laboratory simulations for the SPT were performed under several particular relative densities, loading conditions, and stress-strain controlled boundaries. Additionally, the obtained results from such series of experiments were stored in digital forms for further processing and analyses.

This photo journal assignment was very interesting and educational. It helped me look outside the box and to really relate geography to my everyday life. My first relatable topic that I came in contact with during this assignment was the process of evaporation. At Dry Creek park in Modesto, CA, I witnessed evaporation taking place in the creek. I have been going to this park for quite some time and in the summer, water levels decrease drastically. Evaporation is one of the four phases in the hydrologic cycle (water cycle). According to our Geosystems Eighth Edition book, Christopherson say, “Water travels endlessly through the hydrosphere, atmosphere, lithosphere and biosphere. [...] Currents of water, vapor, ice and energy are flowing

A lower ISO number means the camera is more sensitive to light, whereas a higher number means the camera is less sensitive to light.

Pictorialism art movement started in the late 1860s up to the 20th century. The photographers took the camera as a tool just like the artists used a chisel, paint, brush etc. to create their art work. They wanted their photographs to have an aesthetic value and wanted it to be looked at like art. The characteristics of a pictorial image would be lack of sharp focus, making the images blurry or fuzzy, sometimes more than others and is printed using one or more colours than black and white. This ca range from different tones of warm browns to deep blues. The mages sometimes have a visible brush strokes and other manipulation techniques on the surfaces of the prints. The pictorial images were the manipulated versions of straight forward images. Pictorialism may be the first photographic thought that got recognised as an art movement. It endeavoured to bring photography to the realms of art. This movement in photography got rejected several times before it was finally accepted as a form of art. Pictorialism is more about creating a painterly approach to photography to emphasize the beauty of the subject matter, tonality and composition rather than documentary of reality.

After the death of more than nine million soldiers and over seven million civilians, World War I came to end with the signing of The Treaty of Versailles. US President at the time Woodrow Wilson offered his vision for world peace with his Fourteen Points. Influential journalist and political commentator Walter Lippmann assisted the drafting of this blueprint for world peace through a League of Nations. Perhaps Lippmann is best known for coining the term “stereotype” in his 1922 book Public Opinion. In the first chapter, “The World Outside and the Pictures in our Heads” Lippmann supports that reality does not always correspond with the perception that the mind creates. These perceptions aids in fashioning what Lippmann calls a “pseudo-environment.” Through a medium of fictions, the mind shapes these environments. Lippmann argues that public opinion is shaped and defined by perceptions of reality and influenced by the pseudo-environment molded by fictions.

“Hooooahh” I yawned, as my loud obnoxious alarm had went off. The one reason I hated school was waking up at 6:30. I mean, why can’t school literally just start at noon? It would be a lot easier for teenagers and it would give us extra hours of sleep, boosting your iq level up. But who was I to complain, I’m not in the right position to do anything that would make a difference in this world anyway. I shrugged and got out of bed and opened my closet. Apparently, today was “picture day”, it’s a day where photographers take pictures of you to post on the yearbook. Honestly, no one really dresses too fancy, just a tux or a dress, some rarely even dye their hair, nothing too fancy.

The name "Photography" comes from the Greek words for light and writing. Sir John Herschel, was the first to use the term photography in 1839, when he managed to fix images using hyposulphite of soda. He described photography as "The application of the chemical rays to the purpose of pictorial representation". Herschel also coined the terms "negative", "positive" and "snapshot".

Your photograph choice is an interesting one, that contains so little but explains so much. Sports is a special topic choose from as in a lot of ways sports not only brings America together, but other foreign countries in order to confront indifference and problems. In your analyzation you did a considerable job in explaining what the photograph is truly conveying, especially during the sensitive time period of the 70s. In addition you do a substantial job in depicting the ethos of the photograph, as both men were soccer players, which made them celebrities in their respective countries. Therefore evoking credibility to not only your audience, but the audience back when the photograph was originally taken. Lastly, your explanation of the logos

In Roger Scruton's Photography and Representation the author establishes the idea that ideal photography is not art. In the same breath he says that ideal photography is not necessarily an idea which photographers should strive, nor does it necessarily exist. Yet, he bases his argument upon the ideal. In reviewing his paper, I’ll take a look at why he painstakingly tries to make this distinction between ideal painting and ideal photography. His argument is based upon the proposition that photographs can only represent in a causal fashion, whereas painters create representational artwork via intentional relations. Scruton manages to create a solid argument, but in the end I’ll decide it is not a fair assumption to say that photographs

What is a photograph? The simplicity of taking a photograph leads many to ponder its artistic value. Yet, it is undeniable that there are some photos that cause an emotional reaction deeper than simply observing a recorded point in time. Surely, there are photographs that cause more reaction than some modern art pieces. There seems to be two types of photographs. The first classification is the ‘time capture’ photo – an image with the sole purpose of recording a particular event or point in time. The second nature of a photo carries a ‘deeper meaning,’ which has the ability to change the observer’s mood and cause a reaction. But what distinguishes these two varieties? There are a