Photography by genre

having posted a picture of their dog or a delicious meal, nearly everyone today has some experience in photography. However, despite the increasing ease and ever-growing quantity of photography, there remains distinctive line between a Facebook snapshot and true photo. While most will point to professionals with expensive equipment and years of training as the obvious difference, truthfully, photography does not require any of those traits. In fact, many modern photographers even make a living using smart

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. Initially the medium of photography was used to document the environment. After a steady progression, pictorial photography as a movement

expressed this sentiment, summarizing the role photography had on America in the 1940’s and 50’s. During this era, photojournalism climaxed, causing photographers to join the bandwagon or react against it. The question of whether photography can be art was settled a long time ago. Most major museums now have photography departments, and the photographs procure pretty hefty prices. The question of whether photojournalism or documentary photography can be art is now the question at hand. Art collectors

Open Door, I see a picture that utilizes shadows and light to emphasize the subject. The word photography means “writing with light.” With the invention of calotype, Fox Talbot started the revolution of modern photography in today’s world. Trained as a mathematician and chemist, Fox Talbot toyed with photography because it offered a form of documentation or evidence of his findings in science. Thus, photography developed from within the area of science. As he searched for a reasonable method of transferring

pursued her interest in photography. Petrina studied at the Australian National University School of art. While working as a commercial photography assistant in Sydney for 5 years, working within many photography genres including, advertising, fashion and portrait photos, she maintained a private focus on her art photography, and entered various art prizes and exhibitions. Hicks has had numerous gallery and museum exhibitions, including at the Australian Centre for Photography and at the Stills

To what extent has photography influenced the history and the development of contemporary painting?   Contents Abstract Page 3 Introduction Page 4 History of Photography in relations to Painting Page 5 Influence of Photography on Andy Warhol’s Paintings Page 9 Page 1 Page 1 Influence of Photography on Gerhard Richter’s Paintings Page 1 Page 1 Page 1 Influence of Photography on Luc Tuymans’ Paintings Page 1 Page 1 Page 1 Conclusion Page 1 Abstract – Cornelis Le Mair Throughout my time

Critical Reflection Intentions My genre of work is a mixture of sports photography and fashion photography, the reason for this is because sports photography focuses on the drama and action in sports, this contrasts with fashion photography as the photos mainly focuses on things such as clothing and makeup. The reasons i chose this type of photography was because the conventions of sports photography is dramatic, captured action and fashion photography is very over the top and colourful. I wanted

involved in family photography for decades, and are ultimately responsible for the establishment of family photography as fine art, “family photography” as a genre is assumed today to be “women’s work.” There is in fact a prominent and compelling collection of photographic work that exists and illustrates the way men capture family within a frame. For better or worse, male photographers were crucial in the establishment of family photography being accepted as a genre of fine art photography. Family photography

identifiable. Some examples of this period are Touch of Evil or The big Sleep. Some European Directors of Photography like Michael Curtiz or Fritz Lang helped out in the early grown up to develop this shadowy lighting cliché that still inspires dark stories. Classical Noir Lighting *The Maltese Falcon is considered the first Noir film (1941) *John Allton is considered the main Director of Photography of Noir Film

Louis Daguerre (inventor of the “Daguerreotype,” a method of photography that the image is developed straight onto a metal coated surface), in which he had met while under the study of Morse, Brady took up his interest in photography in the year of 1839, while only seventeen years of age. Brady took what he had learned from these two talented and intellectual men to America where he furthered his interest in the then-growing art of photography. Upon his arrival in America, Brady had opened a gallery