Stereotypical images

‘The Camera’s rendering of reality must always hide more then it discloses’ – Susan Sontag. This quote by Sontag can be interpreted in many different ways. To me it shows that there is always something more to what we just see in an image and that there is also a story behind it. It’s almost as if it’s a form of deception and that what you see in a camera lens is never going to be as simple as it looks. This is why I have chosen ‘Dovima with Elephants’ to compare to this quote and fully analyse.

Photography and film are becoming more popular every day with people trying to one up each other and also trying to figure out new and inventive ways to use the camera. In Paul Strand’s essay Photography the New God, he wanted to make his point that photography was assessable to anyone and everyone and that man does all the work not the machine. In Extracts from the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin explains that works of art have always been easily reproduced for

which is why Lila Quintero Weaver decided to use images to support her ideas in her graphic novel, Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White. Her graphic novels looks back at her childhood when she moved from Argentina to Mobile, Alabama during the era of Jim Crow’s laws and the Civil Rights Movement. Weaver uses a variety of images to support her idea that racial segregation continues even after segregation had been ruled illegal. In one of Weaver’s images, the 8th grade students are put into a classroom

there is a downward slope going from the furthermost right, to the furthermost left of the image. The colors seem varied and dark, contrasting the coats of the individuals with the stark white bags, and the intrusive bright colors of the billboard, this creates a contrast in the mood of the apparent glee of the billboard, with the traumatic expressions of the individuals. Although black and white, the image uses a wide range of light and dark, going from the bright white of the bags and billboard

“Afghan Girl” Photography is more than just an art, it is a form of living, in a way. It is history, art, all the emotions humankind has to offer. Bruno Barbey once said, “photography is the only language that can be understood around the world”, Aaron Siskind quoted “photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever. It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.” Steve McCurry, whose picture is above once stated, a

Since there are photographs in the scrapbook that can be attributed to John Thomson, this photographer and his ten-year Far East trip deserve an entire section. As mentioned earlier, Edinburgh-born photographer John Thomson was one of the first photographers who traveled to the Far East, and, along with Milton M. Miller, he was also one of the pre-eminent European photographers in nineteenth-century China. In 1862, Thomson left for Singapore and embarked on a ten-year sojourn in Asia. Upon arrival

geological documentation (180). She denounces the commercialization of photography – the use of props, constructed backdrops and retouching to create ostentatious painting-like photographs. Honest documentation was abandoned for sentimental painting-like images by photographers such as Henry Peach Robinson (Abbott, 181).

Khari Vanderbilt Mr.Inguito English 1C October 13, 2014 Romare Bearden's "The Family" (1941) & "The Family (1975) Comparisons Romare Bearden, a great artist that expresses many feelings throughout his photos. He expresses different types of feelings and meanings through colors, background, character demeanor, and even the posture of the characters in the picture. My favorite painting by Romare Bearden has to be "The Family"(1941) due to the fact that I had a personal connection to the picture

complexities from picture taking” (Cooper 329). Isolating the problems of photography made is possible for nearly everyone to take photos, and not just the professionals. This meant that more people were able to indulge in this hobby and capture more images for the world to see. Eastman also constructed his own camera and process to make things less complicated for individuals who wanted to take photographs. “[Eastman] added to the company's established production of photosensitive materials by designing

Towards the center of the image, there is a large spinning wheel, titled, “Wheel of Misfortune”, with a pointer at the top indicating the outcome, the artist utilizes humor by adding a prefix to the word “fortune” and referencing a popular game show called, “Wheel of Fortune”. On the far right of the image, the viewer can see a vehicle parked beside the wheel which also suggests that the man is going to spin the wheel