Street photography

“Photography is the ability to enclose what you have seen in the frame, but the ability to enclose is the ability to choose one and give up the other “, these great words belong to Spanish writer and journalist Arturo Pérez-Reverte (The life and works of Arturo Perez Reverte). This statement makes sense when we are speaking about photography as a part of the art. This can be a great skill to choose the most important moments in the everyday life, to find the unusual things and put it just in one

Garry Winogrand Gary Winogrand’s photography career began when a friend introduced him to it in 1948 while taking painting classes at Columbia University. After Winogrand’s first exposure to the darkroom, he abandoned painting and “never looked back.” Winogrand became extremely emerged in photography and felt that nothing else in life mattered. He dropped out of college to pursue his passion. Earning an average of ninety cents per week, he had a difficult yet determined beginning. Winogrand

Angel Williams Professor George ART4710 7 August 2015 Abelardo Morell: A Street Photographer The paper will explore Abelardo Morell’s life, photographic career, and discusses how the Camera falls into his career. Also, this paper will include an art critic review of his artworks. Abelardo Morell is a renowned Cuban-born photographer in the field of Contemporary photography, known for his invention working methods, including the use of a Camera Obscura that represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery in

This summer I spent my time on South Street, in a store that has a long history there. I came in as an intern and left a more experienced photographer. In this reflection essay I will discuss the place in which I interned, the information I researched about my field and what I ultimately learned by the end of this experience. My internship was hosted at Eye’s Gallery, off of South Street, Philadelphia. This store is related to the famous Magic Gardens, a permanent installation of Isaiah Zagar’s

onstage that most people miss them. Richard Calmes captures these “bursts of beauty” through photography. Calmes began his professional life as an architect, but was first drawn to photography when he served in Vietnam doing architectural design from 1968 to 1969, where he befriended the combat photographer. He was so fascinated with the process that he bought his own camera and began learning basic photography techniques. After months of learning alongside him, his friend went home and Calmes took over

In part two of lecture the word vestigium in Latin was defined as a footprint. And in lecture Roland Barthes who we learned about in past lectures said that photography is not just any kind of relic its a specific form of relic called the vestigium. Meaning that a physical impression is produced by the physical presence of a person in the form of light rays that reflected off of the body and onto the light-sensitive photographic material. There is also a whole class of footprints of saints or vesitigia

It was incredibly hard for me to choose which photos were my favorite. Partially because there was a large quantity of photos to choose from and partially because there were photos that, when I was taking them, I thought for sure that they would turn out well. However, when I saw the finished product, the picture wasn’t able to capture the same feeling as when I saw it in person. My favorite photo is the picture of the monarch butterfly resting on the yellow daisies. I choose this as one of my favorites

It was exceedingly difficult for me to choose which photos were my favorite. Partially because there was a large quantity of photos to choose from and partially because there were photos that, when I was taking them, I thought for sure that they would turn out well. However, when I saw the finished product, the picture wasn’t able to capture the same feeling as when I saw it in person. My favorite photo is the picture of the monarch butterfly resting on the yellow daisies. I choose this as one of

located in. Although they are cultural symbols, they can also be perceived as works of art. This perceived notion of art attracted artists of all different fields. Since the start of photography, architectural photography was always a very common practice(REF). Three photographers participated in architectural photography. These were Walker Evans, Albert Sands Southworth, and Josiah Johnson Hawes. Although there were many differences in the formal elements used between these photographers, a common

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