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    currently fully available on weekdays and weekends, mornings and afternoons. 2. Detail your photographic experience. I have over ten years photography experience, with six years in education (both at college and degree level), as well commercially and also personally. I’ve recently graduated from Manchester School of Art with a 2:1 Ba (Hons) in Photography and rounded off my time there with successful exhibitions in both Manchester (at the School of Art degree show) and Hoxton, London (as part of

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    Final Paper 1: How did the development of photography alter the course of art history? What observable changes did it make to art? How does the argument over whether photography is art or science fit into art history during the 20th century? The development of photography altered the course of art history in many ways, it revolutionized artistic styles and critical thinking about the function and role of art. Instead of trying to copy reality, which photography could do much better, artists seek to find

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    Photography: Annotated Bibliography Essay

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    it sounds photography means photo-graphing. The word photography comes from two Greek words, photo, or “light”, and graphos, or drawing and from the start of photography; the history of the aforementioned has been debated. The idea of taking pictures started some thirty-one thousand years ago when strikingly sophisticated images of bears, rhinoceroses, bison, horses and many other types of creators were

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    The aim of this research project is to look at Manipulation in Digital Photography and in Fashion Photography, before and after Adobe Photoshop was invented. The term Photoshop is commonly used as expression to denote the manipulation of images and will be used in this context throughout this research project. Photoshop is one of the biggest known software used to edit photographs and as such plays a vital role in photography. Over the years Photoshop has changed drastically and this study will look

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    Bias In History

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    been the victors of battle, or swayed to one side of a story with a bias often in their favour. With the introduction of photography, one could assume that history could not be re-written, yet since its birth, as with history itself, photography has been manipulated, staged and edited to portray an entirely alternate account of the events of the past. Even ‘Documentary’ photography can have opinions influencing it at times. However is it fair to say that history comes

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    raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.” In this essay I aim to address the question how does Sebastiao Salgardo’s activist photography reflect against media journalism? I will be looking into a brief history of the movement of activist photography and will also looking into Sebastian’s background. I believe that Salgardo paints a true picture of what is going on in the country’s around the world, he visits these places and then becomes

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    Lore Krüger is a German-Jewish photographer who rose to popularity after her 250 pictures captured from 1934 to 1944 were found in a luggage she carried across the world and were later exhibited to the world. The images Lore captured throughout her journeys document day to day life during World War 2 as well as the lives of socially marginalized peoples such as the Roma and Sinti also known as gypsies. As an exile following Hitler’s rise to power, Lore travelled to most notably Spain, France, and

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    Photography, meaning “drawing with lights” in Greek, is an art as well as a science of capturing light and storing it on a medium with unprecedented accuracy. Yet, up until the late 18th century, history was mainly recorded through the techniques of painting and the press. These mediums unarguably contained a certain degree of a truth, though, it was not uncommon for events, such as war to be composed with glorified details, or an unfavorable bias from the artist at hand. Beginning in the 1830’s

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    the time George Orwell wrote this book, including many events during the 19th century, are what caused him to predict such a grim future for the human race. Some of these events include the invention of the light bulb, the rifle and creation of photography, all of which have not only given governments, but also major corporations and institutions power over the masses. Though very primitive in its early

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    The act of pornography has paved the way for sexualized imagery in fashion photography. This thesis examines the increasing sexualisation and its impact on contemporary culture in today’s society. The ever-changing definition of sexualized imagery has started from the 1970’s to contemporary culture.(___) In this research paper we will look at the historical use of sexuality in fashion photography and its role that Tom Ford, Helmet Newton and Calvin Klein have played over the generations within advertisements

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