It is absurd and impossible to totally comprehend the extent of a situation or event, be it of historical or of modern eras, solely by the image encapsulated on a piece of paper. Photographs limit perception of the past and present. Photography poisons the mind to believe that the world is "more available than it really is"; a false sense of security is gained through these rectangular representations. Photographs hide the facial expressions, body language, and emotions felt by those who were actual witnesses to the events. The knowledge gained through photographs can only satisfy our conscience, but never ethically or politically qualify it.
These illustrations can only serve to "fill in blanks in our mental pictures." Although photographs are able to conjure up images within our mind, they can never grasp what is really there: for example although pictures of the murdered children, nuns, and priests who fought against the dictatorship in Ecuador during the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, show bloody, incinerated, and disfigured carcasses, they fall short of expressing the beliefs for which they were willing to die for or the cruelty and corruption of their local government. Photographs are a shortcut in the quest to achieve genuine intellect; a cheap excuse perceived only as a mere "semblance of wisdom knowledge at bargain prices." Bonafide understanding can only be captured through time and first-hand experience.
Photography truly is the most "irresistible form of mental pollution." The need for society to encase a moment in time within a photograph is an epidemic that has tainted the pursuit of genuine experience. Not only has photography disabled our ethical sensibility, but it has also minimized our ability to see reality. .
Photography is known to many people for truthfully representing the facts. ... In reality, digital imagery and digital photography have forced people to realize the manipulative nature of photography. ... Some people still do believe in seeing the truth in photography. ... Some people do not believe there is any more truth in photography. ... Person 2 believes that there is mostly no truth in photography. ...
As scientific discoveries grew over thousands of years, so did the development of photography. ... These premature stages of photography saw painter Paul Delaroche remark, "from today, painting is dead!" ... It was obvious though that photography was not just another invention (Fig. 4). ... The family album now came into existence with photography as the amateur now took over "seeking out his own subjects". ... Photography therefor defined the modern era as it went into the twentieth ...
Is the little girl willing the whole world to witness this moment of agony or does she really want that moment to be endless by photography. ... Besides,seeking abstraction showed itself in photography as it did at other braches of art. ... Since, no other art is as reflective as photography, they are not reacted against. This flaw is the strength of photography. ...
Photography plays a very important role in our lives. ... Photography came along to memoralize, to restate symbolically, the imperiled continuality and vanishing extendness of family life..."... For example, in the " Porfolio" we have four different styles of photography where the photographer is trying to show the reader other styles of photos, in which the photographer takes the minimal detail of place and expresion. Photography immortalized the most interesting things of our life. it also become a scheme and gives several poeple a look of participation of each event. ...
Photography is an art that took many years, and the efforts of many individuals to perfect. ... Photography was eerily predicted in the mid-1700's by la Roche in his work Giphantie. ... Its surprising that photography did not come around sooner due to the fact that the two processes were around for a long time before they were put together to from photography. ... In 1833 Niepce, the inventor of photography, died. ... Photography was just a puzzle waiting to be put together....
The history of Australian photography is most interesting has paved the way for the ever growing form of art, that is photography. The dream of fixing an image onto a surface to be then carried away was one of William Henry Fox Talbot who was the first to invent photography, in 1839. ... The major influences on Australian photography were the European Pictorialists who emulated the styles of the French impressionist's painters. ... Appendix 2, Appendix 3 The world of photography was now looking at how to make photography an independent art medium. ...
Math has a major part to do with Photography. ... There are also many types of photography such as landscape, architectural, travel, war, and portrait. Landscape photography is pictures of land. ... When I say Travel photography I mean pictures from all around the world. ... Photography of war was used in the Civil War and showed pictures of battles such as Gettysburg. ...
DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY Digital photography was born with the development of the CCD (Charged Coupled Device), an array of light sensitive diodes. ... In traditional photography, the photographer selects the film he wants to use, which will yield the best picture quality for his subject, and once the image is captured on film, there are 3 basic steps that must take place to view the photo as it was composed by the photographer. ... Compared to digital photography, the above steps are time consuming and cumbersome. ... While digital photography, at present, doesn't yield the same resolut...
The announcement of the invention of photography came about in Paris and London in 1839. ... Photography offered many new points of interests to artists, particularly landscape artists. ... One of photography's biggest contributions was the concept of light and shadow. ... Millet and Corot were two artists who were both extremely involved with photography. ... Without photography, the Japanese print probably wouldn't have been as popular as it was. ...
