“The only true voyage of discovery……would be not to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another,” (Marcel Proust) Every one of us is journeying through time and journeys are often the start of stories. This is often the basis documentary photography photographs ‘about something,’ ratherContinue reading “Documenting Journeys”
Category Archives: Part 4
Family Photos
Photos hold specific memories, and I personally believe that with simply looking back at a photo it can revive your mind of that memory when that photo was taken and bring families and friends closer. Photos are also help bring back forgotten memories, if you take a photo and look over it 5 years later,Continue reading “Family Photos”
It’s about time
“Pictures (exist) in nature, but only an artist, sensitive to natural harmonies, could identify them” Time is intrinsic to photography. Every photograph was taken at a specific time and each exposure lasts for the specific duration of its creation. Earliest photos exposure times would take seven minutes to be done. Timing is one of theContinue reading “It’s about time”
“Dealing With the Flood”
The three approaches to dealing with the flood: Embracing the flood: making the flood the subject Appropriation: Selecting from the flood rather then taking photos yourself Story Telling: Photos that tell stories “People are hungry for the story” I use photography on my social media, either to capture fun moments with my friends and prettyContinue reading ““Dealing With the Flood””
Photo Album Research
I went through my mom’s photo albums and found some old photos that I thought were very nice. One was of my godparents when they were young and in love, the image I find very pretty because it is in black and white is has a filter effect over it that makes it looks likeContinue reading “Photo Album Research”
“Context as a Determinant of Photographic Meaning”
Essay written by John A. Walker I agree with John A. Walker’s statement on how an image meaning and context can completely alter depending on the environment and depending on where it’s placed.
Photography as Genre
Photography is a unique art because there are so many forms of it, and different photographers all take different types of images and all create different meanings and composition pieces. Photography has several layers in it especially for portrait photography. Photo editing software also makes photos wildly more interesting and exciting because you can mergeContinue reading “Photography as Genre”
Photography- art or science?
Mechanical Photography: Photos that are representations of facts or informations. Creative Photograpyh: All other types of photography; landscape, portrait, etc. I believe photography can be both mechanical and creative, it depends on who’s taking the photos, and why. I believe there’s a lot more creative photography now then there was in previous centuries. From 1902,Continue reading “Photography- art or science?”
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