Photography: Creative Use of Artistic Elements
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A 5 page discussion of the artistic flexibility of photography. Discusses the use of analogy, metaphor, allusion, authority, alliteration and repetition. Emphasizes that photography can captivate an audience and put them on the edge of their seats with both visual and non-visual stimuli. It does so through the creative combination of a number of artistic elements. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Photography: Impact Upon Western Civilization Over The Past Fifty Years
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6 pages in length. Photography provides an eye to the world that many would otherwise never experience. Whether color, black and white, abstract or documentary, photos tell a story without the need for words. Indeed, history has clearly illustrated how photographs are an integral component to translating emotions and circumstances that could otherwise not be expressed merely by literary methods; rather, photography helps the world understand more about itself through images of social conflict, civil rights, war, famine and every other element of human existence in Western civilization over the past fifty years. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Reconceptualizing the Photo Essay
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This 7 page paper examines a photo essay, discusses the role that the visual images and the written text play in constructing it; and how changes to either the text or the visuals would change the original. We'll then make the changes and see how the meaning changes. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Requirements For Becoming A Successful Photographer
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In 5 pages the author discusses the requirements for becoming a successful photographer. "There are many types of photographers; wildlife; nature; landscape; nude; underwater; black and white; and photojournalists. All of those photographers are dependent on their work being successful. Whether a photographer is an amateur or a professional, they have the same desire: for their photographs to be experienced. Several people have theories on the requirements for becoming a successful photographer." Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Review of an Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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This 5 page review focuses on a photography exhibit that appears in the museum. The way in which the exhibit enhances the museum and vice versa is discussed. Several photographs are explored in detail. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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ROBERT FRANK: FILMOGRAPHER
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This 3 page paper examines the life and works of Robert Frank of the Beat Generation. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Style in World War Photography
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The two World Wars were specific times of extreme societal upheaval, providing a political, societal and aesthetic environment for photography to make its own cataclysmic offering to these great efforts. During World War I and World War II, photography emerged with its own artistic styles and established its own genres that relied upon, but transcended the technology of the daguerreotype, the Kodak instant photo and 360 film processing. Photojournalism as an art form was born, and within that genre, photography styles such as realism, propaganda, documentary and surrealism were also born. 7 works cited. jvphotog.rtf
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The Aesthetics of Photography
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A 5 page paper which discusses how aesthetics, as they apply to photography, are often different than those applied to paintings and other traditional art forms. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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The History Of Color Photography
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9 pages in length. Once the staple of photography, black and white images have all but given way to its color counterpart. Indeed, the lure of bright, rich color was, in and of itself, enough of a selling point to draw away from what had heretofore existed only in the finite world of black and white. The advent of color photography brought with it an entirely new perspective to the industry, which included more expansive manufacturing plants, increased consumer interest and a glimpse into a more realistic image. The writer discusses the history of color photography. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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