Essays on Photography

There are many countries in the world that boast about their historical achievements; 196 to be accurate. Each of these nations swell with pride while displaying to people how great their country is and have numerous narratives of their legacy. Canada is a nation which...

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” – Dorothea Lange (1895 – 1965). Meaning “drawing with light”, photography essentially combines two distinct sciences, optics – the crossing of light rays to form an image inside a camera, and chemistry...

People always say photographs can help keep the important moments in their lives alive, or that every picture has a story to it. In our history books, photos show and tell a story of the past. In nineteen-thirty-six, at a camp for seasonal agricultural workers...

Imagine a world without photography, a world where you are unable to share important moments or preserve them. Photography allows us to convey our emotions and share our experiences with the world. Photography has existed for over 100 years. It used to be an expensive...

The recent technological invention of cheap Smartphones with decent cameras, the availability of cheap and fast internet in the mobile phones and the social networking platforms allow almost everyone to become a “photojournalist”. We are able to capture and share images and videos of a...

Derived from the Pictorialism, the Modernist movement began in 1910 and was a means in which photographers used to produce images with a sharp focus while exploiting the camera as a mechanical tool (2018, Artsy). Following the Modernist movement, Post – Modernism was established (2013,...

A social issue is a problem that influences a large number of the people within society. It is often a conflicting opinion on the grounds of what is perceived as a morally right. Social issues are affecting the world as we get on with our...

Facets of Existence One flawless Californian summer day, my uncle and I went on a photography excursion. In the moments I spent with my uncle my entire view of photography changed. He explained to me that photography is the art of capturing something beautiful that...

The research of the intricacies of food photography and the relevant techniques is important and should be understood by design practitioners who plan to pursue a career in the food photography industry. With the explosion of social media sharing over the past decade, it is...

Chronicling the human experience has been a driving force for photography as long as the medium has existed. For Eli Reed, the task goes much further than just the experience, but into the inner lives of the people in front of the lense. Born in...

Conventional photography is a highly developed art form and profession. The precision of the equipment and the ability of photographers to deliver a high quality product to their customers is well known and the result of decades of evolution of the craft. But today it...

From the early caveman paintings we have always been akin to record and capture events that have certain significance to us. There were always developments and inventions of mediums to aid with his process. However with invention of camera, doumenting events has changed significantly as...

The first digital camera was made by Kodak somewhere in the late 70s. Ever since then there have been experiments on the way photography has evolved both as an art and as a hobby. The art of clicking photos is to realize and take note...

It was the 30’s the weather was crazy, and people lived through hardship and intense poverty. During this time a lot of families migrating were impoverished, which led them to toil hard to get through. This photo is called the “Migrant Mother” it was taken...

Selfies are photographs that one takes of himself or herself. When the front-facing camera became conventional, selfies became more prominent in modern-day culture. This created the slang term “selfie” as well as the utilization of selfies to become popular. According to one of Google’s reports,...

This photo is a portrayal of Show Fate, the nineteenth century regulation that the extension of the US all through the American landmasses was both legitimized and inescapable. The picture passes on the modernization of the new west. Columbia, a representation of the Unified States...

David Attenborough describes the human population as “a multiplier of all other environmental problems” (People and Planet, 2011). As our population grows so does the impact we have on the planet, with an increase of about 4 billion of the entire world population in the...

The beginning of the twentieth century saw new forms of mechanical reproduction making its way into the cultural domains of society. While photography is now a recognized art form, associated with popular culture, this was not the case in the ninetieth century. Photography has long...

Joel Meyerowitz is one of the most amazing photographer that I have had the pleasure of researching. Joel is to be considered a street photographer that really began in mid-nineteenth-century. His work is just simply breathtaking and unbelievably visually captivating. Joel paved the road along...

Images of trees in a forest covered with snow may be foreign to people who have never ventured out into the rural wilderness. However, Ansel Adam’s who was an early 1900’s photographer loved capturing outdoor images, as landscapes were his favorite. Trees and Snow was...

In the year 2017, the birth of artist Beyoncé’s twins was what social media was raving about. The anticipation and excitement of the release of the photographs and the birth announcement of her new born twins were leaving social media users and fans eager to...

Born in San Francisco, a famous photographer of the mid to late 1900s, Ansel Adams made his mark on the world with his stunning contributions to the photography world. Adams, due to his lonely childhood, Adams found joy through nature with his frequent exploring through...

Walter Benjamin begins his essay, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by stating that, “In principle a work of art has always been reproducible.” This statement is quintessentially, both the gist and the concern raised by him in order to highlight...

The “Flower Power” famous historical image represents peace and protests towards the vietnam war in 1967. In the photograph a woman is holding a flower in front of a solders rifle protesting against the war showing that the flower symbolizes freedom and peace from the...

Woodman is the son of Concepcion (née Socarras) and Dean Woodman. His father was born into a Quaker family and co-founded the investment bank Robertson Stephens; and his mother is of Hispanic descent and re-married Irwin Federman, General Partner of U.S. Venture Partners in 1992.[4]...

To analyze the bright examples of war poetry, “Poppies” and “War Photographer”, a comparison of the two poems will be presented in this essay. In Poppies, Jane Weir uses color and texture imagery to symbolize how she reminisces of her son and her experiences in past...

One project that I am interested in completing is more along the lines of abstract photography, an aspect image capturing that I have not done much of, as I prefer to take images of nature and scenes that are easily discernable as such. However, I...

Natural Enemies Studies on important natural enemies associated with bark beetles were followed as per the standard methods adopted by Dahlsten and Stephen (1974) and Narendran et al. (2001) with little adjustments. Hymenopteran Parasitoids For recording the seasonal incidence of hymenopteran parasitoids associated with bark...

This image is one of many photographs of model Tallulah Willis taken by American photographer Tyler Shields as part of his work for his second book “Provocateur” which was released on January 3d 2017. The book showcases many upcoming young people in the media spotlight,...

It was the invention of clothes and certainly not nature’s imperative, that made “private parts” private. The things we do not usually see. The Nude: Art from the Tate Collection follows the nude through two hundred years of art and as the title suggests, draws...