Doretha Lange's work has characteristic traits of a lost age. when a broad swath of the mass media was profoundly concerned with social issues. She saw herself firstly as a journalist and secondly as an artist, creating photojournalism. Doretha Lange worked with a fairly high desire to affect society by changing and informing the citizens within the society of the suffering.
Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer and modern art promoter. Alfred Stieglitz was very instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an accepted art form (The Art Story). Unlike Doretha Lange, Alfred Stieglitz tried making photography an art. Alfred Stieglitz once said that photography was not just about the subject of the picture, but the manipulation
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After reading about Alfred Stieglitz and photography in form of an art, I believe that photography is indeed a form of art. Also photography is the most raw form of art there is. By using photography and a form of an art, it captures pictures in which are caught in the natural, raw moment of life, which doesn't get more realistic than that. All the details and depictions are in one picture in raw and most of the time, unedited form. The similarities between both Doretha Lange and Alfred Stieglitz would be that they are both very well known artists.
Emerging first in the milieu of Pictorial photography, Stieglitz sought to gain recognition for his medium by producing effects that paralleled those found in other fine arts such as painting. Many of his peers resorted to elaborate re-touching to create an impression of the handmade, but Stieglitz relied more on compositional effects and mastery of tone, often concentrating on natural effects such as snow and steam to create qualities similar to those of the Impressionists.
Stieglitz's early work often balances depictions of soft, ephemeral, natural processes with motifs drawn from American industry. Romantic in spirit, he was troubled yet fascinated by the rise of American power and sought to soften its apparent brutality by cloaking it in
Upon returning to his studio Storrier picks a photograph that can be associated in a variety of ways. He makes works similar in subject matter, but which give different overall impressions. 'I never work from photographic documents. The little polaroids are just mental records. I paint pictures about, not from, photographs.' He explores the concept, and makes preliminary sketches and small studies of his ideas to decide the colour and tone. He chooses the size to make his artwork oncer he has his idea.
2. Strand was the first photographer to acheive a really decisive break with pictorialism and apply some of the lessons of the new modern art to photography.
Representational art: similarly to abstractive art is also a descriptive of the work of art that depicts forms in the natural world. For example the Communion ( picture 2.12) by Pablo Picasso is an illustration of representational art.
However, being a loner helped her develop traits that helped her as a photographer. " Absent of friends and a teenager's social life, Lange spent time seeing and appreciating the visual images she saw in the everyday life of diverse and busy neighborhoods of New York City" (Oliver).... ... middle of paper ...
The key messages of an author, a poet, an artist, a photographer, or a politician can transport to an audience is the need for human compassion or empathy to inspire action or to make a difference that brings the hope of understanding and a higher expectation for humanity. Word choice and sensory details guide the reader’s to the deepest emotion, but an astonishing picture, documentaries, and an artwork of an artist can also change people’s opinion. Through a text or a broadcast can raise public awareness to people who really don’t understand the meaning behind it and photography can too. The sample of a fiction story, “Marigolds” By Eugenia Collier, and the excerpt from the informational portrait, “Migrant Mother” taken by Dorothea Lange, both notify the theme of poverty. Illustrate the story of a young girl who lived in a countryside Maryland during the Great Depression, that introduces the theme of poverty and empathy, and the photographs artist of Dorothea Lange and artist like her provide the main insights into the terrible living conditions of the migrant workers.
Adams biggest influence was Alfred Stieglitz. Stieglitz was the creator of the photographic style of pictorialism. (Heath) According to Encyclopedia
Feminism and political issues have always been centered on in the art world and artists like to take these ideas and stretch them beyond their true meanings. Female artists such as Hannah Höch, who thrived during the Dada movement in the 1920s in Germany and Barbara Kruger who was most successful during the 1980s to 1990s in the United States, both take these issues and present them in a way that forces the public to think about what they truly mean. Many of Kruger’s works close in on issues such as the female identity and in relation to politics she focuses on consumerism and power. Höch, like Kruger, also focuses on female identity but from the 1920s when feminism was a fairly new concept and like Kruger focuses on politics but focuses more on the issues of her time such as World War I. With the technique of photomontage, these two artists take outside images and put them together in a way that displays their true views on feminism and politics even though both are from different times and parts of the world.
According to Webster’s Dictionary, art is “human expression of objects by painting, etc” (10). The words “human experience” adds meaning to art. Artists reveal their inner thoughts and feelings through their work. When we study a painting by Salvador Dali, the strange objects and the surrealist background portrays the eccentricity of the painter. Some ideas cannot be explained verbally. They can only be shown via a medium. We can get across what is in our minds or our hearts by a stroke of a brush, a drop of paint, a row of words, or something else. But to express ourselves, we do not need to limit what we call art.
The first reason, it is remaining me about a photograph Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother. They both have a mother sit with her three children and on their face are desperate and struggling to feed their children. The second reason, the artwork gave me a feeling that she is hopeless, depression in her face. She is an impoverished worker woman, exploited by others, and trying her best to support and sustain herself and her children. Section I Description
“Recently, photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing, which means that, like every mass art form, photography is not practiced by most people as an art. It is mainly a social rite, a defense against anxiety, and a tool of power” (Sontag 8). After reading this quote in my head multiple times, I started to realize that people use it for different purposes. When I took a photography class in college, it was under the category “art.” Which made me think of it as a form of art, when there are so many other ways to view photography. Sontag changed my opinion about photography after further interpreting her quote because to have a camera in our hand, being able to capture the world through our lens is to have a tool of
Art by definition is “the expression or application of creative skill and imagination, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power,” (Hacker, 2011).
Women desire to become beautiful and powerful, even if they don’t say it in words. And the Photographer plays with that concept and creates that desire, that you can become that person you see in the photograph. And live that lifestyle. Photographers use techniques from the cinema/cinematic, to create the desire of viewers/Buyer/Consumers. The cinematic techniques made it possible the way people lived and the...
So to answer the question you need to think what is art? To me art is a form of representing a person’s ideas which can be in any form of media whether it be a painting, a film, or a song, a novel or a photograph. For it to be classed as art though it must provoke emotion or thought and show signs of creativity.
Art is one of the most intriguing and exiting forms of human expression. A picture can tell a thousand words and often stir up feelings inside the viewer. Art is all around us.buildings,electronic equipment like a computer, and even automobiles are all a form of art.
Photography is relatively simple in comparison to painting, which is a much more complex task. With photography, the composition is already completely arranged, but with a painting the objective is much more open to interpretation by the artist. The artist has the ability to capture much more emotion, understanding, and significance in an event and apply this fiery drive to his paintbrush when creating his own masterpiece.