Use of Photographs in This Is a Photograph of Me and Photograph, 1958 At first glance, "This Is a Photograph of Me" by Margaret Atwood and "Photograph, 1958" by Patricia Young are strikingly similar works in that both poems utilize the imagery of a photograph as a communication device however, upon closer examination they differ markedly in the approach each poet takes in utilizing this same device. The similarities between these two poems are immediately obvious to the reader; both poems
John Berger’s The Suit and the Photograph focuses on and analyses the work of August Sander, a German photographer. Sander was trying to find people from every type, job, social class, sub-class, vocation, and privilege, and make portraits of them. Berger goes on to examine and analyze three of Sander’s photographs. He goes in-depth explaining how what they’re wearing, more specifically, their suits, affects their overall appearance and assumed social class. He later goes on to explain how the suit’s
Eyes Cannot Lie Nora Ephron wrote, “The Boston Photographs” to make her argument about how the media should be able to publish photographs of death. She used the Boston Photographs as her example. The photographs were taken by Stanley Forman. They were of a woman and a child falling from a fire escape. Readers thought the photos were disturbing and should not have been published. The photographs were taken by accident when the photographer thought the woman and child would be rescued. He turned
Doctored Photographs: When They Are Immoral The modern world is full of photographs. They are used for ads, political campaigns, and magazines. However it can be hard to tell whether or not a photograph is real. Many are ‘doctored’ or altered in some way. These doctored photographs can be seemingly harmless, such as advertisements, but they can misrepresent a product or person. There is a fine line between what is ethical and what isn’t for doctored images. Photographs should never be altered in
The Relationship of Photographs, History, and Memory Abstract: This essay reflects on the relationship of photographs, history, and memory based on a found and mutilated photo album. Photographs provide opportunities for disrupting and restructuring history with their attraction to memory; they privilege the subjective, creative power of the personal explanation and provide an emotional and even ideological grounding for memory. Photographs as manifestations of memory assist in the process of
The photograph in “This is a Photograph of Me” is smeared and blurred, like the public memory of the decimation of an entire race. The photograph gets clearer at a second glance and depicts the landscape as being picturesque, as if nothing is wrong with it. At first, the photograph only allows a (mis)recognition of the Canadian landscape, with “[...]a gentle/ slope, a small frame house.” There is a casual mention of a lake and some low hills beyond, and it is in this casualty of their appearance
College Admissions Essays - A Photograph Attach a small photograph (3.5 x 5 inches or smaller) of something important to you and explain its significance. At an age when my friends’ floors were strewn with toys, dirty clothes, or video-game cartridges, mine was smothered in paper of all sorts — books, magazines, reams of white and college-ruled, paper bags, paper airplanes. This pattern has survived, and it is representative of the way I live. The house of my life is built on a foundation
The use of today’s photography technology invites many controversial arguments among the public. Some people have no problem with manipulated pictures, others believe that editing the picture of human being means not to appreciate human as God’s creature. It is commonly known that the majority of the pictures in magazines, billboards, and advertisements in public areas must have gone through the professional photo editing process to be maximized in effectiveness. The pictures are retouched so that
The Justifiable Act of Publishing a Picture Pictures cannot be reenacted; therefore, this is why photographs are noteworthy. This statement rings valid; many people, including Nora Ephron, agree with it. Moreover, Ephron writes a final essay called “The Boston Photographs”, and she references an occurrence where a woman deceased. The photographs of her and her child falling are visible in news articles. People believe that these pictures were too private. Nevertheless, Ephron believes that newspapers
photography and portraiture we are able to capture the essence and being of individuals and moments. Many artists that primarily work within these genres do so for that very reason. Famous photographer Robert Mapplethorpe was no different, using his photographs to capture portraits of the various characters that made up the fabric of his social existence as a gay white male living in New York City. Robert Mapplethorpe, as a member of a fringe lifestyle and culture within America, wanted to utilize his
Wisdom of Parents in the Poem, Photograph of My Father In His Twenty-Second Year We have all grown up hearing our parent's advice "Do as I say, not as I do". When your parents give this advice you do not always listen at first, but later on in life you may catch yourself using it. I believe it is very important value, respect and listen to what your parent's say; their experience with life is their major tool in shaping their children into adults. Parents have lived life longer than their
Suffering in Photographs Photographs are used to document history, however selected images are chosen to do so. Often times these images graphically show the cruelty of mankind. In her book, Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag asks, "What does it mean to protest suffering, as distinct from acknowledging it?" To acknowledge suffering is just to capture it, to point it out and show somebody else that it exists. In order to protest suffering, there has to be some sort of moral decision that
Micro Issues 2. If they did, indeed, piece together a photograph from more than one source as Huvane claims, did Redbook cross an ethical line? An ethical line was crossed by Redbook in this case. Redbook changed the integrity of a Jennifer Aniston photograph without gaining her personal approval or her publicist team’s approval. Aniston is an actress that is seen as a fashion icon. Therefore, her hairstyle, whether she’s wearing her wedding ring, and her outfit are all important factors for her
“How do we read a photograph? What do we perceive? In what order, according to what progression?” (Image Music Text, 28). These are question Barthes raises in his essay. Through Barthes’s “The Photographic Message” from Image Music Text (1977) and “Studium and Punctum” from Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (1981), I understand how to read a photo and what is the value of a photograph. Photography is not as simple as an image or a photo. Barthes’ readings give an idea that photography activates
first introduced in England during the late 1830’s, during the early years of photography, photographs were not judged on whether something was right or wrong, people believed every photograph they saw, they believed that a camera does not lie and that a photograph is a representation of the truth but photography is now associated with digital manipulation, nearly everyone questions the truth of a photograph. Scientist adopted photography as a new technical method to demonstrate their studies, photography
an art. Finally, countless untrained people are now taking snapshots with smart phones and then editing them with apps like Instagram. Are these people artists? Are their photographs works of art? It all depends. Many people who have studied art would argue the
journalistic and critical attention. It is viewed that the manipulation of the photographic image may lead to a profound undermining of photography’s status as a truthful form of displaying images. The photograph does no longer necessarily show the truth or the true image. Once digitised a photograph can be altered in many ways, the texture, tone, form and colour can be changed pixel by pixel, the focus can be sharpened, things can be taken out or replicated or the original image can be combined with
the story that a piece of photograph tells is usually not the accurate truth that occurred on the event itself, photographs were stories that has been cleverly dissected and put together again according to the will and intention of the photographer. Aspect of reality were just a matter of story that the photographer wanted to
his mother again in the old photographs and attempted to explain a unique significance a picture of her as a child carried for him. After discovering a certain feeling a certain photograph provoked in him he struggled to find a single word that would adequately describe it. Latin word for puncture, is a feature in the image that conveys significance without invoking any
Photography Photography is more than just a means for documentation. Photography is more than snap shots at a family reunion. A fine art photographer makes more choices than people realize. Point and click is not the solution for taking a photograph (John Szarkowski 9-12) . A fine art photographer may choose to freeze action or to blur it. The freezing or blurring of action is not just done at the push of a button, it takes knowledge and an understanding of how apertures and shutter speeds