Essays on Photography

The social life of things: materiality, metallization and mobility This approach as three key characteristics: – Treats images as material Objects materiality = how they (photos) look and feel, their shape and volume, weight and texture – Its understanding Of how the material qualities Of an image intervene in the world, particularly the world of…

It was because of the lack of purity and crispness within Adams’ first hotplate that drove him to develop a better way in which he could capture the raw beauty of nature. By searching for ways to better nature and landscape photography, Adams construct the Zone System and Group f/64; which helped Influence the development…

“The Boston Photographs” Summary: In Nora Ephron’s essay, The Boston Photographs, Ephron talks about three pictures that were taken in Boston outside of an apartment. The first picture is of a fireman, a woman, and her child standing on a fire escape as the building behind them is on fire. The second photo is of…

Ever wonder how those wonderful, abstract photographs in the museums came to be? How the photographer organized and developed the image hanging in front you? Most people don’t realize or understand the process of developing a photograph and turning it into a museum print beyond just taking the picture; like composing the image, developing the…

Pose. Click. Post. This is how we do pictures in the digital world now. Gone are the days when we have those film strips and have them developed and placed in photo albums. But I have one, which compiles pictures I had in high school and recent pictures in college. I started to keep this…

In a market full of new electronics and new-age progresss being brought frontward every twenty-four hours. how can we be certain what is right for us? Equally far as DSLR cameras go. there are many more than adequate trade names and forte cameras available for person to take from. These trade names include. but are…

The word “paparazzi” began in Federico Fellini’s famed 1960 film La Dolce Vita , which had a photographer character named “Paparazzo. ” This word came fr om the Italian word, pa pataceo, which means an oversize mosquito. Federico says, “Paparazzo suggests to me a buzzing insect, hovering, darting stinging The first American use of the…

1. How can Kodak protect its strategic advantage from competitors, especially Fuji? Kodak needs to look at the business fundamentals that made them the undisputable leader in the photography industry for many years, and refocus their energies to improve the systems, processes and technologies that allow them to bring to the masses inexpensive cameras and…

Margaret Bourke- White never thought she would be a famous photographer. In 1921, when Margaret was 17, she went to college to study herpetology, or the study of snakes and reptiles. That same year her father died leaving her family with little money. To stay in college Margaret got a job taking and selling pictures…

Robert Capa Essay, Research Paper Robert Capa Robert Capa was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1913. Robert Capa is most known for his exposure in war. Known for obtaining exposures taken during a war that shows what it is like to be in a war. Showing things like the adversities that soldiers have to digest…