Capturing a Moment with Photography
What can a picture really say? Photography can capture moments in time that will always hold a special place in one's heart allowing them to remember the emotion they felt during that time. Picture manipulations have been around for centuries and still exist today. In a popular picture from 1936, Dorothea Lange displays two forms of manipulation. She removed something so little, which represents so much by a method called technical retouching. It changed the whole emotion of the picture. She also stage–managed her photo's to hide very important details that would have changed the whole effect of the photo. Modern manipulations exist by Photoshop and could be more effective than ever before. "Long before Photoshop and other image–editing tools, artists, photographers, and composers were manipulating images. We still live in a culture and world where we want to assume that cameras provide us with an objective truth" (When Images "Lie", 2011). Trying to convey a message can be difficult, but with a little altering the message the photographer is trying to portray can become clearer to the viewer. Trying to covey a message through a picture can be extremely difficult because not everyone sees the vision of the photographer. Stage–managing is when you set up a setting in a way that delivers an illusion for the viewer to perceive. Photographers usually do this when they want to put emphasis on a certain subject. Lange Stage–managed her most popular image, Migrant
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Illustrations are literature in their own right and whether utilized independent from anyone else or incorporated with composed writings, they hone the view of youngsters, fortify their creative ability and expansion their feeling of perception. The general advancement of kinds can be helped by good illustration.
In reality, the photos might be what you recollect most plainly from specific books. Words and images of various kinds are often combined to form narratives for children, sometimes in quite complex ways. Illustration might characterize translations of a specific story. Such pictures would give a sitting to the creative energy. Visual components can be used to reach out to the readership a passionate effect. Pictures in children`s books ...show more content...
In a picture book, the illustrations are as important as the text, and both work together to tell the story. When you share picture books with children, be sure to attention to the illustrations reading picture books means exploring the art as well. This article can help you get more out of picture books by showing you how to engage children and enhance their reading experience. The illustrations help the child to absorb and understand the story more and also the expansion of the imagination. Illustrations clarify the story cartoons printed and make it more in the brain and memory for a long time. Read the story and watch the events in the pictures make it easier for the brain to save the image instead of read the story without pictures because the mind will begin to imagine several positions of the story. Visuals are essential to the Get more content
The Pros And Cons Of Picture Books
Laura Williams
At the beginning of my essay, I am going to attach a picture by Laura Williams, one of my favorite photographer from United Kingdom. I am going to describe her picture and tell the people why this picture is special to me. After that, I am going to tell my experience that make this picture seems special. The next thing I am going to do is connect it with the situation of my origin country, Indonesia, where minorities are treated differently because of our culture. I am also going to share my arguments about the situation.
After I describe the situation, I am going to intersect it with Edward Said's quote,"They are given special cards identifying them as 'Palestinian refugees,' and even where they are respectable engineers, teachers, business Get
Analyzing The Essay 'Picture'
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Picture Books Importance on a Child's Development Ever analyzed a picture book before? The colors, shapes, and underlying message on every inch of the page create a story. A story that makes your brain tick and contemplate what exactly you're looking at. These things are significant to the constant development of a human being, but the specifically to a child. When I was young I would drown my floor with Dr. Seuss and books that gave excitement to me just by holding them. I loved looking at the pictures, the endless rhymes, and magical color schemes because I had no other outlet than books to reach in a grab my attention the way they could. That's why picture books are almost a necessity to a child's development. The type of...show more content...
On TV you only see what the media wants you to, but with books the possibilities are boundless leaving you to take the story for what it's worth and run with it, all the while drawing your own conclusions. For example, in my house, I would read books and then dart to my parents telling them about what I just read and what it meant to me, or even how I saw the characters in my own mind. It's amazing the things you can find out about yourself when you think and create on your own instead of having someone do it for you. I appreciate those who gave me books, read to me out loud, or handed me pens to doodle with because if I wasn't given the opportunities to explore I probably wouldn't be the same person today. Even a kindergartener deserves that type of freedom and I feel picture books are a great outlet for it. So you see, pictures, even in books help minds to develop each time you take a glance at them. You gain that freedom in your mind and can grow and expand to photography, galleries, museums, and even creations of your own personal art... the possibilities seem endless. I would conclude that picture books are helpful to people of all ages, especially the minds of children. Will you ever look at books the same
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Picture Book Analysis Essay
The Painting
"A picture can paint a thousand words." I found the one picture in my mind that does paint a thousand words and more. It was a couple of weeks ago when I saw this picture in the writing center; the writing center is part of State College. The beautiful colors caught my eye. I was so enchanted by the painting, I lost the group I was with. When I heard about the observation essay, where we have to write about a person or thing in the city that catches your eye. I knew right away that I wanted to write about the painting. I don't know why, but I felt that the painting was describing the way I felt at that moment.
When I first looked at the picture, it looked like there were only two colors green and blue. When I got closer...show more content... The grass was spread out through the whole painting. If you looked hard enough you can see flowers of pink and red growing within the grass. There were spots of yellow in the grass making the grass look as though it was dying. Then the painting had a patch of grass that had a very vibrant shade of green, that made the grass look so alive. The grass had a willowy quality that may have suggested that there may have been a breeze.
The river also suggested a breeze, there were ripples that flowed southeast. There were many different shades of blue in the lake and river. The lake had a darker shade of light blue surrounded by a dark blue then lined with black. The lake appeared to have a light shining either on top or the bottom of it, which allowed you to see the grass growing under it. The river had a lighter shade of light blue with white lines to show the ripples but it was surrounded with the same colors as the lake. You did not see any grass growing under the river because there was no light shining on the river.
When I saw the painting for the first time it grabbed my attention. At first I thought it was the beautiful colors that attracted me to the painting, but it was more. In the picture the shadowy men look scared. They looked as though they were trying to run away from something and this lake that forms into this river that is surrounded by tall grass is the way out, or at least a place to hide until the coast is clear. During that time in my life I felt
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Images are More Powerful than Words
The American Heritage College Dictionary defines the term image as "An optically or electronically formed representative reproduction of an object, esp. an optical reproduction formed by a lens or a mirror." This is what is more commonly referred to as a picture. The definition of a word is "a sound or combination of sounds, or its representation in writing or printing that symbolizes and communicates a meaning and may consist of a single morpheme or a combination of morphemes." In fact, there is a constant debate about the importance and significance of both forms of communication. Because either one can be interpreted and considered differently, depending on who theviewer or reader is,...show more content...
Even though both the tour guide and a pamphlet told everyone exactly what the organization's purpose was, the Mural actually said more than needed to be said, without the aid of any words. One can agree with Mitchell Stephens' statement in "By Means of the Visible: A Picture's Worth" that "certain pictures can put most sentences to shame" (486), because the images illustrated in this Mural put, every single word that was written in the UN pamphlet or spoken by the tour guide, to shame. They gave a deeper and more spiritual meaning, that went above and beyond the mere one–dimensional meaning, of the words used, both written and spoken.
Since motion pictures are a form of imagery, the next image is from the movie, Coming to America. The chosen image was when Akeem, the Prince of Zamunda, was getting married at the end of the movie. When he pulled up the veil of his bride, after thinking that he had lost Lisa forever back in Queens, the look on his face, when he saw that Lisa was not in New York, but in Zamunda, waiting to become his bride, was a mix of joy, anxiety, relief and passion, just to name a few. All of the emotions that were on his face, at that particular moment when he realized that he was going to finally wed the woman he truly loved, cannot possibly be described by enough words to complete this
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"A picture is worth a thousand words." Well, how about 1,500 words? The question you have just read is rhetorical which is exactly what this paper is about. Visual rhetoric is defined in our textbook, Envision in Depth, as "persuasion through visual means" (Alfano and O'Brien 8). Simply stated, it is how a picture makes an argument about a particular issue, or at least how the photographer makes the argument from their camera lens. The image examined in this essay is focused on drunk driving and its potential consequences. Driving under the influence has become an epidemic that seems to effect more and more people each year, whether they be the individual under the influence or an innocent victim. The chilling advertisement in Figure 1 suggests...show more content...
Our textbook uses the example of Allstate Insurance's Mayhem commercials which are hilarious to watch, but make you want to get Allstate's insurance for fear that all that happens in the commercials will happen to you (Alfano and O'Brien 57). In this case, the fear of death or at the very least a damaged car and trip to the hospital is used to make people stray from drinking and driving. The idea of crashing your car into a tree and potentially lose your life if you drink and drive is enough to make some people think twice before they turn the key in the ignition and take off with a tainted and slurred view of the world around
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Memorable Family Moments Caught by Photography
Family photographs have enabled me to develop a way to keep my family with me all the time, even when they are really not there. These pictures of my family represent a wide variety of importance and emotions in my life. Many of them serves as a link to my home life, since I am away at college without my family I allow their pictures to be decorations (memoirs) in my apartment. Some of them mean more than others, some are recent, and others come from my childhood. A picture I have framed on the center wall in my apartment is of my family on vacation this summer; it depicts our true "selves" and exemplifies how much we truly love one another. I am...show more content... These are usually the times where they snap pictures of their love ones to create memories of happy, quality times with one another, especially if these times are not easy to come across. On my family trips and on the family trips of others the idea of being united and having fun together is exemplified through these informal photographs we take. In an article by Judith Williamson called "Family, Education,Photography", she discusses how "with the informal arrives a new element, never so highly developed as in contemporary family photography: the necessity of 'fun'"(339). Families in turn can show the fun they have with one another in these pictures of their vacation and other informal, happy times with one another. Judith Williamson's article also has several other important viewpoints on family photography and how it has changed over the years. She states that "in earlier family images it seemed enough for the family members to be presented to the camera, to be externally documented; but now this is not enough, and internal states of constant delight are to be revealed on film"(339). Today, the element of displaying the true "self" in pictures gives more meaning to the photos and how we in turn value them. When photography was first developed only the upper class families could afford these portraits and thus the norm for what family photographs
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Written language is perhaps one of the most defining characteristics of human society. Since it was developed thousands of years ago in the Mesopotamia region it has advanced into what we know it to be now, allowing humans to express themselves through symbols (Mark). However, even before the first written languages were being formed, paintings lined the walls of ancient caves. These cave paintings were the precursors to the written language, explaining a plethora of things, ranging from ideas and feelings to tracking herds. These cave paintings have long been considered unnecessary as they were replaced and forgotten with the rise of formal written languages. Yet, it appears the need for images is back, not to replace our current written languages, but rather to work in tangent with them.
These images or symbols are better known as emojis, a small digital picture used to express concepts, thoughts, and feelings that written words alone cannot and their usage is on the rise, "In May of 2015 Merriam–Webster officially added emoji to the dictionary" (emogi). Emojis are steadily becoming commonplace in digital communications to a point where, "Emojis are used by 92% of the online population" (emogi). It is becoming ever more apparent that emojis are not just a simple passing fad, but a permanent piece of human communication. This is especially true for the use of emojis in the workplace. Technology has changed the landscape of the work
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A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words Essay
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 understanding the present.
As this century fades into the past it is worth remembering that its course in contrast to earlier times has been chronicled by a visual narrative that relies on the attraction of photographs as means of storing...show more content...
The violent markings of the photo album and its images, however, produce an equallypowerful message that jars the memory as it disrupts and distorts the photographic chronicle of her life and that of her family and friends. The result is a complex visual experience that addresses the use of images in producing knowledge and making history.
Photographs are re–collections of the past. This essay is about photography, memory, and history and addresses therelationship between photographic images and the need to remember; it is based on the notion that seeing is a prelude to historical knowledge and that understanding the past relies on the ability to imagine. At the same time, the role of thought and imagination in the production of society as reflected in the earlier work of Louis Althusser (1970), Maurice Godelier (1984) and perhaps more significantly, Cornelis Castoriadis (1975), suggests yet another role for photography in the construction of a social and cultural reality. Photographs in capitalist societies contribute to the production of information and participate in the surveillance of the environment where their subjective and objective qualities are applied to the private uses of photographic images in the perpetuation of memory.
Photographs are also manifestations of time and records of experience. Consequently, writings on photographic theory are filled with references to representations of the past. Roland Barthes (1981, 76), for instance,
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A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
If I were to take a room filled entirely with people and ask them to write about something that holds value to them, what would it be? To some, the word "value" means something that holds only a monetary value, something that can be bought and sold. The values that I am referring to are the values that an individual cannot place a price tag on. They are of special significance that hold a dear meaning to us deep down in our hearts. They are the things that are ever reminding us of the people that we are, and the people that we want to be. When I think of the word "value" I often think of love and family. I think about the importance of the gift of life, and just how very special it truly is....show more content...
I was lucky to have had such a close family growing up because being an only child, I often got to be a little lonely. That caused me to cling more closely to my cousins. I was particularly close to one. Ryan.
Ryan and I grew up together. Living just right next door to each other, he was pretty much my very first best friend. We were a mere nine months apart, and we did everything together. We went to pre–school together and we were confirmed in the same class at our church. We learned how to ride four–wheelers together and graduated from high school together. Ryan and I even decided on the same college, and began that journey together. We experienced so much, and have plenty of pictures to prove it. They are now my special memories of Ryan and that I now have frozen in time, because along with the experience of our first week of college, came another new experience, my first time having to experience "alone". Ryan had passed away.
Throughout the first week of learning on how to adapt to this different life style, all I could do was look through pictures; my tiny pieces of moments frozen in time. I saw all the smiles, all of the great times we spent together growing up. I wished so hard that I could just jump right into the picture and be with Ryan again. I knew I couldn't, so I decided to get a frame, and fill it with all of my favorite pictures of Ryan and me. I created
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In the third stanza the poet echoes the shyness which was mentioned in the first stanza, describing discretion and secrecy as essential elements of true love. To break this discretion, to attempt to share this private world with others, is , to the poet, a mistake. It is a "Love that holds itself in doubt". Here again the contrast between the mind and true feelings can be seen, This stanza ends with the words that seem to be a definition of love for the poet: "For love is quiet, and love is kind".
As far as form is concerned, the poem consists of three stanzas with six lines each. The rhythm of the poem is regular one and all the three stanzas rhyme according to the following rhyme scheme: aabcbc. The regularity of this poem underlines the...show more content... She replied: I don't think art is therapy. I don't think art is a substitute for something. I am very clumsy and I hate it. I would rather pull a door when it says push. This might be the reason why I like the order of poetry. Poetry is communication. When I feel a poem is all right, I will show it to somebody. But, of course you can't have that in your mind when you are writing. I think the things we share are more interesting than the things that separate us.
Entrance into the World of Art in "Vision to an Artist" (1961)
This poem consists of three stanzas; the first one has six lines and the second and third has five lines each. Some of the lines are rhyming but not all of them. From the title of the poem we learn that the poem intends to describe a visit to an artist. The poem is dedicated to David Jones and we get the feeling that it is he we are going to
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In A Picture Gallery Poem
Digital camera is a very important tool nowadays. People would always want to save their memories in the shape of pictures that will last forever. People were amazed when the first ever camera introduced back in hundreds of years ago. At that time camera consisted of large and impractical components and it was very hard to use. In fact, it even took quite some time to develop the pictures on the paper. But now there are some products of digital camera that are very easy to use and with its pocket–sized feature, one can carry it everywhere. There are several advantages of using digital camera: very easy to use, easy to carry on, instant feedback; which means one can immediately review the captured pictures and erase any...show more content... Many products are offered in the "products" area and it also has the special accessories section to helps many customers that are not satisfied with their current original digital camera. Customers who got confused for their choice of Canon product should rest assured as there is a special feature in the website that can help one to choose the right camera. This special feature has three different categories inside: Canon advantages, product comparison, and quick overview. Boasting its superiority to other manufacturer, indeed Canon has the state–of–the–art technologies. Here it discuss how each major components of the camera functions, for example: the lens, image quality enhancer, viewfinder, and the camera object focus. Where–to–buy section provides helps customers to find the closest Canon retailer in the area. And customers can look for different sites for each different Canon cameras. For example if one want to look for Canon S50, it is just a click away since the helpful link will deliver customer to there right away.
In the megapixel.net website, it is arranged based on user–friendly mode, which means the website is made so that users can better understand how to use the camera with the help of visual aid. It also provides step by step explanation on how to use the camera. It has many different options based on different categories: ergonomics, characteristics, image quality, interface and software, camera views, test photos Get
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According to the McGraw–Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs, the phrase "a picture is worth a thousand words" means pictures convey information more efficiently and effectively than words do. Many people believe this to be true because pictures display concrete evidence of events that happen, they are able to "see it to believe it." They believe that since they can see it with their own eyes, everything in the photograph must be telling the true story. On the contrary, pictures can be just as biased as textual sources of information and the photographer may not be providing the viewer with the whole story. Knowing this fact, Oliver Wendell Holmes describes this phenomenon in the following way, "The photograph is an illusion...show more content... The photographer's angle from which he took the picture also asserts superiority over the people. This can be compared to Riis' image of the "street arabs" on page 221 of After the Fact. Riis took that picture from an even level with the boys to express his sympathies rather than his superiorites. John Minchillo, the photographer of the picture below, seems to look down at the people in the picture both literally and figuratively. He also chose to use a picture where the son looks sad. Was this by accident? Probably not, the photographer once again wants the viewer to feel bad for the people and what better way to conjure that feeling than to depict a child appearing sad. Photography has its advantages over textual sources, but just like any article, paper, or book, the reader/viewer must take into account that the author or photographer has incorporated some type of bias into their
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Jacob Riis A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
This picture is important to me because it helped me learn that if you stick with something that you enjoy you can never go wrong. This picture was taken two years ago ,and now i'm a whole lot more involved in with my job. I've made friends, got experience and learned patience and that's really what this picture reminds me of Get
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The Test of Time: The Power of the Photograph
What is a photograph? The simplicity of taking a photograph leads many to ponder its artistic value. Yet, it is undeniable that there are some photos that cause an emotional reaction deeper than simply observing a recorded point in time. Surely, there are photographs that cause more reaction than some modern art pieces. There seems to be two types of photographs. The first classification is the 'time capture' photo – an image with the sole purpose of recording a particular event or point in time. The second nature of a photo carries a 'deeper meaning,' which has the ability to change the observer's mood and cause a reaction. But what distinguishes these two varieties? There are a...show more content...
There is clearly an artistic value to this image – it is taken at the location of a massacre of over 200 members of the Great Sioux Nation. However, did Elliot Erwitt intend a 'deeper meaning' for this photograph? In an interview recorded on his official website, Erwitt declares, "If it turns out to be entertaining what I do, I'm very pleased. But it's not conscious." It seems that Erwitt claims to not possess artistic intent in his photographs. However, it is clear that he simply boasts an unconscious artistic eye. It is obvious that the photograph of this church on hallowed ground falls in the 'deeper meaning' category. The second Elliot Erwitt photo is taken from his official webpage. It too is captured in black and white. The photo, shown in Figure 2 was taken in France and depicts a man and child riding a bicycle down a road lined with trees. This seems to be a 'time capture' photo; this particular event can never be perfectly replicated again. Despite the category in which this photo clearly falls into, it is undoubtedly still art – the setting is too perfect to be unintentional. However, according to Erwitt in his interview, unintentional is exactly the correct word. Erwitt states, "I take pictures of anything that interests me as I walk around with my camera." This means that many of his photos are taken on a whim; the right place at the right time. In this case it is the viewer who makes the distinction between
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Essay about Photography
Photos bring memories back to life. Each photo tells a different story, sometimes things you don't always like to remember.
The photo that I have chosen is of a young girl in a pretty formal dress. She is holding a packet of Minties, her favourite lollies. Her grandma gave them to her right after she performed in a concert for her dancing school.
Athol Williby School of dance, a place she'd been going to for 3 years, since she was 7 years old. Every Monday her mother would drop her off out the front of the old office building. She'd walk down the laneway round the back, up the old wooden stairs into a change room.
A change room where all theolder girls gossiped as she and her friend arrived....show more content...
As everyone was arriving the young girls noticed how many people actually went to the dance school. They were shocked; they'd only seen the older girls that gossiped in the change rooms before class.
As the doors opened and everyone moved into the building, a tall lady with red curly hair and a big noise came into view. She was screaming instructions at everyone; they just kept walking through the doors.
The young girls walked into change room 8. It was huge with ballet costumes on hangers. There were lights around the mirrors just like in the movies. The little girls felt very glamorous.
They were told to sit on the ground and wait until Marie, the lady that would be looking after and helping them get into their costumes, came.
The young girls sat and waited patiently, giggling excitedly about which costumes they would get to wear.
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All of sudden like a gust of wind the door flung open and in came the screaming lady with red curly hair and a big noise.
All the young girls gasped. Marie as she was called stood over all the girls and looked down on them.
"Why aren't you girls in your costumes yet?"
Everyone looked down, no one said a thing everyone was too scared.
"Well hurry up them, it's those ones on the rack over there"
Everyone rushed over to the rack she had pointed at and started putting on his or her costumes.
"I'll be back in 5 minutes, all of you
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Picture Frames
Christmas, Halloween, Easter, birthday parties; pictures of these past events are strewn across the floor. You don't know what to do with them. You can put them in a drawer, but risk bugs getting to them; you can put them in the attic, but then the pictures will be dusty and forgotten. No, you need to put them somewhere that they will be safe and remembered. My picture frame will keep your precious memories safe and can be used for so much more My picture frame protect your pictures and memories. You have a son, Raymond. HeВґs a year old, yes? Well, he's not going to be one forever, and you want the memories of him as a baby to last forever. Picture frames are made for protecting pictures and showing them to others, or just having them...show more content...
You can paint them and decorate your walls with them, to Make your home unique and with your own flare. They can be used in DIYs. You can check out DIY websites or Pinterest for other ideas on how to use them, or make up your own nifty trick with them. ItВґs fun and easy to make your own. Picture frames can be used for different things, and aren't just for pictures. Now, most people would say that pictures are all digital and can be stored on hard drive or the Cloud. This is true; Our society is all digital and it's an easier process than taking the picture, waiting 1–2 days for the photo to develope, then find it a place in your house. But what about old family photos and baby pictures? I guarantee you have a picture printed and developed somewhere in your house. Pictures like these can't be put back onto the internet and saved as they are, and if they can, what about the originals? Even though our world is mainly digital, there are still things that aren't, like old family photos. Picture frames are pretty dandy to have around. They protect your pictures young or old and they can be used for so much more. But, the main reason you should get my picture frame is because pictures are just like everything else in the physical world, real. Take care of your precious memories so they can last Get more content
