Essays Tagged: "Photograph"

Analysis of Nan Goldin's photography.

ANALYSIS OF NAN GOLDIN'S PHOTOGRAPHYHenrik SejrboMKT 491Professor SchroederIn the 21st century there are many taboos and ways ... nd ways which are considered outside the norm and not commonly accepted by our society. Nan Goldin, photographer, seeks to explore these ideas and to bring them to our attention in ways that can actua ... people who stray from the norm, and therefore shunned by society. To view part of her collection of photographs was a pleasure, and immediately two photographs seemed to be calling for my attention. T ...

(7 pages) 247 1 4.6 Feb/1997

Subjects: Art Essays

Pictures by Jørgen Schytte & Lilian Bolwinkel

out some kind of very physical work, which would be the reason for the man to look so worn out. The photograph taken by Lilian Bolwinkel shows a nice man in his best age sitting at a table, in an offi ... tleman's eyesight so that he appears to be looking down to the camera. Also the man to the left was photographed while pulling a wagon, which is not the most favourable position to get your photo take ...

(3 pages) 55 0 3.1 Mar/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Differences In Sexual Harassment

One of your male co-workers has a revealing photograph of a female on his desk at work. You ask him to remove the picture because it makes you f ...

(2 pages) 154 0 4.5 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

Summary of Joseph Stalin in power.

ulogy, had Lenin's body mummified, and saw to the building of a Lenin Library and a Lenin Museum. A photograph was created (a fake made by pasting two photos together) showing Lenin and Stalin sitting ...

(4 pages) 151 2 4.9 Apr/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers

The Fear of Science portrayed in Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", Well's "The Time Machine", and Shelley's "Frankenstein"

eteenth century society the discovery of light waves and radio waves,the electric motors, the first photograph and telephone, and the firstpublication of the periodic table. Science also caused an upr ...

(6 pages) 121 0 4.1 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

This is about Fitz Lang's Pictures in Motion. This essay dicusses scene analzing. It analyzes some scenes in a movie by Fitz Lang

new technology over powering the cinematography. Lang's use of the camera is sometimes like a still photograph and not a motion picture, watching the film you could almost see it as a book with pictur ... in the movie is one of the most striking of visual quality. The opening scene is just like a still photograph, giving the audience an eerie feeling of being judged themselves. The serial killer is th ...

(3 pages) 30 0 4.0 Oct/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays

"This Is a Photograph of Me", by Margaret Atwood

Picture of DeathIn the poem "This Is a Photograph of Me", Margaret Atwood attempts to depict the parallels between a picture slowly develop ... lulling the reader into false sense of peace. The poem begins with a "smeared print..." (1047) of a photograph. The photograph is described as grey; blurred and blended, therefore at this point the pi ... the center of the picture"(1048). The poem takes a drastic turn when the narrator reveals that the photograph was taken the day after she drowned. The poem seemed to be all about describing a beautif ...

(3 pages) 84 0 3.7 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

A look into photography as a career.

Ray CastanedaEnglish 2Career reportA Job As a PhotographerEver since I was a young boy I have always been interested in taking pictures. I was fas ... it with several levels of training from only high school to four year universities.The duties of a photographer can be very diverse. They must deal with deadlines and sometimes costumers or bosses. M ... must deal with deadlines and sometimes costumers or bosses. Most of the time they are told what to photograph and rarely get to photograph what they want. Although most photographers develop specialt ...

(2 pages) 77 0 5.0 May/2003

Subjects: Art Essays

A short analysis of an artwork titled "Caffe Bella Napoli."

Weegee's photograph of Mulberry Street Café is segmented by elemental categories. There is the sign th ... afé is segmented by elemental categories. There is the sign that takes up almost half of the photograph, and below it is the cafe. There are two conversations going on; participants of both con ... ost number of people and is in the center of the happening. The little girl is at the margin of the photograph; she is there but not really there to those pictured. She exerts such a strong presence b ...

(1 pages) 59 1 3.3 May/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art

Changing Self .

y High' from the prescribed booklet Changing, and other related material including 'New Mexico' the photograph, and the Film A Beautiful Mind. We see how the contexts and techniques which shape these ... formally disturbed his life.The notion of changing self can also be glimpsed in a visual text. The photograph 'New Mexico' composed by Garry Winogrand (1966 photograph collections), presents a child ...

(7 pages) 139 1 4.6 Jun/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

William Faulkner's "A Rose For Emily" The Character Miss Emily.

Emily surrounds herself with reminders of the past. For example: after the death of her father, his photograph is given prominence to her house, and even rests above her coffin.When Faulkner describes ...

(1 pages) 203 0 4.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

Charchter analysis of Rosa Morgan, from 'Welcome to the real world' by Ann Coburn.

ic ability. She attends Seaton College and at the start of the novel she has been caught stealing a photograph of the popular boy that she secretly has a crush on, Jason. As a consequence Andrew Green ...

(3 pages) 18 0 3.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Paradise - A Descriptive Narrative Of a Painting Brought To Life.

ParadisePhotography may be the ultimately more effective and logical alternative to drawingor painting, but ... logical alternative to drawingor painting, but more thought and feeling goes into a painting than a photograph. Photography is fairly simple in comparison to painting, which is the more complex task h ... ography is fairly simple in comparison to painting, which is the more complex task hands down. With photography, the composition is already completely arranged, but with a painting the objective is mu ...

(4 pages) 85 0 2.3 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

The Impacts of Images: Photographic Languages.

The Impacts of Images: Photographic LanguagesIt has been said that words make us think, and pictures make us feel. Every ph ... make us feel. Every photograph is a means of communication in that a message is delivered from the photographer to observers. The purpose of such message is to tell, in visual form, something that th ... g. Picture is a visual language that communicates feelings and imaginations. In order to understand photographic language, the photographer and the audience should have some cultural beliefs and artis ...

(9 pages) 134 0 5.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays

How Moholy-Nagy made photography manifestly modern. This essay discusses the ways that Moholy used and thought about photography differently.

How did Moholy-Nagy make photography made manifestly modern?A typical Laszlo Moholy-Nagy photograph might feature hard diagon ... d as one of the foremost advocates of modernism in the twentieth century. His greatest influence in photography may not have been his work or struggles, but his time spent spreading his principles as ... period of militarism, he quickly discovered his own style. He ignored lines of distinction between photographic and graphic expression. He ignored the traditional dependence of photography on the for ...

(4 pages) 58 0 4.2 Dec/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

The manipulation of photographic images discussed in "The Tradition: Fact and Fiction" by Robert Coles

In his essay "The Tradition: Fact and Fiction" Robert Coles discussed the works of two photographers, Jane Lange and Walker Evans, examining the process of producing their pictures and th ... es and the artistic decisions they made, the meaning they wanted to convey and the history of their photographs.Coles pitches on two of Lange's famous photographs. The first, the image of the "migrant ... ted to say with it, Coles also views the other versions on this topic that Lange rejected. We see a photograph of the tent where the "migrant" family lives, which gives a thorough picture of their con ...

(4 pages) 38 0 2.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

TITANIC - A historical information essay.

uire to operate to their maximum potential. Until recently, the technology did not exist to locate, photograph, and explore this ship that rested two and a half miles down on the ocean floor.Shortly b ...

(10 pages) 105 1 4.3 Dec/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

American Photography

Since the 15th century, many people attempted to make a photograph, unfortunately the majority of them failed. John Herschel was the first person to use the ... se the word photography, which derived from the Greek words for light and writing. He also made the photographic process public in France in 1839. In the 19th century, the majority of the pictures tha ... famous Victorians who could pay for such a privilege. Only in the 20th century did the goal behind photographs shift away from capturing a reallife moment to posing for the camera. Although photograp ...

(12 pages) 69 1 4.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

"The Tradition: Fact and Fiction" Robert Coles Summary

In his essay "The Tradition: Fact and Fiction" Robert Coles talks about the works of two photographers, Jane Lange and Walker Evans, examining the process they used to produce their picture ... es and the artistic decisions they made; the meaning they wanted to convey and the history of their photographs.Coles places discussion on some of Lange's famous photographs. One photo, the image of t ... pic that Lange rejected to better understand what the author of the picture wanted to say. We see a photograph of the tent where the "migrant" family lives, which gives a thorough picture of their con ...

(2 pages) 29 0 0.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salmon Rushdie: Interpretation of Chapter 15 and what the title really means

Ormus writes her a song, but both convey the same image of the ground beneath her feet."In my last photograph of Vina the ground beneath her feet is cracked like crazy paving and there's liquid every ...

(3 pages) 16 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Authors