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Quotations
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Photography Quotes
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Wikipedia has an article about: Photography Photography is... "an austere and blazing poetry of the real" -- Ansel Adams "the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision" -- Sebastian Smee "a reality so subtle that it becomes more real...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Photography, World War II Summary
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During World War II most photographers were "engaged"—they fervently believed in America and in the American cause. Many of the photographers of the war came out of the 1930s tradition of social documentary photography. Documenting...
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Photography Summary
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The digital imaging technologies commonly used today evolved from technologies created by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the early 1960s. Government scientists were looking for a way to...
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Photography Summary
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Photography is the recording of visible images by focusing light on light-sensitive materials. English astronomer Sir John Herschel (1792-1871) first used the term photography in 1839. The word comes from the Greek photos, meaning light, and graphos,...
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Photography, World War I Summary
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The images now associated with World War I—of the slaughter in the trenches, of the disillusionment of the soldiers mired in the muck—did not emerge in the still photographs published during the conflict, thanks in large measure to the...
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Photography Information
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Photography (IPA: /fә'tɑgrәfi/ or /foʊ'tɑgrәfi/) is the process of recording pictures by means of capturing light on a light-sensitive medium, such as a film or electronic sensor. Light patterns reflected or emitted from objects expose a sensitive...
 


News and Journals
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The Independent - London
Photography
03/15/1994: 663 words, approx. 2 pages
Joachim Schmid - a German artist and collector - takes photographs seriously. He believes that we take too many of them and blames it on the ease with which people take snapshots. Last year, according to Kodak, two billion photographs were taken in Britain...
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Science Weekly
Photography.
09/28/2001: 6,893 words, approx. 23 pages
Early Cameras Have you ever looked at a photograph and wondered how it was made? The ancient Greeks were able to produce images in darkened rooms. They let light enter the room through a small hole in one wall. The image appeared upside...
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AP News
Camera phone photography as art
5/23/2007: 322 words, approx. 1 pages
Patrice Elmi hasn't touched her bulky 35 mm camera since last fall. The emerging visual artist from Los Angeles has discovered that all she needs is the diminutive gizmo she clips to her jeans and flips open to chat with friends.Take a look at her...
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Vibe.com
VX: Ten Years of Vibe Photography
6/15/2005: 269 words, approx. 1 pages
Description : From Publishers Weekly Since 1993, VIBE magazine has documented hip-hop's prodigious rise and constant reinvention. With a foreword by founder Quincy Jones, this 10-year anniversary volume of photos from the publication's archives proves that the image-makers aren't only on the mic-they lurk behind...
 


Criticism and Essays
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 98%
Fsa Photography During the Great Depression
1,230 words, approx. 4 pages
A portrayal of FSA photography during the great depression and the portrayal of the times.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Photography Is Art
1,008 words, approx. 3 pages
Photography should be considered an art form on the same level as artistic paintings. Both forms require an artistic approach to their subject matter, important skills and techniques that are learned and practiced, and a sufficient response to the end result by viewing audiences.
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Essay Grade: 92%
The Advantage of Black-and-White over Color Photography
730 words, approx. 2 pages
Reasons why black-and-white photography is better for creating art than color photography.
 


Photography Study Pack

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