Photography

SPI (2011) notes that Eastman Kodak Company, or Kodak, is an imaging solutions provider. The company offers many strengths; these include the brand name. Kodak is well-known in the imaging technology industry. Kodak offers photographic a graphic communication products and is well-established in this market having offered products for many...

Though we are accustomed to treat language as the priority means of communication, it is well-known that people perceive most of information through their eyes. Indeed, a single image can often be more effective than a hundred of words. For this reason, photography is extremely important in social media as...

In 1839, the daguerreotype became a publicly available process. As the new technology developed, it allowed very accurate and precise scenes to be captured. For example, photography provided unique perspectives, greater detail, blurring, and other light effects which caused photographs to look different from paintings, even the most realistic paintings...

Photography is necessary for every individual as it helps freeze moments of our lives that pass unremarkably and might not be paramount to us at the moment. Taking pictures is thus necessary for everyone, and the current generation has made it easier through the introduction of smartphones and smart cameras...

Technological development has changed many fields including communication. Nowadays, individuals are using visual media including photographs and films increasingly to communicate. The use of these types of media confers numerous advantages; it is, however, not devoid of challenges. Visual media has greatly enhanced the communication sector. First, visual media get...

The use of a mirror reflection is a widely spread trick that both photographs and painters eagerly exploit in their works. A mirror reflection can serve to perform different functions. In some case, it brings in some mystery to the entire compositions since the symbol of a mirror is commonly...

Both painters and photographers use light as an essential element of any work of art. Light performs several functions. As such, it might be used to accentuate the necessary fragments and make the audience focus on them, first and foremost. It likewise helps to transform forms into shapes creating the...

The rule of the Golden Ratio has been attracting artistic people throughout the history due to the unique combination of mysticism and mathematical order that it comprises. As such, it is not surprising that both painters and artists use this technique in order to achieve harmony and structural perfection. In...

The photograph, Migrant Mother, is one of the most famous and recognizable black-and white-photographs of all time. The photograph depicts a woman (presumably a mother) sitting with two children facing her. The mother is resting her face on her hand and looking off into the distance, rather than at the...

I chose photograph of “Mermaid Parade”, taken by Matías González, and displayed on the Photo of the Day section of the National Geographic website (González, 2017, n.p.). In copying this photograph to this assignment I have complied with U.S. Copyright Law by correctly citing and referencing the image (Librarian, 2017,...

Introduction According to Tolstoy (2016), art depends on how a feeling or an affection transfers from one person to another person through hearing or sight. Perhaps Tolstoy’s view of art did not decipher the common meaning and purpose of art as compared to the earlier definition of Koch (2008). According...

Photography Compared to Painting Since the inception of photography, it has been widely understood to carry on the artistic quality of the paint. According to Jacobi and Kingsley (2016), the photograph is intertwined to the art of paint since it was invented in 1839 by Louis Daguerre, who was a...

Benjamin (2010), thinks about the modern day development and reproducibility of photography and its impacts of photography on arts. According to Benjamin (2010), the reproduction of a work of art lacks the presence of the work in time and space and lacks unique existence of the work of art at...

Some philosophers viewed photography an object similar to the sun that revealed the images projected by objects. When the photos became three-dimensional, the camera had accomplished that of the sun, and spatial perception was born in photos. Oliver Wendell Holmes was infatuated with the stereoscope, and he claimed that viewing...