Photography Essay

Body Image Media, toys and television have become a huge part of how people see themselves. These predominate messages that are sent out to society affects the way people look at themselves more and more, and causes a negative outlook that can lead to eating disorders. Many men, women and children look at themselves negatively, especially when it comes to their body image. Media and children’s toys have an effect on a person’s body image because the messages of people in society being skinny…

I am Dema Alowairdhi, and I am studying Management Information System (MIS). I am excited to tell you about Vik Muniz. Vik Muniz is a photographer artist who born in Brazil. His artwork is unique because he employing diverse materials such as surprising mediums, peanut butter and jelly, toys, diamonds, garbage and magazine clippings. He use photographic manipulation and unexpected materials in his photographs. For example, he make the “Double Mona Lisa” by peanut butter and jelly, and he used…

This whole process was very time restrictive because the plate needed to be wet during the whole process and thusly the process had to all be done in the close proximity of a dark room. The photographer would set their camera up and focus on the ground glass in the camera to make sure everything was to their liking, then they would make their plates using the collodion process, the photographer would then take the plate in a negative holder to the camera and expose the negative. After the…

It is heartbroken to look at a picture of a little boy locked up in a room with brick walls, a hard bed with a thin mattress on top, and a window on top of the wall or at least that’s how it appears the way the light is entering the room. It makes me think what if that were my son. That is the first image we look at when reading the informative article of the Caging of America. Mr. Gopnik the writer of the article presents us with the “six million people under correctional supervision in the…

Last weekend when my friend Karen created her new instagram account she was childishly relieved to now have a location where she could outsource her selfies. Thankfully, with 15GB memory storage on her phone, she was then blessed with the daunting task of picking the best one out of the 500 pictures of herself taken in an assortment of angles, diverse places of lighting, and various facial expressions. What a disgrace would it have been had I not been present to save her from selecting the…

This last February’s Sports Illustrated swimsuit catalog has received a lot of heat for the risque image on the cover of the issue. The beautiful 24-year old, Hannah Davis, was given the rare the opportunity to be this year’s SI cover girl, and has unfortunately gotten a bad wrap for the image that she has produced. She looks stunning and incredibly fit in the photo, but many viewers are unhappy with the sight of “dangerously low-slung bikini bottoms” (Business Insider). Hannah is a model,…

The photographer divided the subjects into two subgroups. One is about blurry and hurried pedestrians in the streets, and the other is about a young girl in the front . The blurriness of the pedestrian may show their busy life pace of the night. But the young girl, who is the main figure, looks calm and energetic. Her poise forms a strong contrast to the pedestrians, and she becomes the focal point in the picture. This street snap compares the mediocre culture of young and the public. The…

Notion Reality The Innocent Eye Test was painted by Mark Tansey in 1981. It is an oil painting picture. It is being exhibited at the Metropolitan Art Museum in New York. We can see in this painting, there is a cow standing and observing a picture of the other cows. While around a cow are a group of well looking men, they all dressed in suits and wearing glasses, look like they are watching and recording a cow’s performance. It can be said a cow that the men are watching is a “real” cow and the…

Film One: Haddon’s earlier film was designed to show to Westerners the curious lives of people around the world; but it was also one the first step towards the creation of ethnographic films today. Though Haddon documented (for only four minutes) the lives of the natives of the Torres Strait, he did it in a way of an outsider rather than immersing himself into the culture; the film was taken as if one was looking into a fish tank at the curiosities inside. In the way however, it does show the…

The Chinese proverb, “A picture is worth a thousand words”, is routinely used when glancing through a group of images. The main purpose of pictures is to forever preserve the moment in time and look back to appreciate the memory. The purpose of preservation can be found through a collection of images taken at a family gathering, or pictures at a museum event, so people could understand what it was like during that time in history. What if the photographer was trying to capture more than a…