Photograph

Iconic Photograph Everyone is bound to end up dying. Life isn’t promised a forever to nobody and at a point it terminates. It doesn’t matter how famous and successful someone is. The catastrophe is bound to occur whether you are young or old. The iconic photograph that I chose was the last picture taken of Jenni Rivera just before her plane crashed causing her instant death. It was taken on December 9, 2012 shortly before the plane crashed in Nuevo Leon, Mexico. She was with her makeup artist Jacob Yebale, her attorney Mario Masias, stylist Jorge Sanchez, and publicist Arturo Rivera. Yebale was the one that uploaded the picture to Instagram. It being the last picture of her made it special to her family as well as to all of her fans. After…

Photography, Year 1, Term 2 Thursday 16th April 2015 Word Count: 1, Can a photograph narrate? During this essay I plan to discuss, why I believe a photograph can narrate. I am going to be exploring different critical concept, different narrative strategies’ and relevant images on this subject. I will be focusing if a photograph can narrate or not. Through the development of photography, it has been shown that photographs have been able to tell a specific story of whom is in the photograph…

book Understanding a Photograph, he argues that there is a distinct discontinuity between an individual viewing a photo, and the actual photo. A picture solely preserves a single moment in time, and while they often act to tell a story, the medium cannot be fully interpreted without knowing the story that surrounds it. Although there is a definite connection between a photograph and the narrative that corresponds with it, the photo is only a visual aid for the story; it does not tell us…

The controversy over the photograph “falling man” is that it captures a man before he dies during the horrific terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York City in 2001. In the article, it states, “The decision to publish dramatic and tragic photographs that depict the horrors of war is never easy.” (Irby, K, 2011) The “falling man” photograph may be very upsetting on many spectrums; however, it captures the reality and truth of what transpired that day. I also think the controversy has to do…

The Justifiable Act of the Publication of a Picture Pictures cannot be reenacted; therefore, this is why photographs are cherished. This statement rings valid, and many people, including Nora Ephron, can agree with it. Moreover, Ephron wrote a final essay called “The Boston Photographs”, and she mentions an occurrence where a woman was killed and the photographs of her falling were published in news articles. People believe that these pictures were private. However, Ephron believes that…

A photograph is not a copy of reality but a source of the past reality. It becomes the past as soon as the image is taken. A photograph does not bring back the past. A photograph states what has been and shows what is no longer. A photograph brings back vivid memories and nostalgia. O'Hagan, who is a photography critic claims that certain photos evoke feelings. " Like no other art form because of its very nature – the split second already gone". In general, photography can be very complex. Its…

photographer who has several masterpieces including his photograph of Sharbat Gula known as “ Afghan Girl” which is the most recognizable photograph in the National Geographic. Although his work is world-renowned there are many critics and controversies over his photographs because of his misuse of Photoshop. Many photographers use Photoshop when editing their photos, but the extent that McCurry used it questions his integrity as a photographer. He did not edit brightness, or add focus, he…

emphasizes “it is mainly a social rite, a defense against anxiety, and a tool of power” while she goes further by arguing that when there is a “choice between a photograph and a life, to choose the photograph” (8, 12). The main idea she revolves her essay around is Plato’s cave allegory, which displayed how what people were shown was believed to be the truth. Consequently, when one of the men was shown another perspective of the world, the other two were sceptical and disregarded his view…

celebrations of foreign countries. His volume of photographs, India, contains a selection of photographs that are the “essential McCurry,” depicting “Hindu festivals, men in turbans, women in saris, red-robed monks, long mustaches, large beards, preternaturally soulful children and people in rudimentary canoes against dramatic landscapes” (Cole 971). Teju Coles writes that McCurry’s photos “enclose only a section of the world within its borders” (972). McCurry’s photos portray a quintessential…

also to show the elements of those being interviewed or even interrogated. The person asking the questions and the one(s) being questioned need to have common understanding of the information that is being exchanged. This will help them do so. Secondly a crime-scene photography must create a permanent record that can be viewed at any time which means this becomes a permanent record. Not only are photographs a permanent record it also becomes a part of the evidence that can meanly be identifying…