Photography Essays

Three Inventors and Their Contributions to Photography
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: The Three Inventors and Their Contributions to Photography  A photograph is an image that can last forever. People are now able to capture moments of happiness, sadness, friendship,...

Photography to Exhibit the Extinction of Animals: Joel Sartore
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: Extinction of Animals The job of a photographer is to capture a moment from the angle, perspective, lighting, balance, and framing. Therefore, these photography techniques help to show p...

Nona Faustine: White Shoes.
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: While summer and winter come and go in their stable cycles, one thing that we can reliably assume about a dense modern city like New York is that it is always construction season. The streets, th...

Turning Points: Contemporary Photography in China
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: The exhibition, Turning Points, is an extensive display of contemporary photography from China, procured by the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) over the past 15 years. The array of works explo...

How have PBR Applications Reshaped an Artist's Pipeline?
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: Through technological innovation how have PBR Applications reshaped an Artist’s Pipeline? Abstract. This report will look at and discuss how technological advancements hav...

Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre and His Contribution to Photography
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: This essay will investigate Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre focusing primarily on his work and his contribution to Photography. Furthermore, an investigative study paying particular attention to th...

Impact of Ansel Adams
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Ansel Adams (20 February 1902 — 22 April 1984) is an American photographer, and environmentalist, who is almost certainly one of the most famous photographers in the world, eminent for his larg...

Documentary Photography: History, Ethics and Application
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Early documentary photography Documentary photography is extended kind— that’s, a piece composed of a sizeable range of pictures. Some connection to content is guaranteed, regardless...

Comparison of Photography Perspectives
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Contents page Assignment: Learning from the Past Page 1: Information and contact info Page 2: Contents page Page 3: Figure Contents page Page 4: P...

New Technology in Photography
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
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Photographer Comparison Essay: Cindy Sherman and Omar Diop
Example essay. Last modified: 4th May 2018
Introduction: Introduction The following study will analyse and compare the contemporary photographers- widely known for their conceptual portraits- American Cindy Sherman (b. 1954) and Senegalese Omar Victo...

Impact of Photography and Film on Art
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Jan 2018
Introduction: Photography and film have changed our notion of art. Discuss. To explore how photography and film have changed our notion of art, we must elude to Walter Benjamin’s essay, The Work of Art in the...

Critical Appraisal of Ansel Adams
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Jan 2018
Introduction: There is an open question that defines photography theory as much as it plagues it: does a photographer take or make a photograph? Ansel Adams’s 1935 book, Making a photograph: an introduction t...

The Role of Standards in Photography
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Sep 2017
Introduction:  Tian Xing (Bill) He Steve McCurry is a world-famous photographer who rose to prominence after his “Afghan Girl” photograph appeared on the cover of National Geographic back in 1985. Th...

Development of the Digital Camera
Example essay. Last modified: 11th Sep 2017
Introduction: Introduction. Throughout the ages humanity has always been fascinated by the possibility of “capturing moments” or in other words perpetuating moments of high significance and outstandin...

Canon Company Introduction - History and Culture
Example essay. Last modified: 11th Sep 2017
Introduction: Index History of the company History of Logo Company Officers Corporate Organization Chart Company Business personal Business Office Professional Industry Achievements Why Canon is a Groundbre...

Photography Representation of Reality
Example essay. Last modified: 17th Jul 2017
Introduction: Introduction:- When we look into a photograph; we often tend to forget that this is not an image taken by a camera rather it’s a moment of a living being captured rather trapped forever. In chin...

Cindy Sherman Artist Biography
Example essay. Last modified: 11th Jul 2017
Introduction: No other artist has ever made as extended or complex career of presenting herself to the camera as has Cindy Sherman. Yet, while all of her photographs are taken of Cindy Sherman, it is impossible to ...

DSLR or a Digital Camera?
Example essay. Last modified: 15th May 2017
Introduction: The first mass use camera became available at the turn of the 20th century and can be traced back to the year 1900 and during the 20th century the pace of technology development in cameras and photog...

Photography: Then And Now
Example essay. Last modified: 15th May 2017
Introduction: Why is the photographic image so powerful & iconic, how do they produce connections of timelessness, and emotional context + what are the perspectives around image making in addition what is its ...

Access and consent in public photography
Example essay. Last modified: 11th May 2017
Introduction: Difficulties in obtaining literature I thought it would be appropriate to start this chapter with a foreword, explaining the difficulties I had in obtaining relevant literature for this review. Whilst...

Photography boundaries and uses
Example essay. Last modified: 11th May 2017
Introduction: Photography from its very beginning served in a beneficial manner to democratize portraiture, expanding its boundaries and traditional uses. It no longer remained as an exclusive privilege of the ...

Postmodernism in the media
Example essay. Last modified: 11th May 2017
Introduction: Introduction to postmodernism, the media and the ‘real’ The increasingly mediatised culture we live in today has lead us to be dominated by and dependent upon the production and consumptio...

Fine Art, Photography And Influence In Dadaism
Example essay. Last modified: 5th May 2017
Introduction: ‘Photography has played a controversial but an important role in the arts for the last 150 years’. The question is still debated whether photography is an art or a form of documentation se...

Nan Goldin's Representation Of Gender And Sexuality
Example essay. Last modified: 4th May 2017
Introduction: In this essay I will be looking at how Nan Goldin photographs people and represents their sexuality and gender through her work as it has always been a heavy factor in her work. What does it say about...