Photography (pronounced /fәˈtɒɡrәfi/), is the process, activity and art of creating still or moving pictures by recording radiation on a sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or an electronic sensor. Light patterns reflected or emitted from objects activate a sensitive chemical or electronic sensor during a timed exposure, usually through a photographic lens in a device known as a camera that also stores the resulting information chemica...
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Photography
Visual Art Form
Artists:
- Dorothea Lange
- Michael Kenna
- László Moholy-Nagy
- Berenice Abbott
- Lee Brown Coye
- Rachel Wilberforce
- Inge Morath
- Ansel Adams
- Salvador Dalí
- William Carrick
Artworks:
- My Hand
- Dirt For Sale, Cheap, Dallas, Texas
- Untitled [LS 10]
- Steel Mill and Workers' Houses, Birmingham, Alabama
- Untitled #1937, from the series House Hunting
- Dunes, Oceano
- Galleria dell'Accademia 1, Venice
- Untitled
- Wales, Ben James
- Greenwater Valley: A Prehistoric Rock Alignment Along Pleistocene Wetlands
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- All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this -- as in other ways -- they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.
- Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
- It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph -- only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.
- The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
- The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera -- and himself.
- No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
- We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman.
- In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
- Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
- The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.
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- 100 Photographs: A Collection by Bruce Bernard
- 291: Photographers in the Circle of Alfred Stieglitz
- REFLECT: 2007–2008 Full-Time Student Exhibition
- Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art
- Abstraction in American Photography
- Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West
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