Visual analysis of a photograph using the “Photographer’s Eye”
This assignment is a 3 – 4 page visual analysis of a photograph using the “Photographer’s Eye” reading (posted online).
Visual analysis of a photograph using the “Photographer’s Eye”
This assignment is a 3 – 4 page visual analysis of a photograph using the “Photographer’s Eye” reading (posted online).
Use this method to analyze one photograph from the list below.
View the original photograph at length.
Analyze it formally and carefully, using this method. At the end of your paper, briefly suggest further directions for research, if you were to extend this project to a research paper.
Make sure you list the artist and title of the work you choose for your paper
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These pictures, taken by the thousands by journeyman worker and Sunday hobbyist, were unlike any pictures before them.
The variety of their imagery was prodigious. Each subtle variation in viewpoint or light, each passing moment, each change in the tonality of the print, created a new picture. The trained artist could draw a head or a hand from a dozen perspectives.
The photographer discovered that the gestures of a hand were infinitely various, and that the wall of a building in the sun was never twice the same.
Most of this deluge of pictures seemed formless and accidental, but some achieved coherence, even in their strangeness.
Some of the new images were memorable, and seemed significant beyond their limited intention.
These remembered pictures enlarged one’s sense of possibilities as he looked again at the real world. While they were remembered they survived, like organisms, to reproduce and evolve.
But it was not only the way that photography described things that was new; it was also the things it chose to describe. Photographers shot “…objects of all sorts, sizes and shapes… without ever pausing to ask themselves, is this or that artistic?”