Photo Essay Examples Page 2

It is always a pleasure to dig up the family photo-album, and reminisce once in a while. Nostalgia trips, if not done too often, can be quite refreshing. The first page of the album contains some photographs of my parents just after their wedding. They were both young, and my mother looked exceptionally beautiful. My…

Photography has become the catalyst for social and cultural memory and a tool for scientific advancement. The world owes a great deal to the early inventors of the latent image for their patience and skill, for without photography one might consider the world an unmemorable place. The first step in photography’s dissemination into the world…

As photography grew in popularity, talented artists realized that photography could be used as a means to express emotions or convey a message, similar to artworks. After a tough period of artists trying to bring photography into the world of art, it was finally accepted as a new and unique refined art. One of the…

Mark Klett’s September 2000 photograph titled View from the Tent at Pyramid Lake is a 23×29 3/16 inch photo taken in the linear perspective. In the foreground, we see the inside of the tent where a camper’s outstretched legs lay upon a mat next to a few supplies. The foreground also displays the walls of…

Sally Turner Munger (Sally Mann) was born in Lexington, Virginia on May 1st, 1951 to Robert S. Munger and Elizabeth Evans Munger. She was the youngest of three children and their only daughter, she was inspired in the arts area at a young age as her father supported her taking photos. He encouraged him to…

“Dorothea Lange was one of the best of the American photographers who used their art to document, and ultimately to alleviate, the human suffering caused by the Great Depression of the 1930s. As she viewed it, photography was not an end in itself, but a means of exploring the world so as to improve it….

Get the proportions Of landmass to ocean roughly in your mind (our earth is water, think) and take some measurements if you want to by using a piece of string then holding he string up to a ruler. For this tutorial I’m going to do a small continent (2000 X 2000). 1. To get maximum…

One of this century’s icons in photography Henri-Cartier Bresson, thought to be the Father of modern day Street Photography, transformed the field through his concept of “the decisive moment.” He defined it as “the simultaneous recognition in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as a precise organization of…

Towards the end of the century there was a growing dissatisfaction with the photographic establishment in England and in America. At the turn of the century Stieglitz was the most important photographer in America. In England this led to a mass of resignations from the Photographic Society, and the formation of a group known as…

For many years photography has been used to document the most significant of events, whether they affect an entire society, like a war, or a specific persons” life, such as a wedding. The reason that photography is used for such occasions instead of painting, drawing or sculpting is quite simple. It is because photography is…