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Post WWII Photographers


Modern photographers recorded life from their perspective, while advocates of post-modern photography claim that photographs simply confirm the power relationships in a society (Norfleet 1995). Post-World War II modern photographers challenged the "existing notions of what a photograph should look like, what it could contain and what it might mean" (Turner 1987)

Post WWII Photographers


It's like the emperor's new clothes. You have to prove that you're unflappable" (Young 1995)

Altering Digital Photos: Art or


As for Marine Boudeaux Jr. who served in Iraq (Casimiro 2006), he was being friendly with the local children he met, they posed for a photo with him, and he moved on

Mathematics of Digital Photography


The mathematical model of this was first derived from John Dalton's description of his colorblindness. This response can be best represented by the following equation: ci = max ?min si (?)f (?)d?, I = 1: 3, (Higham, 2007)

Mathematics of Digital Photography


Often pictures can be altered so much that even very blurry images can be made clear. Blurred images can be caused by a number of different things, but the original image "g" can be seen as a small array "h" as shown in the following equation: Blurred image = g*h-G-H (Hoggar, 2007, p

Truth and Photography: The Relationship


A city undergoing difficult economic times can be made to look even worse than it actually is, if the journalist only shows photographs of the worst sections of town, not the areas which are thriving. This has been called 'ruin porn' -- where journalists crop out images of prosperity to create a more convincing visual depiction of blight (Garfield 2009)

Photograph # Hurricane Katrina (2005)


Who is a Looter? In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, many photographs such as the one seen in Photograph number one flashed across the news channels around America, and throughout the world. The images show a happy, free-for-all style looting of a local New Orleans business, which was closed prior to the storm, and, in the stranded aftermath of the storm, after many of the city's police, firemen, and in the absence of the state's National Guard troops, was being looted by residents who had not evacuated the city (Garrett, Brandon, and Tetlow, Tania, 2006, 127)

Photosynthesis vs. Solar Cells: Producing


Without plants, animal life on the earth would not exist as we know it. This is because one of the byproducts released in photosynthesis is oxygen, while plants 'feed' off carbon dioxide to complete the chemical reactions of photosynthesis (Farabee 2007)

Photosynthesis vs. Solar Cells: Producing


"The first two steps of photosynthesis involve capturing photons released from the sun and using that energy to create a flow of electrons. From there, photosynthesis involves using that electrical energy to create chemical energy, from which ultimately the products of photosynthesis are created" in the form of glucose (Stier 2009)

Mathew Brady\'s Photography and Its Role in Creating the American Empire


In order to fulfill his dream of photographing the Civil War, Brady took the loan on his New York gallery. He was confident that photography during the war period will be very useful as well as valuable (Cobb, 1956)

Mathew Brady\'s Photography and Its Role in Creating the American Empire


These three figures who became his close friends and self-promoted him. Brady stepped in very popular business of making cases for surgical instruments storage and boxes for daguerreotypes (Crain, 2013)

Mathew Brady\'s Photography and Its Role in Creating the American Empire


The photographs taken by Brady and Co rarely showed the actual battles; because it was very difficult to capture the actions with heavy camera equipments with slow exposures. Therefore, Brady and his team focused on taking portraits of the military, camps and scenes after the fight (Foresta, 1996)

Mathew Brady\'s Photography and Its Role in Creating the American Empire


These only twelve images were a success for Brady but unfortunately a financial failure. However, it did not affected Brady's reputation as he was already very famous and his success was not based on any appraisal (Hood, 1967)

Mathew Brady\'s Photography and Its Role in Creating the American Empire


It was an opportunity for Matthew Brady; he created around thirty five portraits of candidate "Abraham Lincoln" which were distributed in all parts of the country. (Roy, 1982)

Mathew Brady\'s Photography and Its Role in Creating the American Empire


Even then he is no doubt a very important and famous celebrity among the early photographers of America. He had a very friendly, little bland, simple and smiling personality but the photographs that he gave to his nation before and during the civil war shows his personality of a zealous and adoring artist (Panzer, 2001)

Mathew Brady\'s Photography and Its Role in Creating the American Empire


4). Brady during his late teens became familiar with the three old visionary hustlers of America; Barnum, Stewart and Samuel (Smith, 2009)

Mathew Brady\'s Photography and Its Role in Creating the American Empire


The South spilt and Civil War started after the Lincoln's elections. Brady is therefore considered as photographic historian of America as his self imposed position was carried over into the biggest conflict of those times (Sullivan, 2004)

Mathew Brady\'s Photography and Its Role in Creating the American Empire


Some of the photographers had taken some images of Crimean and Mexican wars earlier and made few daguerreotypes but their little work could not be compared with the Brady's performance. Brady and his team were able to get a comprehensive and perceptive collection of around 7000 photographs of the Civil War, which was a big achievement (Taft, 1896)

Mathew Brady\'s Photography and Its Role in Creating the American Empire


Matthew Brady had a unique appearance. He was an Irishman with a big nose, bushy hair style and pointed beard (Wilson, 2013)

Nature\'s Second Eye Photography and


The first photo advertisement was produced in Philadelphia in 1843. The Panaromic camera patent was given in Sutton (D'Silva)