Photography And Art
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Photography And Art
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 the most remarkable of the fine arts. Other forms of art, are
aesthetically pleasing and important in their own rite, but photography is so
monumental because of the power that only it possesses. This is the power to
depict fact. One aspect that makes photography so creditable is that it can show
feeling and emotion so much more vividly and doubtlessly than a drawing can. For
instance, during the Great Depression "the harsh realities were recorded
thanks to the initiative of the Farm Security Administration (Daval, 186)."
At this time, Dorothea Lange "documented the bitter poverty of migrant
workers and their families (20th Century Photography, 1). These images, such as
Migrant Mother and Cotton Picker near Firebrough, show, so clearly and almost
effortlessly, the pain and despair that was occurring too frequently at this
time. There is a loss of hope that is so clear and evident in these photographs
from the longing in the eyes of the images shown. Such raw emotion is hard to
come by in any other art form. Another reason photography is more trustworthy
than other forms of art, is because the image that appears in a photograph,
whether it is of a person or an event, has at one point existed or happened.
This statement does not always hold true for paintings, sculptures, and
drawings. It is simple and usual for an artist to conjure up an image of a
person that has never existed and turn them into a work of art. For example,
there...
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