Evolution Of Photography Research Paper

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“When photography was invented it was thought to be an equivalent to truth, it was truth with a capital ‘T’.” Vicki Goldberg

Photography is a mindful medium of expression, perspective, interpretation and can sometimes be truth. The changes throughout the history of photography have changed how people see the image they're looking at. In the 19th century, they were no editing options or software of any kind. You just go through the process and take the photo and people could easily tell it was real. Of course it would a shock to see what was once a real life event in that time period, but then transferred on paper "capturing" the moment itself. The truth could easily been seen, now in the 21st century, most of that has changed. There are …show more content…

Smart phones consisted with a build in camera allowing users to take photos whenever they would in a split second with no hassle, blur or grain involved. The photography world we live in today has evolved into something more soul based and artistic in a way. People can walk around in an area and finding a leaf or a tree, and turn it into something that can be considered an art form. People can take photos of anything with a more variety of different types of cameras and lens and -unlike in the days when it was invented- can carry them around whenever and wherever. People see more in an artistic way than what other people in the 1800s did, no one was taking photos of trees, random objects or food in the way we do now. So in today's age of photography, we have access to multiple variety of software, apps and techniques that was not impossible back then. We are able to create and manipulate photos or images to either edit and alter a photo that one has taken to change the lighting, focus, quality and create a better looking and improved photo and create art which some don't even need to do. And some are to play tricks on peoples mind, leading them to believe it's true. When in reality, we don't know that what we're seeing is true, the media can sometimes revoke people in to believing that what they see can be true. Not to sound too dramatic but at this modern day people want to see what they want to see which leads away from what is actually the truth. Annie Leibovitz (1949-) was focused on her studying and eye for painting, but when she taken a trip to Japan that when then when she discovered her interest and eye was in taking photographs. When she was in school, she claimed to not have learnt about lighting and colour, but only in black and white leading to her teaching lighting and colour to herself throughout her years as a photographer. She then lead

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