How Photography Affects Society

Photography is the art or practice of taking and processing photographs. It was invented between the 1830s and 1840s. photography is employed in many fields of science, manufacturing and business, as well as its more direct uses for art, film and video production, recreational purposes, hobby, and mass communication. It made it possible for people to see the world in new ways. It has allowed people to see distant places and foreign people and it has made images more dramatic. By the 20th century, it was possible for everyone to enjoy the works of photography.

Photography has affected society by allowing people to see others whom they would never have an opportunity to see otherwise. This includes presidents, politicians, celebrities, and

people from foreign countries. Photography is known to be responsible for the modern-day concept of celebrity. Images have the ability to alter our perceptions. Images can also affect our opinions on other serious matters, such as war and crime.
The purpose of photography is to capture and express life; since the earliest times of artistic expression and documentation in the form of cave paintings, humans have been attempting to capture and record life around themselves in various formats, including drawing, painting, sculpting, writing, and photographing. People use cameras in any they want and focus on any subject they want. Since the 1900s when cameras were available, people have been capturing still images of their lives by photographing their families, the places they visit, the things that are important to them and even themselves.
Photography is important to society because it enables the diffusion of objective information through the visual capture of things as they really are. It allows people to accurately familiarize themselves with far-off landscapes and cultures. It also has the power to sway public opinion through the presentation of emotionally moving images. Our photographs tell us what is important to us. Our photographs show our constant desire to distil our most precious moments into images. We preserve the important events and people in our lives. The ceremonies of birth and birthdays, marriages and anniversaries, holidays and new houses are all recorded because they matter. Images are our personal story, a timeline of our lives filled with faces and places that we love. Photographs are an important part of our legacy.
Our images can resurfaces generations later, they might resurface amongst old papers, and we can share these photographs with our grandchildren. These photographs freeze moments of our lives which pass by so fast and they seem to have such little importance at the time.
Photographs also allow us to share and communicate.

Images enable our desire to share what we find beautiful and interesting to others. Our images can involve a world of strangers in our life. Photography is a complex language. Our images can express our joy and sorrow, wonder and sympathy. Every human emotion can find a place in photography. We can put many feelings, emotions, and mental states into our images. We can capture mental illness into a photograph, which most of us have a hard time expressing with our words.

Our photographs can grab our attention and speak directly to our emotions. They have the power to move us. Photography is a powerful language, which speaks to our emotions. It allows us to tell a story and show others our framing of the world around us.

Ansel Adams was a photographer and environmentalist who was born in San Francisco, California (Turnage 1). He was the son of Charles Hitchcock Adams, a businessman and Olive Bray. He grew up in a house set amid the sand dunes of the Golden Gate. Adams was an only childe and was born when his mother was nearly forty years old. When he was twelve he taught himself to play the piano and read music. For the next dozen years the piano was his primary occupation and, by 1920, his intended profession. He later gave up music for photography (Turnage

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Ansel Adams’ black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West, especially Yosemite National Park, have been widely reproduced on calendars, posters, and books. He also shot a scene of the moon rising above a village on Pearl Harbor in 1941titled “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico.” He made over a thousand unique prints that helped him to achieve financial stability (biography.com 10). He is best remembered as a prominent figure in black and white photography. He was also a great environmentalist. Adams said, “There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.”

More than a century ago, Louis Pasteur said, “Chance favors only the prepared mind.” By this he meant that sudden flashes of insight do not just happen, they are the products of preparation. Preparation, therefore, is the key to a successful and fulfilling scientific career.
Eadweard Muybridge was known as the “father of the motion picture” who, in his early photographic experiments, laid the foundation fro modern cinema, with his study, The Horse in Motion, regarded by many as the first ever moving picture in 1882. He moved to America and joined a San Franciscan photo business. He quickly established a reputation for landscape work, and was appointed director of photographic surveys for the US government in 1868, conducting studies of numerous remote areas, including Alaska (Wild Film History 1).
He began to consider rapid motion picture in 1872 when a racehorse owner in California known as Leland Stanford approached him. Stanford asked Eadweard to prove if a horse was ever airborne when galloping. He produced underexposed plates, proving Stanford’s assertion that all four hooves, did, in fact, leave the ground at the same time.
Photography has affected us so much today. It allows us to capture memories that will last us a lifetime. These memories will stay with us and hold a special place with us all because of a single image. We are able to express ourselves freely with the click of a button.