Photographs are commonly used to tell stories, teach about cultures, remember events from the past, and more. Steve McCurry, according to Business Insider, is “probably the closest thing to a mainstream celebrity in the field” [1]. Steve McCurry is most famous for his photo of Sharbat Gula, a 17-year-old girl in a refugee camp. This photo became the widely recognizable “Afghan Girl” cover of National Geographic. Recently, there has been controversy about the usage of Photoshop and image manipulation in McCurry’s studio after a photographer named Paolo Viglione saw a botched print in Italy and wrote about it on his blog [2]. After doing some research on the situation, a lot of the controversy around McCurry’s image manipulation seems to be an overreaction, or perhaps an example of reality not meeting people’s expectations.
First, we should establish that image manipulations are a common occurrence, and always have been. In an article on Fstoppers, Alex Cooke points out that “anything, anything at all, that modifies a capture
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At the end of his second paragraph, he makes reference to the many stages of his career, and begins to describe how he feels about his more recent works: “Today I would define my work as visual storytelling … Much of my recent work has been shot for my own enjoyment in places I wanted to visit” [2]. McCurry goes on to claim that his photography is his art, and that he wants people to enjoy and appreciate it. He ends the statement to PetaPixel by specifically addressing the photo mentioned in Paolo Viglione’s blog post. According to McCurry, he was away from the studio and the botched print was a result of unauthorized changes made by a lab technician who no longer works with the
Tim Storrier was born in Sydney Australia in 1949. He spent his early childhood on his family's sheep station at Umagarlee, near Wellington, NSW. His mother and grandmother were interested in art, and he would draw a lot. He drew military heroes and rural subjects such as woolsheds. At the age of ten he went to boarding school in Sydney, where he spent a lot of time in the art room, painting under the influence of his teacher Ross Doig. Storrier attended the National Art School from 1967-1969.
An image has the explicit power of telling a story without saying any words, that’s the power behind a photo. A photo tends to comes with many sides to a story, it has the ability to manipulate and tell something differently. There is a tendency in America, where explicit photos of war or anything gruesome occurring in the world are censored for the public view. This censorship hides the reality of our world. In “The War Photo No One Would Publish” Torie DeGhett centers her argument on censorship, detailing the account of graphic Gulf War photo the American press refused to publish. (73) DeGhett argues that the American public shouldn’t be restrained from viewing graphic content of the war occurring around the world. She believes that incomplete
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Steve Miller was born October 5, 1943 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Steve’s family was very involved with music. His mother was a jazz-influenced singer, and his father was a pathologist that very interested in the world of music. Dr. Miller was friends with many musicians which greatly aided in young Steve’s development in music. One of his father’s friends included Les Paul, who showed Steve some chords on a guitar at the age of five. Les Paul proved to be a very valuable mentor to Steve, and he became a good friend of the family. When Steve was seven his family moved to Dallas, where he was exposed to a different type of artists that usually did not visit Milwaukee. His father took him to see greats such as Hank Williams, Chuck Berry, and Carl Perkins. Steve was particularly drawn to T-Bone Walker, the father of Texas-style electric blues. This proved to be very influential in Steve’s life, and it is evident by the blues-sound that he exhibited in his guitar playing.
Why keep writing all the books and essays about Americas greatest running legend, Prefontaine? Why can't we let Pre simply die? I would imagine these questions come up with many not associated with running. With this I hope to answer those questions.
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“Intellect had run up against emotion. My conscience told me to run, yet some irrational and powerful force was resisting, like a weight pushing me toward the war. What it came to, stupidly, was a sense of shame. Hot, stupid shame. I did not want people to think badly of me.” (Tim O’Brien; On the Rainy River).
In the novel, Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer uses an empathetic tone to explore people's experiences and stories with Chris McCandless to prove that McCandless was sane for those needing closure about his life. Everyone who came across Chris and was able to talk to him saw him for who he was, a true romantic. They saw that he was not just a crazed young man craving adventure, in search of his odyssey. By using anecdotes, comparisons, and, using his own personal experiences, relating to Chris, Krakauer is able to portray Chris as sane.
In today's world, photographs are the most form of media to deliver news and messages. They depict the mere fact, but are censored to hide violence. Such an act conceals the reality of life and is unfair. Graphic images must always be exposed to the public as they present the blatant reality and educate people about world crisis.
The mass media carries with it unparalleled opportunities to impart information, but also opportunities to deceive the public, by misrepresenting an event. While usually thought of as falsifying or stretching facts and figures, manipulation can just as easily be done in the use of photography and images. These manipulations may be even more serious – and subtle – than written manipulations, since they may not be discovered for years, if ever, and can have an indelible and lasting impact on the viewer, as it is often said, “a picture is worth a thousand words”. One of the most significant images of Twentieth Century America was the photograph of a migrant mother holding her child. The photograph was taken during the Great Depression by photographer Dorothea Lange, and has remained an enduring symbol of the hardship and struggle faced by many families during the Depression Era. This image was also an example of the manipulation of photography, however, for it used two major forms of manipulation that remain a problem in journalistic photography.
Nowadays, it is widely known that the right and left hemisphere have different functions. The two hemispheres are equally important in a daily life basis. Nevertheless, in the 1960’s this was not common knowledge. Even though today the importance of the brain hemispheres is common knowledge, people don’t usually know to whom attribute this findings. One of the people who contributed to form a more defined picture about the brain hemispheres and their respective functions was Roger Wolcott Sperry, with the split brain research. Roger Sperry did more contributions than the split brain research, but this is his most important and revolutionary research in the psychological field. Thanks to the split brain research, Sperry proved that the two hemispheres of the brain are important, they work together and whatever side of the brain is more capable of doing the task is the hemisphere that takes the lead.
Ray Kroc was born in Oak Park Illinois in the fifth of October of the year 1902. At the age of four Ray's destiny was read when his father took him to a phrenologist who predicted he was going to have a career in food.
Steve McCurry was born in Philadelphia on February 24, 1950. He started traveling when he was 19 and wanted to be a filmmaker (Oded). He received a Theater Arts degree from the College of Arts and Architecture at Pennsylvania State University (National Geographic). Instead of becoming a filmmaker he fell in love with photography and got a job at “Today’s Post” in Pennsylvania doing local photography assignments. He worked there for two years before he decided to become a freelance photographer and left for India (Oded). His career took off after he crossed the Pakistan border into rebel-controlled Afghanistan before the Russian invasion. The roles of film he brought back with him depicted the conflict because they were photos of the Soviet War in Afghanistan. These photos were some of the first to document the conflict
Photojournalism plays a critical role in the way we capture and understand the reality of a particular moment in time. As a way of documenting history, the ability to create meaning through images contributes to a transparent media through exacting the truth of a moment. By capturing the surreal world and presenting it in a narrative that is relatable to its audience, allows the image to create a fair and accurate representation of reality.
The ability to alter images can open creative outlets for photographers and In turn, produce better quality work. Any photog...