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Papers On Photography
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Graphic Design and Contemporary Photographic Theory
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A 10 page overview of computer-aided graphic design and its relation to conventional photographic theory in both still and moving photography. Discusses in detail concepts such as editing, composition and presentation. Compares the tools and techniques which are available to the conventional photographer with those which are available to the graphic design artists. Emphasizes that traditional artistic theory is just as important to the graphic design artist as it is the to the conventional photographer. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: PPphotGr.wps
On Site With Civil-War Era Photographer Mathew Brady
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A 9 page creative paper told from the position of a hypothetical (and completely imaginary) assistant to the famous Civil War era photographer. It covers Brady's early forays with the daguerreotype as well as his advances with wet-plate photography, and documents the beginnings of photojournalism. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: Brady.wps
Black British Artist Vanley Burke
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The British art community has
increasingly included the works, symbols and cultural diversity of a
society in evolution. This 7 page paper explores the Black Art Movement
in England and focuses on Vanley Burke's photograph, Boy With Flag.
Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: KTvanbur.wps
Photography in the Healing Process
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This 5 page paper looks at this type of art therapy. Uses discussed include hospitals, schools and nursing home settings. How photography is used in the healing process is explored. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: SA315pix.rtf
'Words of Light' and the Wreckage of the Hibernia Bank
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5 pages. This paper compares the wreckage of the Hibernia Bank in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake to Eduardo Cadava's 'Words of Light', a series of theses on photography. Comparing photographs as ghosts of history or of dead things somehow that keep on living, Cadava's words remind us that the photo of the Hibernia Bank keeps us reminded of the bank as it was before it's fall in the Earthquake of 1906.
Filename: JGAhiber.rtf
“Mulligan’s Guard March”
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A 4 page paper which examines a still photo from a
production of “Mulligan’s Guard March,” one of the earliest known comedies. The
production, and the picture, featured Edward (Ned) Harrigan and Tony Hart.
Bibliography lists 3 additional sources.
Filename: RAmull.rtf
“On Photography” by Susan Sontag
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A 5 page analysis of Susan Sontag’s work “On Photography.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: RAphotsn.rtf
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