Essays on Photography

This dissertation paper aimed at investigating the changing role of documentary photography in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa. The first chapter was an introduction of the thesis where a brief background of the history of photography in South Africa was giving. In this chapter, the research questions and objectives and...

The role of women in the society has been a subject of interest especially following the emergence of feminism that targets to empower woman across the globe. The female body has been the center of debate throughout history with different cultures presenting varied opinions on the way a woman should...

The Role of Documentary Photography in Apartheid and Post Apartheid The research study on “The “Truth” Role of Documentary Photography in Apartheid and Post Apartheid” has been designed to explore the role of documentary photography as an active tool for outlining the “Truth” on atrocities and social-political ills that were being...

In response to the oppressive regime during the apartheid, South Africans developed an alternative type of socio-political activism, different from the street marching and protests, the use of documentary photography. The purpose of this research is to outline the role that documentary photography played in exposing the “Truth” of the...

1.0 Introduction From a constructivist perspective, communication is the most critical social process through which humans rationalize their experience and construct social reality (Amineh and Asl 2016). According to some scholars, visual language has historically been the structural underpinning for cultural construction in many societies (Benoit 2016). Within this conceptual framework,...

Using visual rhetoric to convey a message Using visual rhetoric in conveying a message is important to convince the audience on a particular subject. In Eve Arnold's photo on page 335, one can observe the image of two students, one white and the other black, having quality time. The target audience...

Momeni, Mina. “Agony in Photography” The Influence of Misery in Photographs, 2017, http://www.minamomeni.com/agony-in-photography.html In this article, Mina focuses on the agony in photographs. She points out that photographers try as much as they can to depict the truth as it is on the ground (Mina, par.1). In documentaries, for instance, they...

Digital photography and its impact Digital photography has immensely changed the world and the way photography is viewed. The traditional photograph did not have a significant impact as the digital one because of the great capabilities ingrained in it especially in promoting the quality of images. There has also been increased...

Photography, from its beginnings, has been identified by its versatility. It has also taken a role in consent technological innovations resulting into enormous differences in the attributes of an image attributes. This approach began with daguerreotypes to the printed versions from the negative and progressed to plate glass film and...

The Importance of Self-Portraits in a Photographic Essay The choice of this subject of self-portraits is an excellent choice for the photographic essay since it not only incorporates the subjective and objective form of taking photographs but also tends to express feeling and emotion. As such, it is a perfect way...

The neutral colors and implied texture The neutral colors (white, gray, and black), in the photograph titled ‘Migration of drought refugees to California’ by Dorothea Lange taken in the year 1935 (https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/images/wcf089.jpg), functions perfectly within the work of art by not only telling us the level of technological advancement in photography...

The work of Farm Security Administration photographers is renowned due to its insightful portrayal of life during the Great Depression. However, several reasons exist to support the view that the images functioned as propaganda. Firstly, the photographs are subjective. Subjective photography is a technique where the photographers associate images with...