ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY World Photography Day 22 <strong>August</strong> <strong>2021</strong> www.magzoid.com
ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY A picture is worth a thousand words. Photography can br<strong>in</strong>g you closer to people around <strong>the</strong> world as images are a universal language anyone can understand and be touched by. What you want to communicate with your portrait or your street photography shot does not need a caption; emotions will work <strong>the</strong>ir way <strong>in</strong>to everyone’s heart. World Photography Day is an annual worldwide celebration of <strong>the</strong> science, history, art, and craft of photography. <strong>August</strong> 19 marks <strong>the</strong> day when <strong>the</strong> people who share a passion for photography come toge<strong>the</strong>r to raise awareness and share ideas about <strong>the</strong> field of photography. The importance of World Photography Day is to create awareness, share ideas and encourage people throughout this field. The photographer can create art from any genre; still life, street photography, documentary, landscape, nude, portrait, employ<strong>in</strong>g a specific style–po<strong>in</strong>t of view, selection of lens, sort of light<strong>in</strong>g, color, or black and white. In <strong>the</strong> 30s, Edward Weston began see<strong>in</strong>g landscapes creatively and captured <strong>the</strong>m toge<strong>the</strong>r with his camera <strong>in</strong> black and white. Similarly, Ansel Adams typically captured landscapes as abstracts <strong>in</strong> black and white. Throughout <strong>the</strong> 50s, several photographers began view<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> camera as a tool for mak<strong>in</strong>g art. With<strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> 1960s, a myriad of photographers followed <strong>the</strong> footsteps of Robert Frank and commenced mak<strong>in</strong>g “snapshot aes<strong>the</strong>tics” with <strong>the</strong>ir film-based cameras. Photographers began tak<strong>in</strong>g candid photographs of everyday life. Subjects enclosed gas stations, billboards, folks f<strong>in</strong>ish<strong>in</strong>g daily rout<strong>in</strong>es, smok<strong>in</strong>g a cigarette, anticipat<strong>in</strong>g a bus, read<strong>in</strong>g a newspaper. For <strong>the</strong> viewer, <strong>the</strong>se pictures appeared spontaneous, random, and accidental. With<strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> 60s, <strong>the</strong> art world began recogniz<strong>in</strong>g photography as ano<strong>the</strong>r medium that would create art. Galleries started putt<strong>in</strong>g up exhibitions of a photographer’s body of work. At an equivalent time, abstract art became well-liked <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> art world, which meant that photographers and different artists started us<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> camera to capture images that embodied ideas. Us<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> camera to form conceptual art is still extremely popular today. Many popular photographers have targeted construct<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong>ir pictures by preplann<strong>in</strong>g and stag<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> scene. The desire to preserve <strong>the</strong> beauty of <strong>the</strong> flee<strong>in</strong>g life has created a tremendous variety of art – a photo. The history of photography is an excit<strong>in</strong>g history of <strong>the</strong> orig<strong>in</strong> and also <strong>the</strong> realization of <strong>the</strong> dreams of long-term preservation of images. It is one of <strong>the</strong> brightest and most stormy phases of <strong>the</strong> event of recent <strong>in</strong>formation technology. Photographs play an important role <strong>in</strong> everyone's life – <strong>the</strong>y connect us to our past, <strong>the</strong>y rem<strong>in</strong>d us of people, places, feel<strong>in</strong>gs, and stories. They can help us to know who we are. There’s power <strong>in</strong> a picture because <strong>the</strong>y help us understand and teach history. People connect with images and it shows how life was before <strong>the</strong> present time, how th<strong>in</strong>gs used to look, what people wore, where <strong>the</strong>y stayed, animals, and many th<strong>in</strong>gs about <strong>the</strong> world are passed on generationally through images. Images are great for learn<strong>in</strong>g about history because people f<strong>in</strong>d that it’s easier to learn about <strong>the</strong> past through images than text. Photography has given us <strong>the</strong> ability to see th<strong>in</strong>gs around <strong>the</strong> world that we haven’t seen with our own eyes. - feature@magzoid.com www.magzoid.com <strong>August</strong> <strong>2021</strong> 23