Magzoid Magazine - Luxury Magazine in the Creative Space | August 2021

ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY
A
picture is worth a
thousand words.
Photography can bring
you closer to people
around the 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 their way into everyone’s heart.
World Photography Day is an
annual worldwide celebration of
the science, history, art, and craft
of photography. August 19 marks
the day when the people who
share a passion for photography
come together to raise awareness
and share ideas about the 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, employing
a specific style–point of view,
selection of lens, sort of lighting,
color, or black and white.
In the 30s, Edward Weston began
seeing landscapes creatively and
captured them together with his
camera in black and white. Similarly,
Ansel Adams typically captured
landscapes as abstracts in black and
white. Throughout the 50s, several
photographers began viewing the
camera as a tool for making art.
Within the 1960s, a myriad
of photographers followed the
footsteps of Robert Frank and
commenced making “snapshot
aesthetics” with their film-based
cameras. Photographers began
taking candid photographs of
everyday life. Subjects enclosed
gas stations, billboards, folks
finishing daily routines, smoking a
cigarette, anticipating a bus, reading
a newspaper. For the viewer, these
pictures appeared spontaneous,
random, and accidental.
Within the 60s, the art world
began recognizing photography
as another medium that would
create art. Galleries started putting
up exhibitions of a photographer’s
body of work. At an equivalent time,
abstract art became well-liked in
the art world, which meant that
photographers and different artists
started using the camera to capture
images that embodied ideas. Using
the camera to form conceptual
art is still extremely popular today.
Many popular photographers have
targeted constructing their pictures
by preplanning and staging the
scene.
The desire to preserve the beauty
of the fleeing life has created a
tremendous variety of art – a photo.
The history of photography is an
exciting history of the origin and
also the realization of the dreams of
long-term preservation of images.
It is one of the brightest and most
stormy phases of the event of recent
information technology.
Photographs play an important role
in everyone's life – they connect us
to our past, they remind us of people,
places, feelings, and stories. They
can help us to know who we are.
There’s power in a picture because
they help us understand and teach
history. People connect with images
and it shows how life was before
the present time, how things used
to look, what people wore, where
they stayed, animals, and many
things about the world are passed
on generationally through images.
Images are great for learning about
history because people find that it’s
easier to learn about the past through
images than text. Photography has
given us the ability to see things
around the world that we haven’t
seen with our own eyes.
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