Rachel Chapman @ CSU Pueblo

Gathering of Amish People, 2017 Source A moment is created, and it yields to being remembered by those who where there and those how where not when photography is used to document a person or an event. Typically, photography is used for families to recall those memories when a loved one is shown. However, photography can also document cultural tradition like in West Africa to be more specific in Ila-Orangun. In Ila-Orangun the culture of the Yoruba takes photographs to showcase their status in their cultural. Stephen F. Sparague explain in “Yoruba Photography” the how the Yoruba uses the art from of photography for cultural and in religious ways.  It a medium to display their role in but it also offers an insight in what is important to them. The poses are what make the photograph identify as a Yoruba, “the subject always wears his best traditional dress and site squarely facing the camera, both hands are placed on the lap or on the knees, and the legs are well apart to spread the ...

  First photography Earth from Space (1946)  Source             The introduction of photography came with strife when it was first introduced into the public. The first problem was whether this art media should be considered art or a science. The outcome of this examination was photography can coexist in both planes. Another, area where history of photography was contested was the industrial making of cameras. Because of the accessibility of camera and photographs the masses had a large impact on the usage of photography. In Walter Benjamin, “Little History Photography” he addresses these obstacles when talking about photography. How photography can be seen as an art form is with aura. What an aura offers is its uniqueness of that moment when that photograph was taken. The photograph is cemented in that exact moment when a photographer clicks a button. Photographs that have an aura offers the viewer a permanent impression of a fleeting moment...

     The  introduction  of  photography  came with  strife  when it was first introduced into the  public .  The first  problem   was  whether the  art  media should be  considered   art  or as a  science .  The  outcome  of the  examination  of  photography  could  coexist  in both  planes .  Another  area  where the  history  of  photography  can be  contested   is  the industrial making of the  cameras  and the accessibility the  camera  and  photographs  and the  effect  it  had  on the  masses .  In, Walter Benjamin, “Little History Photography” he  addresses  these  considers  when talking about  photography .  How  photography  can be  seen  as an art form  is  the...