Blog Posts:
This photoblog by Andy Bell portrays mostly close up and abstract art. This blog represents how art and photography is not strictly about posing in front of a camera or taking landscape shots. Pictures can be taken of anything from any angle and can still be considered beautiful art work. This blog contains numerous pictures of close up objects that can not easily be deciphered, which makes it very interesting and plays with the audiences mind and makes them take a step back and think about what this image really is. I enjoy how it plays with ones sense of reality and makes the audience pay more attention to things that are typically unappreciated.
This blog is a collaboration of two unidentified photographers that capture images of both people and animals. Most of these photographs depict a still portrait of different people posing with different backgrounds but yet captures all of these peoples beauty in multiple ways. In black and white as well as through a mix of photography as well as other mediums. This shows that photography is not always so strictly confined, it can be played with and altered at the artists discretion.
This blogsite by Uwe Eischens shows how landscape images can be manipulated by photoshop and edited and also shows the simplicity of how beautiful nature can be. A simple flower can evoke such emotion and beauty when captured the right way, and Uwe seems to do just that. This again exemplifies how photographs can be taken of anything and can always be considered art. This proves how photographs can be real or fake using editing softwares or just seizing moments of beauty.
Academic Posts:
http://photos.denverpost.com/2011/05/05/great-fakes-famous-doctored-photographs/#26
This website from the Denver Post illustrates how photographs can easily be tampered with and edited in any way desired. This website includes the before and after shots of images that have been rendered with. Most images have been altered to convey a certain message but apparent that it has been messed with. This proves that photography is not always real and can be edited in numerous ways to capture the audiences attention.
Eric Kruszewski is a photographer that focuses on capturing stories that he believes should be told. He pays attention to real life people and their problems. This gives people more of a sense of reality and the natural aspect to photography and how it can be both real or fake. But this article from the Huffington Post shows how photography is considered to be real from a certain individuals life and their struggles.
This article is more relatable to the average teenager that has a smartphone, they are most probably aware of the application known as Instagram. This application allows individuals to take photos and add different effects and editing tools. This makes taking pictures a lot more fun and convenient. This is more appealing to the younger generation and demonstrates how one does not necessarily need a fancy camera and a great understanding of photography in general to take nice pictures, anyone is and can be a photographer.
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