Introduction In general, the meaning of records is to use some means to record specific things in a timely manner. The methods of recording are also diverse. In the early days of human development, the means of ‘recording’ is also constantly improving (Linfield, 2011). For the record of portraits, people initially used only the way...
Cindy Sherman is an American contemporary artist (born 1954) who is well known for her conceptual self-portraits and her representation of stereotypes. Her career from the mid 1970s to the present shows dominant themes and contexts in her photographs. Influenced by 1950s and 1960s Hollywood, Sherman features herself in various stereotypical female roles in film...
The 19th and 20th century was a pivotal moment in art history as it saw the invention of the photograph and the development of relatively cheap and accessible cameras through mass production. While the invention of photography was revolutionary in itself, the mass production of cameras fundamentally changed the way people view and interact with...
Barbara Kruger is an American who works with conceptual artworks and collagist. Her work is concerned with the positioning of the social body, with the ways in which our thoughts, attitudes, and desires are determined by what society’s dictates. She produces this work to juxtapose the meaning of the image to what the audience believes...
Photojournalism is a practice that has been used for decades to visualise news stories, replacing old-fashioned illustrations and woodblock engraving. While it is closely intertwined with other photography types, like documentary, street, or social commentary,like those popularised by Thomas Bewick at the end of the 18th century photojournalism is distinguished by complying with a stringent...
