I chose to do my creative research over photography. Photography is very fascinating to me because what people see and what people think matter to me. To me, photography is creative because the photographer is showing his/her audience something they don't pay attention to or something they don't think of as special and make it special by capturing it in a picture. Photography takes a lot of skill, many think it's just taking a picture, no! Photographers are artists, they study angles, dimensions, light, color, people, landscapes, and objects very closely so that something different or new is suddenly born to us because we don't notice it. Photographers, in a sense, are our eyes around the world. Without them, we wouldn't know half the things we know about the world. Not only that, but they capture very beautiful, ambiguous picture. Some pictures are simple and some aren't.
The first photograph was taken in 1827 by Joseph Nicephore Niepce on a Summer day with a camera obscura. A camera obscura is a darkened box with a convex lens for projecting the image of an external object onto a screen inside. This was the first picture achieved by Niepce:
There are many big names in the field of photography like: Ansel Adams, known for his landscape photography, Dorothea Lange, who took a famous photo during the Great Depression, and the one photographer that I knew previously of is Gordon Parks who was known for his great work with Life and Vogue magazine. What defines photography for many of these artists is that "the impact of a photograph is more direct and its content less subject to misunderstanding" (Feininger 4)
Citations:
Andreas Feininger. The Creative Photographer- Andreas Feininger. Print. Cover. 1955.
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