History of Color Photography.
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(9pp) Ever since the advent of the daguerreotype and the calotype in 1839, photographers began to search for a way to reproduce their subject matter in color. Indeed, color photographs became available practically as soon as photography itself. But these early attempts at color photography were nothing more than hand tinted black & white photographs of the area. Color theory was still relatively primitive at this time, and the photographic materials available were blind to almost half of the visible spectrum Almost a hundred years would pass, before the necessary film is available to the public. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Paper Title: History of Color Photography.

History of Early Photography
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(5 pp). In the early nineteenth century, the new "invention" photography seemed as though it could "capture" the whole world, some labeled it, the "mirror with a memory."This discussion will examine some of those early photographers and their experiments. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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How Photography Has Changed Our View of the World
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This 5 page paper considers how photography has change the way we look at the world. Using many examples, from the photographing of landscapes and their value in creating interest in national Parks to the Harrowing images of the Vietnam War the pa[per argues that the impact of photographs has been wider ranging and deep. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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Paper Title: How Photography Has Changed Our View of the World

How Photography has Democratized Society
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A 5 page paper which discusses how photography has influenced society in such a way as to more powerfully democratize it. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Paper Title: How Photography has Democratized Society

Jack Ruby Photo by Robert H. Jackson
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A 5 page paper which discusses various elements within Robert H. Jackson’s prize winning photo of Jack Ruby killing Lee Harvey Oswald. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Paper Title: Jack Ruby Photo by Robert H. Jackson

Japinese Anime and American Animation:
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This 4 page paper examines the similarities and differences between the animation styles of the Japanese and Americans. This paper highlights a number of technique examples to illustrate the point that there are indeed many similarities and differences between the two. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Lewis Carroll as a Photographer
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A 5 page paper which examines the famed author of “Alice in Wonderland’s” foray into photography, including the type of photographic process he used, descriptions and possible meanings behind some of his more well-known works, and some of the other artists and photographers he associated with. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Paper Title: Lewis Carroll as a Photographer

Man Ray -- “The Poet of the Dark Room”
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This 24 page report discusses the photographer Man Ray (1890 - 1976) who Jean Cocteau referred to as the “poet of the darkroom.” He was born Emmanuel Radnitskyi n Philadelphia in 1890. After he became Man Ray, he also became one of the 20th century's most admired and innovative photographers. His work demonstrated the fact that photography truly is an art form and convinced countless critics that it offered a legitimately artistic way to present a unique and personal form of self-expression. He was also a painter and filmmaker and thought of as one of the avant-garde of Paris in the 1920s. However, it is his photography that has remained as the most lasting representation of his view and representation of the world. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
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Paper Title: Man Ray -- “The Poet of the Dark Room”

Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971)
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(10 pp) Margaret Bourke-White (1904 - 1971) is the kind of woman you want to read stories about to first yourself and then to any and all girl children that might come into your area. She was a dedicated professional photographer at a time when it was an unheard of activity for a woman. Her name remained on the masthead of Life magazine until 1969. This discussion will look at the woman and her work. Bibliography lists 6 sources and three visuals.
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Paper Title: Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971)

Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971): An Overview
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This is a 12 page paper discussing the life and professional career of Margaret Bourke-White. Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was considered by some to be the most famous photojournalist of her time. Born to open-minded and progressive parents, Bourke-White learned at an early age to be independent with an assertive motto of “you can”. Although she graduated with a degree in the sciences, Bourke-White soon gained a reputation as a competent industrial photographer which attracted the attention of Henry Luce the editor and publisher of Fortune and later Life magazine who hired her as the first female photojournalist. Bourke-White was the war correspondent for Life magazine and the U.S. Air Force and was also the first female journalist allowed in combat. During her war years, she was the first correspondent in the Soviet Union and captured the bombing of the Kremlin by the Nazis on film, was torpedoed in the ship which was taking her to Northern Africa and accompanied Patton and the United States troops on their tour of the concentration camps in Germany. Back home in the United States, in collaboration with her second husband, novelist Erskine Caldwell, on several photo texts on the inequalities of the American social and class system. Bourke-White continued to be an inspiration to feminists and photojournalists during her entire career and in the mid 1950s when she discovered she had Parkinson’s Disease and could no longer take photographs, she wrote her autobiography during over eight years. Margaret Bourke-White died in Connecticut in 1971. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Paper Title: Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971): An Overview