Reflection on "The photographer’s Eye"

The thing that I thought was interesting about the reading the author broke down five problems that photographers faced and sometime still face. The two that really stuck out to me where “The thing Itself” and “Vantage Pont.” The reason that I really like these section’s are because it had me think about things that I had not realized. In “The Thing Itself” the part that got me thinking was how a photograph is thought about and why are you taking the picture, and also how people believed that the picture that they are looking at has to be true and the world you see with your eye can not be true because a picture never lies. And when thinking about this in today’s terms it is still true, when shown a picture of a celebrity they think that that person has to look that way and that is the way to look. Or when people see other images such as war or anything that people can change the image or the context people believe that image to be true even though it can be altered. When looking at the section called “Vantage Point” I thought it was interesting how the author had mentioned the photography has a kind of power on writers and painters. When looking at paintings over the years you can kind of tell how photography has had an effect on how the artists have changed the way they decide to lay things out on the canvas and the different brush strokes they use. There are many people who are able to get their hands on a camera now and can document a moment in time that they think is important. Some people will just take a picture and not think about why they want to take that exact image at that time. Photography is something that is something that has come a long way in the past 50 years and there are still artistic techniques that are being discovered. Even though there are new things that are coming out there is a lot that we can learn from the history of photographer’s.