PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / Essays

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

This study examines street photography in Indonesia as a visual art practice that engages freedom of expression, ethical considerations, and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). Street photography functions not only as documentation of everyday life in public spaces but also as a medium for expressing social conditions, cultural dynamics, and urban life. Advances in digital technology and social media have facilitate…

Reference · Wikidata

piece of writing often written from an author's personal point of view

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal and informal: formal essays are characterized by "serious purpose, dignity, logical organization, length," whereas the informal essay is characterized by "the personal element, hu…

Book · DOAB

Beta Exercise: The Theory and Practice of Osamu Kanemura is the first bilingual (Japanese-English) book to provide an overview of the theoretical work of Japanese photographer and video artist Osamu Kanemura, a unique talent and voice in the world of avant-garde contemporary photography. The opening essay “Life Is a Gift" meditates on the transformation of human life into an exchangeable commodity and the abstractio…

Full text · Open Library

Image · DPLA

12 pages.