'Drawing and Recording by Lens-Based Media'

'The camera sees everything we wear downt. - David Hockney\n\nA snap is static because it has stop sentence. A sketch is static just now it encompasses time. - John Berger\n\n community have been potation since the dawn of gentlemanity, as evidenced in early(a) spelunk selective services and wall frescos. The festering of paper had a major strike on the style that drawing was put down and distributed. In 1826, the initiation of the camera had a profound nucleus on the world, providing a new steering of recording information. In this essay, I entrust discuss and liken the acts of recording by means of drawing - the human eye - and cameras - the mechanical eye, drawing on depictions from periods of time since the early cameras of the nineteenth century. Specifically, I have elect three periods that pertain to human conflicts; the Crimean contend, the Vietnam War and the recent fight in Iraq. by these three periods I will look the developments in technology, and in influencees and philosophy of the acts of recording, both by drawing and by lens of the eye based media.\nWe pop out our discussion in the 1850s, when for the prototypical time we can study the acts of recording by drawing and photography The Crimean war artist, William Simpson was view as obstetrical delivery the reality of war to the British people. He went to the Crimean war and; he reported faithfully, sometimes disapprovingly on what he precept He best-loved accuracy to drama, nature to extravagance (Lipscomb, 1999) His historied painting The post of the Light aggroup (figure 1) was undoubtedly a sustained study, rescue together a number of sketches of the yield to provide a full bod for the viewer.\nConversely, Crimean war photographer Rogar Fenton never captured battles, explosions, and the melodic phrase and tears that is a moving mountain range of war The first practical photographic method, daguerreotype, had a process too slow up to capture a mov ing image; it needed to rivet for a longer period on an unmoving object. scarcely Michell... '