'Drawing and Recording by Lens-Based Media'

'The camera sees everything we tiret. - David Hockney\n\nA painting is static because it has halt clock time. A picture is static just it encompasses time. - John Berger\n\n mass have been pull since the dawn of graciousity, as evidenced in betimes hollow out forces and wall frescos. The instruction of paper had a major squeeze on the panache that drawing was record and distributed. In 1826, the ruse of the camera had a profound exploit on the world, providing a new steering of recording information. In this essay, I bequeath discuss and oppose the acts of recording through drawing - the human eye - and cameras - the mechanistic eye, drawing on sees from periods of time since the early cameras of the nineteenth century. Specifically, I have chosen three periods that link to human conflicts; the Crimean contend, the Vietnam War and the recent contend in Iraq. finished these three periods I will explore the developments in technology, and in soures and ph ilosophy of the acts of recording, both(prenominal) by drawing and by lens of the eye based media.\nWe nonplus our discussion in the 1850s, when for the counterbalance time we can liken the acts of recording by drawing and picture taking The Crimean war artist, William Simpson was respect as take the reality of war to the British people. He went to the Crimean war and; he reported faithfully, sometimes disapprovingly on what he saying He preferred accuracy to drama, spirit up to extravagance (Lipscomb, 1999) His celebrated painting The germinate of the Light group (figure 1) was undoubtedly a sustained study, convey together a number of sketches of the typesetters case to provide a full determine for the viewer.\nConversely, Crimean war lensman Rogar Fenton never captured battles, explosions, and the declivity and tears that is a moving look-alike of war The first practical photographic method, daguerreotype, had a process too black to capture a moving image; it needed to taper for a long-term period on an unmoving object. hardly Michell... '