Drawing and Recording by Lens-Based Media

The camera sees everything we dont. - David Hockney\n\nA picture show is static because it has stopped cartridge holder. A draftsmanship is static only when it encompasses time. - John Berger\n\nPeople subscribe to been lottery since the dawn of humanity, as evidenced in archaean cave drawings and wall frescos. The learning of paper had a major impact on the office that drawing was recorded and distributed. In 1826, the invention of the camera had a profound effect on the world, providing a new air of recording information. In this essay, I will discuss and comparison the acts of recording through drawing - the human eye - and cameras - the mechanic eye, drawing on go fors from periods of time since the early cameras of the nineteenth century. Specifically, I have chosen three periods that relate to human conflicts; the Crimean state of contend, the Vietnam War and the recent war in Iraq. Through these three periods I will explore the developments in technology, an d in processes and philosophy of the acts of recording, two by drawing and by lens based media.\nWe draw our discussion in the 1850s, when for the low time we can correspond the acts of recording by drawing and photography The Crimean war artist, William Simpson was respect as bringing the globe of war to the British people. He went to the Crimean war and; he report faithfully, sometimes disapprovingly on what he saw He preferred accuracy to drama, center to extravagance (Lipscomb, 1999) His famous delineation The Charge of the Light aggroup (figure 1) was undoubtedly a sustain study, bringing together a number of sketches of the event to forget a full image for the viewer.\nConversely, Crimean war photographer Rogar Fenton neer captured battles, explosions, and the blood and tears that is a moving image of war The first practical photographic method, daguerreotype, had a process besides slow to capture a moving image; it required to focus for a long-term period on an stationary object. But Michell...