Drawing and Recording by Lens-Based Media

The camera sees everything we fatiguet. - David Hockney\n\nA photograph is placid because it has stopped fourth dimension. A sketch is static but it encompasses time. - washbowl Berger\n\nPeople take in been draft since the dawn of benevolentity, as prove in early(a) cave forces and wall frescos. The development of reputation had a major blow on the way that drawing off was recorded and distributed. In 1826, the dodge of the camera had a unplumbed effect on the world, providing a new way of arrangement information. In this essay, I entrust discuss and compare the acts of save through drawing - the human eye - and cameras - the mechanical eye, drawing on images from stopovers of time since the early cameras of the nineteenth century. Specifically, I have chosen three periods that extend to to human conflicts; the Crimean War, the Vietnam War and the juvenile struggle in Iraq. through these three periods I go forth explore the developments in technology, and i n processes and philosophy of the acts of transcription, both by drawing and by electron lens based media.\nWe begin our tidings in the 1850s, when for the origin time we can compare the acts of recording by drawing and picture taking The Crimean warfare artist, William Simpson was respected as bringing the reality of war to the British people. He went to the Crimean war and; he reported faithfully, sometimes disapprovingly on what he saw He favored accuracy to drama, spirit to sumptuousness (Lipscomb, 1999) His famous painting The armorial bearing of the Light Brigade (figure 1) was doubtless a sustained study, bringing together a subject of sketches of the event to provide a full image for the viewer.\nConversely, Crimean war photographer Rogar Fenton never captured battles, explosions, and the alliance and tears that is a paltry image of war The first practical photographic method, daguerreotype, had a process too shadowy to capture a base image; it needed to foca lisation for a longer period on an unmoving object. scarce Michell...