Photography plays a major role in our modern life today. On modern life it is powerful in that it is unavoidable The issues we face in our society are too complex and too important to be reduced to thinking of an image as is, rather than analyzing it. The affects of class and race relations by photographs are these stereotypical assumptions of others that have been made apart of our culture. The camera, in its ability to codify and capture an objectivist truth it was also a powerful mechanism of order and control (18) Ewen. The modern means of mechanical reproduction affected not just race and class but other categories as well: disability, age, physical appearance, sexual orientation, and job orientation. Society has come to the conclusion that what is seen can be interpreted as truth. “The very meaning of information of truth is altered by a focus on

The movie “Sunrise” made in 1927, was a romantic and emotional depiction of a husband who realized that he really loved his wife. The whole movie mixed soaring camera movements to visualize the characters expressions and more visibly the interactions they had with each other.

In the “Mismeasure of Man” by Stephen Gould displays the same false image of which society should be and act like. He sets out to show the history of biologically determining intelligence and to point out the theories and facts used to back it up.

During the early 1900’s going to the movies was an American past time. It allowed society at that time to enjoy the simple pleasures of life. This movie had all the wonders of suspense, romance, and fantasy. With the popular culture of that time it changed their out look on life. Movies such as “Sunrise”, gave people voyeuristic look into other peoples lives. In a commercial society it allowed advertisers to sell more products and be more competitive. Photos of items you were supposed to buy were more enticing than when you read about it.

The concepts of photography during the times have changed. In Holmes Excerpts he states “ Give us a few negatives of a thing worthy seeing, taken from different points of view, and that is all we want of it”. It is the personality of the individual who sees what they want to then transfer their own view on others. Experience and being exposed to the different aspects of life and its moral dilemmas makes people open-minded. When the exposure is not there, it gives others the opportunity to manipulate a view to there own perception. . “The pictorial message should extend the vision of the viewer; it should not confine or constrain that vision”(

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