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Research Paper on Pictorial Poetry
your actions Neha Amrev

tell a story; EKPHARSTIC, PICTOROAL OR PHOTOGRAPHIC POETRY ....How and Why?

ABSTRACT

Art is an act of communication. Poetry is among the chief genre of literature since ancient times. Photography is a mechanical artistic medium to capture the beauty of the
human world. Poetry is a natural medium for the manifestation of human creativity. Poetry beautifully captures the beauty and pain of human life. A photograph
your words communicates an idea, feeling, and thought to the spectator. When the spectator in the figure of the poet gives words to the image invoked by a particular photograph; it
gives birth to photographic poetry. In this paper, I will discuss the concept and tradition of photography in relation to mimesis and the interconnectedness of various art
forms.
compile Keywords: Ekphrasis, photography, creativity, communication, pictorial poetry

Poetry is a textual medium of creative expression while photography is a visual medium of creative expression. Poetry basically follows the mental process while
beautiful verse photography has various technical aspects.

Poetry is among the oldest art form and dates back to prehistoric times. The oldest surviving poem, The Epic of Gilgamesh was written in 3000 BC on clay tablets. During
its nascent days,' poetry was a medium of record keeping for cultural events, laws and to tell stories. The rhythm beat and rhymes of poetry made things easy to memorize
and aided in accurate oral translation. In poetry, human language is used for the aesthetic purpose and for describing beauty, pain, and vividness of human life. With the
passage of time, poetry got divided into the different type of subjective and objective categories. The use of literary devices and experimentation with different verse forms
and techniques further opened new vistas for poetry. The first step in the development of the photographic process was Heliography, invented around 1824 by Nicephore
Niepe. Initially, photography was also understood as a tool for record keeping and creating memories for events. Photography as an art form saw its heyday during the late
19th and early 20th century under a wide movement called pictorialism. The aim of this movement was to promote photography as an artistic and aesthetic medium. The
credit for establishing photography as an art form goes to Peter Henry Emerson. He said
“For almost 200 years, the work and the writings of the pioneering photographer have transformed the way we see the world and each other.”
John Scarkowski was another figure who insisted that photography was a contemporary art as serious and demanding as painting. In his epoch-making book, 'Camera
Lucinda' Ronald Barthe writes photograph needs a time and space and is a moment frozen and works differently to that of the system of language. Unlike language, which
usually consists of a system of signs with only arbitrary connections to the objects that they represent; photographs have a direct physical relationship with the objects
they represent, without the need of an intermediary code.

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