Steichen placed a lot on concerted efforts towards international development. He was in charge of most shows, which a critical part of making acquisitions from Latin America and entire Europe. One of the accomplishments of Steichen was the establishment of The family of man. It was a touring museum based on modern exhibitions. Most people had initially argued that his work had the origin in the propaganda of the American cold war. Currently, the exhibits are housed permanently with a display that ais continuously situated in northern Luxenberg, where he originated. The exhibition appears to the culmination of Steichen’s career. The presentations contain about five hundred photographs that portray the general view of life, death, and even love in most countries globally (Crow, 2016). It brings a deeper understanding of what the existence of man entails in totality.
Initially, surrealism was a kind of movement culturally that escalated after the first world war in Europe. It was entirely impacted by dada. This kind of change is well known for visually in writing, uncommon imagery juxtaposition, and artwork (Bilodeau, 2020). Most of the artist employs the kind of painting that is unnerving, scenes that are illogical and at some point precision in photography. There is also the creation of creatures that are strange from locally available objects.
Additionally, the development of techniques in painting that are unconscious in their expression. The works of surrealism feature the surprise elements and juxtapositions that are unexpected. There was a strong association with the causes of politics, such as anarchism and communism.
In this day and age, photographs are no longer precious as they used to be in ancient times. Nowadays, there are a lot of random pictures everywhere. If they are collected, documented, and preserved, a new language automatically emerges. However, they should be accessible understood universally. With the emergence of the original language, therefore, a new way of thinking also escalates. The medieval and the classical theories concerning learning and memory put more emphasis on the visual format of words. The lines also have an impact on information ordering. Researches and educators have established that visual literacy can enhance the creativity of a person, academic performance, thinking critically, and possession of empathy towards other people. The anticipation of cultural resonance that is culturally driven brings about a parallel between the printing press and the internet that is quite interesting. During the era culminating in the 1400s, the only way that the Europeans were considered literate is if they could spell their names. Unfortunately, the majority of them could not do the spelling of these names and thus regarded as illiterate. With the advent of the printing press, most people were in a position to read and write pretty well. Ideas that were complex were being express in writing. The massive shifting, therefore, brought about progress and advancement in science, arts, and education. With technology, for instance, the presence of the internet and the smartphones in this day and age, the same period of images is recurring. Visual processing is devoted to about 30% of the cranial cortex when compared to other senses in humans (Wells, 2018) Most of the information that we consume from our environment and the surroundings is visual. The fact explains the reason as to why the brain cortex is entirely responsible for visual processing. The critical sensory literacy, therefore, is visual literacy. Understanding the viewing process is, therefore, essential in ensuring better understating of the things that are occurring in our everyday life. There is a vast difference between seeing something and looking at something.
References
Wells, L. (2018). Camera-Eye: Photography and Modernism. A Companion to Modern Art, 167-185.
Crow, R. (2016). Reputations made and lost: the writing of histories of early twentieth-century British photography and the case of Walter Benington (Doctoral dissertation, University of Gloucestershire).
Bilodeau, L. (2020). Fashionable Surrealism: The Photography of André Durst (1930–1940) (Doctoral dissertation, Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York).