Communication

''Photojournalism is all about telling a story about a particular event or incident through a single photograph."
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/types-of-photography.html


"The recent 20th century, if we consider it outside of our own experiences, is more "visible" and meaningful to many of us through the presence of powerful photographs than many texts, films, plays, other art, or other records that may have touched us."
 http://photo.net/philosophy-of-photography-forum/00Sb7t?start=0

The word 'Art" is an expression of feelings, emotions which are often expressed by symbols. A symbol is defined as a picture or image that tells a situation without words. Symbols, such as cave paintings and carvings were mankind's earliest form of communication. In due course, Tattoos became the symbols that are known to have expressed man's deep passions, beliefs and identity.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Tattoo---Its-Meaning&id=201324


These tattoos also reflect one of the earliest known forms of communication. There is no record of speech among primitive humans, but ample evidence supports the fact that they exchanged and recorded information through art. Archeologists attribute pictures as earliest methods of communication and recordkeeping, and tattoos stand together with cave paintings, pictographs and hieroglyphics as good examples.
http://www.cfif.org/htdocs/legal_issues/legal_updates/first_amendment_cases/tatoo_free_speech.htm

(another discussion board and sites that got me thinking about imagery in general being form of communitcation)

http://photo.net/philosophy-of-photography-forum/00Qn48
http://www.taylordavidson.com/writing/2007/09/24/everyone-is-a-photographer/
http://www.acp.org.au/workshop/specialist



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I apologize for so many quotes but I found a lot of information online discussing both photography and tattoos as a means of communication wanted to show all sites I picked up my research on.

All the sites I have listed above all have mentioned similar things.  With some they express saying how documentary photography is most powerful forms of communication and photojournalism photography is most reliable and immediate forms of photography. The sites also say how those two kinds of photography (which are two forms I am most concentrated on with this project) are best used to tell a story or explain event with image. 
The sites about tattoos explain that tattoos are mans earliest forms of communitcation.  Man have used this form of art create identity, make a statement or express a belief or passion. 
My overall own opinion is that photography and tattoos are both means of communication and can communicate about the same things.  They are just two different art forms.

Communication (along with documenation before) is very important term with my concept.  Along with documentation tying photography and tattoo's together so does communication.
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I am using a means of communication (photography) to communicate concept about a means of communication (tattoos).  Im using my means of communication show another persons form of communication.  I think this is something I am going dive into further and think about more as I get deeper into my project.  It is interesting me how I am finding so many relationship between photography and tattooing.  Im using both communicate about person.  (With photos and in showing and explaining there form of communication.  About learning about a person through art and visual imagery. 
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This might be random image of tattoo but didn't have exact photo explaining term in relation to my work.