Ernest Hemingway: The Old man and the Sea
Uploaded by alijoker on Jan 08, 2007
[size=18:179de83dba][color=blue:179de83dba]Ernest Hemingway: A Studio Photographer in designing the scenes of “The Old Man and the Sea”[/color:179de83dba][/size:179de83dba]
[size=14:179de83dba]Instructor: Dr. Anani
by: Ali Noorani[/size:179de83dba]
[size=9:179de83dba]Fall 2006
English Language and Literature Department
Shahid Beheshti University[/size:179de83dba]
[size=18:179de83dba]Proposal[/size:179de83dba]
Ernest Hemingway: A Studio Photographer in designing the scenes of “The Old Man and the Sea”
In this paper I’m going to interpret a novel by Ernest Hemingway, using the major quality of studio photography. As my fellow literature students who are interested in photography and motion pictures know, in studio photography everything except the subject matter is removed from the frame and what you see in the picture is a clear-cut photo without any chaos in the background. Having in mind the fact that Hemingway was a journalist I assume that this quality can best be seen in “The Old Man and the Sea”.
[size=18:179de83dba]Introduction[/size:179de83dba]
Exploring Hemingway’s “hard-boiled” style and examining his writing of The Old Man and the Sea with the skills used in studio photography is the major subject of this paper.
Hemingway through away the grand adjectives and all the sighs, sobs and cries, which were the basic tool of all sentimental writers, like trash. The slang word "hard-boiled", used to describe characters and works of art, was a product of twentieth century warfare. To be "hard-boiled" meant to be unfeeling, callous, coldhearted, cynical, rough, without sentiment. Later to become a literary term, the word originated in American Army World War I training camps, and has been in common, colloquial usage since about 1930.
Contemporary literary criticism regarded Ernest Hemingway’s works as marked by his use of this style; however, his style is the only aspect that deserves this epithet, and even that is ambiguous. Now let us get down to basics, concentrate on one main feature in his literary style, and then turn to studio photography, its principles and its application on Hemingway’s Nobel Prize Winner: The Old Man and the Sea.
[size=18:179de83dba]An outlook on the two fields[/size:179de83dba]
Studio photography
Studio photography is easy because you can get exactly what you want. Studio photography is hard because you can get exactly what you want.
Everything is under your control. If you are a tremendously creative person who knows how to use studio equipment, you'll get wonderful results. If you are uncreative, you'll have very flat and boring results. If anything is wrong with the lighting balance or exposure, you'll have nobody to blame but yourself.
Background
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Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1899, the son...