While reading through the photography tips that both Soloway and Guttman provided, there seemed to be the possibility of transforming these tips into something other than the use of photography. Being able to connect these ideas to other works of art seemed to troublesome at first, but then painted a clear picture. Being able to utilize these tips that the artists gave into writing is something that has been used by writers for a long time. The ideas of “finding the small details that display large ideas” (Guttman) or changing your perspective (Soloway), these are all ideas that writers have keyed into their pieces of works and has made some authors succeed in their profession.
An example of people using these techniques is a popular writer from the 19th century, Honore de Balzac. He was a French writer who attempted to write about the French society in its whole entire being, with complexities and all. He was also regarded as the founder of realism in literature. In order to excel at writing about such a dynamic subject, being able to look at it from all different sides (like a photographer with its subject) is a key detail that will present itself in his writing. He wrote about all of the different key features of French society and took each one into detail with his novels.
When women love, they forgive everything, even our crimes; when they do not love, they cannot forgive anything, not even our virtues. – Honore de Balzac (1843), La Muse du Departement.
Even when looking into the opposite gender, he looked at different points of views of the women in which he was writing about. This is just one of the many quotes that he used to help illustrate the complexity of the world he was surrounded by.
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“Honore de Balzac”. Online Literature. Jalic Inc. 2000-2012. Web. 28 August 2012.
“Honore de Balzac”. Wikiquote. 2012. Web. 28 August 2012.
