Thursday, 20 October 2011

Portraiture

Walker Evans








Walker Evens

You need to discuss how portaits used to be about kings and Queens and how important the person in the portrait was. With Photography this changed and it was more about the photographer and how they reprsented the person in the picture. Think about Discuss and add in Diane Arbus pictures and Larry Clarkes work.

Wednesday, 12 October 2011

Fashion photography

To what degree should the image be manipulated to go into a fashion magazine?

Think about and discuss how the image is manipulated before going to press. Think about other forms manipulation like choosing only young and small models for fashion jobs. then discuss the effect this might have on men or women reading these magazines. Preasure to look like these people.

There is presure to the puplic to look like these models, espesially young girls. the people that edit these photos dont really understand the efect it has on the public. all the images we see that are displayed and showen are manipulated. they chosse people to be there models, so people want to look like this people.

Wednesday, 14 September 2011

Photojournalism Part 1

Henri Cartier Bresson ( August 22, 1908 - August 03, 2004). Henrri was a painter but started photography. He then became the             'Godfather' of photography. One of his most famous phtograph was this one shown on the right. He walked around taking pictures of ' the decisive moment' and cptured it with a Leica camera.













 Behind the Gare St. Lazare: one of Cartier-Bresson's 
most famous photographs, illustrating the 'decisive
moment' concept which characterises much of his work








        

                Cartier-Bresson's first Leica