Vitural Essay

The Photographer I choose to reflect on is Henri Cartier-Bresso.  Henri was always known for taking wonderful modern day photographs also known as the “street photographer. These 5 photos that I came across reminded me of Henri’s work simply because he captured people not at just their best but also their flaws and these pictures are exactly what he would have or similar to what he would have captured. We already know that Henri took pictures of people on their everyday movements , the two first pictures I found where very interesting to me because you can see the transitions form the 20^th century  going into our modern day lives  the photographer took  a photo of an old picture and added the  modern day people to the 20^th century . The similarities of this picture and Henri’s work would be the time a place of the both photographers where inspired to capture people of the modern day picture.

The Third picture I found was very similar to Henri’s work there both a black and white  picture of a young girl who is emotionless and looks as if she’s at grief, i found it very interesting that both picture where took centuries apart but took so similar. In my own opinion the picture is trying to imply the sadness and grief  these little girls have wrapped up in their hearts.

The last two photographs that I found where more on the nature side of the pictures that Henri took. Henri was known as the “Street Photographer” but he did also capture nature filling photographs. I choose these two pictures because even thought he didn’t take a lot of photos based upon nature. The few he did take resembled these two pictures, very simple and scuttle, exactly how Henri described his photographs

Kertesz and Cartier-Bresson versus Smith and Salgado

Henri Cartier is known as the father of modern photojournalism and considered a master of candid photography. Cartier-Bresson famously captured pivotal moments of the 20th. He was a French photographer who was an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the "street photography" or "real life reportage" style that has influenced many generations of photographers who followed and this is one of his photographs. André Kertész was one of the most renowned photographers of the 20th century; he was a quiet but important influence on the coming of age of photojournalism and the art of photography. He also discovered and demonstrated the special aesthetic of the small camera. Eugene Smith was perhaps the photographer who tried most heroically to make the magazine photo story meet the standards of coherence, intensity, and personal accountability that one expects of a work of art. He was an unquestioned leader of the photo story experiment. Smith was fanatically dedicated to his mission as a photographer so he was a figure universally admired as an artist. Sebastião Salgado was a Brazilian photographer and he is one of the most respected photojournalists working today. He has dedicated himself to chronicling the lives of the world’s dispossessed.

What are the main differences and similarities?

All of these photographers are capturing the truth in their eyes and sending the viewers their own message. The difference between thedifferent types of photographers is that Andre Kertesz and Henri Cartier are both “invisible” while taking photos, they both try to stay low while they’re shooting, the way their presence will not influence what they were photographing. They also believed that to capture the right photo you had to use your intuition and that everything had its right moment. Where as Eugene Smith and Sebastiao Salgado are “visible”. They alert their shooting subject and developing a close relation with them. They believe that you must be a visible photographer and that the best photos came from interacting with your subjects. We can also define them as one side is shooting a truth image and the other side as fake image or far from truth image. So the visibility of these photographers is one of the differences but they both still capture real life scenes of people, places, events or subjects.

What’s the better journalistic approach?

Every photographer has his or her own different techniques of shooting the truth. Journalism is a way to report and discuss events, issues and trends to an audience. I believe that the photo journalist plays a major role in journalism. Each photograph taken by a photo journalist captures a moment in time that tells a story. Just by looking at the picture people become aware of the information (ie. Who, what, where, etc). Reading a story in the news paper or watching the news without any photographs or videos will loose the connection of the viewers. By having pictures and videos it gives the audience a greater connection being able to see and hear the actual emotion behind the story being told.


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Press Photography Vs Art photography

                                       Photographer: Denis Straughan
 Source( http://www.thedrum.co.uk/news/2009/03/04/press-photography-awards )

                             
Photographer: Ann Dahlgren and Douglas Foulke  
                     Source:( http://www.photography.ca/blog/tag/ann-dahlgren/ )

        There are plenty differences and similarities of both press and art photography. Press photographs are taken to carry out news to people of the public there taken to tell a story mainly through pictures. The word “Press” means to print out and expose the information through the newspaper to the people of the public. The photographers who take these photos usually pack light, they don’t need too much equipment to capture their story they also don’t aim to capture the abstract of the picture. The press photographers take pictures of mostly people on there good and bad out takes. Pictures that are taken by the press aren’t meant to capture a true meaning but reality.  

      Art photographs are taken to capture a moment, feeling, and emotion in a picture. Its captured or crated to express the way the photographer feels. Art photographs  is also  known to have a creative vision in the photographers eyes as an artist, Which provides a visual outlook of the person who comes across the picture. The Similarities of both press photographs and art Photographs are that they both tell a story just in different ways. They both capture live moments that speak out to the people of the public. Both press and art photographs are creative ways of telling a story. 

     In my own opinion Press Photography is not ethical or acceptable to be altered because I feel that sometimes its not always what it seems, the picture may show the truth but it’s the way the photographer portrays it. Press photography is meant to tell the public news through a still picture but sometimes that photographer behind that camera make the place or  person of  the photograph look horrible, its also reality. I do think Art photograph is ethical and acceptable simply because it’s capturing the truth and the beauty of the photographer creativity. There is nothing wrong with capturing the truth or man kind.

                                           Photographer: Michael Appleton                                   Source:( http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/nov/10/100-years-press-photography )

  

  Photographer: David Baker

   

Source:( http://xaxor.com/photography/40317-Photographer-David-Baker---trees-%7BPart-2%7D.html )

 

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Photography and Ethic

                               

 

                  

                          

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                                                                      After

 The picture I choose to edit was a picture of my self, the reason why I thought this photo would be a great example was because I notice the picture had poor lighting also the quality wasn’t the best. I made corrections that would make the picture look more realistic. As we can see in the before photo it was a bit gritty and the skin didn’t come out as smooth as it should look. You can also see in the corner the lighting is the brightest which gave the main focus of the picture darker. The picture wasn’t even and had unnecessary extra bits in the corner at the moment. There are many corrections that can be easily done to this picture to make it look presentable which I did do using an online photo editing software.

            Okay, now we can take a look at the second photo which is my final outcome after the editing of the picture. As you can see there is a big difference between the before picture and the after picture, what I have done was smooth out the texture of the photo, after that was done I’ve added some brightness to the picture allow the features to “pop” out more. Also in the  picture I had cropped out the corners to even out the picture and added a little darkness frame to the corners which enhanced the brightness to the middle of my picture.

Here is the second set of photosedited i did the same process as the first set and you can see .the difference in the before and after photos

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The role of portraits in the early days of photography and portraits today

What are the main differences and similarities between portraits in the early days of photography and portraits today?

  Back in 1827 Jospesh Nicephore  made the first photography image. Before cameras were used to capture images, images were captured in paintings. Since it took many skills and time to paint portraits only high classed people with enough money most had portraits made. It takes many time and step to compete a photograph you would need to use sash as a sliver plates and also iodine fumes. Once all these elements were placed in the light you would be able to start your process of your picture.    

  In my own opinion the difference 

between portraits then and now would be the picture quality, the color, texture and the details. Most pictures were in black and white in the earlier stages verses now where our pictures are in high definition quality, as the generation grows older our skills and materials to capture pictures have been upgraded. In the earlier days you had only one film to use on a picture you didn’t have different settings like landscape, focus, exposure, delete even a memory card. One thing that hasn’t changed is the passion people express in pictures.

Who was the photographer and who was the subject of photographs in the past and today?

  During the earlier days only a few people were considered as a photographer like artist and craftsmen they were the  a few people who had enough money  and skill to have a camera in there possession.

If people like lawyers, doctor and people who wanted family portrait had to pay a lot of money to have their portrait done. Now in modern days anybody who has a camera and the passion for photography can be called a photographer, once you have the passion to capture the moments your set. Nowadays picture are shown and expressed in many different ways through newspapers, magazines, blogs, books and even the internet.

What was the impact of technology on the portraits in the past and today?

  In the earlier period if you wanted to have a portrait of you captured you would have to hire a painter of someone who had a camera, and only a few people had cameras in their possession, so painters were more popular to hire. I think the development of the technology has made a big impact and enhanced the way we capture pictures in this generation. We are able to do so much with the technology nowadays. We are able to capture and edit our pictures also delete and resize them, change the color even the landscape. All these features can be done on software's or even on the camera its self!

SOURCE!

 http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/stilphotography.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_photography

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I love to travel, shop.listen to music, im also a very outgoing people person, the reason why i choose photography is beacause i love to capture perfect moments with my camera.


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