Portraitures

Richard Avedon

Larry Clark Diane Arbus

Application:
A portrait is a photo that contains a face and a background, historically they were traditional artwork from artists being paid by rich people, but years had passed and now it's owned by a photographer.
Photographers like Joel Meyerouitch took his photos of oridinary people in New York's Central Park everyday during the 1960s, also in 1960s Diane Arbus was in New York taking photos.
In 1969 she photographed the Matthaei family, they were a rich family.
The photos that Diane took weren't really flattering but were interesting, the photo of the Matthaei daughter, called Marcella, shows her face being on the verge of adolescence.

Richard Avedon was a photographer who took photos during the 1950s until 2004, he put control behind his camera, in his photoshoots he shows emotion and movement on divine people and on people that reflects his opinion.

Larry Clark is a photo journalist who took photos of his everyday life and he also published a book in 1971, it was a simple title called Tulsa, it was pictures of nudity and sex, people taking drugs and guns at the ready, this was the reality of the world he lived in.

Context:
Historically you would see portraits in palaces and wealthy people's houses, whereas today you can see them in Art Galleries, in newspapers, magazines, Facebooks, famous faces on T-shirts, portraits on coffee jars, ID card of who you are and what you look like and finally, advertisments of the famous faces and the unknown sites.

Techniques:
The lighting on each and every photograph depends upon your surrounding environment, like the inside, you would need artificial lighting for a personal photoshoot of a portrait, whereas the outside you can use the natural light from the sun to project a picture that is unknown to us, for example, the back light would be the surrealistic version of a shadow walking the earth.
Diane Arbus used to whisper to her subjects to come closer and capture the photo.

Overexposure: It's a form of using too light and not enough shadows.

Underexposure: It's a form of using too much shaodws and not enough light.

Reflection: It's a form of using shaodw and ligh togehter while looking at the alternative version of your subject.

photo journalism

Application
Under application it is important to discuss the history of this type of photography and to use examples form past and present.
Where there any major dates or events that moved this style forwards?
Are there any individual people that have influenced this type of photography?
I think photojournalism is the exploitation of everyday life, revealing the truth about the world.
Henry Cartier-Bresson was the godfather of Photojournalism, his surealism was always on the mark at that decisive moment. Decisive moment is to time the capture of the moment, in 1933 he took the first decisive moment photo at Paris Station. The photo was described to be a man jumping over a huge puddle and making ripples, it caught the moment. This photo could only have been taken because of the new Leica camera, which was developed in Germany in 1925.
Robert Capa was a photojournalist, he was noted to have taken a photo iof a spanish man being shot in 1936, in the Spanish Civil War. His rules of being a photographer is one to get close and two to get closer, he captures reality while risking his life and limb. He chose which battles to go to to photograph, where as Tony Vaccaro was a soldier in the 1940s, who carried a camera into war, his photos were close to the action.

Context
Under the context section list and describe each of the contexts that we the audience consume this style of image. Context is the way the photographs are displayed for example fashion photographs are displayed in magazines as well as billboards. It is important when discussing this section that you mention important changes for each context through history.
Capa's photos were taken for magazines, but Vacarro just took the photos as he saw them throughout the battle, unfortunately for him, lots of his photos were destroyed as they showed the negative side of war

Techniques
Are there any techniques utilised to create images of this type? For example the way the picture is Taken, Processed, Displayed or manufactured?
How has the change in technology through history altered or changed the way that photographs of this style are produced?
The Leica Camera was a compact quiet camera, developed in Germany in the year 1925.
Before the Leica, it took up to three minutes to take the photo and people could move in and out of shot-no way to capture a decisvie moment.
It's handheld and the position of the viewing window left the other eye free to view the world and therefore able to know when to take the photo that would capture the moment-the decisvie moment.
Tony Vaccaro had a stardard issue called a Speed Garphic Camera but it wasn't good enough so he used a Argos 3C. He developed his photos in the battlefield using found chemicals and soldier helmets and he hung the negatives on tree branches,

What I hope from Photography

What I hope to achieve from this course would be to understand about what makes better photos and taking better photos.