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
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,
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