portraiture, fashion and art

Application:

The word Art means to me is expression of a person's tormented soul, expressing his emotions and feelings on a canvas, some artists can be exentric sometimes, not to mention creative in what skill of art they're good at, like photography for example, artists using photographic images for a masterpiece are considered to be geniuses, some artists photographing decisive moments is also another form of a masterpiece because it allows the viewer to see a world that we couldn't see before but is captured by the eyes of the artist or photographer, in most companies.

Name of Art Photographers:
Alejandro Chaskielberg: At 18, Alejandro had been shooting political assignments for magazines and local newspapers in Buenos Aires, but soonn he became frustrated with the creative limitations of press photography.
After years of studying the violin and working as a musician, he returned to imagemaking by working a s a cameraman on public television documentaries,he took photos of the wilderness, wild swamps and tropical rivers in South America's Congo River, next door to Brazil.

Esteban Pastorino Diaz: Her style is photographs of buildings being edited to look like black and white photographs in the 1900s, although they don't look like it, they are modern buildings with bits of rust, grime, cracks, nooks and crannies to make her photos have an effect of looking like as if it really came from the 1900s.

Alec and Carmen Soth: A father and daughter duo pair of photographers stroll around their hometown for a few hours each day, Carmen photographed rubbish on the beach, postcards on racks and the ground, often her sparkly red shoes in the shot, but after a while, she ran out of steam so her father decided on certain subjects to look for, among them were pushchairs and balloons as the project started to take shape.

Conceptional Photography:
My understanding of Conceptional Photography would be the idea of making your photo abstract, taking a photo of your chosen scenery or chosen subject in real life would be just an ordinary photo, but if you take a photo and altered it by making it look like something that no one has seen before, then your photo would be abstract.
Alec and Carmen Soth both made abstract photos by taking pictures of various subjects with bits and piece sof rubbish on the lens to create an sbstract effect of shadow and light art photograpghy work.

The images of Alejandro and Estsban are special and unique in every way, Alejandro's photo style of everyday life in South America's Congo River is of people working, fishing, hunting, selling sugar cane plants and how they get about.
Esteban's photo style is very simple because altering the colour patterns on her photos gives it an effect of it being taken by an old fashion camera in the 1900s, each style of each of these photographer's photos are outstanding.

Contexts:
The surroundings of Alejandro's photos from the Congo River in Brazil make such of an accurate window to what goes on everyday in South America, letting us see how the people live and thrive in such a hostile wet environment by selling sugar cane plants, as for the surroundings in black and white photos, the images there make such of a wonderful effect of the good old days style in the modern day, in other words, the 1900s gets shift into the year 2010.
The images are just pinned onto a board because framing is too expensive and too flashy for a bunch of photos, Alejandro's pictures are pinned onto a white piece of cardboard because the white with plenty of colour in the middle makes the photo stand out pretty well for viewers, as for Esteban's photos, she put her photos on a grey background where her black and white photos could be noticed and reconistioned f0r it's style in the 1900s.

Technique:
Alejandro's photos are reached to an audience because his style of photography involves a foreign land, South America is rather interesting because it's every child's dream to be an explorer, exploring wild swamps, tropical rivers and untamed wilderness with so many wierd and unusual creatures lurking about, Alejandro really captured the moments of each and every day in the Congo River, also it tells everyone what life is like out there and how people there survive in such very wet, very wild hostile territories.
Esteban's photos are reached to an audience because her style of photography invovles modern buildings with old bits and pieces of nooks and crannies, which are overlooked by builders or have been forgotten for a long time, Esteban's idea for these modern buildings with old bits all over them is to make them look even older by altering the colour structure of her pictures and make them black and white, something like a real photo being taken in the 1900s, except for the ten minute development and the sideplates.
Each of these pictures being printed came through a studio's projection by using a special machine to print photos onto photo paper, the photos being printed onto the paper is a special paper that feels thicker then paper and it's shinier than paper.

Alejandro Chaskielberg: The Hunter

Esteban Pastorino Diaz: Francisco Salamone

Fashion Photography

Application:
Fashion Photography is a type of photography that takes pictures of people wearing the most exotic of all clothing, sometimes it can be casual clothes in exotic locations, Adolf De Meyer, born on the first of september 1868, was the first editor of Vogue Magazines in America during the early 20th century.
Adolf's style of fashion resembles as the clothes the people use to wear at the time, there were elegance within each photo he took.

Adolf De Meyer





Cecil Beaton

Cecil Beaton had started his photography in the 1930s, he created fantastical and elabrote photos with quirky surroundings, more like a dream world.
Cecil Beaton also took pictures of Twiggy, a famous model during the 1960s, at that era, it was more fun with more colours and more flesh





















George Platt Lynes

George Platt Lynes is a photographer of power, taming nature to work at his expecttations, like being infulenced by dancing, showing off all flesh and nudity

The fashion photography shoot might be more concerned about shooting clothes with a certain colour, like an autumn type they woulod choose red, orange, yellow, brown and gold.
They might also be concerned about texture.
The difference between advertising or a fashion shoot, advertising would be less controversial as it can appear anywhere whereas a fashion shoot would have more scope to do different things, it is produced for magazines aimed at a certain age range so thye would are allowed to be a bit more controversial.




Techniques:
In the early years of fashion photography a 10x8 camera was used.
The technology infulenced the style of each photo.
Everything took a long time.
There wasn't an instant image because it took one whole hour to process and the negative had to be developed and fixed, but the final image was more mystical and more classical then the digital image.

Today images from digital cameras are instant, but a lot of digital manipulation takes place, the manipulation would be from Photo Shop, make-up is another form of manipulation because a natural face would appear to photographer as an ugly eyesore so they would hire make-up to fix the subject's face.
Lighting can be a little bit of manipulation because they can alter your shadows and fix the hot lights into the position that the photographer would like them to be, finally the choice of models is the most important one of all, whatever subject you want to do must be of someone with a profile, physic and poise, as well as the being the subject that you want to do, although some photographers would choose a subject of anyone or anything they want.

Context:
Magazines: The manipulation on magazines are not common, but every so often, they would try to alter a fashion photo's real subject so they could get more to get more attention from their readers.
Billboards: Billboards are hard to say when that person is next to another subject like advertsing for a product.
TV Commercial: Might record a person's face or body, then alter the person's apperence by using computers.
Fashion Books: Fashion books has plenty of altering because there plenty of make-up, lighting, editing on computers by making that person look skinny or make their chest look bigger or wider.