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Tuesday 25 September 2012
Photo Journalism
Application:
Henri Cartier Bresson was born on 22nd August 1908 and he was famous because he was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photo journalism and was best known for decisive moments , he helped develop the street photography style that has influenced many generations of photographers that have followed.
His first big break was in 1933 when he captured a man (through some metal bars) jumping over a puddle. Despite this picture it was actually the war that sparked photo journalism because people including Bresson were able to catch live action of the war and what was happening.
Here is his most famous photo showing a decisive moment, the idea of this is that everything but the photo is planned
His work is significant because he was the first to prove that you could take photos of a moment at the time of the event.
Robert Capa was born in Hungary in 1913, he worked in Germany as a photographer before moving to France in 1933. He covered the spanish civil war and the Japenese invasion of China. In 1939 Capa emigrated to the United States and in 1942 he was recruited by Colliers weekly as a photojournalist. He went to Britain and covered the Home Front before moving to North Africa. The following year Capa joined Life Magazine and accompanied Allied troops to Sicily in July 1943. He was reffered to as the greatest war photographer, he was able to choose his battles and drop in and out of them at any time.
Here are some of Robert Capas famous Photos:
The falling soldier which was taken on the 5th September 1936
This photo shows a soldier falling back after being shot, the photo shows this as it looks like he has no control over his body and it looks like the gun is just being released from his hand.
If i didnt know that this picture was of someone being shot i wouldnt of known, i dont think the picture is overloaded.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/01/27/arts/20080127_KENN_SLIDESHOW_3.html
The Magnificent Eleven which was taken on the 6th June 1944
http://blog.londonconnection.com/2010/09/26/the-magnificent-eleven-robert-capa/
Tony Vaccaro was born on 20th December 1922 is an American photographer who is best known for his photos taken in Europe during 1944 and 1945 and in Germany immediately after World War 2. After the war, he became a renowned fashion and lifestyle photographer for U.S. magazines. He stayed in Germany after the war to take picture of Germanys reconstruction
Here are some of Tony Vaccaros photos that he took in Germany
The bomb-damaged Reichstag in Berlin, December 1948.
This photo is effective because you can clearly see that the person in the photo is distaught and struggling to cope with what has just happened.
I think the photo is enough to show people what was really happening in Germany in the 1940s and could of had a massive effect on people all over the world.
http://www.akg-images.co.uk/_customer/london/collections/vaccaro.html
The Leica Camera
The Leica Camera (Arcos 3D) was a German camera that was released in 1925 it was the main reason photo journalism started because it was made so you could look through the lens with one eye and use the other to see what was going on in the world. Henri Cartier Bresson used this Camera.
Robert Capa worked for life magazine taking photos of the war so people back at home could see what was going on this helped massively in making photo journalism as big as it is today.
Vaccaro was also a war photographer but all his photos were sensored so some photos of Americans that had been killed were destroyed because it was thought people wouldnt be able to handle the truth quite then.
My Opinion on Photo Journalism
In my opinion photo journalism is useful most of the time because it gets a specific story across to the person viewing it and helps keep the story stuck in the persons mind.
Although it keeps a story in someones mind photo journalism is sometimes fake because pictures are edited by people to make it tell a story to cover them (Hillsborough Disaster)
I feel that photo journalism is a picture that can tell many stories and can appeal to a wide audience, i think that a photo journalism picture can be anything from an action shot (someone being shot or running) to a wide landscape because they can all tell a story depending on where the picture is taken.
The difference between a photo journalism photo and any other photo to me is that a photo journalism photo can tell the better story and is not usually planned or organised like a potrait photo for example.
The difference between Robert Capa and Tony Vicarro is that Capa was taken photos while right in the action of the war and Tony Vicarro stayed in Germany after the war to cover there rehilbilitation from the war to show people all over the world what the war had caused.
Eddie Adams
Eddie Adams took the famous photo of 'The Execution'of someone being shot by a villian in the head. The video to me wasnt as powerful as the photo because it seemed to end in a split second as the man was shot and you dont see the fear on the mans face.
The photo is alot more powerful because you can see the mans facial expression as the bullet enters his head and you can see the fear on his face, the image also sticks in your mind because of the power of the image.
This is the photo of 'The Execution'
Henri Cartier Bresson was born on 22nd August 1908 and he was famous because he was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photo journalism and was best known for decisive moments , he helped develop the street photography style that has influenced many generations of photographers that have followed.
His first big break was in 1933 when he captured a man (through some metal bars) jumping over a puddle. Despite this picture it was actually the war that sparked photo journalism because people including Bresson were able to catch live action of the war and what was happening.
Here is his most famous photo showing a decisive moment, the idea of this is that everything but the photo is planned
His work is significant because he was the first to prove that you could take photos of a moment at the time of the event.
Bresson quoted - "the decisive moment, it is the
simultaneous recognition, in a fraction
of a second, of the significance of an
event as well as the precise organization
of forms which gives that event
its proper expression".
This quote was taken from
Robert Capa was born in Hungary in 1913, he worked in Germany as a photographer before moving to France in 1933. He covered the spanish civil war and the Japenese invasion of China. In 1939 Capa emigrated to the United States and in 1942 he was recruited by Colliers weekly as a photojournalist. He went to Britain and covered the Home Front before moving to North Africa. The following year Capa joined Life Magazine and accompanied Allied troops to Sicily in July 1943. He was reffered to as the greatest war photographer, he was able to choose his battles and drop in and out of them at any time.
Here are some of Robert Capas famous Photos:
The falling soldier which was taken on the 5th September 1936
This photo shows a soldier falling back after being shot, the photo shows this as it looks like he has no control over his body and it looks like the gun is just being released from his hand.
If i didnt know that this picture was of someone being shot i wouldnt of known, i dont think the picture is overloaded.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/01/27/arts/20080127_KENN_SLIDESHOW_3.html
The Magnificent Eleven which was taken on the 6th June 1944
http://blog.londonconnection.com/2010/09/26/the-magnificent-eleven-robert-capa/
Tony Vaccaro was born on 20th December 1922 is an American photographer who is best known for his photos taken in Europe during 1944 and 1945 and in Germany immediately after World War 2. After the war, he became a renowned fashion and lifestyle photographer for U.S. magazines. He stayed in Germany after the war to take picture of Germanys reconstruction
Here are some of Tony Vaccaros photos that he took in Germany
The bomb-damaged Reichstag in Berlin, December 1948.
This photo is effective because you can clearly see that the person in the photo is distaught and struggling to cope with what has just happened.
I think the photo is enough to show people what was really happening in Germany in the 1940s and could of had a massive effect on people all over the world.
http://www.akg-images.co.uk/_customer/london/collections/vaccaro.html
The Leica Camera
The Leica Camera (Arcos 3D) was a German camera that was released in 1925 it was the main reason photo journalism started because it was made so you could look through the lens with one eye and use the other to see what was going on in the world. Henri Cartier Bresson used this Camera.
Robert Capa worked for life magazine taking photos of the war so people back at home could see what was going on this helped massively in making photo journalism as big as it is today.
Vaccaro was also a war photographer but all his photos were sensored so some photos of Americans that had been killed were destroyed because it was thought people wouldnt be able to handle the truth quite then.
My Opinion on Photo Journalism
In my opinion photo journalism is useful most of the time because it gets a specific story across to the person viewing it and helps keep the story stuck in the persons mind.
Although it keeps a story in someones mind photo journalism is sometimes fake because pictures are edited by people to make it tell a story to cover them (Hillsborough Disaster)
I feel that photo journalism is a picture that can tell many stories and can appeal to a wide audience, i think that a photo journalism picture can be anything from an action shot (someone being shot or running) to a wide landscape because they can all tell a story depending on where the picture is taken.
The difference between a photo journalism photo and any other photo to me is that a photo journalism photo can tell the better story and is not usually planned or organised like a potrait photo for example.
The difference between Robert Capa and Tony Vicarro is that Capa was taken photos while right in the action of the war and Tony Vicarro stayed in Germany after the war to cover there rehilbilitation from the war to show people all over the world what the war had caused.
Eddie Adams
Eddie Adams took the famous photo of 'The Execution'of someone being shot by a villian in the head. The video to me wasnt as powerful as the photo because it seemed to end in a split second as the man was shot and you dont see the fear on the mans face.The photo is alot more powerful because you can see the mans facial expression as the bullet enters his head and you can see the fear on his face, the image also sticks in your mind because of the power of the image.
This is the photo of 'The Execution'
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