Portraiture

Diane Arbus  


Diane was born March 14, 1923 and died July 26 1971. She was an American photographer and writer well known for black and white square photographs of "deviant and marginal people or of people who looked ugly and strange . However a friend said that Diane said that she was "afraid" of what people would say about her and that she would be simply be a photographer of freaks". They have used that expression alot to describe Arbus. I have seem some of her photography and i personal think that she has a wild range of lifestyle but her images tell us something when you look at the art of the picture.

Walker Evans
Richard Avedon
Tony Vaccaro
Larry Clark

PhotoJournalism Part 2

Robert capa

Robert Capa was born October 22 -1913 and was a Hungarian combat photographer and photojournalist who covered five different wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War. Robert Capa aslo took  the most famous pictures of the decisive moment and he was always right there exploiting and risking this life in older to capture different types of images to show people how dramatic life is. Robert Capa used the Leica camera to capture the truth of the background. Robert Capa would do anything to just get hold of an image, standing in the middle of gunfire and explosions in older for him to get the real story.

Tony Vaccaro
Tony Vaccaro was born on the 20th of december 1922, also known as Michael A. Vaccaro. Tony Vaccaro is an American photographer who is best known for his photos taken in Europe during 1944 and 1945 and also in Germany immediately after World War II. After the War, he became a renowned fashion and lifestyle photographer for the U.S magazines. However he was well known war photographer, with the camera always around his neck in the war . He was also a solder in World War 2 but he took the pictures while he was at war. Also the images he took were the best pictures , they were clear and perfect.

PhotoJournalism

Henri Cartier-Bresson was born August 22, one of the most famous photographers.  However he was a french photographer and was considered to be the god father to photojournalism. He helped develop the " street photography" or "real life reportage" style that has influenced generations of photographers who followed. Also Henri Cartier-Bresson turned from painting to photography.


The images below inspired him to stop painting and to take up photography seriously. He explained, "I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant. it is a still image.

The Decisive moment

The Decisive moment is a moment where an image of  art  comes together. In other words its capturing a split second that is not to simple or  too late but just at the right specific time. For example the images above shows that  Henri Cartier-Bresson's image of the guy jumping over the puddle of the water shows a very high-quality example of a decisive moment. This is because he caught the guy in mid air at the right moment which is the ideal moment.

Henri  Cartier Bresson told washington post that the decisive moment  ""There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative," he said. "Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever."

The Lieca Camera 

Henri Cartier-Bresson's was known for using a lieca camera for most of his life.The lieca camera that Bresson used to transform photography was the LiecaI. This camera brought a whole new light into photography because it captured an image within seconds unlike earlier camera’s such as a speed Graphox. below it shows the first camera that Bresson used was the leica camera which he descried as an extension of his eyes.