Art photography

Application:
What art means to me;
I think that art is quite important in this day and age because its part of peoples lives and daily conversation, and some people are so passionate about art.
Also, a piece of art is a picture that had been painted or sculptured into something and allot of people look at it as a memory that has been captured and the idea of art is for the moment in the photograph not to be forgotten.
Normally i would think that art is just a picture of an everyday object but when we went on our trip to Brighton to the art gallery's i saw allot of weird things that i would never call "art" but i have realised that anything can be art.
During the trip I noticed certain things about the photos in the gallery, for example, where the pictures were in the gallery, the room they were in all had a meaning. Pictures that were of boats were in a sort of submarine shaped room and gave you the feeling that you were really there and made you think and look more into the picture. Also there was a room styled in the way of a sitting room with pictures showing on a screen, it actually felt like you were in someones front room, it was a bazaar but good and interesting experience for the fact each room was themed to math the photographs.

Context:
Art isn't always in a frame like i thought it was, as i saw on our trip, most of the art was pinned to a board with nothing else to it. I liked this in a way because it wasn't like I've seen art before, the way it was pinned there made it more interesting to look at because you don't normally see that.

Techniques:
Most of the photography didn't look like it had been put onto any sort of canvas or anything it was on like a giant piece of shiny card stuff, which i also wasn't expecting but as i said this made it more interesting to look at and it looking plain made it better for me to look at.

Fashion Photography

Fashion photography can mean and look like all kinds of things. it can be, colourful so the main feature is on show and the first thing that you look at when seeing the image.
It can also be a very dramatic picture, meaning that the whole picture has allot of power coming out of the image when you look at it, the power can be made by the model in the picture having a strong pose or allot of colour.

You can get sucked into the image and think that the person in the picture is actually that "glamorous" or "beautiful" but almost every picture in magazines you will see will have been airbrushed, changed or photoshoped in some way shape or form.

Photography, (fashion photography in particular) has a big influence on people and there image.

you don't see models in picture that are "fat" or "chubby", they always have "the perfect body". When really they have lumps and bumps and arn`t perfect, but the use of technology makes them look that way and it makes people wish that they looked like that. Allot of people including me think that its wrong to change the person by using technology, they should just be left how they are, no one has that "perfect" image that appears in magazines.





The September Issue

The September Issue is a film/documentary about how life is in the world of photography etc. It shows you how fashion has changed over the years and how things come back from different years and into the clothes we wear and see today.
The fashion world is quite harsh and you have to be the best of the best to be involved with it. It includes allot of criticism and hard work. The film shows the Chief of "Vogue" magazine Anna Wintour. She is a woman who knows what she wants and knows whats best for the magazine. Shes good at her job even though the way she can direct everything is at times very harsh.
She decides what going on and in the magazine. The people under her all work very hard to get the magazine together and do all the really hard work, then they show Anna all there hard work, and if Anna doesn't like it then it wont go anywhere. Its surprising at the few shots that didn't make it into the Vogue magazine.

Portraiture

Application
Contexts
Techniques

Portraiture is about capturing the truth in a single frame. Diane Arbus photoed people showing there true emotions when people are having there photo taken for example, being bored, frustrated, not really smiling, pretending to want to have your picture taken etc.
She would always talk to the person who she was photographing really quietly, almost whispering, and then the people around the scene of the photo being taken would all move closer in to try and hear what she was saying, almost sucking everyone into her work.
Diane Arbus got asked by a rich family to do a professional photo shoot for them so that they would have some good family photos, but people were surprised that she had been chosen to do them, as her pictures were not normally "family photos", her photographs were normally very unique. The family realised that she was very keen to take pictures of a certain family member, the daughter. She liked taking pictures of this certain family member because she showed her true emotions in the photo.
people often thought that she never actually got the kind of photos she wanted, and when she committed suicide, people often said that she had died not having the picture she always wanted.

      










Tony Vaccaro, when taking photography, he only cared about his own opinions, no one else's. He was always on guard  of the form of placing of the photograph, and he forgot about peoples appearance in the photograph.
He realised that the picture doesn't always tell you the story behind the photo, for example, the audience doesn't really know whats going on in the picture or who the people are or hat there lives are about.

photo journolism

context

With photo journalism, the photo is not necessarily the truth.
The photo captures the moment, but if the photo is taken a second before or a second after, then that moment in life is completely gone, but if the photo is captured at the right time, then that moment will last a lifetime.
If a picture has been taken but things have been edited or removed from the photo, then the picture has been manipulated,  picture is only real if the moment and everything in it is real at that particular moment in time. Pictures in things like magazines, newspapers or the Internet are normally not really and have all been manipulated.

Leica cameras were the newest portable cameras around in them days and had one, and used to walk around all day with it. Almost stalking everything around him to get that moment to get a picture of.
  The camera had a lens at the side of the camera so that when taking a picture, you could look through the lens with one eye, and see the rest of the world with the other eye.

Over time, photography has changed. for example, back then people were inspired and really interested at the thought of new photography because not allot of people had cameras.Whereas now, people are not so interested as they were because everyone is so used to all the technology that's always coming out every few months, its almost like your carrying photography around in your own pocket. Also, to many people, the photography taken many years ago seem to be allot more interesting compared to the photos taken today.

intro to photography

my name is Melissa and the thing i like about photography is that it captures a moment.

what i hope to get out of this is to learn more about all the different photographers.