Wednesday 28 September 2011

Photo Journalism Part 3

Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus was born on the 14th mach 1923 and was an American photographer during the 1940's, she took photos of dwarfs, giants, transvestites, nudists and ciurcus proformers and she was known as the freak photographer, she was then marrried to her childhood sweetheart Allan Arbus, they then made a magazine for glamor even tho they both hatted the glamor, during th 1960's she started to take photos of family portraits(on the left), on July 26th 1971 Diane took her own life.

Wednesday 21 September 2011

Photo Journalism Part 2

Robert Capa a Hungarian civilan also a photographer in the Spanish Cival war for his real life magazine, He took many pictures during his time in Spain such as the spainish cival war soilder who had been shot, This photo he took was a decisive moment because the soilder had been just shot whilst he had taken the photo.





Tony Vaccaro was born December 2nd 1922 as an American citizen, During his life he became a soilder/Photographer in the 2nd world war 1944 to 1945, he took photos of the life in Germany whilst fighting for his country, He was named as a dangrous photographer and lucky to live, he took a photo of a german man who had been blown up and was still burning whilst calling for his mum in German, the camera he used during his time surving in Germany was the Argus c3, but the standard camera he was told to used was the Army edition Speed graphic(Bellow).

Wednesday 14 September 2011

Photo Journalism part 1

Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Bresson was once a painter who then turned to photogaphy and today know as the godfather of photography, he captured life waiting untill the perfect moment, Into this place life will come this was Henris way of capturing photos.

Decisive
Henri had most decisive moments in photography including the man jumping a puddle taken in 1933, this was the perfect decisive moment in the world, capturing a man jumping a puddle, if he took this photo a second later he wouldn't have this amazind photo.



The Leica Camera
The leica camera was the camera used by Henri Cartier-Bresson to capture the photos above this camera was released in 1925 and was one of Henris first cameras, this was also known as the rich man camera because ont he rich could afford these types of cameras.