DB11

- What are the main differences and similarities?
They all have different approaches on how photographs should be taken based on their own experiences.Eugene Smith liked to stage the picture that he took as well as Sebastiao Salgado.
Eugene Smith: The Walk to Paradise Garden, photograph of Smith’sson Patrick and daughter Juanita, 1946. Smith’s son remembers that he and his sister had to walk 3-4 times in front of his father’s camera. Whereas Salgado feels he believes in a sense becoming one with those people he photographed, and worked to understand the existence of those he depicts (Salgado, 1990). Salgado spent time with people, Salgado felt, he was able to see their suffering.” (pp.146-147).
Kertesz’s and Cartier-Bresson’s they believed that the photograph should be untouched to show the reality.

- What’s the better journalistic approach?
Journalistic better approach is not to tamper with the picture and show the truth behind the real life on what the people in the picture are going through. The true events happening in the world should be shown as it is and need to follow the code of ethics ( NPPA). Sebastiao Salgado wanted to get to know the people in order to show the real story in the picture on how he felt the people was going through. Eugene smith wanted to capture the photograph by taking picture at the right moment by staging for instance how he did with the picture taken of his son and daughter.



Eugene Smith: Tomoko Uemura in her bathwith the people he captured in his photographs. Minamata, a Japanesefishing village whose population was poisoned by the mercury in the water.




Salgado portrays the conditions very powerfully in his photos.


Sources:
www.magnumphotos.com
www.nppa.org
 http://www.pixelicia.com/2007/12/18/sebastiao-salgado-retratos-
de-la-crudeza
SmithSalgadoShootingTheTruthIcevska.pdf

Assignment 1



AFTER

  Original picture
These days there are many softwares that let you edit pictures and  crop the unwanted display in your picture . We can easily upload the picture and download free software editing tools to make the picture appear the way you want to. This picture was taken in Niagara at Port Dalhousie on September labour day long weekend while coming back from buffalo, new york after going shopping  as we wanted to get away from the city life and get some fresh air and relax near the lake ontario. There were couples there to relax and enjoy the last week of the summer and other people coming there to fish and some parents bringing their children to enjoy the wheather and the scenery of the place. And as you can see at the bottom picture sailors coming back from sailing at the end of the day. I love the picture of the light house it makes me remind me of the ghost pictures that i had seen before. I  edited this picture to look like it is actually shown in the movies as an broken down old place which has been abandoned, makes you think and wonder about the spirits wandering around and where tourist come to visit the haunted place. I also cropped the arms of the person on the left as it doesnt makes the picture look good. 

   

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This is also taken in Niagara at a place called      Port Dalhousie. I cropped the side of the picture and gave a special effects called Tilt Shifted.Tilt shift photographs create an optical illusion that makes scenes appear as if they are actually miniature models .The outer edges are blurred which tricks the eye into thinking everything in the unblurred parts as miniature and it is easy to reproduce. When you look at this picture you feel at ease and feel like going cruising with your friends to get away from the city life and forget all the stress behind. These days there many more expensive software programs where you can do more with your digital images, where you can remove the wrinkles and make someone look younger and remove scars or erase red eye photos. The edited picture looks more clear and brighter while the original looks a bit dull and shows more clouds in the sky makes you feel like its going to rain.

WEEK 4

1)      What was the main Stieglitz's interest? What's Pictorialism and what is Naturalism? Did he stay devoted to this movement?  What do you see on his photographs?

Stieglitz’s interest was to show the changes happening in America during that time and how the country was building relationship with other neighboring countries and was not considered as an isolated. His pictures showed the transformation New York went through after building of skyscrapers, “American culture was redefining its fundamental ways of seeing, thinking and experiencing the world is the subject of the first full-length film biography of the photographer "Alfred Stieglitz - The Eloquent Eye. “Stieglitz was interested into Pictorial Photography, which is a style of pictures that states their own artistry and the meaning behind it. The atmosphere, kind scenes, and tones are the few elements that were mostly applied on pictorial photographs. Another concept is Naturalism which sharply concentrated on a subject and close details faded away.

2)      What was White's impact on photography as a medium? What do you see on his photographs?

White believed that taking photographs and examining photographs was a spiritual act. White's writings stressed and encouraged his thoughts as in Mirrors, Messages, and Appearance. Absolutely, Whites pictures shows pictures of natural resources and its effects on nature. White's impact on photography was his interest on how the viewer corresponds to what they feel about the image.

White says: “We remember images that we want to remember. The reason why we want to remember an image varies: because we simply "love it," or dislike it so intensely that it becomes compulsive, or because it has made us realize something about ourselves, or has brought about some slight change in us. Perhaps the reader can recall some image, after the seeing of which, he has never been quite the same.”

3)     What do you see on Man Ray's photos? Are they similar or absolutely different than Stieglitz’s photos?

Man Rays Photos are mostly of women. He works with collage, assemblage, found objects, and experimental photography, creating “camera-less” photographic and he also created a technique using photograms he called rayographs, which he described as "pure dadaism".Stieglitz photos are fixated on the naturalism and surroundings of the image.

 4) What do you see on Moholo-Nagy's photographs?

Moholo-Nagys Photographs present his imagery through the new technology of interactive computer systems. Moholy-Nagy counted among his artistic roles those of photographer, filmmaker, typographer, painter, sculptor, writer, graphic designer, stage designer, and teacher; he was also enthusiastic about employing new media when exploring new ideas of creative expression.

5)     Are these photographers painters? Do they all paint with their cameras or maybe only some of them?

  All these photographers are painters and photographers as they work with their knowledge of art and to make the picture look more like painting. Their photographs show us their experience of knowledge through their course of different education they got.

Reference:

Alfred Stieglitz
American Masters PBS Stieglitz_a.html
The art Institute of Chicago Collection
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/stieglitz_alfred.html
http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/
Minor WhiteAbout White
About White and his work
White's Essay
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/W/white/white_articles2.html
Man RayMan Ray Photos
Man Ray @ Getty Museum

http://www.artnet.com/artists/man%20ray/László Moholy-Nagy
Moholy-Nagy @ Getty
The Art Institute of Chicago Collection

DB 3

  

How and when Henry Pitch Robinson created Feeding away ? What was the reason?

Henry pitch Robinson was able to create reality into Dream? It shows a girl dying with tuberculosis. He created the picture to show the true and painful human experiences we have to go through in life.

Photography has impacted the work of art and influenced Some changes 

In the area of acessibility to art ? If mechanical  reproduction created Revolution, What is happening now with the digitalization ?    

Anybody can be a photographer with the help of the technology that is available today but it is more about what you can do with the picture in the present day. Compared to cameras within the old days which was limited to few number of pictures. You don't really need to know how to set a camera, anybody can take picture with a cellphone practically you don't  need a camera.

Is photography art or contribution to the art? Is it just a tool used by artist? 

Photography has played a controversial and important role in the work of the artist since the olden days. Photography is presented as art of work by the photographers these days because anyone can reproduce the pictures they take and make it look more like a painting as Henry Pitch Robinson did in those early days. Photographer reproduces the image to look or portray the picture to look like what the audience wants it to look like.