Thursday, 11 June 2015
Thursday, 4 June 2015
Evidence Research
1. Matthew Brady
Brady was one of the worlds first war photographers. His powerful pieces still resonate the truth of how wars impact the world and how fractured life can be.
This image is labelled"Federal Dead on the Field of Battle of First Day, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania" dated back to 1863. Brady has captured powerful images and evidencing the war. He most well know for his portrait work taking photos of Abraham Lincoln and being a successful daguerreotypist.
This is a great image on evidence as this image looks desolate.
2. Robert Capa
Capa's incredible photograph on Omaha Beach, Normandy, France.
Most of Capa's more memorable photography was taken on D-Day, June 6th, 1944.
This photograph is the very core meaning of evidence photography and has helped me understand it better. Evidence photography comes in all different varieties, its documented. Real life evidence.
Capa's famous quote "If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough". Inspiring words that have set the bar for many photographers over the years.
3. Dorothea Lange
This famous photograph known as the "Migrant Mother" taken by Dorothea Lange in 1936 is said to be 'the photograph that gave a face to the great depression'.
This is a great example of evidence photography as it has all the characteristics and emotions yet if you look at all the photographs Lange had taken then it shows how played the photograph is as it was part of a series of photo's she had taken of Thompson and her boys. Although at the time this image caused an immediate public outcry, quickly prompting politicos from the federal resettlement administration to send food and supplies. no one knew the identity of the photographed woman until Thompson revealed herself years later in a 1976 newspaper article. This shows how effective and real evidence photography can be and I would really like to create a photo that has all them qualities. It is a documentary style of photography.
4. Eddie Adams
Known as the 'photograph that ended a war but ruined a life', Adams took this photograph named "Murder of a Vietcong by Saigon Police Chief" back in 1968.
This documentary photo won Adams a Pulitzer Prize in 1969.
Evidence photography can be the most powerful and hard hitting type.
I really like the meaningful and inspiring photo's however this is a very dark and disturbing image to look at it is still a strong meaningful piece of documentary photography and I would like to create these effects in my work.
This image is labelled"Federal Dead on the Field of Battle of First Day, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania" dated back to 1863. Brady has captured powerful images and evidencing the war. He most well know for his portrait work taking photos of Abraham Lincoln and being a successful daguerreotypist.
This is a great image on evidence as this image looks desolate.
2. Robert Capa
Most of Capa's more memorable photography was taken on D-Day, June 6th, 1944.
This photograph is the very core meaning of evidence photography and has helped me understand it better. Evidence photography comes in all different varieties, its documented. Real life evidence.
Capa's famous quote "If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough". Inspiring words that have set the bar for many photographers over the years.
3. Dorothea Lange
This is a great example of evidence photography as it has all the characteristics and emotions yet if you look at all the photographs Lange had taken then it shows how played the photograph is as it was part of a series of photo's she had taken of Thompson and her boys. Although at the time this image caused an immediate public outcry, quickly prompting politicos from the federal resettlement administration to send food and supplies. no one knew the identity of the photographed woman until Thompson revealed herself years later in a 1976 newspaper article. This shows how effective and real evidence photography can be and I would really like to create a photo that has all them qualities. It is a documentary style of photography.
4. Eddie Adams
This documentary photo won Adams a Pulitzer Prize in 1969.
Evidence photography can be the most powerful and hard hitting type.
I really like the meaningful and inspiring photo's however this is a very dark and disturbing image to look at it is still a strong meaningful piece of documentary photography and I would like to create these effects in my work.
Wednesday, 3 June 2015
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