Fashion Photography

Fashion photography is a genre of photography which is devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items. Fashion photography is most often used for advertisements or fashion magazines

Portraiture

Portraiture

The creation of any portrait, an artistic representation of a person which includes a portrait painting and portrait photography which captures the likeness of a person or a small group of people . The idea of portraiture photography is the main focus of a face, showing every expression on view and becomes a composed image of a person in a still position.

PhotoJournalism Part 2

War Photography

Robert Capa

Robert Capa born October 13th 1913 - May 25th 1954 was a hungarian photographer who was originally interested in becoming a writer. However, he decided to try out photography and became really passionate about it. He was known to be so careless in taking images in the war that he became a legend in modern photography, his images shocked the whole world as this was to be an insight of what really happens.

'He died with a camera in his left hand, his story unexpectedly finished.'

Tony Vaccaro 

Tony Vaccaro, Born December 20.1922 is also known as Michael A.Vaccaro is an American photographer who is best known for his photo's taken in Europe during 1944-45 and in Germany immediately after World War II. Taking photographs while entering potentially deadly combat situations would require a dexterous balancing act: with his rifle crooked prone on his arm, he would snap a frame, let the camera drop to the strap round his neck, and quickly move on.

My approach was this : I said to myself, 'Tony, don't worry about how good the picture is going to be under difficult conditions and light. Take it, no matter what. If the eye sees it, take it.'

Photojournalism Part 1

Genius of photography

‘ In this space, life will come’

Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004) He was a French photographer considered to be the godfather of modern photojournalism. He was originally inspired by his uncle for his creativity, who showed him how to oil paint at just 5 years old. 

He then decided he wanted to be a photographer after seeing an image of three black Africian boys naked by lake  Tanganyika "The only thing which completely was an amazement to me and brought me to photography was the work of Munkacsi. When I saw the photograph of Munkacsi of the black kids running in a wave I couldn't believe such a thing could be caught with the camera. I said damn it, I took my camera and went out into the street."

 Above is an image taken by Henri Cartier-Bresson which is famously known as the Decisive Moment. The decisive moment is where an image is taken in a fraction of a second of an event which shows a very breath taking result. 

 Thr Leica Camera

Oskar Barnack was the inventor of the Leica camera which was created in 1913 was Intended as a compact camera for landscape photography. Leica has had a profound influence on our view of the world we live in and Leica A actually went on sale in 1925. In 1932, around 90,000 cameras were already in use. By 1961, the number had increased to a million. Leica Camera's are still used today.