Week 4, Part 2 Genius of Photography
Q.1 Why did Garry Winogrand take photographs?
His rationale for taking photographic imagery was:
"to see what the world looked like photographed" this was also
a statement and rationale that many other photographers used to describe
their purpose for the use of this particular medium.
Q.2 Why did “citizens evolve from blurs to solid flesh”?
The medium of photography was perfect for photographing architecture,
and landscape imagery due to the lack of movement from the subject matter,
however, when photographing people they appeared to give ghostly results.
Since the evolution of the camera, the exposure time was not fast enough
to share the clarity of moving figures, instead it produced fleshy movements,
this was until the technology evolved over time to allow shutter speeds to
be increased to freeze movement within time, executing extreme detail.
Q.3 What was/is the “much misunderstood theory”?
The decisive moment theory developed by Henri Cartier Bresson,
was the ideology of taking imagery within a fraction of time to generate
imagery that was revolutionary, and unexpected from the searching of
these moments, however this was misunderstood by other practitioners.
these moments, however this was misunderstood by other practitioners.
From the clear misunderstanding, apposed to photographers searching for
the unexpected moment, where they can make their decisive moments,
they began to situate themselves in places of importance to capture events,
in expectance that particular occurrences would be available.
Q.4 Who was the godfather of street photography in the USA?
Gary Winogrand, the "Godfather" of street photography, appeared
to coincidentally be around action constantly whenever he was upon the
streets, making it almost surreal that this was possible to continuously
occur at his presence. Other photographers state that his
particular energy when photographing gave his subjects a transferable energy
to make them respond in a photogenic manner.
Q.5 Who was Paul Martin and what did he do?
Martin was a British photographer, who in 1896 captured the essence of
the Victorian leisure of those who were at the seaside. The images
that he captured with his camera that had been disguised as a brown parcel,
show cased the magic of the beach, exposed those moments that would have
been missed by the untrained eye, capturing those moments that were
unguarded.
Q. 6 Who said “When I was growing up photographers were either nerds or pornographers”?
Edward Ruscha was the photographer who made this statement upon their
beliefs of what they saw, believing the that he was exposed to
saw no social value when viewing this imagery, from this experience he began
to create a typology of petrol stations as a depiction of objects apposed
to imagery of people in relation to souls, focusing more upon the surface of
inanimate objects.
Q.5 Who was Paul Martin and what did he do?
Martin was a British photographer, who in 1896 captured the essence of
the Victorian leisure of those who were at the seaside. The images
that he captured with his camera that had been disguised as a brown parcel,
show cased the magic of the beach, exposed those moments that would have
been missed by the untrained eye, capturing those moments that were
unguarded.
Q. 6 Who said “When I was growing up photographers were either nerds or pornographers”?
Edward Ruscha was the photographer who made this statement upon their
beliefs of what they saw, believing the that he was exposed to
saw no social value when viewing this imagery, from this experience he began
to create a typology of petrol stations as a depiction of objects apposed
to imagery of people in relation to souls, focusing more upon the surface of
inanimate objects.
Q.7 Why does William Eggleston photograph in colour?
The use of colour gives purpose and meaning to his photographs, changing
the logic, and the influence of the content through his colour choice,
manipulating the content of the imagery.
Admittedly, Eggleston believes that some of his images with the use of
colour, make the images appear to be nothing and unreadable,
therefore the use of "real" colour does not always gives a certain authentication
to the imagery, as often Eggleston believed.
Q.8 What is William Eggleston about?
Eggleston, like Windogram, was categorised as a street photographer,
producing images he considered to be democratic. Since he believed
that he was at war with the obvious he began to rationalise his work
by making the statement “It’s all about photographing life today”.
The use of colour gives purpose and meaning to his photographs, changing
the logic, and the influence of the content through his colour choice,
manipulating the content of the imagery.
Admittedly, Eggleston believes that some of his images with the use of
colour, make the images appear to be nothing and unreadable,
therefore the use of "real" colour does not always gives a certain authentication
to the imagery, as often Eggleston believed.
Q.8 What is William Eggleston about?
Eggleston, like Windogram, was categorised as a street photographer,
producing images he considered to be democratic. Since he believed
that he was at war with the obvious he began to rationalise his work
by making the statement “It’s all about photographing life today”.
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