Portraiture

Application

Portraiture started off as a painting of someone who was rich or who very powerful who would hire a skilled painter to capture and show this in a painting of them, so whoever was posing in that portrait was the owner of it. However over time portraiture has evolved and the possession has changed, the man or woman behind the camera now owns that portrait, seeing as they are the ones to decide what it shows or portrays.

The old compare to the new, A portrait of Vangogh (left) and William-Aldolphe Bougouere (right)
these are both self portraits however.


Context

Pretty much everywhere we go nowadays you can find portraiture, many businesses and companies will use it to promote products they sell, using famous people to make them more popular. We find them in leaflets, on billboards, magazines and in newspapers mainly. Celebrities tend to have their own websites for the public to see so these are the likeliest places to find them. An advantage of portrait is that it uses less space so this is why many magazines and newspapers will use them over landscape.

Techniques
One technique is the texture, in fact this is a big part of it. it is used to make many images seem to jump out at you from the page. Matching the background texture to the foreground is important if you are to use this technique, otherwise it will look strange.

Fashion Photography

Application

Fashion photography is a type of photography generally devoted to displaying items of clothing and other things in fashion. Fashion photography is most often used for advertisements or fashion magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, or Allure. Over it's time, fashion photography has developed its own aesthetic in which the clothes and fashions are made to stand out by the presence of exotic locations or accessories.

Photography was developed in the 1830s, but the earliest popular technique, the dauerrotype was not usable for mass printing. Come 1856, Adolphe Braun created a book containing roughly 288 photographs of Virginia Olodoini, Countess di Castiglione, making her the first fashion model.

Context

In the first decade of the 20th century, advances in half tone printing allowed fashion photographs to be featured in magazines. Fashion photography made its first appearance in French magazines such as La mode practique. Condé nato took over Vogue magazine and also contributed to the beginnings of fashion photography.

AS an audience we are presented with this type of photography when shopping for clothes, or looking at magazines. fashion photography is often used to try to sell us something.

Techniques

Fashion Photography is distinctive, in most of this type of photograph there will be an elaborate object or background there to make it all look more appealing and glamorous. Also when taking this type of photo a photographer could throw away hundreds of images because only one is deemed the perfect picture.

Art Photography

Application

I Think of art as an expression of something that interests you or even of your mind. It interests me when i see abstract art because that show that the artist was probably quite a character. Among the many Art Photographers, a few are Edward Steichen, John Szarkowski and F.Holland Day, these three spent their lives using Photography as a fine art.

Conceptual Photography is a form of using photos to show something that represents and idea, in a conceptual photograph it is not unusual to find rather abstract ideas.

Edward Steichen

John Szarkowski

Context

Artists use photo editing methods like trick photography to make bizarre ideas become real, another popular thing to do is blur out the background and focus in on on e particular part of thr picture. Different variations of backgrounds are used, for example studios and real places, it usual is down to what the artist sees.


Techniques

The early artists never had editing programs like we do today. people like Josef Heinreich used other photos and stuck them to one big one. This is the earliest form of Photoshop in a way. But the modern way of doing it gives the artist various different tools to do the job.

Photographic journalism

Application
Photojournalism was first seen when Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, in 1933 he saw a man jumping over a puddle, effectively it was created by the split second decision of a man to take a photo of something he saw.

Also Tony Vaccaro and Robert Capa are key names in the development of this specific type of photography. They are two of the well know photographers during The Second World War, they often took pictures during battles. Capa journeyed with soldiers so that he could capture moments that may later be known as major events
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Vaccaro on the other hand was actually a soldier himself, he captured the wreckage as he went along. Sadly his photos, or most of them, were destroyed because the army said that they showed the faces of soldiers who had died and this sort of image should not be shown to the world just yet.


During the Vietnam war Eddie Adams was another major participant in the future of photo journalism, he caught the execution of a enemy soldier just moments before his death. This image lead to a lot of controversy as it showed the unfair, un-trialed death of a human being. Admittedly it was the death of the enemy but none the less it was highly inhuman.



Context
Photographic Journalism is usually presented to us as the audience in Magazines and Newspapers. We consume this type of photography like mad as we have so many examples of each of those things. The type of photographic journalism shown to us varies from one to another, in a tabloid news paper they tend to try to find the funniest shot for the story that they could as most of the time they present funnier stories, or stories with a slightly comical edge. In papers such as the county times they use more serious and thought out shots to capture the situation as it is. Throughout time the ways in which we use this have changed and sorted themselves into groups as i have just explained.

Techniques
As i sort of explained above, the ways in which a photo is taken for this category varies around what type of audience it is aimed at. You either see photos which are taken at specifically comical moments or ones that are taken to show the surroundings or something important to a sad story.
The technology that is used for this has changed through the years and with this the type of photo and how it is taken has changed too. For example, we now have things such as burst cameras that capture multiple photos at once, so it has become easier to find a photo perfect for whatever we are trying to show. Also cameras have becomes able to take good clear images of actions and with shutter speed variations the photographer can capture a more appealing shot for the audience to see.

Intro To Photography

During my time on Photography i want to learn about the different types of photographs and to do this i will follow the tasks and blog about what i find.

My photo-graphical interests are landscapes and photos of historical events, they appeal to me because i took history at GCSE and i had to study a lot of them so i would like to learn more about them and use the knowledge for my own reasons, whatever they turn out to be.



Above: Robert Capa




Above: Ansel Adams


Above: Henri Cartier-Bresson