Steve McCurry is an American photographer. He is known for covering conflicts. He was sent around the world to document the impact on war in different countries. Most of Steve McCurry's images are tight headshot images. This could be to show the facial expressions of how people are feeling during conflict. Steve has been using Nikon equipment such as the D700 and a Hasselblad medium format camera. He uses an Epson printer for his printing. He has stated that his favorite printer is an Epson large format printer. Steve McCurry was in Philadelphia. He studied at Penn State. He studies film making and film history. He graduated from the college arts of architecture. He worked on a newspaper as a photographer after college. He then worked as a freelancer doing photography where his photography career began in India. Steve McCurry is probably best known for is photography of the Afghan woman, featured on a 1985 cover of a national geographic. This image is known as one of the most recognized photos in the world. Steve McCurry started his career in India where he freelanced. He mentioned that the country was a diversity of the people. the young, old, rich and poor. The haunting expressions of the Afghan girl on the first images could be a symbol of war. Steve McCurry was trying to show that war brings fear to others. It was also added to the front cover of the the national geographic magazine because to make the government acknowledge the human price of conflict in Afghanistan. The second image is a picture of 2 girls in monsoon rains huddling under a rice basket to protect themselves from the rain in Indonesia. This is a powerful images because it shows that these girls don't have a lot so they are using what they have to protect themselves from the rain. The third image is an image of a color festival in India. This festival is celebrated annually in India. It sees people celebrating across the street and in temples by throwing coloured powder and water at each other. This picture is a man being carried through a sea of people during the 1996 annual festival. These images were all taken in certain locations that Steve McCurry visited in order to take these photos. Personally, I like the photos because they were trying to spread an important message to raise awareness to people who need help. Steve McCurry's style of photography doesn't vary. His photography type is very similar throughout. this is because he is trying to find images that show a similar message throughout. A lot of Steve Curry's shots a fill the frame shots. This is the opposite of using negative space and requires you to get as close as possible to the subject of the images. This blocks out any potential distractions in the image and makes the audience focus on the subject of the image. This is shown in the three images where the subject of the image is the people and you are not focused on the background. The only image where you can see the background has a shallow depth of field.
Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist. She was best known for her great depression era work. She studied photography at Columbia University in New York. In 1918. She decided to travel around the world, earning money as she went by selling her photograph. Her money ran out by the time she went to San Francisco so she obtained a job there in a photography studio. She was known for photographing the unemployed men who wandered the streets of San Francisco. This showed the desperate conditions of these men. This gave these men recognition from the public to the other photographers because of how successful these photos were. The camera that Dorothea Lange was a Graflex super D. This camera became an icon of the struggles the entire U.S. population was suffering during the Great Depression. All of these image have the same meaning. They were all taken to raise awareness for the Great Depression. The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place between the years 1929-1933. Dorothea Lange took these pictures to raise awareness for the families that were suffering from the Great Depression. This was done because you can see the facial expressions of the characters as they are clearly unhappy. This is because of their poor life conditions.
David Bailey is an English fashion and portrait photographer. He was also known for his advertising, celebrity and fashion photographs. David Bailey came from a working class background in East London. He left school when he was very young to take part in several jobs. He served with the royal air force in 1957. After being interested in painting and photography when he was a youth, he apprenticed at John French studio where he became involved in fashion photography. He also worked freelance on magazines and newspapers. In the studio, David Bailey uses everything from 35mm to 8x10 inches cameras to produce high quality shots. He said that he has worked with top cameras such as Nikon, Nikkormat and Pentax. But he said his favorite camera to use is a Pentax camera. I have chosen these images because they show David Bailey's style of photography of well. This is because his style is black and white portraits. The photography also helps capture the personality of the celebrities in the images. This is done because of the lighting, backdrops and poses. These images stand out to me because they are black and white portraits. This means that these images are timeless. Also, colour itself can take away emphasis on contrast, texture, lighting, shape and form. Also, black and white images can create connotations of the past which means that these images are old. These photos loo like they were filmed in a studio. This is because they are profession portraits that look like they have been taken by the users. In my opinion, I like these images because they represent the celebrities' personalities. You can see this through there facial expressions.
Overall, my personal favourite photographer is David Bailey, this is because of the use of the black and white images. this means that the photo are timeless and you can see the evolution of photography. I also like David Bailey because of his working class background which means he has achieved more than what he was expected to achieve with his photography career. I also admire Steve McCurry's photography. This is because it is the photography that is most like my style of photography. This is because of his landscape photography. His images are also aesthetically pleasing to look at. This is because of the colourful images and the way he slows down the shutter speed to get the perfect shots.
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