On this photography trip we went to the London Bridge to the Tate. We was walking through the London bridge taking the photos so we can experience what taking street photography was like. I really enjoyed the trip seeing them as it gave me more time to observe the photographs properly and gave me a more in depth understanding of the artists as well. On the trip we visited Harry Callahan and William Eggleston and 2 other photographers. I think they work is really amazing because it influence me want to do something that like. Taking photos in the street is really fun because we can experience what a street photographer feel like when they take photos in the street.
Harry CallahanHarry Callahan was born in Detroit, Michigan, he worked at Chrysler when he was a young man then left the company to study engineering at Michigan State University. However he eventually dropped out, returned to Chrysler and joined its camera club. Callahan began teaching himself photography in 1938. In 1946 he was invited to teach photography at the Institute of Design in Chicago by László Moholy-Nagy. He moved to Rhode Island in 1961 to establish a photography program at the Rhode Island School of Design, teaching there until his retirement in 1977.
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This is my favourite image taken by Harry Callahan. Callahan has used the photographic technique of multiple exposure to create a layered effect with the background being an image of a busy street,and the foreground an image of a woman's face. By making the woman's face the central subject more significance is bought to the context of the image. This makes me want to ask if the girl is the main subject of the image or the people walking across along the road. The Composition of the image is the image is kind of transparent and the background is busy.
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In this image the 2 pigeons are facing the same direction and close to each other and i feel like the composition of this image love and calm because i think that the 2 pigeons are slowly coming together and forming that love between them and the shadow of me really blends in with image because its like someone watching over them felling in love and watching the view. This were near the street in the London Bridge we was walking to the Tate Modern and i saw this. The context of this image is 2 birds looking into the view and close together.
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In this image of my four, this is a cropped image and i have chosen this image because i felt like the image is really good because there's one boy and 3 girls look at something.
The composition of this image is cropped and focusing of the lower part of the body. I like how the image really bring that effect that what the girls and the boy is looking that. The background is really plain because its just the floor. |
This image is infocus and this really bring the effect makes people wonder whats in the background and what it looks like. So this image make the audience think about the image alot more and then have to think really clearly about it. The composition of this image is that the blurry effects and questioning. The tone is that the middle is bright and the outside is the getting darker as it goes out. The context of this image is questioning.
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In this image, the 2 man looking at something makes us want to ask what are they looking at? I love how the 2 man is in the back instead of the foreground because it makes the image different to a normal image. The composition of this image is these 2 man and the post.
I also think that the image is really good because its on the left side its another route and it makes me want ask if the 2 mans are going to go that way and if they are, why? |
William Eggleston was born in Memphis, Tennessee and raised in Sumner, Mississippi. His father was an engineer and his mother was the daughter of a prominent local judge. As a boy, Eggleston was introverted; he enjoyed playing the piano, drawing, and working with electronics. From an early age, he was also drawn to visual media, and reportedly enjoyed buying postcards and cutting out pictures from magazines. At the age of 15, Eggleston was sent to the Webb School, a boarding establishment. Eggleston later recalled few fond memories of the school, telling a reporter,It had a kind of Spartan routine to build character. I never knew what that was supposed to mean. It was so callous and dumb. It was the kind of place where it was considered effeminate to like music and painting
This image captured by William Eggleston traces a woman in a relaxed, position splayed out on a normal lawn. I think this image represents feminism and the beginnings of equality between the sexes as it was captured in the 1970's which was the height of modern day feminism, furthermore the content is a woman splayed out on a stretch of suburban grass which is demonstrating how woman were finally being allowed to have some freedom from 'the white picket fence dream' and were starting to not be expected to do housework such as aggrandizing the garden additionally making themselves presentable for their husbands.