Photography Midterm

Digital Single Lens Reflex

DSLR camera

shutter speed

controls the length of time the film/sensor is exposed to light

shutter speed

speed at which the shutter opens

shutter speed

controls motion: blurring, freezing

aperture

size of hole through which light passes

aperture

opening of lens, allowing light to enter the camera

aperture

measured in f numbers

aperture

controls amount of light that hits the film/sensor

small aperture

produces a sharp image

wide aperture

produces shallow depth of field (only foreground is sharp)

wide aperture

can blur background

depth of field

area of acceptable sharpness

aperture and shutter speed

determines exposure

exposure

affects objects sharp/blurry and depth of field

Ansel Adams

romantic vistas of nature, B&W landscapes of American West

Ansel Adams

political and social change through art, first cause was protection of wilderness areas including Yosemite

zone system

a system to control exposure and capture the entire scale in photographs

Darren Almond

British Photographer, travels to remote locations, very slow shutter speed

Darren Almond

photographs moonlight landscapes using extended time ezposure, series questions experience of time

Darren Almond

creates meditative landscapes that look fictitious, idealized, fog and clouds

Andy Goldsworthy

collaborations with nature, utilizes landscape as his material, drawing on teh landscape

urban photography

concentrates on structures and processes, rather than people

urban photography

an attempt to understand our experience of the city, expressed through a body of work

Tanya Ahmed

interested in buildings and what they have meant to people inhabiting them, frequent subject is NYC, understanding a place

Weng Fen

coastal cities in China to examine rapid urban development and shift to capitalism, blends past/present

Weng Fen

Sitting on a Wall series

Edward Burtynsky

photographs nature transformed through industry (water, recycling yards, quarries, refineries), impact of man in nature

John Davies

photographs Britain’s post-industrial landscape, nostalgia for a disappearing landscape

Sophie Ristelhueber

photographs about traces humans leave behind in lanscaape after Gulf’s war, areal photography, abstract historical photos

urban landscape photography

often include people, but focus on architecture, the structures of the city, and the city itself

street photography

looks at urban experience through a study of people who live in it, people are the subject

timothy O’Sullivan and alexander gardner

two of the first documentary photographers

snapshots

record a particular scene to help remember it later

news photographs

show what happened with a caption= explanation, explain reality

documentary photography

records reality and provides the photographer’s point of view= photography as an instrument of social change

Eugene Atget

photographer that conveyed atmosphere and mood of Paris, inner life, not tourist areas

Jacob Riis

photograoher that captures slums of New York

Dorothea Lange

famous images of great depression, social documentary, Migrant Mother

Walker Evans

portrayed American life through its people, people’s expressions, car culture, advertisements, poetic resonance of ordinary subjects

Henry Cartier-Bresson

considered the father of Journalism, covered many of the world’s biggest events, coined the decisive moment

the decisive moment

split second of genius and inspiration to capture a certain moment

Margaret Bourke-White

first female war correspondent, photographed southern states during depression, India-Pakistan partition violence, Russia, India, North Africa

documentary photo

____ is an effort to record the way things are in a single image or a series

photojournalism

An effort to explain the way things are. often includes text and many images in a sequence

Letizia Battaglia

photographer that exposes impact of mafia in Sicily

Larry Burrows

produced most complete record of Vietnam war, expert in color, in battle zone, changed the way we see war photographs

Carol Guzy

4x pulitzer prize winner, photographs domestic social issues, political turmoil, natural disasters (berlin wall, 9/11)

Martin Parr

“voyeuristic style”, documents how we live, what we eat, what we buy, how we look

sebastiao salgado

silent drama of photography, artic photography

the ISO

dictates how sensitive the sensor is to light, affects exposure

polarizing filter

can be used to help capture bold colors, intensify colors, saturation

photographic reportage

(picture story), involves a joint operation of the brain, the eye, and the heart