contemporary documentary photography

This image is by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin. Adam and Oliver are the creative editors of Benneton’s Colors magazine. This photography was taken with a large format camera which required a tripod, because it is a very slow camera.

"We spend so much time in each place. You can't just walk in, take some snaps and run out with your goodies. People get to know each other. You form intimate relationships. You spend three weeks in a place. People have to see what you're doing, they get to understand what you're doing" says Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin.

This photograph shows three men in jail and what it looks like in there cell. This photograph is one of many that were taken in a six month period to address mental health and the penal system. This story was later published in an issue of Colors.

Photograph the resembles the F64s

This photograph reminds me a lot of one of the pictures the F64 photographers took in the early 1900(except in color). The sharp focus of this photograph displays every detail, which is what the F64 photographers started doing after the pictorialism movement. They took sharper focused photographs because they wanted to start showing modern day life. Before, during the pictorialism movement, photofraphers wanted to take photograph the resembled other forms of art.
Also the way this picture is framed reminds me a lot of photographs the F64 photographers took. You see so much in this picture; the water, people, the mountains with trees, the mountains with snow, the sky, and the coulds.
The beauty of this picture is much like ones i've seen before in the 1900 from the F64 photographers.

Landscape Photograph

I chose this landscape of a beautiful palm tree overlooking the ocean front by Barry Collins. Barry Collins is an Australian landscape photographer. Collins takes beautiful landscape photographs and can be seen at his website http://www.barrycollins.com.au/




The lighting that hangs over the ocean horizon casts back shadows on the giant palm tree that rests on the seaside. I love how you can see all the detail in the trees roots and the texture of the tree bark. This landscape has very warm rich colors and you can tell by the light and shadow what kind of day it is.

Kodak Head Office

I really like this photograph of the Kodak head office. This photo was taken in 1902 on Clerkenwell Road in London. To me it marks the beginning of photography.

If you look closely at the building you will notice that every window has the brand name Kodak along with the huge letters of the company on the side of the building and a Kodak banner on the top of the building with the company's logo "you press the button, we do the rest".

The photographer took this picture so the whole Kodak building would be framed in the shot. If this picture was framed differently, such as, a tighter shot or a shot taken further away it might have a different effect on how people view it.