Eddie Adams

Adams has taken some of the most iconic and devastating photos we know. He won the Pulitzer prize for this photo in Vietnam of Vietnamese General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong lieutenant at point-blank range. 

when ever I see this photo I cant help but wounder what coursed this scenario and why did it have to happen even though i know it because of the war. most of the photojournalism that becomes well known are usual to do with war and this is a perfect exampal. I have never really like war photography because of the sadness that is in them this is image of an execution shows what war can lead to and a photojournalism is capturing that one moment that may be the one image that is connected to the war and the image above is that image for the Vietnam war

Steve McCurry

"A picture can express a universal humanism, or simply reveal a delicate and poignant truth by exposing a slice of life that might otherwise pass unnoticed.” – Steve McCurry

His most famous image, the 1985 National Geographic cover “Afghan Girl” which was on the cover of the National Geography in 1985. the imagedoes draw you in, because of the colours but mainly because of the girls bright green eyes.

His career jump-started the day he crossed the Pakistan border into rebel-controlled Afghanistan just before the Russian invasion in 1979. The images he had gotten would be published around the world and were some of the first to show what was happening in that part of the world

Looking at Steve McCurry's photos I cant help but just star at them you can see that one of the main reason his photos draw the audience in is because of the colours that are in the photos but also because the portraits the eyes of the person just capture you doesn't matter what colour they are.

2 Photos as Exampals

These 2 images are of things that I thought of as hidden in plain view. while I was walking around Salford I thought things that I would not usually pay attention to be it features on building place where people sit or things that have been painted on. All of them are hidden in plain view.

 

I didn't really notice this post had paint on it until I was actually stood in front of it. I liked how the purple paint is quite bright compared to the pole. when I took this photo I liked how the leaves in the background are worm colours compared to the coldness of the pole

To be honest this image was mainly taken because people don't always pay attention to what they sit on and a bench is  perfect example of out of sit out of mind because people walk past them all the time with out noticing them until they realise that they need somewhere to suit.

 

photo research

I wanted to see what other people have photographed when ether photography architecture or hidden things but what court my eye was the Victorian architecture they have a lot of features that looked that they would not have been noticed and a regular basis.

Images from photo.net

The following images are from the website photo.net were people can share their photographic work all over the world.

Victorian Architecture - Kolkata

Atanu Ghosh

The image above is of a Victorian building I wanted to look at Victorian building because they tend to have feature on them that have always been forgotten. The image above is a perfect exampal of hidden in plain view since the features are their and you can see them but when looking at the image you get drawn to the windows.

Hidden Place - The Window

Fili

When I searched hidden this image came up I instantly thought that it was a great image because of how the open windows draw you to the center of the image and down to whats below.  The window is hidden in plain view where no can see it with out looking for it.

hidden in plain view

while I was looking at old buildings in Salford I came across a building that I walk past everyday on the way to university. The building is the old former police station the building has 70 windows that are all boarded up it made me think that maybe people don't notice the window no more kinda like they have seen it everyday theta they have forgotten them.

 

 Its style, scale and detail, the crescent police station was designed in the style of “proud municipal Neo-Georgian”to be in keeping with the other Georgian buildings in the area in 1957.

I have taken some photos of a building that has some windows that have been bricked up.

 It is similar to to the old police station but I think the windows are more hidden because even though they are different colours they are still have the same texture. To be honest I have seen this building a number of time and only noticed that it had bricked up windows when I was looking to photograph features that the building may have, so I thought that it was "Hidden in Plain View".

19th Century buildings in Salford

I wanted to look at 19th century building after looking at the Peel building. So I used Google to find photos and some information of 19th century building in Salford.

Former Royal Veteran Tavern - Stanley Street

  

It has the appearance of a building dating from the middle to late 19th century.  It occupies a site that was, in 1821. as you can see the building also has features that are unnoticed but I still find it interesting. I would like to get some photos that show these feature to other people make them notice what they are missing.

St Philip with St Stephen Church

St Philip with St Stephen was designed by Sir Robert Smirke in 1825. The building’s Greek style is unique in Salford, its bow–fronted porch with ionic colonnade and balustrades parapet and bell tower above. Even though the building is unique to Salford I bet that not many people may attention to the details that are on the building.

reserch

 So during  my tutorial I was told to look at some other buildings that may have some features that most people would not notice so I looked on line for some old buildings that have features that would not normally be notice. One of those buildings that I thought of was the peel building.




http://www.speel.me.uk/sculptplaces/salford.htm




http://manchesterhistory.net/manchester/outside/SALFORD/peelbuilding.html

As you can see the peel building has a lot of architectural features that are not always noticed. The building is the oldest structure at the Salford Campus, constructed at the end of the 19th century, circa 1896 .

So I will try to find buildings that are from the 19 center. I will be looking at mainly buildings as they tend to be unnoticed my people every day I will also look at windows and doors as they can also have features that go unnoticed.

lewis hine

The work Hine did for [child labor reform] was more responsible than all other efforts in bringing the need to public attention. The evils were intellectually but not emotionally recognized until his skill, vision and artistic finesse focused the camera intelligently on these social problems.

 

His revulsion against the use of children in the early twentieth-century American industrial labor force and his empathy with all those who toil were not based on hearsay evidence garnered from books or newspapers. His own experience-in a furniture factory, a bank, a retail store, thirteen hours a day, six days a week for a miserable four dollars in wages-colored his entire existence and filled him with a passion from which he could never escape.

Lil Shuckers

 

The image is of young children who are 8 years old, the children only go to school for half a day and work the rest of it the image was taken in 1912 when children were working in factors and mines.  



http://www.escapeintolife.com/artist-watch/lewis-hine/

http://www.masters-of-photography.com/H/hine/hine_girl_worker.html


http://www.masters-of-photography.com/H/hine/hine_articles2.html

Out of sight out of mind

Out of sight out of mind -The idea that something is easily forgotten or dismissed as unimportant if it is not in our direct view.

Origin

The use of 'in mind' for 'remembered' and 'out of mind' for 'forgotten' date back to the at least the 13th century. The earliest printed citation of a link with memory and the sight of something is in John Heywood's Woorkes. A dialogue conteynyng prouerbes and epigrammes, 1562, as reprinted by the Spenser Society, 1867:

Example

 

The photo on the left is of the old pub, when people walk past it they don't really notice the features on the building. They don't really see the features even if they walk past it everyday. The photo on the right is one of the features that are on the building that are not really noticed everyday but when they are noticed people start to pay attention to them. so to get them noticed you can make them standout. 

Idea for "Hidden Salford"

Hidden In plain View

 The idea of hidden in plain view is an idea that I got from looking at buildings and noticing things that I have not really noticed be for. For example. the photo below shows a feature that in on a old pub that I only noticed when I was looking though my camera lens.

when I first noticed the face on the pub I thought how funny it was that it was smirking at the people who walked by who didn't notice him so it got me thinking that the idea of things being hidden in plain view. I thought that it would be a different approach to hidden in Salford since it wasn't really hidden just unnoticed by people which brings me to something I herd in psychology "out of sight out of mind" I don't really remember who said it but I think its a perfect quote for my idea.

Don McCullin

Photojournalism is quite interesting because it shows how war affects people but not in the way of dead body's or war fields but of the people who are affected by the wars for example the image below shows a woman who has just fond out that her husband has died 

Don McCullin's most celebrated image is his portrait of a dazed American soldier, entitled Shell-shocked US Marine, Hue, Vietnam. It was taken during the battle for the city of Hue in 1968 and, in its stillness and quiet intensity, says as much about the effects of war on the individual psyche as many of McCullin's more graphic depictions of conflict and carnage. The eyes that stare out beneath the grimy helmet are not staring at the camera lens, but beyond it, into nowhere.

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/feb/07/don-mccullin-shaped-war-review

A lone anti-war protester confronts police in Whitehall during the Cuban Missile Crisis, London, 1962

                

 I quite like the image above because it make you wonder what the sign says since the man is protesting against war. also the how the protester in in the middle of the image just sitting in front of a line of police with almost all of then have serious faces.

 

 

Sean Smith Gallery Review



 

Marking ten years since the start of the 2003 Iraq War, a photographic display by British war photographer Sean Smith reveals the collision of two worlds where local civilians and military personnel were forced to co-exist

 

His photos are arranged the order of time from the beginning of the war and to current date this is shown with a time line at the bottom of the display which also has the number of civilian deaths each year. I think showing the time line and the number of civilian death shows how much the war affected innocent people.

 

 

Not all his photos are the same size some are much lager the overs which I think shows that the larger images are more captivating because when I was at the gallery I noticed that I was paying more attention to the larger images because I could see the content a lot better than the smaller images . saying that though the smaller images where better quality because of the camera that her used at the beginning this is because in the last ten years digital cameras have evolved.

 

 

The images that court my eye the most was the images of the prisoners you could not tell if they were the enemy or civilians. The prisoners were all blind folded and had they hand tied so the only way they could follow the solder was to have their tied hand on the back of the prisoner in front

 

 

Robert Capa

His remarkably candid images of some of the most violent conflicts of the first half of the 20th century were unlike any seen in the world of photojournalism before and led to him being labelled the 'greatest war photographer in the world'.

SPAIN. Cordoba front. September, 1936.

 Death of a loyalist solder.

 

 

 

the death of a loyalist solder is one of Roberts Capas most influential images the image was also featured in life magazine even though some people believe that the scene in the photo was staged, some think that Robert Capa should have tried to help the solder.

 

Joint effort: In Paris in 1944 following the entry of the French 2nd Armored Division, numerous pockets of German snipers had to be rooted out - many civilians joined troops in the fighting

He was on hand to chronicle some of the most important moments in world history in the last century and his photos of the D Day landings in particular offer the most vivid depiction of the bloody but crucial invasion of France.

 To be honest I have never really liked war photography because I always thought that the images can remind us of how bad the wars were but I guess that can also be a good thing since its what we remember that can sometime help overs. The D-day photos show the solders in action storming the Normandy beaches. Even though the image is not completely in focuse you get the idea of how chaotic the scene was and it makes me wonder how the solder felt and how Robert Capa felt while in danger. 

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2467382/Incredible-war-photos-Robert-Capa-born-100-years-ago-week.html#ixzz2pbwwYikA

 

Jim Goldberg

 Though Goldberg's work is political, he is uncomfortable with the term, describing himself instead as "a documentary storyteller".

His work, especially for the innovative use of texts written by the same subjects portrayed, he wants to tell stories through photography, and these texts

 

Open See

 

This series Open See, which documents the experiences of refugee, immigrant and trafficked populations travelling from war-torn, socially and economically devastated countries such as Iraq, Bangladesh, China, the Balkans and The Congo to make new lives in Europe. 

 

 

 

 

The image above is a out of focus image of a young man who has lost everything due to war. I get the feeling that the reason the young man is out of focuse is because of how he must feel loosing so much kind of like he cant see what the future may hold for him

 

looking at Jim Goldberg's work you can see that he is interested in people story. He want to get their stories out in to the world. I really like how he uses text in his photos not just typed in word but word that written by the person in the photo its not always English but you get the idea of what has happened to the person.

 

 

 

 

Quays News

This assignment has been linked with quays news so we went to have a meeting with the editor for "Hidden in Salford" assignment. While visiting the editors we were given some detail that would be helpful for us, like things we can can not do.

10 images.

If their is anything news worthy send it in be for the deadline.

No children and schools without permission.

Make sure the photos are credited.

Name each photo, it can be a caption or the name of the street.

Photos that have blurred faces can be excepted.

Photojournalism

Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism that creates images in order to tell a news story. It is now usually understood to refer only to still images. Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of photography (e.g., documentary photography, social documentary photography or street photography) by complying with a rigid ethical framework which demands that the work is both honest and impartial whilst telling the story in strictly journalistic terms. Photojournalists create pictures that contribute to the news media.

3 Aspects of Photojournalism

• Timeliness — the images have meaning in the context of a recently published record of events.

• Objectivity — the situation implied by the images is a fair and accurate representation of the events they depict in both content and tone.

• Narrative — the images combine with other news elements to make facts relatable to the viewer or reader on a cultural level.

Breiffing

I will be producing a series of photographs on the theme of  "Hidden Salford" initially for the Quays News online digital news platform. My work must meet the criteria specified by the editors of Quays News at the briefing and will be submitted to them at the 13 December in week 5 of this assignment. 

To reflect the shifting nature of editorial photography and photojournalism I must also consider the suitability of my work for exhibition in a gallery.

 I will be reviewing at least one photography exhibition and submit a plan how my work will be exhibited.

My research must refer to relevant key debates in contemporary photographic practice particularly in the areas of photojournalism, news media, digital dissemination and the relationship between photojournalism and the art gallery.