Henri Cartier-Bresson
Bresson was a French humanist photographer who was an early user of 35mm film. Humanistic photography is movement of photographers that mainly was prominent between the 30s-60s and it was photographers who's main focus and interests were on humans in everyday life. He introduced the idea of street photography and also the idea that pictures should be the capturing of a decisive moments. The decisive moment is the capturing of a spontaneous moment that might not just occur again and so the pictures are special. Bresson was inspired by his father who was a textile merchant and his uncle who was a painter; he also read literature by authors such as, Dostoyevsky, Rimbaud, Proust and Joyce whilst intensely studying art. He went to Cambridge and studied literature and art. This was were he was introduced to photography and choose to take it up as a career.
Henri Cartier-Bresson photos:
Bresson was a French humanist photographer who was an early user of 35mm film. Humanistic photography is movement of photographers that mainly was prominent between the 30s-60s and it was photographers who's main focus and interests were on humans in everyday life. He introduced the idea of street photography and also the idea that pictures should be the capturing of a decisive moments. The decisive moment is the capturing of a spontaneous moment that might not just occur again and so the pictures are special. Bresson was inspired by his father who was a textile merchant and his uncle who was a painter; he also read literature by authors such as, Dostoyevsky, Rimbaud, Proust and Joyce whilst intensely studying art. He went to Cambridge and studied literature and art. This was were he was introduced to photography and choose to take it up as a career.
Henri Cartier-Bresson photos:
Worksheet on composition that helped to inspire my photos:
Henri cartier-bresson inspired photos:
These images are similar to Bressons photographs as most of them are very focused on humans and the things that they are doing as in a second they will probably be doing something different. I also tried to use photography rules or techniques similar to what Bresson used. For example, in the pictures of the birds I took photographs of them when they were in odd numbers to draw your eye to the bird that is not paired up (rule of odds). Also I tried to capture strong geometric shapes, as Bresson had loads of this in his photographs. I think I achieved this in many of my photographs as I could point at a variety of different shapes in many of my pictures. Overall, I think my inspired pictures where quite a good representation of humanistic photography.
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Nick Waplington
Meeting Waplington was a big inspiration for this page and helped me greatly to advance my photography.
Waplington is a British photographer who is based in New York. He grew up on a rough estate and so decided to take pictures of things like poverty to help try bring change to the world whilst also showing people what it was really like in the areas of poverty.
Nick Waplington's vist to tallis:
First off Waplington started by talking about his early project, the living room, and he explained that the way he got access to the houses was through having family friends. He then went on to talk about how he did not constantly snap photographs but had cameras placed around the house for when he believed a good photo opportunity came along. He claims he only took about 2-3 photos per week and shot these on a medium format. All the money that he got from publishing this book went to charity and he no longer wants to be doing work like this as he enjoys creating new work forms instead of going over the same stuff. Wapplington also believes that social media greatly effects photography and it helps him to communicate his ideas and share opinions with people about his work.
Meeting Waplington was a big inspiration for this page and helped me greatly to advance my photography.
Waplington is a British photographer who is based in New York. He grew up on a rough estate and so decided to take pictures of things like poverty to help try bring change to the world whilst also showing people what it was really like in the areas of poverty.
Nick Waplington's vist to tallis:
First off Waplington started by talking about his early project, the living room, and he explained that the way he got access to the houses was through having family friends. He then went on to talk about how he did not constantly snap photographs but had cameras placed around the house for when he believed a good photo opportunity came along. He claims he only took about 2-3 photos per week and shot these on a medium format. All the money that he got from publishing this book went to charity and he no longer wants to be doing work like this as he enjoys creating new work forms instead of going over the same stuff. Wapplington also believes that social media greatly effects photography and it helps him to communicate his ideas and share opinions with people about his work.
Other Edens: For this project Waplington travelled a lot and got to see a lot of "ugly places" which had a lot of enviromental issues. At first people wasn't too sure about this work but as time went on people began to like it more. He shot all of these photos on a panaoramic camera (fugi 6). In this project Waplington also included himself in all the images as a representation of humanity and that men are destroying the earth. The main reason as to why Waplington created this work was to show that man could do something much better with the planet but man is greedy and will always choose to do something worse with the planet.
Indesecisive momento: This book is about travel and was produced after he created a book called "saftey in numbers" so he wanted to take time off and not do work. He just took a small bag and went around the world with cheap 35mm film. He then took pictures that he believed was indecisive and wanted to do the opposite to what Henri cartier-Bresson was doing. In this book he took lots of pictures of signs and there were loads of handwritten messages.
Patriachas Wardrobe: Waplington in Jerusalem for sometime and made some work there however, he was not very comfortbale with this as he has always been very anti Israel due to being brought up in a jewish family. He got offered £50,000 and decided he wanted to go there and help. Wapplington made landscapes of rubbish dumps and bought metal from children which he then incorporated into his paintings.
Settlement: Waplington was interested in Jewish people that were living on land that wasn't theres. People were trying to get houses collapsed to build a mall there instead but the land is protected by Americans and so the people couldn't do it. This made Waplington intrigued as he enjoyed taking pictures and working on difficult subject matters. However, this also evokes emotions from people that you have to learn to cope with as sometimes people will have nasty things to say. Most of this work was portraits of familys who had migrated and saw themselves as taking back land they believed they owned and deserved.
Information about Waplington he shared: Waplington stated that he doesn't have any rules when it comes to photography and creates a number of completely different projects at the same time. He has very diverse work but sometimes this causes him problems as he is doing completely different work that requires different ways of thinking at the same time.
At school he was told what he had to study by his father and so had no choice in what subjects he picked; this lead to him doing no forms of art . However, in physics there was a dark room and he was really intrigued by this and enjoyed being in there which influenced his decision to go to art school.
Inspirations: He enjoyed anything from the sunday times and a punk rock bible called enemy. Other inspirations were Derick Richards, creative camera and other country with Chris Pollock.
Why he choose to study photography: He liked the fact that it seemed like a very natural thing that had something immediate about it with results. He also enjoyed the magic of the dark room and developing things . He doesn't really print his digitally shot work as he prefers the material quality of film and has also learned how to use light effectively to create good images. He also likes that he can just set up the images in his head and then get someone else to to take the picture from anywhere.
Thought on modern Photography: He likes contemporay photograhy and is interested in new things that happen as he likes to be aware of the world around him.
Advise for photography after A-leves: Enjoy it, do a lot of it but dont be very academic about it. Photograph everything around you as everyday things now will be very important in years to come. Also take pictures now and think about them later.
Favourite photos to take: Likes a challenege and enjoys taking a variety of photos.
Editing: Editing is really important and he constanty edits and redefines photos. Duplicating them and putting them into different files for different themes can be really interesting aswell.
Fashion: He wasn't drawn to the fashion industry but it is drawn to him and Mcqueen thought he would bring something to the photography that a fashion photographer wouldn't. It is also about human interaction with people and if the people are nice or not. Also he wont do another fashion work place unless there is a lot of money in it he only did the one with Lee because they were good friends.
Wapplington says it is important to fail otherwise you dont test and push yourself in ways you need to be pushed. He also says you shouldn't throw anything away as they could come of importance in the future. He has about 4000 art sketchbooks that he started in 1991 so storage does become a big issue. He is always changing his work however, always makes sure to take picture of everyday street photography. He has recently been doing photography using shadows.
At school he was told what he had to study by his father and so had no choice in what subjects he picked; this lead to him doing no forms of art . However, in physics there was a dark room and he was really intrigued by this and enjoyed being in there which influenced his decision to go to art school.
Inspirations: He enjoyed anything from the sunday times and a punk rock bible called enemy. Other inspirations were Derick Richards, creative camera and other country with Chris Pollock.
Why he choose to study photography: He liked the fact that it seemed like a very natural thing that had something immediate about it with results. He also enjoyed the magic of the dark room and developing things . He doesn't really print his digitally shot work as he prefers the material quality of film and has also learned how to use light effectively to create good images. He also likes that he can just set up the images in his head and then get someone else to to take the picture from anywhere.
Thought on modern Photography: He likes contemporay photograhy and is interested in new things that happen as he likes to be aware of the world around him.
Advise for photography after A-leves: Enjoy it, do a lot of it but dont be very academic about it. Photograph everything around you as everyday things now will be very important in years to come. Also take pictures now and think about them later.
Favourite photos to take: Likes a challenege and enjoys taking a variety of photos.
Editing: Editing is really important and he constanty edits and redefines photos. Duplicating them and putting them into different files for different themes can be really interesting aswell.
Fashion: He wasn't drawn to the fashion industry but it is drawn to him and Mcqueen thought he would bring something to the photography that a fashion photographer wouldn't. It is also about human interaction with people and if the people are nice or not. Also he wont do another fashion work place unless there is a lot of money in it he only did the one with Lee because they were good friends.
Wapplington says it is important to fail otherwise you dont test and push yourself in ways you need to be pushed. He also says you shouldn't throw anything away as they could come of importance in the future. He has about 4000 art sketchbooks that he started in 1991 so storage does become a big issue. He is always changing his work however, always makes sure to take picture of everyday street photography. He has recently been doing photography using shadows.
Nick Waplington inspired photos:
My images inspired by Waplington were very different from the photos taken when inspired by Bresson, you can see this as there isn't even a single photo of a human in my Waplington photos. This is because I was focused on capturing images that might look good next to each other in diptychs and so I was looking for similar shades of colours and or shapes that would look nice to each other. Something simple vs something complex so that they compliment each other and the pages didn't look too full. This caused me to take pictures more of objects than people. Also with Waplington I was more likely to take photographs of anything I though would be intriguing and look good next to something else instead of waiting for something amazing to happen and then capturing it in the moment.