What is Documentary Photography?
Dawoud Bey is an American photographer and educator known for his large-scale art photography and street photography portraits, including American adolescents in relation to their community, and other often marginalized subjects. He was born in queens new york and is currently 68 years old he has won an award for MacArthur Fellowship.
Dawoud Bey
I think Dawoud Bey wanted to share his pictures of the community because he wanted to show everyone how they are and to compare different communities together or even maybe to look at the environment and different people they have in there. He maybe wanted document his community because he wanted to share what was going on and what it looked like so people could see if you it was different to theirs or even the same or similar. His inspiration might be that he wanted to to take pictures of different kind of people or maybe to take a step forwards in photography.i think what interests him about his community is the way people dressed or they they looked like or even the way they act.He communicated by taking a range of photos in the same category such as black people
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We went around the school taking pictures of each other and using different backgrounds we had to take a series of 10 pictures that backgrounds i used was mainly nature background but i was very careful because of the lighting because if it was to bright the picture wouldnt look nice i also did different positions when taking the pictures as well to get better angles
I like this photo because the way he has modelled himself and posture is it makes the photo seem like it was taking by a professional photographer what i could of done better i would have added more light and maybe a different background like maybe a green background or so i have learnt so much dong this work how to take professional pictures and what angles to take from i have also learnt that not every picture needs lights we could have used natural light
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The task was to go around the school and take pictures of your partner it has to be a portrait picture with different backgrounds.I found the take very easy but also hard as well because when taking the pictures i had to make sure that there wasn’t to much light or to much shadow in the background and if there was i had to move around them to find the perfect angle but overall it was easy and fun.i prefer taking pictures outside because there was a lot of backgrounds that you could use such as standing by a bunch of flowers or even on a tree or even they could be sitting down.I think i need to improve on the angles i take my picture maybe getting different backgrounds and not the same ones everything i would like to take more close up photos and also use the colour black and white.For my projects i would like to take more portrait pictures outside because they have amazing backgrounds.If i had more time i would have edited to pictures in black and white.
I chose this video because i liked that way she explained her work in it.It inspired me to work a-lot more in photography she said that her work is mostly here she came from and where her parents came from and her up bringing but some time its most of the street work. Her work reminds me as my parents back in nigeria.
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I like the layout of this photo because it goes well with way she poses the layout is also landscape i also love the way she is standing because it looks like she is taking a picture of me.The colour is very dark but i feel like if the lighting was a bit lighter it would bring out the actual person in the picture.The reason why i chose this picture was because i thought this picture was very unique i think this background fit well with it as well the colour is very dark and bland and then its a bit of a bright colour in the window.
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What i think is effective about these photographs is that the changes i've made i have decided to crop out some of the background in the photo because it had to much space i've also decided to make the background a bit darker so it can show the details on the brick wall near the window i did lighten the frame of the photo because the colour was a bit yellow and it didn't look nice with summer in it so i decided to change it. I think people would say that this image is very similar to other photographers pictures the camera is worth remembering about this photo because its like the main focus in the photo i have learnt so much about exploring this art work i've learnt that not all photo have to stay as the original one you could change the colour, frame, background and shape of it
Tyler Mitchell
Tyler Mitchell is a young black photographer be was born in Georgia. He was grew up in middle class (freedom) he first started of by taking selfies and making videos of his friends skateboarding in his community. He got his inspiration from Cuba, Cuba is a lovely places it is also full of colour thats where he got his colour inspiration he said' photographing black people is radical and visualising black folk enjoying life is important" he recently released a book called "i can make you feel good" its about a vision of utopia.He was the first black person to take photos for vogue he took pictures of Beyoncé
In this image i see a black girl standing in a frame i see she has a butterfly on her mouth and wings at the back of her head i think she is also wearing a brown dress. The background is very different but it goes well with the picture itself.This image reminds me off a tree trunk or like a old dessert rock that has been broken in half Tyler has chosen to do very nude colours
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In this image i see Beyoncé standing with a white cover over her she is wearing
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What i like about this images is the backgrounds of the photos i also like the bushes and the painting. if i could improve on one thing i could improve on
what i like about these images is that some of the them are mostly natural and different backgrounds. the backgrounds i chose to put on some is black and white because i feel like it brings out the imagine even more the thing i found hard about this task was the lighting some of the lighting is not perfect or there was no lighting at all. i would improve on the angles when taking the photos i could of taken the pictures from down below or up hight to change it up a bit.
These imagines were taking outside all around places all this images have one thing in common which is that they were all taken outside and they are all in like a modern vibe i think the area they where taken is like an abandon area i think that
Evaluation
What i think is effective about this project is that i really like the style of the project i decided to do a book out of each pictures and it came out really good.It took some time just to get it right because i kept folding it the wrong way and cutting it wrong. i think other people think that my work is really good but a bit boring at the same time which i agree i should of added more colour to the pictures and maybe edited the pictures to. this project would be even better if i maybe did something with the books maybe stuck it together or framed it or even a different design such as using string. what i think thats worth remembering about this project is outcome because i wished i did something to it. Next time Im going to do a different design and add more pictures and invert them. I chose to document pictures from my class because i felt comfortable doing it and also i had a bunch of spare pictures laying around so i thought it would fit so well.The photography fits so well in the society because everyone is just like each other and they all go to the same school most of them are mixed some are adults and children the reason why is because i wanted to change up the theme of people just because i felt like having all the same (kids) wouldn't be that nice so i wanted a mixture. |