Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Eddie Adams:
Eddie Adams was a photographer in the Vietnan war in the late 1960's. The the photo below captured a general shooting a prisoner in the head with his hand gun, the photo was taken just as the bullet entered the prisoners head, it shows the emotion left on his face and unlike the video, lets people really analyse what's happening. I think it's this photo defines Bresson's theory on capturing the divisive moment, because is this was taken just moments before or after, it wouldn't have the same effect.




Tony Vaccaro: 
Tony Vaccaro was sent to war a solider with a camera to take photos instead of being hired to be a photographer in the war like Robert Capa. I think the difference between Vaccaro's and Capa's photo's was that Tony Vaccaro would show injured soldiers in a lot more detail were as Robert Capa would show more of the landscape of war and what is happening.





Heri Cartier Bresson:
The photo below was taken with a Leica 35mm camera in Paris, by Cartier Bresson in the year 1932. This photograph I think defines Bresson's idea of capturing the decisive moment, because without the man jumping across the puddle this would just be an average photo, but as he has captured him in mid-air, known to be the decisive moment, which makes this photo so unique. Bresson was to be said the master of Candid photography, because his subjects in his most famous photo's would have no idea that he was taking a photo of them.