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Leibovitz is a photographer that was born in Waterbury, Connecticut in 1949. Leibovitz studied at San Francisco art institute and received her bachelor in Fine Art in 1970, she was also awarded honorary doctorate from the school in 1993. In the same year Leibovitz received her bachelor she went on to get a job at Rolling Stone then she created a distinctive look for the publication and became chief photographer, later on she began working for the entertainment magazine Vanity Fair, continuing to produce images that would later be deemed as iconic and provocative.Leibovitz had a working partner called Susan Sontag who was a writer, film maker, Philosopher, teacher and political activist. Their friendship lasted for 15 year until Sontag passed in 2004.
Leibovitz first used the Canon 5D and 1DX series digital cameras. She now primarily uses a Hasselblad with a phase-one digital back and occasionally a Mamiya RZ Pro. She has also used various 35mm digital cameras: Nikon, Sony, Leica, and Canon. Leibovitz has 3 children, Sarah Cameron Leibovitz, Susan Leibovitz and Samuelle Leibovitz.
The second image is effective because of the use of depth of field, you have Leonardo and the swan in focus and are extremely sharp and the whole background Is blurred, this makes it clear who the object of the image is and allows the object to stand out from the rest of the photo. The image of Kendrick uses perspective to make the image stand out as you have him stood in front of a projection of himself.
Dorothea Lange was an American documentary photographer whose portraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression greatly influenced later documentary and journalistic photography. Her most famous portrait is Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California (1936). Dorothea Lange was born 26th May 1895 and passed away on the 11th October 1965, Lange has two kids who are called Daniel Dixon and John Dixon. Dorothea Lange used a massive camera, the Graflex Super D, like a hybrid between a field camera and a TLR. Lange began to work for the California State Emergency Relief Administration. That summer, the agency was transferred to the RA, which had recently begun a photo documentary project to draw attention to the plight of the rural poor.
Lange took seven exposures of the woman, 32-year-old Florence Owens Thompson, with various combinations of her seven children. One of these exposures, with its tight focus on Thompson’s face, transformed her into a Madonna-like figure and became an icon of the Great Depression and one of the most famous photographs in history. This image was first exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art in 1940, under the title Pea Picker Family, California; by 1966, when the Museum held a retrospective of Lange’s work.
Within the first image you have everything in complete focus this allows viewers to see the struggle on the mothers face and you can see that the kids are next to the mother and looking behind her showing that the kids love their mother and that the mother is fearless as she is the one looking forward, Dorothea Lange has used perspective to create this powerful image. The golden ratio is used in the second image as you have all the people and the decking placed to the right hand side of the image, the image is also effective as it shows the life they live and shows the atmosphere they live in.
Capa made use of the 35MM Leica camera. Small enough to be held in one hand, it was lightweight, and its 35MM film was compact and easy to use, allowing Capa to shoot roll after roll in quick succession. Robert Capa's original name (Hungarian form) Friedmann Endre Ernő was born 1913, Budapest, Hungary—died May 25, 1954, Thai Binh, Vietnam, he was photographer whose images of war made him one of the greatest photojournalists of the 20th century. He has one sibling Cornell Capa who died 23 May 2008.
In 1939, as World War II broke out across Europe, Capa fled persecution once again and travelled to New York City to visit his mother and brother who were now living there. Taking a job at Life magazine, he spent several months on assignment in Mexico covering their presidential elections. In 1947, Capa founded Magnum Photos with Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour, George Rodger and William Vandivert. On 25 May 1954, he was photographing for Life in Thai-Binh, Indochina, when he stepped on a landmine and was killed.
Robert Capa used depth of field in the first image to make it an effective photo as he has the two people in complete focus and the rest of the background blurred out. He also used the golden ratio with the soldiers injured face. He also used perspective to make the photo better as you have the injuries with sun light on them and the shadows create a good contrast in the image making it more intriguing.
Overall we can tell that each photographer has a completely different style of photography this shows that's its not just taking pictures and there's an actual genre in photographer. As we see Robert Capa does war photography, he showed all different aspects of war through photos such as people fighting and people families fleeing countries and cities. Dorothea Lange is known for doing many things such as 'the photographer who humanised the Great Depression' Dorothea Lange did a lot for helping poor American people by her taking photos of what they were going through, put a light on their suffering. Annie Leibovitz is very different to the other two photographers as she is present and does more main stream photography such has taking photos of music artists, movie actors, Annie Leibovitz has also done photos of the queen of England and prince Phillip. Out of all three I would say Robert Capa is my favourite because I like the way his photos are taken and how it was so long ago when he was a photographer also with the camera he was using, he was dedicated to taking good photos and to show what was happening when the war was going on. We know he loved the job of being a photographer and was on the front line a lot with the actual soldiers as Robert Capa died to standing on a landmine when the war was still happening.
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