Precedent Analysis:
"Dream" a street sign in a poor black district
1955, USA. Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh
Photographed Image
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Methods/Technique/Genre
Smith has used a black and white image using the rule of thirds with the street sign directly in the center with a vocal point on either side being the mail box and automobile to express his idea of "dream" an image taken in a poor distract to express the realism and how dreaming is exposed. Image is heavily edited with white balance and increase in sharpness.
Description
Black ans white image with high white balancing to give an edited aesthetic. Three main objects being the letter box, street sign and automobile. All vertical except the vehicle is on an angle. The objects create three columns within the image. The street sign is the focal point as the hierarchy suggest it stands taller and express the photo title being "dream".
Context and ideas
William Eugene Smith (December 30, 1918, Wichita, Kansas – October 15, 1978, Tucson, Arizona) was an American photojournalist known for his refusal to compromise professional standards and his brutally vivid World War II photographs.
(Retrieved from - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Eugene_Smith)
In this image Smith expresses through the street sign and scene the realism of the poverty in 1995. The backdrop is in a poor district in Pennsylvania and the street sign which displays the word "dream" expresses connotations about the men and women who lived through that era who worked hard but could only dream.
Response
Form this image I want to incorporate the way that Smith expressed his idea, I want to compose an image in black and white and use a single object to express what life could be or what my subject rather be doing.
Rich and Poor
1982, USA. San Francisco. California
Photographed image, hand written text on printed image
548x704
Methods/Techniques/Genres
Berg used a photograph of two subjects in their living context. Black and white image developed as an original, then printed and with hand writing, wrote the note below on the printed image. The image expresses what the subject are thinking and want to express as an idea about living and dreaming.
Description
Two women sitting in their lounge, their surroundings, subjects look sad and discomforted with crossed arms and holding hands. Room look cold, big and empty. The note below expresses how the subjects feel expressing how they want to be rich and not poor.
Context and ideas
Jim Goldberg (born 1953) is an American photographer and writer whose work reflects long-term, in-depth collaborations with neglected, ignored, or otherwise outside-the-mainstream populations.
Idea is easily portrayed in this image by reading the written context below the image, expresses the idea about how they dont know were they went wrong and now they can only dream of what they want.
Response
For my own image I want to also convey the same message through my images without the text written below, also convey the same context in black and white
Miss Eveline LALIBERTE holding a portrait of her parents.
1958, CANADA. Québec. Montréal
Photographed image of a women holding a portrait
466x704
Methods/Techniques/Genres
Photographed image, black and white, one subject which is the women holding her image displaying two men. Half shot missing the subjects legs, genre of realism
Description
Mid shot of an elderly women holding a portrait of two men, very little background, brick wall. Black and white image. Image in the portrait looks like a painting, men are dressed well and look of a high class.
Context and Ideas
Martine Franck (April 2, 1938 – August 16, 2012) was a well-known Belgian documentary and portrait photographer, and the second wife of Henri Cartier-Bresson. A member of Magnum Photos for over 32 years, Franck was also co-founder and president of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation.
The idea is hard to read in this image as we don't know what the image in the portrait expresses, the women is holding this so the image has some significance to her, could be family she has lost or someone else of significance.
Response
I like the way the image has been constructed, and I want to apply the portrait idea into my series of images but in more context as the image will portray what my subject rather be doing.
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