Color & street – photographs

I found myself in Liberty square in Timisoara where it was an action regarding old cars (Dacia-very old school). But it seems people are still interested in old stuff it was interesting to study this. Regarding B&W vs Color in street photography my remarks after I took this shots are: color adds a layer of…

The real and the digital

"Does all the digital destroy the claim of photography to have a special ability to show things as they are..." Roland Barthes says about nature of photograph that  "it is the result of an event in the world, evidence of passing of time that once was and is no more, which left  a kind of…

Manipulated image

Original image is the one with snow, I aimed for a result to seem as much as real, therefore I did it black and white to take out the color details which gave  unreality feeling. The butterflies are plastic ones, I have a photograph where from I selected them with magnetic tool and copy via…

Sarah Pickering – Public Order

Indeed the artist creates emotion, even if it's unsettling. It is and it is not documentary. It is if the people looking at pictures recognize the emptiness. It could be rather an inner empty state of the viewer that could resonate with the landscape he/she is seeing. It could be a scene from memory. My…

Paul Seawright – Sectarian Murder

What is documentary - "Neither art nor advertising, documentary drew on the idea of information as a creative education about actuality, life itself. Documentary aimed to show, in an informal way, the everyday lives of ordinary people to other ordinary people "(1) Paul Seawright in his work Sectarian Murder , builds his photographs on a real context…

Jeff Wall

" Jeff Wall  produces art so called near documentary. Although reminiscent of illuminated advertising billboards, Wall’s images use the historical device of the tableau (a constructed decisive moment) combined with the logic of realism and instantaneity of the photograph. The themes of his work also certainly belong to a kind of social documentary and the…

Color and the street

1. Black and white street photographers Helen Levitt, Garry Winogrand 2. Color street photographers Martin Parr , Joel Sternfeld 3. Black and white versus color “There are four simple words for the matter, which must be whispered: Color photography is vulgar. When the point of a picture subject is precisely its vulgarity or its color-accident…

Late photography

"Photography is what we do with it ‘I was just going to be there as a witness and photograph it for what it was, without trying to put on it some formal idea of how to photograph it. I was told how to photograph it by the thing itself’ Joel Meyerowitz Allan Sekula warned of…

Martha Rosler – In, around, and afterthoughts (on documentary)

I had selected some of paragraphs that  explores the objectivity issue addressed by the course section. Also I had searched some of the images that are referenced by the essay and identified them. "Documentary, as we know it, carries (old) information about a group of powerless people to another group addressed as socially powerful." "It…

Project 1 – Citizen Journalism

Criminal complaint against an asylum for the elderly Several news on this matter appeared in Romanian press some years ago, about people that found their parents mistreated or even dead in elderly asylums. In Romania the emigration is very high and elders remain home. People that emigrated have a reasonable situation now, and of course…