tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65751088823217804442024-02-20T16:36:08.360-08:00Lens Impressions<i> " In photography, visual organization can stem only from a developed instinct." </i> - Henri Cartier-BressonJyotihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08290272405879272012noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6575108882321780444.post-87856000680389375672007-08-22T09:17:00.000-07:002007-08-22T10:57:45.631-07:00Lunchtime atop a Skyscraper ...<b> One of my FAVOURITE Photos ...<br /> "Lunchtime atop a Skyscraper" </b><br /><a href=" http://pro.corbis.com/images/BE001089.jpg?size=67&uid={906a216b-0d85-4cb0-92a9-d481e5c2947c}"> by Charles C. Ebbets, click here ... </a><br /><br />I have a huge preference for street photography mostly in the documentary tradition ... and if one gives a cursory look at this blog about the photographers I've tried to learn about, most of them are of the mold of street and documentary photography!Jyotihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08290272405879272012noreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6575108882321780444.post-61502075698065707892007-08-22T08:06:00.000-07:002007-08-22T09:33:58.316-07:00Steve McCurry<i> "Most of my images are grounded in people. I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a person’s face. I try to convey what it is like to be that person, a person caught in a broader landscape that you could call the human condition.” </i> ... [~ Steve McCurry]<br /><br /><b> Steve McCurry </b> [born 1950] ... One of the world's finest image maker in the documentary tradition ...<br /><br />One of his most famous images is of "The Afghan Girl" shot in 1988 ... and again in 2002, <b> Sharbat Gula </b> ... it is said to be the most recognized photograph in the history of National Geographic magazine ... <a href=" http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/afghangirl/images/ft_hdr.0.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/afghangirl/&h=370&w=545&sz=53&tbnid=exmRyrgZvJPtWM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=133&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsharbat%2Bgula%26um%3D1&start=2&ei=slPMRvSvB4SuiwGDouXvDA&sig2=VjV_FQNXsAZnXF8jbDVJrw&sa=X&oi=images&ct=image&cd=2"> click here ... </a><br /><br />Steve McCurry has covered many international conflicts, including the Iran-Iraq war, Beirut, Cambodia, the Philippines, the Gulf War, and of course Afghanistan. His work has been featured world-wide in magazines and he is a frequent contributor to National Geographic. He has been a member of Magnum Photos since 1986.<br /><br />Read more about him and check out his work ...<br /># <a href=" http://www.stevemccurry.com/main.php"> Steve McCurry, photo gallery, click here ... </a><br /><br /># <a href=" http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.PhotographerDetail_VPage&l1=0&pid=2K7O3R13O2CM&nm=Steve%20McCurry"> Steve McCurry, Magnum Photos, click here ... </a><br /><br /><b> Personal Note:</b> his images of India are brilliant... For me that's of special interest ...<br /><i> Even after visiting India almost 75 times, i still have only scratched the surface ... "</i> [~ Steve McCurry, Rajasthan, 1983] ...<br /><br />Some names gets associated with some places ...<br />Phil Borges - Tibet<br />Edward Curtis - Native Americans<br />Steve McCurry - AfghanistanJyotihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08290272405879272012noreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6575108882321780444.post-29483873996526176762007-08-22T08:00:00.000-07:002007-08-22T09:08:05.140-07:00Phil Borges<b> Phil Borges </b> [born 1942] ... has been a humanitarian photographer since the 1970s with his notable works being photographs of Tibetans who fled to Nepal, including the Dalai Lama.<br /><br /><i> "We are living in an era of unprecedented cultural extinction. Indigenous and tribal cultures that have survived for hundreds—sometimes thousands –of years may soon be gone. A recent study made by the linguist Ken Hale of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology estimates that 3,000 of the 6,000 languages that exist in the world today are fated to die because they are no longer spoken by the children. The implications of this fact are startling. In one generation our cultural diversity will be halved. This diversity of knowledge, imagination, and belief that has helped to provide the creativity, resiliency and strength of our species is being dismantled. The fragile oral traditions that have held an encyclopedic body of knowledge about the natural world are being lost". </i> ... [~ Phil Borges]<br />Reference <a href=" http://www.dianefarrisgallery.com/artist/borges/index.html"> Phil Borges, click here ... </a><br /><br />Check out his work ...<br /><a href=" http://www.philborges.com/"> Phil Borges, click here ... </a><br /><br /><a href=" http://www.philborges.com/collections.html"> Phil Borges, photo gallery, click here ... </a>Jyotihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08290272405879272012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6575108882321780444.post-41432535957562841032007-08-09T08:06:00.001-07:002007-08-10T20:25:50.368-07:00Photographic Truths: "gray areas".<b> As straightforward as the term truth sounds ... it's a very murky term ... There's a lot of weight in the phrase, "There's two side to every story" ... so which version is true??? Thats the gray area ... </b> <br /><br /># Sun rises in east and sets in west - Universal Truth.<br /><br /># But issues like acceptance of gays in mainstream culture or racial discrimination in contemporary society ... are extremely contentious issues and the truth are very subjective in nature ... For every person who claims not that he/she doesnt feel discriminated there will be another one to claim just the opposite. So whats the "truth" in these cases??? ... It differes from person to person. So the very notion that there's just one truth, does not always hold ... sometimes there are GRAY AREAS ... Sometimes there are two sides of a story ... and both are true ...<br /><br /># When the truth itself is murky, how far is the notion of photographic truths valid??? <br /><br /># It is generally accepted that journalist / documentary photographs should not be "digitally manipulated" ... Now if we compare with WRITING with PHOTOGRAPHS ... we see that in newspaper reports the texts are EDITED... spelling and grammatical errors are corrected [with softwares like wordprocessor]... These spelling and grammatical errors are analogous to technical errors in photography, like overexposure/underexposure ... so why is photographic manipulation not accepted????<br /><br />I guess the issue is of "public trust" ... the moment an image is subjected to corrections, how much has been altered becomes a question mark. The ease with which an image can be altered, in some way explains the mistrust. I guess people hold photographic images in higher standard compared to written words ... "A photo speaks a thousand words", is very accepted notion when it comes to news items ... So I guess, that's the reason why such high ethical guidelines are applied for journalistic photographs ... So it's better to leave an image with technical flaws than to lose public trust and confidence.<br /><br /># But a more important issue [than editiing] is the issue of "editorializing" ... Now this is a GRAY area ...<br />- A news reporter can use emotionally charged language to create a subjcetive bias ..<br />- The positing of newsitem on a paper ... front page or innerpages is another way to bring out the importance or lack of it ...<br /><br />Similarly a photographer can choose to frame his photos in a way to highlight or downplay a particular instance ... A crowd at a public meeting can be shown with a lot of crowd and lot of empty space ... there are many many such instances, where personal bias can ne added to photographs ...<br /><br />So if a person is looking for absolute photographic truths, it maybe questionable at times ... But it has more to do with the nature of the word "truth" itself ... sometimes truth is subjective [like racial discrimination] ... Sometimes truth has more than one dimensions [there are many stories of police heroism as well as police brutality] ... and the whole truth emcompasses all these various dimensions ... so one image may be representative of one version of the story ... but not the whole truth ...<br /><br />And if we are looking for news reports, the means at our disposal are text, painting or photographs ... and here, photographs definitely emerge as a clear winner. So despite its limitations that photographic images have; it is still the best means we have, to convey news and preserve whats happening today for the posterity ... <br /><br />A very good writeup on this issue is here ... <a href=" http://www.danheller.com/biz-manipulation.html#2.2.1"> "Digital Manipulation: Responsibilities of Photojournalism", click here ... </a><br /><br />* <i> As simple as this write-up may seem, i found it a complex issue to handle ... I was thinking about writing on this since Monday and only by Thursday I was able to organize some thoughts on my mind ... I think this topic would continue, as I am incredibly fascinated by jounalists and the professional dilemmas that they face ...</i>Jyotihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08290272405879272012noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6575108882321780444.post-69800677754118968532007-08-08T08:08:00.000-07:002007-08-10T20:54:02.292-07:00The Decisive Moment<b> I was reading a write up on Documentary Photography by John Marz ... and read a few paragraphs on Henry Cartier Bresson [HCB], that really struck a cord with me ... HCB is by far my favourite photographer ... Not only do I love his images, but also admire his ideas on photography and his most unassuming nature. Anyways ... I found a few paragraphs very very interesing ... So here's an excerpt from an article by John Marz ...<a href=" http://www.zonezero.com/magazine/articles/mraz/mraz05.html"> "What's Documentary about photography", click here ... </a> </b> <br /><br /><b> EXCERPT ... </b> <br />Henri Cartier-Bresson is the photojournalist who most readily embodies the classical approach. He concisely defined his pivotal concept of <b> “the decisive moment”</b> <br /><i>“To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression” </i> [Cartier-Bresson 1999]. <br /><br />The “decisive moment” is essentially a metaphor for hunting, the search for that confluence of content and form that the photographer must discover and be able to catch in an instant ...<br /><i> “I prowled the streets all day, feeling very strung-up and ready to pounce, determined to ‘trap’ life -- to preserve life in the act of living. I craved to seize, in the confines of one single photograph, the whole essence of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.” </i><br /><br />Cartier-Bresson has been explicitly critical of directed photography: <br /><i> “The fabricated photograph, or set-up, does not interest me…. There are those who make photographs that have been composed beforehand, and there are those who discover the image and capture it” . </i> [Cartier-Bresson 1991].<br /> Insisting that he “takes” rather than “makes” photographs, his very unobtrusiveness enables him to sneak up upon “Things-As-They-Are,” and capture the reality that he believes is far richer than imagination. <br /><br />Cartier-Bresson’s respect for and interest in capturing the irreducible variations produced in the real world reflect the influence that Surrealism had over him. In speaking of Surrealism, this photojournalist is careful to insist that he was attracted to its ideas, above all ... <i> “the role of spontaneous expression, of intuition, and especially the attitude of revolt,” </i> ... and he distances himself from its esthetics [Cartier-Bresson 1992]. <br /><br />However, despite Cartier-Bresson’s rejection of Surrealist photography, his own strategy is in fact quite in keeping with the importance of the “found object” in Dada and Surrealism, for example, the urinal that Marcel Duchamp entered in a 1917 exhibit under the title of Fountain. A slice of ordinary life is picked almost at random, and acquires a new meaning by its recontextualization through the strategy of dépaysement, a well-known tactic of Surrealists that means literally to be taken out of one’s native land; hence the ordinary, torn out of a familiar context and placed in a foreign situation, which enables it to be seen in a new way.<br /><br />The surreality of Cartier-Bresson’s photography is unrelated to the carefully orchestrated imagery; instead, it is expressed in the capacity to uncover facets of everyday being that go unnoticed until the photographer reveals them through a process of intuition, and a mechanical reproduction akin to automatic writing. Hunting in the street for juxtapositions whose ironic contrasts would surprise people and make them see the world with new eyes, Cartier-Bresson carried forward the Surrealist project by linking it to the photojournalist ideal of the press photographer as a predatory animal lying in wait with a small 35mm camera to capture its prey: the real/surreal, the ordinary/fantastic surprises offered by world in its infinite variety.<br /><br /><b> PERSONAL NOTE: </b> <br /># I just loved the metaphor here ... of comparing the idea of "decisive moment" with that of hunting, being on a prowl, to pounce and trap life, to preserve life in the act-of-living.<br /><br /># The concept of representative photo where "one single photograph, the whole essence of some situation"... [Something I should strive to achieve]<br /><br /># Another line that hit me was ... "slice of ordinary life is picked almost at random, and acquires a new meaning by its recontextualization through the strategy of dépaysement" ...<br />Well I had to look up for the word ... "dépaysement" ... It means to "decountrify oneself" ... is defined as the experience of re-seeing. "One leaves one's own culture to face something unfamiliar, and upon returning home it has become strange -and can be seen with fresh eyes" ... [Something I've come across in surrealist paintings ... AND also ... a concept I am very familiar with]<br /><br />I loved both the ideas [1] The decisive moment [hunting, being on prowl, to trap life] .... and ... [2]encapsulating events in a single representative image ... and [3] Re-seeing with fresh eyes ...Jyotihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08290272405879272012noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6575108882321780444.post-10074055865911076422007-08-07T09:46:00.000-07:002007-08-12T02:43:46.317-07:00Photography from FSAThe photographs of the Farm Security Administration (FSA)- Office of War Information [OWI],<b> are among the most famous documentary photographs ever produced ... </b> These are transferred to the Library of Congress in 1944, form an extensive pictorial record of American life between 1935 and 1943. <br /><br />It was created by a group of U.S. government photographers, and the images show Americans in every part of the nation. This U.S. government photography project was headed by Roy E. Stryker, formerly an economics instructor at Columbia University. It engaged such photographers as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn, Jack Delano, Marion Post Wolcott, Gordon Parks, John Vachon, and Carl Mydans.<br /><br />The project <em><strong>initially documented </strong></em>the Resettlement Administration's cash loans to individual farmers, and the agency's construction of planned suburban communities. The <em><em><strong>second stage </strong></em></em>focused on the lives of sharecroppers in the South and of migratory agricultural workers in the midwestern and western states. <em><strong>As the scope of the project expanded</strong></em>, the photographers turned to recording rural and urban conditions throughout the United States and mobilization efforts for World War II. <br /><br />The core of the collection consists of about 164,000 black-and-white photographs. This release provides access to over 160,000 of these images; future additions will expand the black-and-white offering. The FSA-OWI [Office of War Information] photographers also produced about 1600 color photographs during the latter days of the project.<br /><br />Reference: <a href=" http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/052_fsa.html"> FSA - OWI, prints and photographs division, click here ... </a>Jyotihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08290272405879272012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6575108882321780444.post-23391517723635698592007-08-07T06:35:00.001-07:002007-08-08T10:35:21.839-07:00Street Photography, Documentary Photography and Photojournalism ...Street Photography, Documentary Photography and Photojournalism ... These three terms often go together, but there are subtle differences ... which I think is difficult to explain or pinpoint ... but I guess is understood by most photographers ... The difference lies in the intent or objective of photographs ...<br /><br /><b> Street Photography </b> is photography at public places ... and usually have people and is mostly candid ... capturing "slice of life" is the most used phrase with street photography ...<br /><br /><b> Documentary Photography </b> is defined in almost the same manner [as street photography] ... It is an objective, and usually candid photography of a particular subjectmatter and most often includes pictures of people. However the attempt is to understand a particular subject matter so it's not as random as street photography.<br /><br /><b> Photojournalism </b> ... is to tell news through images. The photos have meaning in the context of events ... and is usually combined with other news element to give the context of the imagery ...<br /><br />Photojournalism works within the same ethical approaches to objectivity that are applied by other journalists ... In American they are guided by NAAP [National Press photographers Association] ... in Britain by the BPPA [British Press Photographers Association] ... Different countries have their own ethical guidelines ...<br /><br />Though photography became popular in the 1840-50's; photojournalism evolved only in the 1880's ... <br /># Printing presses could only publish from engravings until the 1880s. Early news photographs required that photos be re-interpreted by an engraver before they could be published.<br /># On March 4, 1880, The Daily Graphic [New York] published the first halftone [rather than engraved] reproduction of a news photograph ...<br /># However the <b> "golden age" </b> of photojournalism is the period 1930s–1950s, when some magazines built their huge readerships and reputations largely on their use of photography ... This period photographers such as Robert Capa, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White and W. Eugene Smith became well-known names.<br /><br /><br />Here's a read on Documentary Photography and Photojournalism ...<br /><a href=" http://photography.about.com/library/weekly/aa051500a.htm"> "Documentary Practice: Stephen Ferry - Rich Potosí", click here ... </a> <br /><b> An excerpt:</b><br />"<i> So what then are the marks that define work as documentary? Perhaps fundamentally it involves thinking in terms of a project rather than in terms of simply photographing a situation. Then it means a commitment to that project in terms of time; where a photojournalist may jet in to a situation, take his pictures and be on the plane out in a matter or hours or a few days, the documentary approach may take weeks or months or years and often involve repeated visits. There is possibly a difference in the direction and approach; the photojournalist works to meet an editor's demands or because they believe the work will sell while the documentary photographer works because he or she considers the project important. Obviously no project can work without some source of finance, but for the documentary photographer this is enabling rather than determining the work. Finally there is perhaps a seriousness of purpose; photojournalism is often about trivia and celebrity froth whereas documentary tends to be more analytic and about more important matters. </i>"Jyotihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08290272405879272012noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6575108882321780444.post-67018794116855962952007-08-07T06:07:00.000-07:002007-08-12T02:40:38.909-07:00NPPA : Code of Ethics<b> NPPA: Code of Ethics ..</b><br />NPPA ... is National Press Photographers Association <br /><br /><i> We believe that pictures, whether used to depict news events as they actually happen, illustrate news that has happened, or to help explain anything of public interest, are indispensable means of keeping people accurately informed, that they help all people, young and old, to better understand any subject in the public domain. NPPA recognizes and acknowledges that photojournalists should at all times maintain the highest standards of ethical conduct in serving the public interest. </i><br /><br />More on <a href=" http://www.asne.org/ideas/codes/nppa.htm"> "NPPA: Code of Ethics", click here ... </a>Jyotihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08290272405879272012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6575108882321780444.post-28465889071901171512007-08-06T18:43:00.001-07:002007-08-07T06:11:24.387-07:00Photography - some thoughts<i> <b> These are some random thoughts ... and ... I've just scribbled them ... No attempt has been made to put them in a sequence ... or even to link one thoughtstream to another ... just jotted them down as as they came to my mind ... </b> </i><br /><br />Sometimes I wish there was a portal through which I could peek into some of my favourite photographers mind ... I have been photographying for about two years now and I already feel my observation has improved and I can visualize images from behind the camera lenses, even though I am a most ordinary amateur photographer ... I wonder what images conjured on the minds of the great masters, especially my personal favourites, Henry Cartier Bresson and Robert Frank ... I'm in awe with their images ... Both were street photographers ... I wish I could see how they visualized the streets ...<br /><br /><b> A different worldview </b> ...<br />It's well known that a camera is a tool to capture what we see ... and it's also quite know [at least to every photographer], that the perspective of the world changes when we look at things from behind the lenses ... What may look dull, trite commonplace ... can be transformed into a piece of art ... A shaft of light, a shadow, a particular postioning of people ... all these fleeting moments are the key to "visual drama" ... and could make people wonder "Why coudnt I see it that way"?!!! ... Photography is about making the ordinary, extraordinary ...<br /><br /><b> Walking the extra mile, sometimes waiting hours for the right time </b> ...<br />Although it's nice to make the ordinary, extraordinary ... the joy of exploring something new is always exciting. I have immense respect for people who travel to remote places and wait long hours to get a perfect shot!!! I can imagine the trill when one is successful ...<br /><br /><b> The beautiful and the bizarre </b> ...<br />I guess lenses have a love affair with anything beautiful or bizzare ... It maybe said that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder ... and whoever that beholder is and whatever his/her criterion of beauty is ... there will always be an an urge to capture it ... Same goes with anything out-of-the-ordinary ... <br /><br /><b> It's not the equipment </b> ...<br />A lot depends on the person behind the lenses ... As Ansel Adams said "The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it." With the most advanced equipments now, people yet fail to capture the images that Ansel Adams managed way back in 1940's.<br /><br /><b> Your gear does matter </b> ...<br />While photographic images depend a lot on the person, however a person is handicapped without proper tools ... macro or zoom lenses, tripod all have their importance ...<br /><br />So the above postulate "It's not the equipment" has to be understood in proper context ... Even the best equipments would fail if the "photographic vision" is missing ... Or if everyone has the same equipment it's the person with the best visual imagination who would come up with the best images ...<br /><br /><b> Post-processing does the trick ??? </b> ...<br />Post processing has a very wide and versative application ... <br />From correcting minor camera imperfections to widescale changes in the images ... and with the application on montages or cloning, creating something that never existed for real ...<br /><br />I have seen and enjoyed all types of processed images ...<br />But I have to confess I cringe when I hear that proocessing is the only way to evoke emotions ... I personally think that there's enough drama in the real world ... and It's capturing the reality that stirs me ... <br /><br />To continue ....Jyotihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08290272405879272012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6575108882321780444.post-46981535552234451842007-07-20T20:26:00.000-07:002007-08-07T14:51:06.761-07:00James Nachtwey<i> "I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated." </i> [~ James Nachtwey]<br /><br />I recommend to go through every single of these images ... <a href=" http://www.jamesnachtwey.com/"> "Witness", photography by James Natchway ... </a><br /><br /><b> James Nachtwey </b> ... another of my all time favorites ... <br /><br />His photographs are a must see for everyone ... For people to know how potent a tool photography is ... to understand the true essence of the words, "A photo speaks a thousand words" ... or a photographic image is a universal language ... And to be especially seen by photographers, to realize what a brilliant tool they have in their hands ....<br /><br /> More images ...<br /><a href=" http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0110/nachtwey01.htm"> "Seeing the horror", photography by James Natchway ... </a><br /> <br />and more ... <a href=" http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.mindfully.org/Pesticide/2006/Agent-Orange-Vietnam1aug06.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.mindfully.org/Pesticide/2006/Agent-Orange-Vietnam1aug06.htm&h=329&w=350&sz=29&hl=en&start=1&sig2=LqGKAZvQx0XwPHaAzkxhGw&um=1&tbnid=yqow09NrJeMMcM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=120&ei=C8G1Roq-DqfoiQGTr6juAQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3DJames%2BNachtwey%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX"> "The Vietnam Syndrome", photography by James Natchway ... </a>Jyotihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08290272405879272012noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6575108882321780444.post-45264217002018162042007-07-20T18:19:00.000-07:002007-07-22T06:17:45.700-07:00Street Photography<i> <b> This website is my attempt to learn about the masters of photography and different schools of thoughts in photography .... so it has mostly reference materials and links ... But once-in-a-while I put my own views here as well ... So here's a write-up on Street Photography ... </i> </b><br /><br />I have liked all types of photography… portraits, landscape, cityscape, flora-&-fauna, sports, fashion, macro … But my own photography has been limited to mostly cityscape, architecture, flowers and street shots … and off late I've been enjoying "Candid Street Shots" the most.<br /><br />Why street shot??? It’s about the “human element”. The facial expression, the body-language the small gestures that reflects different emotions … happiness, boredom, curiosity, surprise, disgust, anxiety, despair, anger, hope … OR … simply situations that people encounter in their everyday life … people rushing to work, getting in and out of a train or bus, talking on cell-phones, waiting at traffic signal, cops on duty … I love capturing these real “slices of real life” …<br /><br />Candid or posed??? I prefer candid shots … the un-posed, natural human behavior. Interacting with the subject matter changes the human emotions drastically. The moment a person is aware of being photographed the “natural” element is lost. Although in some situations it is best to talk and take permission before shooting …. But I get greater satisfaction in taking candid shots. As is said, to get the real life on reel [hmm pixels]<br /><br />So just stand on the road and take shots‼ As easy as it sounds, I find it extremely challenging. Any good image needs to be “well composed” and therein lies the rub. A street scene is changing every moment. When exactly to press the shutter to freeze the ever changing dynamics of street situation so that the image conveys an emotion, a story or an interesting facet of everyday life is not as easy as it appears … I think anyone who has indulged in street photography would agree to it ….<br /><br />Isn’t it an invasion of privacy or intrusion into someone’s private space? This argument carries a lot of weight. Yes it is‼! I know that many people who would not like to be photographed when they are busy with their everyday chores … and also many photographers who do not like pointing their lenses at unsuspecting people. I totally understand and respect their views. Although in America, it is not illegal to take photographs at public places; but the issue is more about ethics … and in some cases shooting unsuspecting people is unethical. I totally agree to that.<br /><br />However there’s an equally strong alternative view. As beautiful as a landscape or architecture or a studio portrait photograph may be …. But there’s something missing from the photographic arena if human beings are not captured in their most natural behavior or circumstances. It’s fascinating to see how people act, react, interact in their day-to-day lives. It also brings out the different cultures, attitudes, fashions, sensibilities of people … and is the best record of the ever changing social scene over times. A posed shot or a studio portrait can never capture the raw emotions as a candid street photography is capable of.<br /><br />Objective or subjective portrayal of a situation is another debatable issue … inherent in the field of photography. As I read somewhere … “camera is merely a tool like a pen or a paint brush and it expresses the intent of its possessor”. So some personal bias in photography is inherent and difficult to be totally ruled out. When I’m on the streets the subjects that evokes my interest maybe different from another photographer at the same time, same place … <br /><br />Street photography I usually in B-&-W and it makes sense. In a street setting there are random colors everywhere and these may distract from the main subject matter. B-&-W does away this problem. As much as I have loved monochromes, my photography has been mainly colored. B-&-W is something I need to work on ...<br /><br />I end this long write-up by saying that I feel photography has made me a better observer...and I'm sure that every photographer has this same experience!!!Jyotihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08290272405879272012noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6575108882321780444.post-76248705354432471002007-07-20T18:08:00.000-07:002007-07-21T06:03:37.066-07:00Lee Friedlander<i> It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I’m not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and I make it. If I had a chance, I’d be out shooting all the time. You don’t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at you". </i> ... [ -Lee Friedlander, "Documentary Photography - LIFE Library of Photography"]<br /><br /><b> Lee Friedlander </b> [born 1934] ... An American photographer ... famous mainly for street photography. He focused on the "social landscape". His art used detached images of urban life, store-front reflections, structures framed by fences, and posters and signs all combining to capture the look of modern life. <br /><br />Check out some of his images ... <a href=" http://images.google.com/images?q=Lee+friedlander+images&hl=en&pwst=1&um=1&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title"> Lee Friedlander, click here ... </a> <br /><br /><i> "Friedlander always worked in series: street images, flowers, trees, gardens, landscapes, nudes, the industrial and post- industrial environment, portraits, self-portraits." </i> [ Reference: <a href=" http://www.profotos.com/education/referencedesk/masters/masters/leefriedlander/leefriedlander.shtml"> click here ... </a> ]Jyotihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08290272405879272012noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6575108882321780444.post-73228869835146055392007-07-20T17:59:00.000-07:002007-07-21T05:59:12.482-07:00Garry Winogrand<b> Garry Winogrand </b> [1928-1984] ... An American photographer and a proponent and practitioner of street photography. Garry Winogrand was influenced by Walker Evans and Robert Frank.<br /><br />Check out some of his images ... <a href=" http://images.google.com/images?q=garry+Winogrand+images&hl=en&pwst=1&um=1&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title"> Gary Winogrand, click here ... </a><br /><br /><i> "Winogrand was known for his portrayal of America in the early 1960s and his interest in social issues of the day and in the role of media in shaping attitudes. He roamed the streets of New York with his Leica rapidly taking photographs using a prefocused wide angle lens. Often his lens would be tilted, leaving his photographs with a slanted result.<br /><br />When Winogrand died of cancer, in 1984 at age 56, he left behind nearly 300,000 unedited and in many cases undeveloped images. Some of these have been exhibited posthumously and published in an exhibit catalog entitled Winogrand, Fragments from the Real World published by MOMA" </i>. <br /><br />Reference: ... <a href=" Reference: http://www.masters-of-photography.com/W/winogrand/winogrand_articles1.html"> click here ... </a>Jyotihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08290272405879272012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6575108882321780444.post-73480043649304298702007-07-20T17:32:00.000-07:002007-07-20T17:40:38.530-07:00Diane Arbus<i> "Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot ... it had a terrific kind of excitement for me... Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks are born with their trauma. They've already passed it. They're aristocrats".</i> [ ~ Diane Arbus]<br /><br /><b> Diane Arbus </b> [1923- 1971] ... was an American photographer noted for her portraits of people on the fringes of the society. A central feature of many Arbus pictures is relationships or their dysfunction. <br /><br />Check out some of her photos ... <a href=" http://images.google.com/images?q=diane+arbus&hl=en&pwst=1&um=1&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title"> click here ... </a>Jyotihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08290272405879272012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6575108882321780444.post-82055787657026459952007-07-20T17:14:00.000-07:002007-07-20T17:51:41.118-07:00New Documents ExhibitionThe New Documents Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art [MOMA] New York, held in 1967 was conceived by John Szarkowski. It featured the works of:<br />Diana Arbus<br />Lee Friedlander<br />Garry Winogrand<br /><br />Szarkowski siad of the photographers ...<br /><b> <i> "Their aim has been not to reform life but to know it. Not to persuade but to understand". </i> </b><br /><br /><br />These photographers were greatly influenced by Walker Evans and Robert Frank ... and their respective publications ... "American Photographs" [Walker Evans] ... and "The Americans" [Robert Frank]...Jyotihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08290272405879272012noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6575108882321780444.post-30474649958506480162007-07-17T05:20:00.000-07:002007-07-19T05:25:18.487-07:00Robert Frank<i> "When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice ... " </i> Robert Frank<br /><br />Check out some of his photos ... <a href=" http://images.google.com/images?q=robert+Frank+photos&ndsp=21&svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&start=0&sa=N"> click here ... </a> <br /><br /><b> Robert Frank </b> born 1924 in Zurich, Switzerland. He's an important figure in American photography and films. His most famous work is a photographic book titles <b> "The Americans" </b> published in 1958. It's a result of his road-trip for two years, where he took 28,000 shots of which 83 were selected for the book, but he could not find a publisher in the USA. He took it to Robert Delpiré in France, who had to threaten to resign to get it published as 'Les Americains'. <br /><br />Following this it was published a year later in America with an introduction by Jack Kerouac. The Americans is now recognised as one of the classic photography books of the century. It built on the acheivement of Walker Evans (one of Frank's supporters for his Guggenheim application) in American Photographs, and was in some respects modelled on this other great work.<br /><br />His photographs are on post-war period that depicts an outsider view of American society. "He documented the tensions between the optimism of the 1950s and the realities of class and racial differences. The irony that Frank found in the gloss of American culture and wealth over this tension gave his photographs a clear contrast to those of most contemporary American photojournalists..."<br /><br /><i> "It was not only the subject matter, but also the style of his photography which at first shocked, and then imposed itself. He broke all the rules. His photos are shadowy and grainy, taken from unconventional angles, with blurred focus, techniques that capture the dislocation and alienation of his subjects. <br /><br />The faces are often enough unrecognisable, in shadow, or in the glare of light. His people don't belong but are simply passing through - in buses, in lunch counters or cheap stores, or going down the street to get somewhere else." </i><br />Reference: <a href=" http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.uk-ch.org/activities/picts/frank_315.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.uk-ch.org/articles/frank.html&h=180&w=315&sz=10&hl=en&start=34&sig2=oV-s5W1TTFHY2M6eiCl3bw&um=1&tbnid=Kq_SszdGmCdUfM:&tbnh=67&tbnw=117&ei=NpybRsiHNMzCiwGF9cjiBQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Drobert%2BFrank%2Bphotos%26start%3D21%26ndsp%3D21%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN"> Robert Frank, click here ... </a><br /><br /><i> "My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished.” </i> - Robert FrankJyotihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08290272405879272012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6575108882321780444.post-5609353049766757242007-07-17T04:31:00.000-07:002007-07-18T08:39:35.352-07:00Walker Evans<i> "Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts". </i> [~ Walker Evans]<br /><br /><b> Walker Evans </b> [1903-1975] An american photographer... portraying a realistic view of the poverty-stricken rural south, revolutionized the standards of documentary photography.<br /><br />Check out some of his photos ... <a href=" http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&q=Walker+evans+photos"> click here ... </a><br /><br /><b> "Walker Evans: America Photographs" </b> was held in Museum of Modern art [MOMA] New York.<b> it was the first exhibit in this museum devoted to the work of a single photographer.</b><br /><br />He is best known for his work for Farm Security administration [FSA]. In 1935-36 he created a series of images of plantation houses in Mississippi and Louisiana, complemented by photographs of US Civil War Monument. In late 1930's he famously used hidden camera to photograph commuters in New York subway. In 1940-50 he worked for Time and Fortune magazines.<br /><br /><i> "Evans's contribution was rooted in an attention to the everyday: small-town main streets, modes of transportation, the American people themselves, the places they called home, and the monuments that told their history, as well as the signs and storefronts that advertised and sold the products they used.... Together these photographs suggest a consistency in representing American visual culture and are the foundation of the American photographic tradition that continues today. </i><br />Reference: <a href=" http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/evans/"> Walker Evans: Before and After, click here ... </a> <br /><br /><i> "The camera is merely a tool, like a pen or a paintbrush, and it too, expresses the intentions of its possessor. This being said, Evans' talent was his ability to make images that speak for themselves. Evans photgraphs seem to exist as historical moments in time, hard-edged facts--not interpretations; thus the viewer responds to the image itself--to the contents within it--not to the photographer's construction of it."</i> Reference: <a href=" http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug97/fsa/intro.html"> Walker Evans, click here ... </a>Jyotihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08290272405879272012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6575108882321780444.post-44652840574017959112007-07-17T04:30:00.000-07:002007-07-18T08:40:07.880-07:00Eugene Atget<b> Eugène Atget </b> (1857‑1927) ... A French photographer noted for his photographs documenting the architecture and street scenes of Paris.<br /><br />Check out some of his photos ... <a href=" http://www.temple.edu/photo/photographers/atget/index.html"> click here ... </a><br /><br /><i> Though Atget was not well known during his lifetime, his visual record of a vanishing world has become an inspiration for twentieth-century photographers. American expatriate photographers Man Ray and Berenice Abbott rescued his work from obscurity just before his death. Abbott preserved his prints and negatives, and was the first person to publish and exhibit Atget's work outside of France. Many existing prints of Atget's images were, in fact, made by Abbott in the 1930s from his negatives. </i> <br /><br />Reference: <a href=" http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=1763"> click here ... </a>Jyotihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08290272405879272012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6575108882321780444.post-35335225095835390192007-07-17T03:56:00.000-07:002007-07-17T04:23:43.206-07:00Robert Capa<i> "If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough." </i> - Bob Capa.<br /><br /><b> Robert Capa </b> [1913 - 1954] the Hungarian photographer is perhaps the best known of World War-II combat photographers. He has taken many D-Day photographs that have become classics ... Check out some of his WW-II photos ... <a href=" http://www.skylighters.org/photos/robertcapa.html"> click here ... </a> <br /><br />Some more of his photographs ... <a href=" http://images.google.com/images?q=Robert+capa&hl=en&pwst=1&um=1&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title"> click here ... </a><br /><br />His photogrphs of the Spanish Civil War the "most eerinly fascinating" of all war photographs ... the death of Spanish loyalist militiamen Federick Borrell Garcia, "The Falling Soldier" ... It is also a controversial photo, read more about it .... <a href=" http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/capa_r.html"> click here ... </a> <br /><br />In 1954, he agreed to supply Life with photos of escalating conflict between french and VietMinh in indochina. While attemting to go close as possible he stepped on a landmine and was killed at the age of 40.Jyotihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08290272405879272012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6575108882321780444.post-75002212230630135822007-07-10T18:54:00.000-07:002007-07-18T07:22:19.416-07:00Helmut Newton<i> "My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.” </i> [~ Helmut Newton]<br /><br /><i> "It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room." </i> [ ~ Helmut Newton]<br /><br /><b> Helmut Newton </b> [1920- 2004] ... one of the most influential and most copied fashion photographer of the 20th century! ... He worked for magazines like Vogue, Playboy, Elle, Marie-Claire ... he worked for/with YSL, Loris Azzaro, Pierre Cardin, Tom Ford [Gucci], Karl Lagerfeld [Chanel], Jean Paul Gaultier ... and photographerd top models like Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Monica Bellucci, Marlene Dietrich, Ava Gardner ...<br /><br />Check out some of his photos ... <a href=" http://www.artnet.com/artist/12541/helmut-newton.html"> click here ... </a> <a href=" http://user.tninet.se/~ryk484d/newton/newton.htm"> and here ... </a> [click on the left side at the film-rolls!]<br /><br />His style is often described with terms as ... "dark erotic", "sado- masochistic", "fetishistic", "porno-chic", "surreal" ... He showed gorgeous women in immaculate make-up, heavy jewellery and vicious stiletto heels, at exotic locations - to create a unique imaginative world. He introduced elements of violence by featuring semi-nude models photographed from the rear holding pistols, knives discreetly hidden from their beaus behind their backs. His notoriety/fame increased in the 1980's with his “Big Nudes” series … consisting large format photographs of naked women. It is considered as "pinnacle of erotic urban style underpinned with excellent technical skills". <br /><br /><i> "People gave us everything for free. We were allowed only so much film per picture, but there was no limit to the creativity. I like to say that they let us loose like wild dogs in the streets of Paris." </i> [~ Helmut Newton]<br /><br />Helmut Newton was also a friend and photographer of surrealist Salvador Dali. They both died on the same date, 23rd January. Salvador Dali died in Spain due to old age. Newton crashed with his car in Hollywood exactly 15 years later. A unique coincidence!!!Jyotihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08290272405879272012noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6575108882321780444.post-26718035091764276342007-07-10T18:39:00.000-07:002007-07-17T04:22:06.020-07:00Ralph Gibson<b> Ralph Gibson </b> [born 1939] an American art photographer ... is known for his high contrast pictures. He usually focusses on one geometric element ... like a single human gesture [the curve of a hand] ... or the corner of a room ... he formes a kind of dream narrative ...<br /><br /><a href=" http://www.ralphgibson.com/fashion/"> Ralph Gibson, fashion photography, click here </a> ...<br /><a href=" http://www.ralphgibson.com/archive/"> Ralph Gibson, archive, click here </a> ...Jyotihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08290272405879272012noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6575108882321780444.post-79563356327965511592007-07-10T18:18:00.000-07:002007-07-17T04:27:28.669-07:00Edward Weston<b> Edward Weston ... </b> [1886-1958] An American photographer and co-founder of Group f/64. He is regarded as one of the masters of 20th century photography ... <br /><br /><i> "He raised images to the level of poetry" ... </i> Check out some of his images ...<br /><br />[1] <a href=" http://images.google.com/images?q=edward+weston&hl=en&pwst=1&um=1&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title"> Edward Weston images </a> ...<br />[2] <a href=" http://www.edward-weston.com/edward_weston_natural.htm"> Edward Weston </a> ...<br /><br />Ansel Adams on Weston ...<br /><i> "Weston is, in the real sense, one of the few creative artists of today. He has recreated the matter-forms and forces of nature; he has made these forms eloquent of the fundamental unity of the world. His work illuminates man's inner journey toward perfection of the spirit." </i> <br /><br />Read more about <a href=" http://www.photo-seminars.com/Fame/EdWeston.htm"> Edward Weston, click here </a> ...<br /><br /><b> Personal Note </b> ... I love his "Pepper", "Eggplant" and "Shell" images ... and his nudes are very very artistic!!!!Jyotihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08290272405879272012noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6575108882321780444.post-37697468519486445922007-07-10T18:02:00.001-07:002007-07-17T04:37:35.236-07:00Trend Setters<b> Henry Cartier Bresson </b> [1908 - 2004] The famous French photographer, whose name is synonymous with <b> street photography </b> .... His candid street photography style still infleunces photographers worldwide ... made famous the words "decisive moment"...<br /><br /><b> W Eugene Smith </b> [1918 - 1978] An American photo-jounalist who started the trend of <b> photo-essay </b>, that is, a set or series of photographs that are intended to tell a story or evoke a series of emotions in the viewer ... <br /><br /><b> Alfred Eisenstaedt </b> [1898 - 1995] German-American photographer better known as <b> Eisie </b> is called the <b> father of photojournalism </b> ... He shot over 80 "Life" covers. his work is described as 'easy looking', both easy to look at, and stunning in the apparent simplicity of his approach. It was popular rather than highbrow.... His most famous work is the "The V-J Day Kiss".<br /><br /><b> William Egglestone </b> [ born 1939] An American photographer ... pioneer of modern day <b> color photography </b> ... he is credited with securing the recognition of color-photography as legitimate artistic medium in art galleries.<br /><br />* <i> In 1914, the "National Geographic" was the first magazine to produce color photographs ... </i><br /><br /><b> Dr. Harold Edgerton </b> [1903 - 1990]... An American photographer ... invented high-speed stroboscopic photography ... He is largely credited with transforming the stroboscope from an obscure laboratory instrument into a common device seen in nearly every camera ... Famous for images like<br />- A bullet through an apple ...<br />- A droplet of milk that looks like a clown ...<br />His work was featured in an October 1987 National Geographic Magazine article entitled, "Doc Edgerton: the man who made time stand still."<br /><br /><b> Robert Mapplethrope </b> [1946 - 1989] An American photographer ... very controversial ... Noted for his flowers and male nudes ... His works stirred debates about government funding of questionable "art"!<br /><br /><b> Phil Borges </b> [born 1942] - Famous for photographs of Tibet and Dalai Lama ..<br /><br /><b> Edward Curtis </b> [1868 - 1952] - Famous for photographs of Native Americans ...<br /><br /><i> The American Civil War </i> [1861-65] was the first war to be throughly recorded by photographs ....Jyotihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08290272405879272012noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6575108882321780444.post-3024729539743215922007-07-08T11:51:00.001-07:002007-07-20T18:18:04.447-07:00Masters of street photography & /or photojournalism<i> <b> My favourite photographer is definitely Henry Cartier Bresson ... </b> </i><br /><br /><b> [1] Henry Cartier Bresson </b> [1908-2004]<br />A French photographer called the <b> "father of modern photojournalism". </b> A master of candid photography and has greatly influenced the development of "street photography" ...<br />Check out his work ...<a href=" http://www.photo-seminars.com/Fame/bresson.htm"> Henry Cartier Bresson, click here </a> ...<br />and more ...<a href=" http://gallery.ca/cybermuse/search/artist_work_e.jsp?iartistid=928"> click here </a> ...<br /><br /><b> [2] Andre Kertesz </b> [1894-1985]<br />He had a profound influence on the world of photography, particularly in France where he was a mentor to photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, and Brassai. Cartier-Bresson acknowledged his achievements when he said ... <i> "Whatever we have done, Kertesz did it first" </i><br />Check out his work ...<a href=" http://apphoto.8m.com/kol10.htm"> Andre Kertesz, click here </a> ...<br /><br /><b> [3] Alfred Stieglitz </b> [1864-1946]<br />American photographer who was instrumental in making photography an acceptable art form alongside painting and sculpture ...<br />Check out his work ...<a href=" http://www.tfaoi.com/newsmu/nmus153b.htm"> Alfred Stieglitz, click here </a> ...<br /><br /><b> [4] Paul Strand </b> [1890-1976]<br />An American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century ...<br />Check out his work ...<a href=" http://images.google.com/images?q=paul+strand&hl=en&pwst=1&um=1&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title"> Paul Strand, click here </a> ...<br /><br /><b> [5] W. Eugene Smith </b> [1918-1978]<br />American photojournalist most famous for his brutally vivid World War-II and post-war photographs ... He perfected <b> photo-essays </b> which was a series images on a topic like ...<br />- "Country Doctor" (1948) photo essay on Dr. Ernest Ceriani in the small Colorado town of Kremmling. Credited as the first "photo story" of the modern photojournalism age. <br />- "Spanish Village" (1950) photo essay on the small Spanish town of Deleitosa<br />- "A Man of Mercy" (1954) photo essay on Dr. Albert Schweitzer and his humanitarian work in French Equatorial Africa. <br />- "Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath" (1971) the centrepiece photograph in Minamata, a long-term photo essay by Smith on the effects of mercury poisoning in the fishing village of Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan...<br />and many others such photo-essays ...<br />Check out his work ...<a href=" http://www.photo-seminars.com/Fame/eugesmith.htm"> W Eugene Smith, click here </a> ...<br /><br /><b> [6] Alfred Eisenstaedt </b> [1898-1995]<br />Better known as "Eisie" ... was a German-American photographer and photojounalist ... also called the "father of photojournalism". He perfected certain techniques for capturing the spontaneous moment that has given us some of our most enduring photographic images. he came to be known to millions worldwide through his work for LIFE Magazine, which he joined as one of the first four staff photographers in 1935 ...<br />Check out his work ...<a href=" http://www.gallerym.com/artist.cfm?ID=16"> Alfred Eisenstaedt, click here </a> ... <a href=" http://artscenecal.com/ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles1997/Articles0397/AEisenstaedt.html"> and here </a> ... <br /><br /><b> [7] Margaret Burke-White </b> [1904-1971]<br />An American photojournalist, she was the first woman accredited by the U.S. Army as a war correspondent and crossed the German border with Patton's troops. She was also one of the first photographers to enter and document death camps. Her photos were so compelling that Life published them, breaking the tradition of avoiding the horrific aspects of the war. "The Living Dead of Buchenwald" became a classic. After the war, she was sent to India, where she took one of her most famous photographs, Gandhi at His Spinning Wheel. From 1949 to 1953, she photographed life in South Africa under apartheid, as well as the Korean War. <br />Check out her work ...<a href=" http://www.gallerym.com/artist.cfm?ID=17"> Margaret Burke White, click here </a> ...<br /><br />... <br /><b> To continue </b> ...<br />There are many more to add like ... Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winograd and more ...Jyotihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08290272405879272012noreply@blogger.com224tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6575108882321780444.post-53975950143969317322007-07-08T05:11:00.000-07:002007-07-08T11:24:00.870-07:00World Famous Photos - II ...<i> <b> Continuation of my previous post ... The previous post was 15 of my choice, but there's links to more of world famous photos ...</b> </i><br /><br />[1] <a href=" http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0309/lm_index.html"> "Life" - The Digital Journalist </a> ...<br />[2] <a href=" http://pictopia.com/perl/gal?provider_id=16&bid=227&process=dynamic&name1=metadata/category__&value1=Famous%20Photos"> Newday.com ... The world in photographs </a> ...<br />[3] <a href=" http://www.worldsfamousphotos.com/"> World's Famous Photos </a> ...Jyotihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08290272405879272012noreply@blogger.com3