Genius Photography Notes: Right Place, Right Time
Right Place, Right Time
Episode 3 of 6
Duration: 1 hour
Being in the right place at the right time'; 'the decisive moment'; 'getting in close' - in the popular imagination this is photography at its best, a medium that makes viewers eyewitnesses to the moments when history is made. Just how good is photography at making sense of what it records? Is getting in close always better than standing back, and how decisive are the moments that photographers risk their necks to capture?
Set against the backdrop of World War II and its aftermath, the episode examines how photographers dealt with dramatic and tragic events like D-Day, the Holocaust and Hiroshima, and the questions their often extraordinary pictures raise about history as seen through the viewfinder. With contributions from Magnum legends Philip Jones-Griffiths and Susan Meiselas, soldier-lensman Tony Vaccaro, 9/11 photographer Joel Meyerowitz, and broadcaster Jon Snow:
http://images.londonstreetphoto.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cartier-bresson-behind-saint-lazare-train-station-1932.jpgIn 1933 Henri Cartier Bresson shot a moment that took only a fraction of a second to shoot but came to be known as a ‘decisive moment’ that is the most familiar concept in all of photography. It has become a strategy that has illuminated photography’s potential for everyone. His decisive moments transformed the faces of photography.
Illuminate photography’s potential to all of us.Photo-journalism was born in chaos of modern warfare.Should you trust a photograph? “trusting a photograph was probably a huge mistake from the beginning". However, people believe photographs.
The Leica was a revolutionary development in camera technology launched in Germany in 1925, it was a compact, quiet with the latest lens and technology it gave birth to a whole new style of instant photography and allowed you to be present in the moment.
Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer considered to be the Grand- father
Episode 3 of 6
Duration: 1 hour
Being in the right place at the right time'; 'the decisive moment'; 'getting in close' - in the popular imagination this is photography at its best, a medium that makes viewers eyewitnesses to the moments when history is made. Just how good is photography at making sense of what it records? Is getting in close always better than standing back, and how decisive are the moments that photographers risk their necks to capture?
Set against the backdrop of World War II and its aftermath, the episode examines how photographers dealt with dramatic and tragic events like D-Day, the Holocaust and Hiroshima, and the questions their often extraordinary pictures raise about history as seen through the viewfinder. With contributions from Magnum legends Philip Jones-Griffiths and Susan Meiselas, soldier-lensman Tony Vaccaro, 9/11 photographer Joel Meyerowitz, and broadcaster Jon Snow:
http://images.londonstreetphoto.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/cartier-bresson-behind-saint-lazare-train-station-1932.jpgIn 1933 Henri Cartier Bresson shot a moment that took only a fraction of a second to shoot but came to be known as a ‘decisive moment’ that is the most familiar concept in all of photography. It has become a strategy that has illuminated photography’s potential for everyone. His decisive moments transformed the faces of photography.
Illuminate photography’s potential to all of us.Photo-journalism was born in chaos of modern warfare.Should you trust a photograph? “trusting a photograph was probably a huge mistake from the beginning". However, people believe photographs.
The Leica was a revolutionary development in camera technology launched in Germany in 1925, it was a compact, quiet with the latest lens and technology it gave birth to a whole new style of instant photography and allowed you to be present in the moment.
Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer considered to be the Grand- father