5 picture rules

Rule of thirds

This image is using the rule of thirds because the main part of the image (Aaron) is covering 60%+ of the image. There is no filter on this image.










Frame within a frame 

This picture is a frame within a frame because Matt is standing behind a glass door frame and you can see the reflection of the sun in the window. There is a black and white filter on this image.









Foreground / Background 

This picture demonstrates foreground and background because you have the tree in the foreground and people in the background of the image. There is colour exposure in red on this picture.









Motion

This demonstrates motion because the image is blurred suggesting that the photographer was moving when the image was taken. This picture has a black and white filter on here.  









Leading lines

This demonstrates leading lines because the tiles and the bricks are going in one direction. This picture does not have a filter on this photo.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Born: August 22, 1908
Died: August 3, 2004

Henri is 1 of five siblings how he grow up with in bourgeois and neighbourhood in Paris. He attended École Fenelon, a catholic school, he later in 1928 to 1929, he studied at the University of Cambridge in art, literature and English.
Henri was inspired by Martin Munkacsi and Hungarian Photojournalist in 1930, Martin showed Henri "The three boys of lake Tanganyika" He quoted;
"The only thing which completely was an amazement to me and brought me to photography was the work of Munkacsi. When I saw the photograph of Munkacsi of the black kids running in a wave I couldn't believe such a thing could be caught with the camera. I said damn it, I took my camera and went out into the street" 

The Var department, Hyères, France, 1932

Analysis
In this photograph you see a blurred man on a bicycle riding around a corner on a cobbled and tarmacked street. in the foreground for this picture you have a set of stairs that lead down to wear the man is cycling, these stairs have metal railings that follow the stairs most if the way down. 

Meaning
The man on the bicycle is captured really well but because he is going so fast he is still blurred and by the looks of it he is also leaning into the corner maybe to keep his speed up as he goes around the bend. The stair case, why maybe because it was were the photographer was standing at the moment the photograph was taken suggesting that he didn't have any time to set up to take the picture when this event happened. The tarmacked street with the cobbled sides means that this was an old street that has been renovated from time to time but has not been completely tarmacked over yet or it is a form of drainage for the street.

Arizona, USA, 1947

Analysis

In this photograph you see a steam train travelling across the railway pulling wagons and flat trucks. in the foreground there is the bottom half of a old car and the top half of the car is in the centre of the picture between the train and the lower half. Looks like it was taken in a desert area with mountains in the background.

Meaning
The broken car is there probably because it originally had crashed and over time people had come and removed the top part of the car and proceed to carry it towards the railway. The train is there because it is trying to make a delivery of frat to some place in the urban land that this photo has been taken in. The power/communication lines that run along side the train are there because that was how they use to communicate with the city, also they did this because roads never existed at the time they were put up.

Province of Munster, Kerry County, Near Bantree, Ireland, 1962

Analysis
You see a long wooden boat that is broken at one end, surrounded by plants and rocks. There is small cliffs on ever side of the boat that is sitting in the water. This small cover of water leads out to a lake or a river that is lined with trees.




Meaning
The broken long boat that is sitting in the water was probably abandoned by its owners when the broke and has been left to become part of nature this provided by the moss or algae that is growing on the water is covering the broken part of the boat. The small cliffs on ever side of the boat is like this because it could of been dug away by people to create a docking area for boats and maybe a launcher area as well, but clearly has not been used for years due to the amount of weeds that grown in this area.  

URL links 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Cartier-Bresson
http://totallyhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Henri-Cartier-Bresson.jpg
http://erickimphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/henri_cartier_bresson_bicycle.jpg
http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_10_VForm&ERID=24KL53ZMYN

  

Philip Jones Griffiths

Philip Jones Griffiths

Born in February 18, 1936, Rhuddlan, Wales
Died March 19, 2007, London, England

His Parents Joseph Griffiths and Catherine Jones. 
He went to liverpool to study pharmacy and went on to work in London as a night manager for Boots branch in Piccadilly. Also working as a part time photographer for the Manchester Guardian. Philip never married but had several relationships of the years until he died of cancer in 2007. 


War is unbelievable, Saigon 1968

Analysis
There is a man in a room sitting causally on a nice wooden chair holding an assault rifle out of a window with his feet laying on the window cill in a relaxed manner. Surrounding the man are empty creates and boxes left in the corner of the room, laying next to the boxes are a couple of tools below where the man is sitting. Infront of the chair is a broken baby doll left by the people that one owned that place. Along the bottom of the picture there is a small cot covered by a sheet, this can suggest that a little girl could of lived in that room and put the doll in there.

Meaning
The description from the book says "the man was cover firing at a group of people that were attacking him and his squad. Not only this it also describes the fact that the man was causally sitting on the chair making himself look good by firing with only one hand. It makes the man look like he is enjoying himself as if he is glad that he just has to sit there and shot at the enemy.


Travelling around Vietnam, near the DMZ, 1968

Analysis
In the foreground in this image there is three man dressed in military uniform and each one of them is carrying digging tools (pickaxes and shovels) and all three of them are looking in the same direction as if they have seen something that doesn't look to pleasant. In the background there is a helicopter and there is men loading and unloading the helicopter, they are carrying guns, sticks and they are unloading a create of supplies probably filed with food and ammo for the guns that they are using at the time. The men are set in a grass field and there is a smoke Grenade dispersing smoke used to flag the helicopter down. 

Meaning
This was the main way people would get around in the Vietnam war and it is how most of there supplies were given to the men that were fighting out in the battle field. It was the photographers main mode of transport during the war and he was documenting what would normally happen when a helicopter is would be doing a drop or is picking up soliders and taking them back to base.


Search and destroy, Quang Ngai province 1967

Analysis
In this photograph you can see a soldier wearing glasses and is carrying a strip of heavy machine gun bullets and a assault rifle in his right hand. The soldier is looking at the women how is holding a child in her arms. Behind the women you can see some sort of basket like object or it might be the house she lives in and is sitting outside of the place. Behind the solider there looks like there is another solider behind him but all you can see is his feet and nothing else.

Meaning
The solider is looking at the women sadly this be because it is reminding him of home maybe or he fells sorry for them because they are living in a war zone. The baby is still as if it is not alive anymore or it is just sleep it is unclear as to what has happened to the baby but if the baby was dead the women would probably be a lot sadder than what she is right now. The barrel like wall that is behind the women it could be a tent of some sort set up because there could of been destroy or they got kicked out so that there house could be used as a out post of some kind for the enemy. 

URL links http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/in_pictures_philip_jones_griffiths_/img/1.jpg
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTNMkhoBRK5oxBlNxQyCcnKTGqE-L2ASEfovEd8_rFCqSSfvstz3vHrEzl7rZIC7q6nL6QnzppF9zfF0vwF9bmnTP7AvpYDh8Dw4Mh44IXrf8fRFJZ8syDYyl9qtBpSdl5gIchW8U5QZHz/s1600/vietpic21.jpg
http://s.spynet.ru/images/2009/10/07/vetnam/vetnam_4.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Jones_Griffiths 
http://www.photohistories.com/images/74.jpg

Gregory Crewdon

Gregory Crewdon

Born: September 6, 1962
(aged 52)

Gregory was born in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York. He attended John Dewey High school and graduated early. In the mid 80's Gregory studied photography at SUNY Purchase, near port Chester, New York. He later received a master of fine arts from Yale university, not only this in 2012 he became a professor at Yale university school of art.






Day 318: Untitled, from Beneath the Roses

Analysis
You see a homeless man in the middle of a street walking down the street with a trolley filled with stuff. standard wooden houses lining the street and at the end the last house has a hole in it. The sun is setting in the background. The ground is wet as if it has been raining recently.


Meaning
The homeless man is walking in the middle of the street because he might think it is easier to push on the road, the trolley is loaded with old stuff that is outdated technology suggesting he has been homeless for many years. The house being destroyed at the end of the street maybe because it is old and needs to be replaced. The tracks in dirt in front of the homeless man suggests that vehicles have been going through that area several times before the photograph was taken.   

Untitled 'Beneath the Roses' 2004

Analysis
It is a abandoned street with a car in the middle of a cross road and the it has stopped in the middle of the road. All of the traffic lights are orange or red. There is a thick mist that is rolling in, in the background. Streaks of water or ice on the road close to the camera, old buildings line each side of the street.
Meaning
The car has stopped in the centre of the road because the passenger probably is feed up with the driver and wants to get out of the car bearing mind that they are stopped in the middle of a intersection, The old building suggest that this town doesn't like to change/update there buildings to make the look more modern, but it adds a time zone for the picture late 80's early 90's. The fog means that it gets quit cold there and the fog is slowly rolling in as the sun sets on the left of the photograph. Streak of water are there because the road has cracks in the road causing water to build up in those cracks that would get larger and large allowing more water to sit in those cracks/holes.

Untitled from the series 'Beneath the Roses', 2004

Analysis
There is a supermarket in the middle right of the picture. There is 90's cars dotted around the car park for the supermarket. The station wagon that is closest to the camera has its doors open and there is a women with a shopping trolley standing at the back of the car. Towards the back there is a man with a trolley heading towards the back of the car park.

Meaning
The empty car park means that it is late and people are probably at home around this time, meaning the shop is going to close shortly maybe. The women with the trolley must of finished her shopping and is beginning to put it away in her station wagon. That is why the doors a probably open. The man walking towards the back of the car park, he could be either walking towards the blue van or he could live in a nearby house and is heading to one of those houses close.  

http://www.hatjecantz.de/index.php?rex_img_type=hc_resize_220w&rex_img_file=kunstlexikon-kuenstler-gregory-crewdson.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Crewdson
https://artsdiary365.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/gregory-crewdson-untitled-kent-street-beneath-the-roses-2007.jpg
http://whitecube.com/exhibitions/gregory_crewdson_beneath_the_roses_hoxton_square_2005/
http://www.vam.ac.uk/users/node/6842