Photography Assessment task

1. Photography Assessment task By Sean Carmody

2. Max Dupain The photographer Max Dupain has really taken this photograph well, it is a photograph of a plant with the full moon in the background and the photographer has also captured the texture of the plant and also its tone very well. I really like the photograph because along with the lovely plant he has also captured the moon at it’s most beautiful time. I also think that the photographer took his time when taking the photograph because it is perfect in many ways such as how it has been taken and at what time of night. One of Australia’s foremost photographers, Max Dupain (1911–1992), began his working life in commercial photography. He was one of the first to adopt the principles of new ‘modern’ photography from Europe that emphasised strong light. For over 50 years Dupain recorded Sydney’s built environment, landscape and people, leaving an extraordinary photographic legacy. Many of his images have come to embody an Australian identity and way of life. Often working in black and white, Dupain embraced unusual perspectives in his quest to capture the modern era.

3. Andre Kertesz The photographer Andre Kertesz has taken a photograph of a man swimming in what look like a pool and he has really taken lots of consideration into his photograph such as where to take it how he focused it and also the sunlight beaming of the water. I my opinion the photograph has been taken well but the photograph does not really appeal to me. André Kertesz bought his first camera and made his first photograph while working as a clerk at the Budapest stock exchange in 1912. After years of amateur snapshot photography in his native Hungary, he moved to Paris in 1925 and began a career as a freelance photographer. There the young transplant, speaking little French, took to the streets, wandering, observing, and developing his intimate approach to image making. He also met and began to photograph other artists, including Brassaï.

4. Weegee • The Photographer Weegee has taken a photograph of a building on fire being put out by a fire fighters. The photographer has used the dim light to his advantage by taking a spectacular photograph. The photographer has used the dark tone very well. I like this photograph because it has been taken very well and that I have a passion for photographs like this. As legend tells it, Arthur Fellig earned the nickname Weegee during his early career as a freelance press photographer in New York City. His apparent sixth sense for crime often led him to a scene well ahead of the police. Observers likened this sense, actually derived from tuning his radio to the police frequency, to the Ouija board, the popular fortune-telling game. Spelling it phonetically, Fellig took Weegee as his professional name.

5. Henri Cartier-Bresson • This photograph has been taken by the photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson and it is a photograph of a long stretch of trees that extend along an old country road. The photographer has not really used much tone but he has positioned him self well and that the photograph was taken with and adequate amount of sunlight. I personal don’t really like the picture because it is a bit plain and that it is quite boring. But over all it is not a bad photograph. Born in Chanteloup, Seine-et-Marne, Henri Cartier-Bresson developed a strong fascination with painting early on, and particularly with Surrealism. In 1932, after spending a year in the Ivory Coast, he discovered the Leica - his camera of choice thereafter - and began a life-long passion for photography. In 1933 he had his first exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York. He later made films with Jean Renoir.