Throughout this essay, I will be looking and comparing two photographers who use street photography and the candid approach within their work. The candid approach is photographing the subject without them knowing which this came from the pioneer of street photography Henri Cartier Bresson and his decisive moment. The decisive moment is method which involved being in a particular place, at a particular time to capture a particular moment.
Throughout looking at the photographers, I will be looking at the themes considered in their works and I will look at how they have considered the decisive moment and how they have used candid photography. The first photographer I will be looking at is Philip Lorca Dicorcia and his series heads and the way …show more content…
In this body of work, he wanted to address the aspects of everyday life including human behaviour and the psychology of people in the streets. In the series heads, the meaning straddles between fact and fiction as they are recognised for echoing film stills through the use of precise lighting and framing. Rather than focusing on the chaos of people in the streets in the everyday, he stated in the book the genius of photography (Badger, 2007, p195) he wanted to look at ‘people as individuals’, responding to statement this represents how we can identify an individual through a reading and looking at a photograph to pick things out suggesting their identity. His body of work expands and emphasises the pioneer of street photography Henri Cartier Bresson and his decisive moment which this involved being in a particular place, at a particular time to capture a particular moment. This body of work addresses candid photography through photographing people unexpectedly, which this looked at the theme of neutrality of people in the everyday without them dressing up or posing for the camera, showing people in their natural form of how they act in a daily
Throughout looking at the photographers, I will be looking at the themes considered in their works and I will look at how they have considered the decisive moment and how they have used candid photography. The first photographer I will be looking at is Philip Lorca Dicorcia and his series heads and the way …show more content…
In this body of work, he wanted to address the aspects of everyday life including human behaviour and the psychology of people in the streets. In the series heads, the meaning straddles between fact and fiction as they are recognised for echoing film stills through the use of precise lighting and framing. Rather than focusing on the chaos of people in the streets in the everyday, he stated in the book the genius of photography (Badger, 2007, p195) he wanted to look at ‘people as individuals’, responding to statement this represents how we can identify an individual through a reading and looking at a photograph to pick things out suggesting their identity. His body of work expands and emphasises the pioneer of street photography Henri Cartier Bresson and his decisive moment which this involved being in a particular place, at a particular time to capture a particular moment. This body of work addresses candid photography through photographing people unexpectedly, which this looked at the theme of neutrality of people in the everyday without them dressing up or posing for the camera, showing people in their natural form of how they act in a daily