Magnum Photos

Creating Our Own Monsters Using aesthetically appealing vehicles, Dodge creates this advertisement to attract a younger and arguably more reckless crowd to the all new Dodge Hellcat. The commercial begins by playing the unmistakable opening beat to Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight”. The camera pans to a metropolis skyline fully lit up in the darkest of the night, but to be seemingly abandoned. You are shown empty interstates, parking garages, shipyards, and gravel roads, that continue endlessly…

In movies like one hour photo, Insomnia, Death to smoochie, and What dreams may come. Robin shows us his extreme range, playing the despite, the mentally disturbed, the psychotic, and the lost. These movies are dark examples of man’s balance of comedy and tragedy. Showing for all…

which shuck the world. Capa had various contributions to the photography we all enjoy today. Capa is one of the founders of the Magnum Photos with a French photographer in the person of Henri Cartier-Bresson it was the first cooperative agency for worldwide practising photographers.…

he still kept taking photos. He took these photos apart from his military duties while in New Jersey, Germany, and France. Before leaving for the military he had been in New York City looking for work where he found men named Edward Steichen, Robert Capa, and Roy Stryker who liked his photographs and became mentors to him. After leaving the military in 1953 Elliott was invited to join Magnum Photos as a member by its founder Robert Capa. He is still active in Magnum Photos today where he has…

Competition analysis Who are the direct competitors for your particular product? How do they compare price wise? Competitors Global 2015 sales • Magnum 2.540$ billion • Haagen dazs 2.086 billion • Cornetto 1.595$ Billion • Ben and jerrys 1,232$…

comprehend the stories behind them. One photo like this is the one above taken by Magnum photojournalist Thomas Hoepker on September 11th after the attacks on the Twin Towers, and blogger Alex Selwyn-Holmes explains the significance and meaning behind the image which appears simple yet complex at the same time. Hoepker travelled from Manhattan to Queens, and then Brooklyn in order to gain closer…

and the Bayonet photographed by the French photojournalist Marc Riboud was captured on October 21, 1967. The location was an anti- Vietnam war protest that took place in the American capital at the Pentagon. The girl in the photo is 17 year old Jan Rose Kasmir. The protest involved 100,000 participants’ vs 2,500 soldiers. Riboud captured a fleeting moment, that of a girl offering a flower to the soldiers and the spirit of the 1960s. The photograph seems an all too…

Persepolis Photo Essay Photography is an art of observation, it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. In the book Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi, the author, represents Iran through her young adolescent eyes. Marjane precisely portrays Iran throughout the book. Through certain images we may receive an enhanced representation of Iran by the revolution, imperialism, nationalism, social classes and religion. This photograph captures a group of…

discharged Stock decided to try and earn an apprenticeship with Gjon Mili. While working, Stock was mostly placed in Holloywood settings after joining Magnum in 1951. Stock began to make it in the industry after his apprenticeship with Life magazine's photographer Gjon Mili. He began to teach workshops, exhibit his photographs across the world, and take photos of Hollywood actors and jazz musicians. James Dean, an actor, was his most promising subject. The photographs of James Dean gave…

“A Most Wanted Man” with the late Philip Seymour Hoffman as the protagonist. I was expecting a motivating return this year, with “Life”, another biographical drama focused on the Magnum photographer, Dennis Stock, circumspectly played by Robert Pattinson. Stock drew the world’s attention in the mid 50’s with his photo essay about the emerging actor James Dean, stylishly embodied here by the competent Dane DeHaan. The title of the film alludes to the Time Magazine that celebrated Dennis’…