My sincerest apoligies for not Blogging in so long, but it has been crazy latley, what with work, college, GCN, and trying to find time to see my folks ha!
I'm picking a particular topic for decussion tonight as i know that alot of my class mates have been researching various different imagery.
Images that men like or relate to and images the women like and relate to!
I've written my own sort of assignment for myself and set myself the task of finding or not finding differences between male and female photographers: i.e Which sex takes the better photograph or does it matter,
Underneath I'm going to post the essay bear with it it's full of quotes as I am currently listening to Janis Joplin
10:32p.m with tea in one hand and a Nan Goldin Book in the other, so I am feeling particularly inspired!! : )
I would really like feed back, bad, good, indifferent, just opinions really!
Hope you like it folks!
Here it goes......
Oh p.s I will be most defiinatley Blogging again tomorrow because, as I am sure we are all well aware of the Deadline is looming!
It is a well known fact that throughout the years in photography and many different art forms in society, that man and women have an extremely different presence, different behaviours and even different standings for themselves and each other, which inevitably places them at opposite spectrums of the art world.
“ According to usage conventions which are at last being questioned but have no means been overcome, the social presence of a woman is different in kind from that of a man”.
Do men and women take different photo’s?
“Such fascination makes sense. Gender is an endlessly debatable topic. The debate gets fiercer when it turns to boy-versus-girls and the stakes get higher as more women take up cameras”.
“Of course women have always been a force in photography. Yet in recent years, photo programs have seen a steady rise in the number of female students in everything from advertising to art to photojournalism”.\
But do they take different kinds of pictures?”.
Eve Arnold (1912- )
Eve Arnold joined Magnum photo agency in 1951 and became a full member in 1957.
Arnold is extremely renowned and held in very high regard throughout the photography community with both men and women alike.
She holds such awards as:
Lifetime Achievement award:
The sony world photography awards 2010.
Honorary OBE by the British government
Master photographer, International Centre of Photography NYC.
Arnold is one of the most famous portrait photographers to have ever represented Magnum. She is especially well known for her brilliant shots of Marilyn Monroe, many of which were taken in 1960 on the set of ‘The Misfits‘.
Arnold moved to England in the early 60's and has produced some of the most famous photography of Queen Elizabeth II.
Arnold has held her own in a very male dominated art form, especially in the 1950’s and 1960’s when women photographers where few and far between.
And it is because of this that I believe that, even though photography is primarily male dominated, The photographer no matter male or female makes the image and if the photographer is a good image maker then the photograph will be good, simple!
“The perception of what you're asking is: Who
makes better pictures?" says Dennis Keeley, chair
of photography and imaging at the Art Center.
“Nobody. Better pictures are made by better
Photographers.” That is not gender-driven, except
we have a society that's gender-divided. In discussing these things, it's not the answers—it's the questions.”
Steve Mc Curry
Mc Curry is best known for his photograph “ Afghan Girl” that originally appeared in National Geographic.
He began his career with coverage of the Soviet War in Afghanistan, with his images being some of the first to publicise the ongoing conflict.
It was these images that won him the Robert Capa Gold Medal for Best Photography from aboard.
He is a renowned photographer in the field of photojournalism and has the awards and credentials to prove it.
Each Photographer and photograph I have chosen are very different.
Both Arnold and Mc Curry have different styles, different techniques and their
Own very unique look at the world, which is evident in their images.
“After all, in the end the goal is simply to make a unique, effective—even great—photograph. Says Dennis Keeley,
"Photography has that quality of honesty in it that doesn't quit. And it goes beyond the maker of the picture.”
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