Charles Perkins An Australian Photographer Essay

For the historical photographer part of my assignment, I choose photographer Edward S. Curtis. The reason I decided to choice Mr. Curtis and his works is that he help preserve and document accurate depictions of Native Americans at a time when most of society had only a limited knowledge of what Native Americans culture looked like. In addition, nearly all of his work from an artistic standpoint looks breathtaking; almost like a painting expert, it is photography. Therefore, the next the paragraph I will discussed his works, message in his work, and my thoughts on them.

War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy is based on a war photographer who has experienced and witnessed the reality of war. The war photographer has returned to his quite home in England from his latest job. He develops the spools of film, he took in the frontline. As he organizes the pictures, he remembers the terrifying situation he is in, "A stranger's features faintly start to twist before his eyes a half-formed ghost." Then, he sends those pictures to the Sunday newspaper, where his editor will choose the ones to be printed.

Perkins was born on April 10, 1880 in Boston; however, she spent most of her childhood in Worcester, Massachusetts and Maine visiting her grandmother. Perkins’ grandmother had a significant impact on her values, especially pertaining to her preference of a private lifestyle. Perkins involvement with social justice began while she was a college student at Mt. Holyoke (MA). She went to meetings of the college National Consumers’ League, which was dedicated to the elimination of child labor and sweatshops.

And for the other half of the assignment, in this part I choose contemporary photographer Sheila Pree Bright. The reason I selected Sheila Pree Bright is largely her work, which not only was amazing but also portraying wide ranges of contemporary society and its flaws. Moreover, she seems to found a way to show what Generation Y’s view on society look like as if it were a documentary kind of like the photos of Dorothea Lange. Therefore, the next paragraph I will talk about, her works and what are my thoughts on them.

First, in her private life she demonstrated her capacity to be unconventional. She was brave not afraid to take a position that was not popular with the people around her. For example, in her youth she told adults in her conservative Republican community that she was a Democrat to get a reaction out of them (). Her interactions with her traditional mother, an avid church goer certainly shaped Frances Perkins' perceptions of the poor and motivated her to help them. Her mother encouraged her to do works of charity and get to know the poor. After graduating college, she became more non-traditional moving to the city to teach and to then she pursued social work, which was highly unusual for a woman her time. Even her marriage to her husband Paul was unorthodox, they had a simple ceremony without inviting her family or friends. Plus, she

For some, a picture is just a beautiful work of art, but for Lewis Hine photography was a way to communicate a message to the world. When Hine was taught the photographic process, it was still being established. This being said, photojournalism was also just evolving as a method to visually communicate information. In an effort to better his photography skills, Hine began to photograph the immigrants of Ellis Island. He was very adamant about social reform and reflected this in his work. Lewis Hine’s captivating photos inspired social change in America for the less fortunate.

Henry Peach Robinson was an English Pictorialist photographer who was best known for his methods of combination printing. Robinson was a trained artist as a painter and a print maker. In 1852, Robinson considered photography to be his full time profession.

The turning point of Robert Capa’s photography career and his influences on photography begins at the Spanish Civil War. Robert Capa did not went to the assignment alone, but he was going along with Gerda Taro. The assignment started horribly because there was a malfunction on the plane that they were riding. The plane has to perform an emergency landing which did not harm Robert and Gerda. However, they are left to walk their way to Spain to finish their assignment. The city was already torn apart by the war between the republicans and the nationalists. The despair war did not discourages Robert Capa’s hope to captures the important part of the war, but it encourages him to take more risk. As he stopped at Cerro Muriano, where he capture the

Robert Capa was born into a Jewish family on October 22, 1913 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. Capa had a mother named Julianna Berkovits and a brother who was also a photographer named Cornell Capa. When Capa was younger, he was interested in a group of socialists, experimental artists, and photographers. Capa originally wanted to be a writer, but found work in Berlin and grew to love art. Capa was also educated in Berlin at a private German Academy for politics.

Jack Kerouac’s introduction meticulously puts Robert Frank’s photographs into words. Both the text and pictures complement each other well, pictures evolve in the audience’s mind while reading the text. As a person who saw Frank’s photographs before reading the introduction, I knew which pictures Kerouac was describing in his text. As well, Kerouac’s text opens the reader to new interpretations of Frank’s images; for example, “... Hoboken in the winter, platform full of politicians all ordinary looking till suddenly at the far end to the right you see one of them pursing his lips in prayer politico (yawning probably) not a soul cares” (Kerouac ).

Jazz photography is an unending experience in discovering motion, feelings, light and interconnection of the human form with musical instruments and each other. Some rules of photographing a portrait apply to it, but the unpredictability of movements, emotions and the need for working with available light make it more similar to the practice of candid photography. Also, the human aspects of it – who to shoot and when, the question of photographer’s courage to cross boundaries and get close, invisibility, visibility, and the speed – make it similar to street photography.

Pictures are memories to lots of people. No matter if its going to a party, graduation, or celebration people want to remember these things. When photographers take pictures they want to make people leap with joy, cry with sorrow, stomp with anger, or sigh with relaxation. What ever the emotion the photographer has accomplished their goal, to make people feel something. Kind of like movie directors, photographers want people to walk away thinking their art changed them some way. Even if its just changes the way they look at trees or clouds something's different.

Helmut Newton was a German-Australian fashion photographer, October 31st, 1920 to January 4th, 2004, who was very influential because he helped change how the fashion world took photos. While working for the French, American, German, Italian, and British editions of Vogue magazine, he changed how the fashion world took photographs because he got out of the safe zones that were already established and made new bold work that got people’s attention. He let women show their sexuality up close instead of just making them look distant and wooden. The fashion photographers of today still use the same approach he started because it makes the photo and the clothes the model is wearing more interesting. He also made it to where it’s common to see things that used to be considered taboo, like fetishes, kinks, lesbians, and people will not be shocked by it. Helmut Newton helped change how the world views sex and fashion just by wanting to try more risqué things; things that he only got away with because of the time period and all of the stuff that happened in the 1960’s.

Molloy, Saul. “5 Key Skills for the Modern Photographer.” Digital Photography School. N.p. 31 Mar. 2011. Web. 20 Feb 2018.

her Oxford years and during her early years in politics. It led her to become