ITAP 3 Photography

_{IT AP Photography -3}

_{1) What is described as "one of the most familiar concepts of photography'"?} 

_{One of the most familiar concepts in photography” is capturing a moment. It has been described as capturing reality or a decisive moment. The image that is regarded as defining this statement was photographed in 1933 by Henry Cartier Bresson, showing a man leaping a puddle, which is seen as noting European society leap into the unknown with the advent of World War II, strangely decisive moments sometimes only become clear with the passage of time.}

_{2) Should you trust a photograph?} 

_{"No, it was a huge mistake from the beginning to do so".}

_{3) What was revolutionary about the Leica in 1925?} 

_{It was instant, handheld, and had a you viewfinder at the back of the camera, which aided quick selection of a composition, it offered unprecedented freedom, as the photographers were now release from the necessity to use a tripod.}

_{4) George Bernard Shaw say about all paintings of Christ?} 

_{He would have traded them all one snapshot of Jesus.}

_{5) Why were Tony Vaccaro's negatives destroyed by the army senses?} 

_{There were too graphic, showing dead GI's which were deemed unsuitable the general public to see.}

_{6) Who was Henryk Ross what was his job?} 

_{Before World War II Ross was a photojournalist. During the war, he was interned in the notorious Lodz Ghetto, which had a population of 164,000 Polish Jews who were held captive there until the site was liquidated 1944, for a total four years. The running of the ghetto was maintained by the captives, who ran it like and many independent state, except that they are answerable to the Germans who needed it to get to be self financing.}

_{Ross work for the Department of Administration and Statistics, his job was to document the production of goods that were manufactured to finance the German operation. However, Ross documented lot more besides manufactured good, he kept a record of what daily life was like in the ghetto and even risked his life photographing German troops shipping and Jews to the death camps.} 

_{7) Which was a "sticking plaster for the wounds of the war', how many people saw it and what 'cliche'  did it end on?}

_{This was the exhibition 'The Family of Man'.The exhibition was walking in style Life Magazine, that opened in New York in 1955. It exhibited over 500 images from some 273 photographers, professionals and amateurs alike. Five travelling versions of the exhibition toured the world netting 9 million visitors by 1964 and was the most popular photographic show of all time.  W Eugene Smith's photograph of his young children closed the show. This was a sentimental image of the toddlers, holding hands, and walking into the light, this being a metaphor for man's bright future.}