Tuesday 23 October 2012



Henri Cartier- Bresson 1933
Germany national socialist party
born in the modern warfare 

Henri's photos that he shot, was not set up and snapped, they was photos shot out of the blue, inspiered by day to day life, things he just happened to come across.
He said you had to be in the right place at the right time, but its also like a game of pounce.

photo gernolism was born in the cayos of the war, when the fighting stopped the question remaind of just how good photography had been and explaining what all the blood and suffering had been about.

with in 6 years the disisive moment and the historical moment would collide on the battle fields of europe this would cause world iconic pictures of war by legionary photographers like robbert capper.

what is photo journalism?

Photojournalism is where someone  taking photo's of events, such as the war, this is done to tell us the story. They somethimes add captions (text). Really the photos are basically telling a story.
It shows us a picture and lets our imagination carry on the story.
 This photo was one of many that he shot, the man jumping over a big puddle, it was caught at the right moment and time, if he had not walked past at this pacific time, then he would not have made the shot and caputred something so unusual and unexpected. the shot was in black and white but it turnt out amazing as the reflection stands out.


Eddie Adams
from 1933 to 2004


this one picture has caused contraversy because many people found this rather shocking and distubing as not back in the day you wasnt aloud to execute prisonors for no reason and whithout having a trial first. This caused many problems and meant that america dropped out of this war.

the photo brings a better fell and emotion but lets you think about the picture itself, where as the clip that was also shot seemed to be fast and instant, it doesnt give you the same feeling as the photo and is also doesnt let you think about the photo or think about both sides.
eddie adams himself said about the impact of the photo made him feel and say these very words “The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them; but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths.… What the photograph didn’t say was, ‘What would you do if you were the general at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called bad guy after he blew away one, two or three American people?”