Assignment 2_Press Photography versus Art Photography
This is an Assignment 2 for Photography:Shooting the Truth.
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Assignment 2_Press Photography versus Art Photography
by SungKu Lee
Option1
Press Photography
1972. Trangbang, South Vietnam, 8 June 1972. Phan Thi Kim Phuc (center) flees from the scene where South Vietnamese planes have mistakenly dropped napalm. Photo Credit: (Nick) Ut Cong Huynh, Vietnam, The Associated Press.
February 1, 1968. South Vietnam police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan shots a young man, whom he suspects to be a Viet Kong soldier. Photo Credits: Eddie Adams, USA, The Associated Press.
Eddie Adams
Adams has taken some of the most iconic and devastating photos we know. He won the Pulitzer prize for this photo in Vietnam of Vietnamese General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong lieutenant at point-blank range.
Art Photography
Jock Sturges. Fine Art Photography. Line of Beauty and Grace.
This image emphasis beauty of human and nature that link the human heart with nature.
Jock Sturges. Fine Art Photography. Line of Beauty and Grace.
This image emphasis beauty of human and nature that link the human heart with nature.
Jock Sturges (born 1947) is an American photographer, best known for his images of nude adolescents and their families. Sturges graduated with a BFA in Perceptual Psychology and Photography from Marlboro College and received an MFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute
1. The main differences and similarities between art and press photography;
Art photographs and press photographs tell a story to viewers. Moreover, it is very similar to a picture using visual aids. However, there is a difference between art and press because it shows the intention which has a different object. Art photographs are not restricted by any rules. You have freedom when you take pictures and it is also possible to fix whatever artists want and replace something as they intend another thing. It tells a creative story of artists so doing this, they can go inside the art deeply. Not means it only picture but shares thinking such as insight that includes the meaning inside. Art photographs reflect what communicate with viewers they want. It also emphasis the emotional content of the subject. It need not to shed of true light and not to report picture existing originally. The main goal is to capture an image that represents an interpretation of the subject.
Press photographs, on the other hand, can not be changed while artist is taking pictures. It is impossible to not only fix the picture also correct this. It is only reported and employed by firm. Press photographs have to be ethical and follow the guideline. Plus, It has to be public and correct. For example, it press photographer manipulate pictures, these are not press photographs. These are art photographs. They should not distort the truth. It has to describe origin picture simply and admit of no doubt. However, It touches viewers as it shows the realty at the moment because it is true. It can be shown on newspapers or magazines and while viewers are scanning, it provides viewers to visual materials and it gives them to focus on the subject. Art photographs are metaphor and press photographs are spontaneous.
2. Is it ethical and acceptable to alter art photographs? Why? Why not?
There is no doubt art photographs are possible to manipulate and revise by the artists when they express themselves. They can fix their pictures and by doing so, they can not only make creative visions of the picture but also show their own world. Not limited by anything but reflecting other thinking. For these reasons, it is ethical then and acceptable to alter art photographs.
3. Is it ethical and acceptable to alter press photographs? Why? Why not?
We can call press photographs to news photographs. These are used in connection and supported with the reporting of news by the media, via the Internet, magazines and newspapers. People want to know what happened around us so they use the media. That’s why press photographs have to follow some specific guidelines and rules. They also have to follow a journalistic code. If press photographers put their thinking into the picture, the viewers are misled by wrong information implied from the altered images. It is not allowed to use untruthful information. It should show the truth. For these reasons, it is not ethical or acceptable to alter press photographs.
References
http://bitsbypieces.blogspot.ca/2012/03/eddie-adams-good-stuff.html
http://www.amadelio.org/volumes_entries/jock_sturges_photography/sturges_html/content/fine_art_jock_sturges_03_large.html
http://gregorythielker.com/gamle/gamle.html
http://justmarianne.tumblr.com/tagged/illustration
http://www.eccofineart.com/en-fine-art-photos/ecco-photographic-fine-art-photos-photography.htm
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