Thomas Hoepker

It was a bright sunny autumn day people were ralxing in shorts and t-shirt, the sea was calm and a beautiful shade of blue, the trees and plants and brightly coloured with vibrant greens but in the background is a different story. A thick black clowd of smoke covers the sky while the buildings are burning beneath it. The people in the photograph appear not to be at all affected by the disaster happening just across the water, this caused the photo to cause a lot of controvasy when it was finally released on the fith annvesary of 9/11 and

Photojournalism part 2

Robert Capa was one of the photographers for the second world war. He said his rules for photography was
1) get close
2) get closer
Tony vaccaro was also a photographer in the second world war but was also a solidor. He made some of the best photographers of world war two. Vaccaro couldnt afford a likar unlike Capa so he felt jealous of capa's work. Instead he used a Argus c3.
They both thought of the photography rather than the survial.
When Vaccaro took one of his photo's of a man he felt the picture would look better from higher up so he stood on his tip toes and took the photo, he had been spotted and could hear the sound of the bullets hitting the tank as he jumped down to the floor and just looked and the body.
Everyone was waiting for the pictures that Capa had taken for example life magazine. People wanted to know what was happeing at war. When the pictures finally got back home the world wasnt ready to see what war was like and found it too shocking this lead to some of the photographs being banned.
 The pictures tell you about being in the write place at the right time with a camera but also for surivival.
Roger Thenton also took pictures of a war that used horse and cannons but he was not on the frontline like Capa and Vaccaro he saw some of after the war, he took a picture of a pathway filled cannon balls. this image was just as powerful because people couldnt imagine being in this situation.
After world war two Capa wet to hollywood to continue taking photo's on a flim set and Vaccaro stayed in Germany.
Eddie Adams is the photographer that took the photograph in Vietnan of the police officer shooting the man in the head. When this image was taken it was also caught on film but the picture stayed in peoples heads more than the film footage as it is constanly there looking at it. the expression on the man's face stays with the viewers as they know it is when the bullet hits him.

photojornalism part 1

The desisive moment is when capturing an impage in a split second. One of the most famous disisive moment photographs is of the man jumping over the puddle. It is famous because of the way the man is jumping into the unknown, also the broken hoop was a big deal then as wheels were the first man made object and in this photograph it was broken lying on the floor. the whole photo was not planed which is what makes it so famous because it truely is a disisive moment.

 
Henri carter-bresson is known as the godfather of the disisve moment and is one of the leading people in the world of photojouralism. He is the photographer that took the photo of the man jumping over the puddle.
The leica camera was the first camera to have a quick shutter spead which meant that photographer could catch things right at the moment, whereas before it was impossible for people to do that as it could take at least 10 minutes to take a photograph. An example of this is the man having his shoe ploished, other people were around him but because of the camera you could not see these people in the photograph. Also the leica camera was very known for where the view-finder was on the camera, most have the veiw-finder in the middle so that the camera covered you face and you could not see anything aprt form through the veiw-finder. On the leica camera it was on the left hand side which meant people could see the world around them and also through the view-finder.