Portfolio Week 1: Photographic Genres. (DT2)

www.shutha.org/photo-genres - Article on Photographic Genres.

Which Genres require more photo retouching? Why do you think that is?
- The Creative genre of photography would require more retouching than any of the others, this is because the photographic genre opens up the opportunity for fantasy themes. This came mean some photo manipulation to create unrealistic scenes. Within the Creative genre there are very little limitations depending on the sub-genre.

France, 1932. Marseille.

Can you think of any photographers we looked at last term who fit into an editorial genre? Which editorial genre do they fit into? What approach do they take to their style of photography?
-We chose Henri Cartier-Bresson, whose photography is sub categorised as documentary, social documentary.
-His approach is well within the doumentary style, what you see is what you get. With the photograph to the right, it is very simple, but beautiful in the way that there is a lot going on, but you're not overwhelmed by all that is going on. I think the classic black and white of the image helps with this, and the leading lines within the photograph help direct the viewer to the center as well as the reflection. I love how clear the reflection in this image is, I don't think it would work half as well if it wasn't so clear. The composition itself is very much within the documentary style, it almost looks like I hasty snapshot, although this is probably not the case at all.

Untitled 
'Twilight'
2001-2002
48 x 60 in. (121.9 x 152.4 cm)
Digital C-print

Can you think of any photographers we looked at last term who fit into a creative genre? Which Creative Genre do they fit into? What approach do they take to their style of photography?
-For this question, we chose Gregory Crewdson, whose artwork is categorised as Creative-Fine art-Other.
-His approach is very thought out, every little detail that could be in a scene, is there. Crewdson's images are well planned and orchestrated, from the 'natural' lighting to the highlighting of small objects and details. The works are very unusual, like this one. I didn't know what to think of it at first, many questions came to me when looking at this image, but even with discussion, none were really answered. 

Can you think of a photographer who fits into the Creative Fine Art genre? Could this photographer fit into any of the Editorial genres as well?
-There are a few photographers that we studied that could fit into both genres. Ansel Adams fits well into both Creative and Editorial genres. His works are both Editorial-Nature-Landscape as well as Fine Art.

Where will your photography this term fit on these graphs?
-I like the idea of doing something in the style of Robert Frank, so an Editorial based, photo journalism or documentary. I also like the idea of doing something fine art based involving people, so I'm not entirely sure, but possibly one or the other.