History of Graphic Design Assignment 1

Exercise 3 b

Types of Photography

1. Portrait - Portrait photography or portraiture is the capture by means of photography of the likeness of a person or a small group of people (a group portrait), in which the face and expression is predominant. The objective is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the subject.
2. Landscape - Photographs typically capture the presence of nature and are often free of man-made obstructions. Landscape photographers usually attempt not only to convey the documentary aspect, but also an appreciation of the scenery that is being photographed.
3. Macro - Macro photography is close-up photography of usually very small subjects. The classical definition is that the image projected is close to the same size as the subject.
4. Social - Social photography is a subcategory of photography focusing upon the technology, interaction and activities of individuals who take photographs. Digital cameras, photo sharing websites and the Internet have enabled new tools and methods of social networking that have led to a worldwide increase in socially connected photographers.
5. Monotone – this type of photography is in black and white. This form of photography can vary from portrait or landscape and contain a wide variety of subjects.
6. Architecture - Architectural photography captures the different forms of the vast range of buildings, structures and sculptures in new ways and different angles.
7. Wildlife - Wildlife photography is regarded as one of the more challenging forms of photography. As well as needing sound technical skills, such as being able to expose correctly, wildlife photographers generally need good field craft skills.
8. Paparazzi - Paparazzi is an Italian term used to refer to photojournalists who specialize in candid photography of celebrities, politicians, and other prominent people.
9. Surreal - Surrealism in photography was one of the major revolutionary changes in the evolution of photography. Rather than art, photography was reviewed as a copying effort. The surrealistic art forms were the true representations of the path of mind.
10. Journalistic - Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism (the collecting, editing, and presenting of news material for publication or broadcast) that creates images in order to tell a news story. It is now usually understood to refer only to still images, but in some cases the term also refers to video used in broadcast journalism.

Examples of above mentioned types:

portriat

landscape

macro

social

monotone

Architecture

Paparazzi

surreal

Journalistic

The Effect of photograhy on the Public Consciousness:

I think the effect is that the public looks at the photograhys published in magazines, newspapers, internet and books and shape their apperance, views, interests and hobby around it. Thus photography is used as a means to control the public, e.g. a new range of makeup comes out, a photo of a "beautiful" woman wearing the make up is published and once seen by those who read the magazine the photo was published in they will go out and buy it.