Magnum Photos Essays

  • Henri Cartier-Bresson

    544 Words  | 2 Pages

    and Robert Capa started the cooperative photo agency known as Magnum. Magnum was born because of a struggle between photojournalists and magazines. Magazines were constantly taking advantage of photographers. Magnum was established to end this by having its members band together as a group and establish strict guidelines for magazine payment and usage rights. Magnum represents only its members and its members stand behind one another. Over the years Magnum has evolved into kind of an elite club.

  • Life of W. Eugene Smith

    1194 Words  | 3 Pages

    William Eugene Smith was an American photographer who produced photographic projects that changed how photographs were portrayed. Rather than a photo being a photo, he told stories through his photographs, through a practice called photojournalism. His photographic projects depicted people in their everyday lives, but in different situations. The photographs he took did not hide anything that he saw from the audience no matter how graphic the scenery may appear to be. His photography methods differed

  • Robert Capa The Falling Soldier Analysis

    832 Words  | 2 Pages

    writer but instead became a photographer and he covered five different wars during his career: the Spanish Civil War in 1936, World War II, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the Second Sino-Japanese War and the First Indochina War. In 1947 he co-founded Magnum Photos with, Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Vandivert, David Seymour and George Rodger. In 1951 he would become President of the company. The company, as stated by their website, “is a living archive updated daily with new work from across the globe”

  • Henri Cartier-Bresson

    616 Words  | 2 Pages

    hospitals of Republican Spain in 1937 and his film on the liberation of the concentration camps with Richard Banks called Le Retour (1945). His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1946, and in 1947 he became co-founder of The Magnum photographic agency. He has published over a dozen books and has had his photographs printed in hundreds of magazines. Cartier-Bresson traveled the world so that he may document and present to others the human condition. His photographs transcend

  • Sebastiao Salgardo’s Activist Photography

    1770 Words  | 4 Pages

    Exhibitions | 2010 | Henri Cartier-Bresson. [online] Available at: http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2010/henricartierbresson/#/themes/2/119.html [Accessed: 2 Jan 2014]. Paulcoatesphoto.com. 2013. Photographers: Sebastiao Salgado | Paul Coates Photo. [online] Available at: http://www.paulcoatesphoto.com/2013/07/photographers-sebastiao-salgado.html [Accessed: 2 Jan 2014]. Photophilanthropy.org. 2014. PhotoPhilanthropy. [online] Available at: http://photophilanthropy.org/ [Accessed: 2 Jan 2014]

  • Nbc And The Innovation Of Television News, 1945-1953

    1167 Words  | 3 Pages

    understood by the audience. They started by experimenting with the combination of the method used by radio stations and the method used by theatrical newsreels. The news-anchor would recite the news while music played in the background, complimenting photos, filmed events, and headlines that were displayed on the screen. This program was first used by NBC in 1940 on a show called "The Esso Television Reporter" that was financed by Standard Oil. During World War II, all of the progress that NBC was making

  • Analysis of Photo of the Civil Rights Movement

    769 Words  | 2 Pages

    Americans protested and fought for what they believed in through peaceful and violent protests. In this picture the struggle is shown on how difficult it was for African Americans to gain equal rights. The photo was taken in the midst of a protest which adds dramatic effect, the people in the photo show pain and the people not pictured make them a faceless foe and the lack of colors in the picture helps send a powerful message. As I look at this picture I feel bad for the hard times that these people

  • A Twiggy Image

    3744 Words  | 8 Pages

    and chin. This face graced the cover of Life , Look , Newsweek , Vogue , and Seventeen and filled pages within numerous American magazines and newspapers. The body that supported such a face stood as the foundation for fame and the force driving the photos. Measuring five-feet six inches from her blond head to her trendy shoed toes, she was lanky. At only ninety-one pounds, the long limbs were nothing but flesh and bone. Knobby knees and jutting elbows made graceful movements angular. Flat. No breasts

  • Ethics/Legal/IEP Essay

    1411 Words  | 3 Pages

    persons “mercy killings,” the film explains how they, the disabled, are unable to function as “real” human beings, and that if they had the mental facilities to make the choice, they would choose death over such a menial existence. Showing gruesome photos of the severely physically disfigured, the propaganda seeks not only to convince, but to scare the masses into agreement. On the other hand, films such as Regular Lives demonstrate the ability of disabled individuals not only to survive, but to

  • Various Art Critiques

    929 Words  | 2 Pages

    dearly just experienced a tragic and untimely death. He is in early depression. I could feel the pain depicted in his eyes. A book titled The Unquiet Grave lying open on the floor by the unmade bed suggesting something is left unresolved. The scattered photos and papers by the bedside cause redintegration. The picture of Medusa’s head screaming on the headboard is a silent scream filled with anger and pain, yet it cannot be heard. I feel as if I am in the one sitting in the chair and I can feel the anger

  • munipulation in the media

    844 Words  | 2 Pages

    across some type of advertisement, wither it be watching television, seeing billboards, reading magazines, or listening to the radio. These advertisements all instill into people’s heads, what they are is not good enough. Most advertisements show photos of women and men with no wrinkles and flawless skin, no fat and built bodies, or stylish clothes and trendy accessories. These types of advertisements give men and women an unrealistic perspective of what they “could” look like, not suggesting the

  • Hidden Words And The Life Of Middle School

    1270 Words  | 3 Pages

    captured the year through photographs, student produced artwork, and captions. Sports held a prominent place in the pages of the yearbook: photos of football, wrestling (which I both proudly represented as team captain), track, and baseball events for the boys; and track, tennis, volleyball, and basketball for the girls filled the pages. The book also contained photos of the school mascot, a drug and alcohol awareness club, and the drama club. At Fayette Middle School, the yearbook had become a critical

  • Wedding Speech Delivered by the Bride

    1114 Words  | 3 Pages

    like “The Simpsons” than Edward and Mrs but I trust we can be as happy as that couple were. I have some thanks to make. Firstly Paula – thanks for the “hairdo” and busting a gut to get here on time to have a trial run. Ben – thanks for taking photos for our guest book and thank you all for posing and signing it. Sarah – you made your dress, you looked after me on my hen night (I’ll forgive you for buying me that Tia Maria and get you back some time). You have been the perfect Best Woman and

  • Speech

    570 Words  | 2 Pages

    Speech is not just someone’s written or voiced opinions but it is also the way that person tries to express his or her ideas or believes using other meanings. Gestures, signs, paintings, photos, etc…are different forms of speech. Our government guarantees free speech but not that anyone can make speech at any time, at any place, and talk about anything. Then this country could be an awful place to live. Imagine that loud noise from speakers and subwoofers from cars that are driven through your neighborhood

  • My Life is a Cluttered Drawer

    541 Words  | 2 Pages

    often look at is a picture of Time Square New York. This particular picture I took myself. I look at this for motivation, motivation that one day I will be in the city of opportunity. The picture I keep right beside my new York picture is an army photo. A photo of one of my buddies out in the field gun by his side. This picture gives me a completely different feeling. A feeling of appreciation for the solders that are fighting for our country at this point in time. Every parent or friend with a picture

  • Movie Review

    525 Words  | 2 Pages

    mystery, as a bored Pfeiffer spies on her new neighbors, a troubled couple who fight a lot. Around the same time that the next-door wife seemingly disappears, Pfeiffer starts experiencing poltergeist-like activity in her house. Doors won't stay shut, photos fall from ledges, and finally she starts seeing the image of a pretty blonde woman in reflections in fogged-up mirror and in the water of a full bathtub. Pfeiffer and Ford have a good and believable chemistry, and there are some genuine thrills generated

  • Analysis of Joy Williams' Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp

    899 Words  | 2 Pages

    starts by bringing a pessimistic view to photographs of nature, by describing what may or may not lie just outside the boundaries of the picture. Mockingly she leads the reader to assume that there are no real nature photos left in the world, but rather only digitaly enhanced photos of nature wit... ... middle of paper ... ...ral issue that many humans contemplate seriously while changing the disposable diaper on their baby?s bottom, without having to be thankful for the technology that supplies

  • Ads

    2099 Words  | 5 Pages

    advertisement for a book that I can easily purchase for a measly $9.97 plus shipping and handling. The ad instructs me that this is the latest book from Maxim's secret vault and it is so hot that it should be illegal! Illegal? It is also packed with scorching photos that are too hot for them to show! As I read on I am instructed that I will not believe it till I see it! And I must act now to receive a complimentary poster for the first 100 orders. I thought to myself that perhaps they should have offered a free

  • Family as Theater in Eudora Welty's Why I Live at the P.O.

    890 Words  | 2 Pages

    with Mama, Papa-Daddy and Uncle Rondo until my sister Stella-Rondo just separated from her husband and came back home again. Mr. Whitaker! Of course I went with Mr. Whitaker first, when he first appeared here in China Grove, taking "Pose Yourself" photos, and Ste... ... middle of paper ... ...eful to show us, the narrator is not the only self-centered, melodramatic member of this family. Given the family history, we can be fairly sure that things will soon be back to normal. The narrator will

  • Mad About Science

    909 Words  | 2 Pages

    they all wanted photos to remember how much taller than them I was. But the most valuable part of the exhibition for me was walking around to other countries' booths. When I asked the students to tell me about their projects, they were always happy to describe their work. What really impressed me was the practicality and creativeness of their projects, and that so many groups of students from so many different schools could come up with such great projects. I tried to take a photo or video of each