Robert Capa
	Robert Capa was born in Budapest, hungary in 1913. Robert Capa is most known for his photographs in war. Known for obtaining photos taken during a war that shows what it is like to be in a war. Showing things like the hardships that soldiers have to endure and the suffering of people whose homes and cities were destroyed as a result of war. His photos are divided into three categories: images of battle, images of the effect of war on individual soldiers and civilians, and the images of peace. As the photographer, he did more than just sit back and take the pictures, he also participated, getting as close as he could to the action just to take a good picture. He died sometime in 1954 by stepping on a land mine.
	In the time of World War I the standard camera used by war photographers was the medium-sized bellows extended Graflex with four by-five inch plates. This camera, being fairly large made making candid shots and maneuvering in dangerous situations impossible. Later the 35 mm Leica allowed Capa to do these things. The camera allowed him to be inconspicuous and have a large capability of movement. With this camera he was able to jump into battles to take pictures that no one else was ever able to take.
	One of the main things that Robert Capa tried to capture were the emotions of his subjects. He always tried to portray things such as their sorrow or their shock, mainly focusing on the expressions of the subjects’ faces to show what emotions they might be feeling.
	Despite his worldwide recognition Capa denied the title of a photographer. He always preferred to refer to himself as a photo journalist. To try to prove that he was not a photographer he hated artistic pretension in his medium and refused to learn any more photographic technique than he deemed necessary. In the darkroom he was so careless that many people wondered if he scratched his negatives purposely to try to prove his point that he was not a photographer.
The impact of discovering something for the first time can often broaden our understanding and lead to new innovations. In Simon Nasht’s documentary; Frank Hurley: The Man Who Made History, Hurley spent most of his life trying to capture the beauty of nature as well as capture photos of war to create emotion and illustrate the hardships that was experienced in WWI and WWII. Representations of discovery can vary one’s understanding of the physical aspects encountered in the process of discovering and this has been portrayed through the montage in the early scenes of the documentary. The combination of archival footage with non-diegetic
On July 18, 1918, Rolihlahla Mandela was born into the Madiba clan in Mvezo, Transkei. His parents were Nonqaphi Nosekeni and Nkosi Mphakanyiswa Gadla Mandela. Nkosi was the principal counsellor to the acting King of the Thembu People, Jongintaba Dalindyebo. Rolihlahlas father died when he was a child. When his father died, Rolihlahla became a ward of Jongintaba, at the Great Place, in Mquekezweni. Rolihlahla dreamed of making his own contribution to the freedom struggle of his people. Nelson Mandela Foundation.
Capote uses different voices to tell the story, creating an intimacy between the readers and the murders, the readers and the victims, and all the other players in this event—townspeople, investigators, friends of the family. This intimacy lead...
Anger and frustration can also be expressed in negative ways, such as any form of crime including murder. An example of this is a man and his wife are arguing; he becomes enraged and murders his wife in the heat of the disagreement. This man has a clean record; he has never committed a murder or crime of any kind before “Statistical trends would project that he won’t murder again” (Samenow 2). This man is not a “monster,” psychopath, or a freak of nature; he is a normal person who reacted in an entirely wrong way to a hostile and stressful situation. He knew what he was doing was wrong, but he rationalized the crime with his emotions and feelings rather than his morals. “Evil is in all of us, really, but it’s how it’s expressed” that separates criminals and law abiding citizens (Prattini). The correlation between this and Capote is that he is portraying the murders of the Clutter family in the same way: a crime of misguided
Capote’s general style revolves around a family and home destroyed within a context of hidden corruption, alienation, and loneliness (Kazin). His sympathy and compassion towards his characters shows how involved he is in his subjects.
Confucius once said, “The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.” Many people across the world deem family as the most important aspect of their life. Family is something that often teaches us moral values and helps shape the individuals we become later in our lives. The values taught by family are not only essential, but will help develop the moral character of an individual. In the short story, “Cakes,” Salvatore La Puma conveys the prominence of family values in Italian-American immigrant culture in the 1940’s industrial era.
The other emotion highly present from the beginning is that of the attitude of Robert. We are introduced to what appears to be a quick witted and pleasant man, especially considering the recent death of his wi...
...el through time and show newer generations of the events of the past and the rich history of a particular country. With the use of all the technology over the years, photography has now become a major part of everyday life and the photographer behind the camera.
With reference to the films you have studied for this topic, explore in detail two of the key elements that produce an emotional response in the spectator.
Capote used pathos in this book mostly to make the reader sad or feel sympathy for a character. In the beginning of the bo...
When looking at the influence of the reign of Queen Victoria it is almost impossible not to look at the birth of photography. In a book written by Getty Museum Curator Anne Lyden, Victoria’s influence on photography is looked at intently, from her first time encounter with the new technology to her famous Diamond Jubilee portrait. Victoria was able to use this new technology from a young age in a way that it would take years to become main-stream. That photography was not just an artistic medium but was an instrument of propaganda. (Lyden, 2014)
After the war, Avedon went back to school, at the New School for Social Research, to pursue photography and learn from Alexey Brodovitch, a well known photographer and designer at the Harper’s Bazaar magazine. Brodovitch influenced Avedon to take high caliber photos and eventually hired him as a staff photographer at the magazine. It was at Harper’s Bazaar where Richard’s career really took off. He was sent to France in the late 1940’s to take a fashion photo shoot. From then on Avedon was renowned as an extremely talented photographer, who captured everyone’s attention with his pictures of flowing dresses and unposed fashion portraits.
Robert Owen was born in Newtown, Montgomeryshire (Wales) on May 14, 1771, the sixth of seven children. His father was a sadler and ironmonger who also served as local postmaster; his mother came from one of the prosperous farming families of Newtown.
... the first photographers to be able to take photos at night and he showed the public of the interiors of homes and factories in order to show vividly the living and working conditions of New York’s poor. He would then publicize the pictures in order to show the world what was going on in these parts of the country. Until the end of his life he continued to write and lecture about the conditions of America’s poor.
"History of photography and photojournalism.." History of photography and photojournalism.. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Nov. 2013. .