Henri Carter-Bresson's photography is a brilliant example of Photo Journalism.
Henri Carter-Bresson was a French photographer that took photos throughout the early 90s.
The camera which made his famous photography was the Lecia camera which was invented in 1925 in Germany, it's revolutionary technology made photography quick and quiet meaning he could get a photo the exact moment which he wants giving him instant photography.
| The Leica 1925 |
Robert Capa was a very well known and famous photographer who captured decisive, journalism images, some of the images he has taken are shocking or graphic however, because of images like the ones he has captured,
Context
Photo Journalism photography would be used in many instances such as newspapers, photographs and magazines. Normally, newspapers would only use a photo if it had a story linked too it, like Henri Carter-Bressons photography. Another incident that it is used in is magazines, Robert Capa was a photo journalist for the magazine 'Life' and produced many brilliant photos for the magazines.
Techniques
The technique which Henri Cartier-Bresson used most frequently was the technique of finding a spot, and waiting for what you want to happen, such as this famous photo of a man cycling a bike past him, this was known as the "Decisive moment". His camera made this sort of photography possible because if he had any other sort of camera at this time, he wouldn't of been able to capture images instantly.
When taking images in public, he would very frequently have black tape around all of the chrome parts of the camera so that people wouldn't react differently to being on camera, he would also never use a flash as he saw it as being "Impolite... Like coming to a concert with a pistol in your hand".
To get the types of photos that he wanted, Robert Capa and Tony Vaccaro would risk their lives to get a photo that would tell a story, very few people managed to optain photographs from during World War 2 but because they where in the action, they managed too get many great photos.
Vaccaro's photos where even banned for their graphic content of dead soldiers. Capa and Vaccaro did not see themselves as soldiers, or didn't even think of survival, only capturing another photograph, another story.
