How visual language communicates ideas and meaning.
A commercial photographer could be described as a fashion/studio photographer who makes their models look as beautiful and thin as they can in a studio or controlled area. They use equipment in order to do this for example backdrops, soft boxes, umbrellas and light boxes. The images taken from studio photography can be used in magazines as their front cover. This links into journalist photography because if a celebrity is featured on the front cover then a journalist will take photographs of the featured celebrity which look very different to the cover image as they have been beautified.
Whereas a journalist follows a celebrity for as long as they need to to get a story about them which they can sell on to magazines. A journalists equipment is a zoom lens and a very good disguise so they can blend in whilst getting their story. Another technique a journalist uses is trying to make a celebrity look as bad as possible by the angles of photographs taken e.g an upward angle in the streets or places the celebrity go for example clubs and the celebrity comes out drunk. The photographs taken of celebrities in bad poses are then used in magazines, newspapers and are sometimes featured on the news.
This is the Pieta painted by Annibale Carracci. Pieta means pity in Italian and was painted in the 16th century.
This painting is of Supper at Emmaus by Caravaggio in 1606.
Whereas a journalist follows a celebrity for as long as they need to to get a story about them which they can sell on to magazines. A journalists equipment is a zoom lens and a very good disguise so they can blend in whilst getting their story. Another technique a journalist uses is trying to make a celebrity look as bad as possible by the angles of photographs taken e.g an upward angle in the streets or places the celebrity go for example clubs and the celebrity comes out drunk. The photographs taken of celebrities in bad poses are then used in magazines, newspapers and are sometimes featured on the news.
This is the Pieta painted by Annibale Carracci. Pieta means pity in Italian and was painted in the 16th century.
This photograph is by Georges Merillon taken in 1990 showing a family and neighbours grieving after a member passed away.
I have chosen these three images because they are different in time but the same in content or composition, when the photographs are laid out like this you can see the similarities. For example the predominate figure in the middle, with something across the bottom third also people crowded around the predominate figure and the object/person laying across the bottom. Although the photographer and the painter of the Pieta are from a different time they have the same techniques within their painting or photograph. One of the main techniques all the images have in common is lighting from one side of the image. This technique is used to symbolizes grief, sorrow and moodiness and it does convey that message.
Another photograph which copies this style is an advertisement for the colours of Benetton clothing that I found:
Again this follows the same composition of crowding around a person. As the Pieta is very well famous Benetton have used it within their advertisement to raise awareness of AIDS. When you see these photographs with someone clutching onto another person you do immediately think of Mary holding Jesus when he died but you also do feel compassion for the people within the photograph. I think the painting of the Pieta will be used for many images to convey sorrow.
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