Emotional Response

The image ensues a slight fear into the viewer, the way Alfred Krupp is standing with his hands clasped, staring at the camera can be seen as quite malicious, this could’ve been done to show he is a bad person.

Technical – how was the photo taken

Arnold Newman most likely chose to take the image in a darker light to make Alfred Krupp look like a malicious or evil person because of the crimes he committed during WW2. He took the image from above possibly showing how his power has changed – from being in power, being the one who makes the trains to having less power, being in jail.

Visual -what can we see in the image

In the middle of the foreground of the image, there is a white man, who looks to be in his 60s, who has his hands clasped together in a pyramid type shape. Behind him there are lots of different things, there are two pillars, making the image quite symmetrical. There are also objects that are almost like barrels, I’m unsure of what they actually are but they could be train wheels due to Alfred Krupp‘s past and due to the fact that there are trains in the background of the image. There is also a row of lights behind him, making his body quite shadowy.

Conceptual – why was the photo taken / presented

Arnold Newman went around taking images of people who enabled/committed crimes against Jewish people in WW2 as he is a Jewish person himself.

Contextual – who, when, where etc…the story, background, impact

Alfred Krupp (the man in the image) was a German industrialist who built the trains to send the Jewish people to different concentration camps. He also sent tanks and ammunition that he made to the Nazi army. After WW2, he was sentenced to 12 years in prison for war crimes. Arnold Newman (the photographer) was a Jewish photographer and after WW2, he went around photographing different people who enabled or even committed crimes against Jewish people.

The landscape project was one I really enjoyed. I got to be creative with the way I put the images together or took the images. Like these ones:

But then I also got to do just simplistic images of the sky or objects like these ones:

In the end, I got to express my photography style in anyway I wanted in this project and that’s what I enjoyed about it.

Using artsteps, I made a virtual gallery of my final images.

Mr Toft showed us how to do kaleidoscope images.

The original image:

This is my final image:

I first went through all my images and checked I had removed all the bad images and then started editing them, making sure the exposure settings and everything else were all good.

My personal favourite edits of my images:

Using more objects from home, I went down to the studio to take some more images for this project. I ended up with 89 images total however a lot of them were quite blurry, this narrowed it down to 42 images total.

First, I went through my images one more time, making sure they were all in focus on the part I wanted and then I started editing them all. A lot of the images needed to have the exposure changed in some way and some were quite blurry but I managed to fix that.

These are some of my favourites edits of my images:

Once my photoshoot was completed, I transferred all the images onto Lightroom.

I finished with 117 images, including the bad images, I then sorted through all of then, flagging all the ones I like. This narrowed it down to 59 images.

Mandy Barker‘s style of photography is what will inspire me in throughout my photoshoots, collecting rubbish from the beach and photographing them on a black background in the studio. I plan to do something similar to these images, using batteries, sea glass, bottle corks and other “pollutant” objects from my house, some of them on the black background and some not.