Who is he?

Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French artist and humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as capturing a decisive moment. Cartier-Bresson was one of the founding members of Magnum Photos

What is the concept of the decisive moment?

The concept of the decisive moment implies that in the constant flow of events, there are moments in which the arrangement of everything within the frame is perfect. These moments are always spontaneous, so a photographer must be ready to click right away.

– Line
– Shape & Form
– Pattern
– Tone
– Colour
– Texture
– Space

Cartier used many quotes to relate within his work and some of them are..

“It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
“To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.” ― Henri Cartier-Bresson
“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.” ― Henri Cartier-Bresson
“A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson

He was a photographer in the 90s and used a Leica 35 mm rangefinder cameras, I will be analysing his photograph’s.

What is it and how can you achive this?

The decisive photo is the moment of perfect position and how you use angles, shapes , lines etc to form the way your photo is being taken. its a spilt second of moment and can be done perfect in a click of a button with the right lay out and how you are trying to style it. Henri was the master of photography, Henri started off with art and drawings first but then turned to photography. He was a member of magnum photo group which is where he took cannon photographs which means the absence of posing – the person must be unaware for the photo to be candied. The point of the decisive moment and candied photos is that you can really feel the intellectual pleasure and seeing and understating what you can se and how you can feel it as well as the backgrounds in the image. Candied photograph’s have relation between shape and geometry. If they don’t relate to these things then its classed as a bad photograph states the photographer.

Here are some examples of some photos I took in St Malo trying to recreate some of Henri’s art.

What is AI photography?

AI-powered cameras let you remove unwanted objects, create special effects, even shoot clearly in low light. The Google Tensor chip helps your camera learn to identify objects quickly, since the processing happens right on the phone. Even pros think Pixel’s AI camera often takes better pictures than a DSLR.

AI is also being used to enhance the quality and accuracy of photographs. With deep learning algorithms, AI tools can automatically identify and remove unwanted artefact’s and noise that can detract from the quality of images.

With the use of AI you can interpret/predict what the future could look/in the past present or future, such as examples of this..

People use AI nowadays for many different reasons and thus could be good or bad, could be mislead or lied to but could also be useful for some people.

Here are my final images.

What went well, what went bad or you wish you could’ve performed better?

What I think went well was the daylight lighting, light tone- it was a perfect pin point for each photo. The distance from the camera to the objects to the person was good as it gave off a warm/cold vibe on a 3d vibe I would say as there is lots of different shapes and colours. The place these photos were taken yo could say looks a little historian as there is rusty, old outgrown plants and objects therefore you could say it has been there years if not decade’s. The concept/art behind these images are that I am trying to capture the moment of element within these images because I wanted to get the colour and timing perfect, however I think I could’ve done a few such that would’ve improved my photography, such as making a couple images black and white this would have created a more sympathetic historical look by changing the colour to black and white it definitely would have drawn my eyes in. I also think I could have done better by choosing a more vast area with more rubbish and plastic to represent Keith Arnatt (1930–2008)more and get the higher idea about antropence but overall I am happy with my final images even though there could have been some improvements I am impressed with what I have managed to do.

For my virtual gallery, I took my final images from Anthropocene and placed them onto a virtual gallery.

For this photoshoot I wanted to capture nature at its best and how people are placing rubbish/objects and how this can affect the envoirment

Landscape

I chose these images because I like the way they look and how they are presented. The background and way the photo is styled is what makes the image stand out – with all the nature and how the photograph focuses on the nature rather than the background buildings.

I went round to different places in jersey and photographed (mainly focusing on nature. Here is shoot 2 with around 300 plus photos.

My favourite images from this shoot are;

What I like about these images is that the lighting/mood and direction of each photo is good. It focuses on the main target of the photo which isn’t blurry and is perfectly aligned in the centre.

This photo shoot was done up in the valleys. I really like these photos because they show character and I included a variety of different locations to represent antropcence. Antropcence is all about us and how we can make an impact on nature, here are some images of shoot1.

Here is the photoshoot, I am going to be editing some of the photos. Here are some of my favourites from the 3 shoots

evaluation – Anthropocene has been considered a geological period of high risk due to the indiscriminate use of natural resources and the lifestyle taken by the world population, to the detriment of ecosystem conservation. I think my pictures turned out good, with analysing different points of the world and how humans can destroy and how there are ethical issues even within photography. I think my images turned out well because there’s loads of different images and angles and I like the fact they look “rusty” however I also think I could’ve taken a bit more photos of rubbish and damage that humans have caused.

An•thro•po•cene

(n) The proposed current geological epoch, in which humans are the primary cause of permanent planetary change. From anthro (or anthropos in Ancient Greek), for “human,” and cene (or kainos in Ancient Greek), for “recent”.

The Anthropocene Project is a multidisciplinary body of work combining fine art photography, film, virtual reality, augmented reality, and scientific research to investigate human influence on the state, dynamic, and future of the Earth.

Focusing on the idea of the environment and nature I am going to photograph images similar to these for my photoshoot.

 Anthropocene would have many events marking human-induced impacts on the planet, including the mass extinction of large vertebrates, the development of early farming, land clearance in the Americas, global-scale industrial transformation during the Industrial Revolution which also shows us the cause and effect of humans on the planet.

Sammy Baloji v  Liu Bolin

Sammy Baloji is a photographer from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He works in Lubumbashi and Brussels, and held exhibitions in Amsterdam, Paris, Brussels, Bilbao, Cape Town and Bamako. He worked on anthropocene artists photographs, such as ..

Why have you chosen this artist?

I’ve chosen this artist because I admire his work and the way he presents his photographs. the way he contras colours and the way his image is presented out interests me the most because it shows us that he takes a lot of work and effort into his images. I want to recreate similar, aesthetic images such as some of his most famous photos. His work relates to anthroponce because its to do with trees and how we are affecting the planet which shows us an insight into the bigger picture he is trying to get across. I am going to respond to his work by recreating similar images such as these:

Here is one of my own images, to nature and sea.

Liu Bolin

Liu Bolin is a contemporary artist born in China’s Shandong province, who specialises in self-portraits where he is disguised to match his surroundings. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Shandong College of Arts in 1995 and his Master of Fine Arts from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 2001. His work is very inspiring, especially if you love nature. I love the idea of taking photos of nature and making it look presentable and showing the world how we are destroying the planet ourselves and I think this is how the two photographers relate because they are both giving the world an insight as to how we are ruining the world, however Bolin more focusing on flowers and beautiful nature which is what I prefer. Bolin’s work relates to the theme of anthroponce because. This is what makes them so similar yet so difference as they are both trying to resemble the same thing but in different ways. As a response to this I am going to photograph nature.

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Both artists respond to dire global and local circumstances with resistance and imagination sustaining an openness, wonder, and curiosity about the world which is what I admire in these images. I like the fact you can take photos of certain and still backgrounds focusing on stuff that we can change and affect.