We were asked this week to attend an exhibition and choose an image from that exhibition to focus on and research around it so we could produce a write up about it.
I went to two exhibitions at Somerset House in London, the first Tim Walker: Story Teller and the second Cartier-Bresson: A Question Of Colour. I found both to be very interesting yet different exhibitions as Tim Walker is primarily a quirky fashion photographer where as Henri Cartier-Bresson and the other featured photographers in the exhibtion are street or documentary photographers.
Tim Walker from the exhibtion Tim Walker: Story Teller
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Fred Herzog, Harry Guyaert from the exhibtion Cartier-Bresson: A Question Of Colour
In the end I chose an image from the Cartier-Bresson: A Question Of Colour exhibtion. The photograph I chose is an image by Fred Herzog called Crossing Powell taken in 1984. Fred Herzog had a range of images in the exhibtion all of which I found to be beautiful prints that proved Cartier-Bresson wrong and colour photography did have a place within street photography. As the main reason it caught my eye was the vivid lighting at first then with this image in particular the painting like quality to it. I also like the idea of a photographer capturing a seeming normal or boring moment and making it into a piece of artwork and I think that is exactly what has been done here.
When we had our image chosen we had a template to follow so we could insert our image and write up the necessary information.
Template .
My final write up .
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