Documentary photography analysis

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There are many different forms of photography such as advertisement, promotional, fashion, photojournalism, portrait, high street studio work, architectural, medical, illustration, fine art and documentary. In my analysis all will be discussing the different documentary photographers and how their work comes across to it's audience.

Documentary photography is a rather popular form of photography, it has been around for many years and is used to capture significant and historical events which are happening around the world. This type of photography is used within the real life reportage and is used within photojournalism when capturing events such as war and crime. It can also be to show the artistic side of the world also such as graffiti work that we see on the streets in our everyday routines. 

Keegan Gibbs

Keegan Gibbs is a famous graffiti photographer. With this particular picture Keegan Gibbs has captured the visual elements of the graffiti and shows the most sharpest part of the photograph would be the beginning of the graffiti work from the left hand side of the picture. the reason why I would say that this is the most sharpest part of the picture by Keegan Gibbs is because I feel as if Gibbs has shown the boldness of the writing in much more depth creating a more grimy look towards the photograph that he has added the effect of being behind a fence as if the art work which has been taken is out of bounds. 

I would say that the lighting that has been used within this photograph would be natural lighting as the picture looks as if it has been taken in the day time being a restricted area outside. The most highlighted part of this particular piece by Gibbs would be at the top right hand side of the photograph as there are more shadows which are shown towards the bottom left hand side of the picture.                                                                                                              

Within this picture the most dominant colour that has been used throughout would be the colour red as the pattern being the graffiti writing red. This is significant as this photograph looks as if it has been taken in a hot country and the ground gives of a red sand look.

Robert Frank

Robert Frank is an American photographer and documentary filmmaker. The visual looks that Robert Frank has represented and captured would be the bread which the young girl is holding, I think that the reason why Robert Frank has made this the sharpest point in this particular piece of work is because this causes representation toward hunger back in America when things were once tough. Documenting a young girl that has probably gone out for her mother shows independence towards the country and strength.  

I would say that this type of photograph would be used as a form of new maybe in the newspaper or as a poster in the streets of America as this form of documentary sends out an important message towards it's audience. 

As this photograph has been taken in black and white the lighting of this particular piece from Robert Frank is not completely visual. I would say that this photograph has been taken in the daytime on the streets of America using natural lighting as if you look towards the top left hand side of the picture you will see that it is more highlighted towards the rest of the photograph. As the light is shining from the left hand side of the picture the sun has been reflected off the building causing a shadow at the right bottom hand side of the picture near what looks to be important posters and newspapers. 

Paviani

Paviani specializes in graffiti and street art photography. When analysing Paviani's piece when looking as the visual element of this particular piece I would say that the most sharpest and clearest elements of this photograph would be the black outline that causes the white graffiti writing to stand out as if it was popping out towards it's audience. In this picture Paviani has taken the photograph with someone standing in front of the graffiti work, I feel this is because in this particular piece Paviani is trying to give off the view of a gritty street look of the art world as this person is wearing casual street wear with a black bar across their face so that you can not see who it is. 

The colours within this particular piece of artwork is in black and white, this is to give of an urban effect towards the audience. From looking at the brightness of this photograph I would say that the picture has been taken in the day time using natural lighting as it has the urban street look.