The Genius of Photography (PART 3)

1. What is described as one of the most familiar concepts in photography?
'A decisive moment'. Henri Cartier Bresson shot a decisive moment in Paris, only taken in a fraction of a second this has become the most well known concept and transformed the face of photography.

2. Should you trust a photograph?
"Trusting a photograph was probably a huge mistake from the beginning".
3. What was revolutionary about the Leica in 1925?
It was compact, quiet and present in the moment aswell as gliding through the photograph

4. What did George Bernard Shaw say about all the paintings of christ?
George Bernard Shaw said that he ''would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot''

5. Why were Tony Vaccaro's negatives destroyed by the army censors?
Tony Vaccaro photographed the war being a soldier himself and use to develop his own negatives in soldiers helmets but because he photographed dead men, they were destroyed as the world was not ready to see such images.

6. Who was Heinryk Ross and what was his job?
Henryk Ross was a Jewish photographer. He spent four years in a ghetto in Poland. He documented what really happened there. As well as working for the nazis's, where he also documented production of goods, sold to their captors, he was also invovled with the design of identiy. He thought it was his responsibility- even though risking his life and families, to document what really was happening at the camps/deportations.

7. Which show was a 'Sticking plaster for the wounds of war', how many people saw it and what cliche did it end on?
Opening in New York 1955 and By the year 1964; 9 million people had gone to see the millions of images of the show 'The Family of Man'. The cliched ending was W. Eugene Smith's photo of his two children walking out into the light, meaning the beginning of their sentimental journey through life.

8. Why did Joel Meyerowitz photograph ground zero in colour?
Black & white in his eyes kept everything as a tradgey and rather than keeping this as a tradgey in shot in colour to over come the already tragic element of war.