Photojournalism Part 4 - Fashion

 


Fashion photography is a unique type of photography that takes in aesthetics as an important tool in order to further improve the display of the image and enhance the beauty of the clothing including other fashion items and accessories.

The earliest fashion shots could hardly be differentiated from the portrait shots of the same period. But there were some differences, such as fashion being more "study of beauty" and portaiture having more meaning behind them, controversial or not.

Diana vreeland, editor of vogue, a highly reputable company of fashion had permanently changed the way people perceived fashion by turning it into a sexual revolution. This sudden surge of feminism has been widely criticised and has formed into quite a controrsial and widely debated subject especially on the news since alot of celebrities have embraced this type of fashion and being very influential have also encouraged chidren to do the same. Men have also have been affected by this but has gone the opposite direction and have been portrayed as a more masculine image.

Fashion is very influential and have made normal people with normal looks feel very self-conscious about their appearance. The use of photo editing techniques such as airbrushing used to refine models to make them look more "perfect", has distorted our perception of beauty because we can no longer trust things like commercials and magazines as being a representative of "flawlessness" if ironically not even the models look like themselves before all the touching-up used.

Photojournalism Part 3 - Portraiture

 


 Portraiture has evolved from fine art photography and portraits exclusively for the rich and famous and the ones that can afford them, to portraits of normal everday people and people who arent usually portrayed as normal such as people with disorders and psychological problems.

Portraiture has been around for a very long time usually in the form of monochromaticism meaning they came in a black & white texture. The absence of colour has changed the way people interpret these images because it adds a kind of sad element to these photos. Monochromatic portraits were used alot because they're cheap and give a "classic look".

Diane arbus was a pioneering photographer in which she chose to photograph everyone instead of the typical rich and famous who are the only ones who can afford such a luxury. "I do feel I have some slight corner on something about the quality of things. I mean it's very subtle and a little embarrassing to me, but I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them."