1. Marianne Harris
The angle of viewis of a band performing live, it includes all the members of the band (singing,
playing guitar and playing the drums.) The photograph’s camera angle is straight forward but
Marianne has stood off the stage below and on the right of the band to take the photograph slightly
upwards. The background in the image is also natural it shows the instruments, speakers, drinks,
lights, etc… It also shows a man stood in the background of the photograph, looking at hoe he’s
stood/staring he looks like he’d be in charge of the stage for the night or even the bands manager.
The photograph is music photography and looking at the photograph it looks like the genre is
rock/punk. It looks like it’s been naturally taken. Marianne has taken the photograph as one of the
band members has jumped into the air playing guitar. It could be used for a magazine or even for a
poster.She wouldn’t have used a tripod as a lot of music photographers, when taking photographs at
concerts/festivals, mainly do natural handheld shots. The purpose of the photograph could be for a
variety of reasons for example; album booklet photograph, posters, she could also be selling
photographs to certain magazine like Kerrang. This style of work reminds me of some of Ami
barwell’s photographs, she takes a lot of natural live performance photographs.
When I’m looking at this photograph my eyes are directed straight to the middle of the photograph,
there’s a lot going on in this photograph so I don’t think every viewer eyes are directed to the same
part of the photograph. Marianne would have used quite a fast shutter speed to take this
photograph because even though the band members are moving on stage the photograph doesn’t
have a pronounced motion blur effect.
The stage is lit in the photograph, there is only modern stage lighting, and no other stage special
effects are included in the photograph. There is no negative space used within the photograph, it’s
quite busy.
I like this photograph because she’s taken it on a great angle and I especially like how she’s naturally
got one of the band members jumping in the air playing the guitar while performing. The stage light
The photograph would make a good ‘live performance poster’ or in a music magazine as a small
paper poster or even just showing the band performing if they’re getting written about in the
magazine. But I think the photograph could have been improved by cropping it in certain places and
the lighting could have been improved by Marianne, but a lot of her images have this look, which she
wanted to keep.