1. Unit 57: Photography and
Photographic Practice
Research of other
photographers work
2. Photographer:
Yousuf Karsh,
(December 23, 1908 –
July 13, 2002) was an
Armenian-Canadian
photographer, and one
of the most famous
and accomplished
portrait photographers
of all time.
4. Photographer:
Nick Brandt is an
English photographer
who photographs
exclusively in Africa, one
of his goals being to
record a visually poetic
last testament to the wild
animals and places there
before they are gone at
the hands of man.
8. Cecil Beaton is known for his photographs of very
famous people, such as Pablo Picasso, Winston
Churchill, Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly,
Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Andy Warhol, Mick
Jagger, Barbra Streisand, the Queen and many more.
His photo’s convey the famous person at their most
intimate, getting the photo’s that not many other
photographers could. This is because he built a
reputation as a trustworthy person who was very good
at his job.
The Marilyn Monroe photo proves this point to a tee. It
looks as though she is naked, only using a towel to
cover up. She is happy, biting on a flower, even if she
doesn’t look as glamorous as everyone was used to
seeing her. The main thing is that she is happy, and
Beaton was able to capture the pure emotion of Monroe,
rather than a perhaps feigned smile on the red carpet in
her best dress.
The photo was taken in 1956, just as Monroe was
finding international success as an actress, model and
singer. This, I believe, was the perfect time to take her
picture as it was taken in between her stages as a
young struggling actress to a ill woman ravaged with
personal problems and drug use before her early death
just 6 years after this picture was taken.
9. Composition
• As the photographer decides where to stand,
moves the camera, or zooms in on a scene, she
selects what to include in the image. What did
the photographer choose to include or exclude
in the image? If they had zoomed out or stood
further away, what additional information could
we see? The composition of the photograph can
also be altered later by cropping. How does the
decision to frame only certain elements in the
photograph affect the message conveyed by
the photograph?
10. Techniques used
• Think shutter
speeds, rule of
thirds & depth of
field, show oher
examples of the
photographers
images and
describe their style
