Photographers

David Bailey

David bailey is a British fashion photographer for Vogue magazine. His work is digital and usually has a high contrast. He explains that he does not think it is important weather you sue digital or film as it is the person who takes the image and it does not matter about the format. This image was taken using a film camera which is clear by the dull and grainy texture. I think the content is strong and interesting, and it is different to the majority of his other images as it is not taken in a studio.






Elliott Erwitt

Elliot Erwitt is a photographer for advertising and documentaries. His work usually contains unusual content taken in every day life. He used film throughout his career even when digital photography became more popular, as he felt that digital photography would never capture the emotions of the place or the person as well as film. This image was taken using 35mm film and the implied motion of the image is strong. Erwitt has composed this image well as he has left space at the top of the image to allow you to imagine the subject riding into the distance. There is not a lot of contrast in the image which i think works well as it gives the image a natural feel.


Robert Frank

Robert Frank used film photography to create hand made books throughout his early life, but then turned to digital photography when he moved to America and became a fashion photographer for Harper's Bazaar. He turned back to film photography after that and created collages using multiple negatives, scratching words in them and distorting them before exposure. I think this image is strong as you can tell that Frank took it from inside a bus. I am unsure about which format this image was taken but i assume it is was using film because of the grainy texture and the blur of the persons foot running through the center. The image has lot of contrast so a filter must have been used when exposing the image.


Maurizio Polese


Maurizio Polese used digital photography to capture landscapes. His work is very high contrast and strongly edited. I think the fact that this image is taken in digital is very obvious as you can tell he has added a lot of contrast to the image and also added a light source effect in the middle, which is consistent throughout all his images. I think this piece is strong and eerie, which could not be recreated using film in the same way.