Task 1 Research and Mood Boards

Task 1 Research and Mood Boards

Photographer Shirley Baker was the only female photographer documenting British street scenes between the 1960s and the 1980s. 

Her work featured urban areas in Manchester and Salford at a time of major social change, catching the dying days of a previous era.  

This picture from the 1960s shows a young traveller girl standing amid the rubble of an area of deprivation in Manchester

I love this photograph it really jumped out at me because it is so shocking, you don't see anything like this any more, this image has so much for you to look at and then there is this young little girl standing in the middle of all this rubble and destruction. This is the type of photographs i want to produce, something that people have to look twice at and makes the wonder.

I really like this photo again because it makes you look twice, parents would go crazy if they saw there kids doing this nowadays. This photograph smile, i love how adventurous and almost naughty these little kids are being, I love how they have no fear at all, personally i would be terrified of falling down but these two young boys couldn't care less.

I love how they could go outside and find anything to do and now kids don't even leave there bedrooms, young children has to choice but to be creative now they have computers and play station.

 New York in the 1980s was an altogether different city from the safe, clean (for the most part), cosmopolitan urban playground it is today. Photographer Richard Sandler began taking pictures, which now tell a fascinating story of a gritty, graffiti-strewn city that just 20 years later would be in the thrall of gentrification.

I like these images they are different from my other ones but i think all of these photos have a grate juxtaposition. I really like black and white photos they are really effective and always have good contrast.
These twos photographers focus on photographing the world as they see and and not asking anyone to pose or move then take it and show it how it is.

Music Photographers
Anton Corbijn began his career as a music photographer in the mid 1970s taking pictures of Dutch rock star Herman Brood, before going on to shoot many of music's biggest names at the time — David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Joy Division, U2 and many more. You'll recognize Corbijn's work from album covers, at least, as well as a number of films as a director — most notably, the Joy Division Ian Curtis biopic Control.

I like this work it is really interesting, it really makes you think of what message he is trying to put across and ask yourself what he was tying to say with his photos. Because they are all black and white it gives this lovely dark contrast. I really like how his photographs look and i think that something similar to theses would be really good and interesting idea for one of my final images.