Response to Daeoud Bey – Harlem.
The picture that I’m looking at is A women with hanging overalls.
1.I think this photograph has more focus on expressing people’s life style and life attitude.
2.The intention of this photographer is to express some kind of life style, because all of his photos are in black and white. He is trying to use full scale, high/low contrast to express life stories, it can give the audiences some kind of old style feeling.
3.This photographer creates a lot of low contrast, high contrast and full scale, therefore most of his photos are in black and white. Like the photo named A women with hanging overalls. The photographer uses low contrast and high contrast to show a some kind of depth in the photo, and it makes some shadows around the corner.
4.Actually, in my opinions, those technical matters help the photos a lot. Technical skills can create different kinds of depth, so can help the photographers to express what exactly they want to say. Generally, technical skills can embellish a photo.
5. Yes, they are important. For example, when you give out a photo, the first thing you will feel or look at it is the tone. It will give you some sort of concept about what the photographer trying to say or express. Also, space and perspective can give the audience different feeling, or even can lead the audience look at the photo in a direction.
6.When i spend more time on the photo, i can also feel some kind of life attitude, and life styles. It feels like you can even read stories from their faces.
7.I can feel some kind of casual life style in this photo. Life is quite and peaceful. I can also feel that time in the photo goes so slow, i am feeling like looking at a slow motion photo.
8. The majority of his photo are in low contrast, high contrast or full scale.
The photograph you selected is a high contrast photo. It is shot in direct sunlight. The woman on the left is basically a light figure against the dark tones of the store interior. The overalls and their shadows appear dark against a white wall. What is also quite interesting here is the idiosyncratic nature of the hanging overalls-not someone’s laundry but a form of advertising, letting the public know what is inside the store. By picking this detail to highlight, what is the photographer telling us abut Harlem?