5 Types of Photography

MAGAZINES:

Photographer: Annie Leibovitz

These are two examples of the kind of photography that you would commonly find in a fashion magazine. Of course different magazines will differ in the type of photography used, because each magazine differs in genre. For example, you will not be likely to find fashion photography in a food magazine. Also you are likely to find a lot of celebrities used as models to advertise a product for a shoot in a fashion magazine, because celebrities are well known and influential to the target audience. 
A magazine aimed at 50 year old women, would not likely to use Rihanna as their celebrity, they will use someone the audience can relate to, such as Joan Rivers, who is in her late 50s.

 Photography in magazines depends on a lot of factors, such as the genre of the magazines, the target audience and more. These pictures were taken for advertisement purposes. The prints are normally A4, to A3 and they are very crisp. A Photographer that does shoots for a magazine will 

PORTRAIT:

Photographer: Diane Arbus

WAR PHOTOGRAPHY:

Robert Capa

War photography is explanatory within the name. It usually captures different real life war scenes.  This type of photography first came about in 1847 when there was the war between the Mexican and Americans. Conventionally, you would find a war photo in black and white, because in some ways it shows truth and seriousness sometimes, which the picture is often trying to depict.

The pictures above were taken by a famous war photographer, Robert Capa. He remained conventional to the way other war photography is normally taken War photographers don’t just randomly go to a war scene and begin to take out pictures. They also have to find significant opportunities to take out photos. This is because they need to make an impact or at least tell a story with their photo.

                 The second picture on your left, is of a lady resting on a block that’s carved P.C. This could or more likely be of a mother or wife, mourning for her lost. This gives an impact to the viewer or the audience on how serious the situation is. War photography, can somewhat be seen as documentary photography because it’s documenting a time in history. However it’s still an independent category, because documentary photography could be of so many different categories

ART PHOTOGRAPHY:

Photographer: Herb Ritts

Art photograph can differ in so many ways, because there is not one definition for the word Art. However art can still be a universal. There are things that art categorised as art universally. Philosophers, such as Plato have created many theories of art. Plato believes that art has many forms. The pictures that I have given as examples were taken by Herb Ritts, a famous photographer, he see’s art in dancing (ballet) and by making models look abstract. These type of art shoots are contrived just like fashion photography, however most times they just happen to take place.

FOOD PHOTOGRAPHY:

Colin Cooke

Food photography is a commercial type of photography. It’s normally done for advertisement of the product and as an aesthetic display. Colin Cooke is a food photographer that photographs different types and forms of food. Such as, drinks, liquids, savoury and sweets etc. Food photographers have to have a great understanding of positioning and placements. This is important because to gain a good food picture, it has to be at a right angle, where you can see all that is on show.

It can be argued that this skill is needed for all types of photography, but it is especially needed for food photography.