The video was about his photography career and also how it interferes
with his life. I think everyone who has a strong interest in photography
has wanted at one point to be a photographer for something as big as
National Geographic. Personally I think it would be an amazing job.
I love to travel and plan on going everywhere I can when I am financially
able to. The world is an amazing place and I definitely plan on taking
pictures everywhere I go. To be payed for doing something I love would
be awesome, but I also think the job would have it's downsides.
Anything as an occupation will take some of the fun out of your work.
For example, as a photographer you may love pictures you take, but
you ultimately have to go with whatever the client loves. As for being
a National Geographic photographer, you're expected to go wherever
you're assigned and to take pictures they are going to like, not go where
you want to go and take picture you like. I think it would also be very
difficult if one were to have a family, as Joel Sartore showed. Being a
traveling photographer means being far away places for amounts of time,
and it would for sure put stress on a family.
These are some of the pictures I found while looking through his galleries.
These are the ones that stood out to me the most.
The rest of the week we watched a movie about Richard Avedon.
Richard Avedon's photography is a whole form of art itself.
He took portraits, but made them so much more than
just pictures. He captured emotion in black and white
better than anything I've ever seen. His signature look was
a white background. I love so many of his pictures,
because as he showed in the movie, every single one had a
story behind it.
My all time favorite picture by Richard Avedon is a portrait of
Marilyn Monroe.
In the video he explained how Marilyn Monroe wasn't a real girl. She was a fictional character made up by this girl, who appears sad and lonely, somewhat lost. I LOVE this picture because it's so different from every other Marilyn Monroe portrait. Avedon captured a moment where she wasn't the girl everyone saw her as, almost a completely different person.
These are a few of my other favorites by Richard Avedon
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