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| Lilly Dache's hat and veil |
The photographer I decided to choose was the famous German-American freelance photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. Alfred is known for capturing celebrities as well as being a photojournalist. I choose this photographer because he is a well known for photographing well renowned people like Adolf Hitler, Marilyn Manore and the V-J day in Time Square. I like the styles in which he takes his photos, every picture tells a story and captures a moment. From little children to celebrities it is evident he approaches all situations in the same way. With everything we have learned in this semester I thought it would be good to end off with a photographer of his caliber, who has done it all. His subjects are mainly of people and sometimes of objects. I used my pictures I took mainly from my photography business ‘Stain’ to compare to similarities of my work and Alfred’s.
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| Show Stephens |
The first picture is called, Lilly Dache’s hat and veil. I choose to use a head shoot of Show Stephens. As you look at Alfred’s picture the first thing you notice is her flower hat, then you notice she has a delicate piece of veil affront of her face. However, what catches me is her facial expression. She is very confident and sure of her self but she has no real expression. My picture of Show Stephens is similar because, the first thing you notice is his sun glasses then the Fendi print from his jacket. The facial expression is the same. He is very confident, but he exudes more expression than Lilly does because of the shades o his face that makes it’s a little more dramatic than Alfred’s photograph.
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| The Crowd at Guvernment |
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| V-J Day at Time Square |
The second picture I took was of the crowd at Guvernment nightclub. They were cheering and ranting, and my job at the club is to capture these moments of everyone coming together. This is similar to Alfred’s photo, where he took a picture of the crowd at V-J day. They were all cheering and ranting and just like myself, it was his job to capture the moment so millions would always remember that day. With first glance for both pictures you see the people, the excitement but when you take a closer look on Alfred’s you can see flags, different expressions and everyone becomes individualize and that’s the same with my photo. When you take a closer look you see many different expression for the same event, the same music but just a different outlook.
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| Orange Room Entrance |
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| Clock in Pennsylvania Station |
The next photograph that I took is of the entrance of the Orange room in Guvernment nightclub. The similarity to Alfred’s train station is the overall concept of the picture. There are people around, going onto their daily tasks, we don’t know what brought them there but they are here. It’s constructed into a profile picture to grasp all the subjects. In both pictures I did the same focusing on the walkway as the focal point and the people as a minor objects.
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| The couple |
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| The couple at Guvernment |
The fourth photograph of Alfred’s is of a couple dressed up for a prestige event, perhaps even a cotillion ball. The similarity of both photographs was the women’s that were captured. My subject is wearing a beautiful yellow dress that is very classy like of Alfred’s subject. They both exude, femininity but keep it very classy, with their partner nicely complimenting them. Both pictures emphasize that the couples are caught up in a moment. However, my photograph shows more of a conversational engages than on the main event that is going on like in Alfred’s.
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| Children's Legs |
The last photograph is of legs, for Alfred’s it’s of children but for my photographs it is of women in heels. They are similar because they focus on the same concept and section of the body. He wants to show that everyone is the same, no bias, and no discrimination because only the legs are seen and no one knows who these children are. I did the same in the sense of the concept. Everyone is equal, no one was meant to stand out but to blend in together showing unity.
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| Women's Legs |
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Eisenstaedt
