Q: What is described as 'one of the most familiar concepts of photography'?
A: Henri Cartier-Bresson was the first person to create the 'Decisive Moment' concept which has now become described as the most familiar in photography.
Q: Should you trust photography?
A: It is widely regarded that we should not fully trust photography. Arthur C. Danto the recently deceased american art critic once said "it was a huge mistake to trust the photograph from the beginning.
Q: What was revolutionary about the Leica in 1925?
A: The Leica was revolutionary because it was compact, quite, a new lens and also it allowed the photographer to have one eye to the side, viewing what they were capturing as the view was now close to the edge of the camera.
Q: What did George Bernard Shaw say about all the paintings of Christ?
A: George Bernard Shaw once said that he 'would exchange all the paintings of Christ for one snap shot'.
Q: Why were Tony Vaccaro's negatives destroyed by the army censors?
A: Acting as the armies official photographer Vaccaro was under army regulations to use a Speed Graphic Camera, however this was far too big and difficult to carry around so Vaccaro decide to use an Argus C3, developing the pictures in army helmets. His photographs were extremely graphic capturing images of dead GI's and the army felt the public was not prepared to see these images and so destroyed the negatives.
Q: Who was Henryk Ross, what was his job?
A: Henryk Ross was a Polish Jew living in the Lodz Nazi ghetto in Poland. He was employed by the Department of Statistics for the Jewish Council as a photographer. He did this was also capturing the horrific treatment the Nazis inflicted on Jewish people, while also maintaing a good relationship with the German occupiers, by taking propaganda photography for them.
Q: Which show was a 'sticking plaster for the wounds of the war', how many people saw it and what cliche photograph did it end on?
A: The Family of Man was the show, first shown in 1955, which was described as a 'sticking plaster for the wounds of the war'. It was seen by over 9 Million people and it ended with a photograph by photographer W Eugene Smith which was called 'The Walk to Paradise Garden'. It was a picture depicting two children waking into sunlight with blackness behind them depicitng the cliched idea of a bright and prosperous future lying ahead for everybody.
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