The first thing, which should be mentioned about vernacular photography, is that this genre is concentrated on everyday life of ordinary people. Not in vain August Sander, one of famous representative of given style, said 'photography is the nature of documentary'. In fact, documentary and vernacular photography have similar characteristics. Both of them intend to show life materially, in a way as it really is. Indeed, i am quite interested in the techniques that some agents of vernacular photography presented in their works. One of the images of such representative i would like to discuss in the post.
The photograph below, which is named 'Movie premiere- Hollywood', was made in 1956 by Robert Frank. The capturing thing about this photo imaging is that crowd of ordinary people with the expression of complete admiration and idealization (these individuals are in the background) are in focus instead of movie star that is in foreground and occupies the largest part of the space. Because of the selected focus face of this star looks sad and depressed (as it is blurred and full of shadows), especially in comparison to facial expressions of audience, which are full of excitement. As a result, viewers can feel that in the image ordinary people who are visiting premiere to admire their model in fact more startling than her. To conclude, even if i am not going going to center in normal people's life, still i intend to apply such method of photo-shooting and composition for my project since it some kind of catching play of what is really important and and what is not.
'Movie premiere- Hollywood', 1956 by Robert Frank.
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