Uni Project: Photographer's Signature

We were each given the name of a random photographer and told to make an 'A3 historical evidence and critical opinion', interpreting that however we may. Not knowing anything about photography or photographers, i was very nervous going into this project. However, this all changed when i started researching my photographer, W. Eugene Smith, who specialised in war photography and was in the front line with the US Army in Japan in World War II. He was a character that i found very interesting, and whose pictures i thought spoke a thousand words.

To help me make my A3 poster, i started researching and taking a look at as many of his photographs that i could find. Seeing as he was most famous for his pictures of war, i decided to make a tribute poster in his style, by making a photographic war poster based on the wars going on in the world today. I also decided to make it as a "spoof" of one of his non-war pictures entitled "three genrations of miners", therefore taking inspiration from both his war and non-war work.

Below is my piece, that i entitled "two generations of dickheads", once again making reference to the title of that of W. Eugene Smith. It is folowed by Smiths piece, from which it took inspiration.

"Two generations of dickheads" (CLICK TO ENLARGE)

"Three generations of miners" by W. Eugene Smith