oldplantation's PhotoBlog

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Bert Hardy

2012-05-01T19:49:03Z

Bert Hardy was a famous photographer who published for the Picture Post magazine from 1941 to 1957. The Englishman was born in Blackfriars, London on May 19, 1913. Bert was the oldest of seven and left school to work for a chemist at the age of 14. The chemist was also a photo processor, which would led to young Hardy’s interest in photography. His first big break came when he captured King George V and Queen Mary passing by in a carriage. He was able to sell 200 copies of his best shot of the King. With the money he profited from these pictures, he was able to buy his very own camera, a 35 mm Leica. Hardy would go to freelance for a magazine called The Bicycle until he founded his own firm Criterion Hardy was a self-taught photographer, who used unconventional gear for press photographers of his era. Setting all of that aside, he would become the Post’s Chief Photographer. His first article as Chief Photographer was a photo-essay about Blitz-stressed fire-fighters. Hardy also served as a war photographer. He took part in the D-Day landings in June 1944; covered the liberation of Paris; the allied advance across the Rhine; and was one of the first photographers to enter the liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to record the suffering there. He also saved some Russian slaves from a fire set by German police in the city of Osnabrück, before photographing the aftermath. Near the end of World War II, Hardy went to Asia, where he became Lord Mountbatten's personal photographer. He later went on the cover the Korean War along with journalist James Cameron for Picture Post and later and on that war's turning point, the Battle of Inchon, photojournalism for which he won the Missouri Pictures of the Year Award. Just before Picture Post closed, Hardy took 15 photos of Queen Elizabeth II's entrance at the Paris Opera on 8 April 1957, which were assembled as a photo-montage by the magazine's technicians. It was one of the most challenging photo-montages ever created, because there were a sizeable live crowd, guards, and other dignitaries, in front of his camera. After leaving Picture Post Hardy became one of the most successful advertising photographers until his retirement in 1964 to his farm in Oxted. Having written an article for amateur photographers suggesting you didn't need an expensive camera to take good pictures, Hardy staged a carefully posed photograph of two young women sitting on railings above a breezy Blackpool promenade using a Box Brownie in 1951, a photograph which has since become iconic of post-war Britain. A memorial plaque honoring him is in the Church of Journalists, St. Bride's, Fleet Street, London.

old church

2012-05-14T00:50:00Z

lake again

2012-05-14T00:47:09Z

The Ganies Homestead

2012-05-14T00:53:14Z

this is the remains of my grandfathers, grandfather's home in Pickens

Ben Heine

2012-05-01T20:16:20Z

Ben Heine was born on June 12, 1983 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Heine received a degree in journalism form Brussels in Belgium. He made his Masters' final assignment on the "limits of freedom of speech in political cartoons" Starting as a painter and political cartoonist, he became more widely known in 2011 for his "Pencil vs. Camera”. The idea of mixing drawing with photography came to him in 2010. Heine says it was the result of a long graphic exploration and logic consequences of his artistic evolution. Ben Heine is able to create iconic faces from history and pop culture by drawing circles of various sizes and colors. In order to give them a dynamic and 3-dimensional appearance" "Pencil vs. Camera" mixes drawing and photography imagination and reality, through illusion and surrealism. In this project, Heine's usually focuses on architecture, portraits and animals. Among many others, the main themes approached in "Pencil vs. Camera" are love and friendship. Heine says: "I just make art for people. I want them to dream and forget their daily troubles. I used to write poems many years ago, I want to convey a poetic meaning into my pictures, each new creation should tell a story and generate an intense emotion, like a poem, like a melody". This series had a large impact on the graphic design community. Heine says the initial idea of this "Pencil vs. Camera" concept came by coincidence while he was writing a letter. Some of his "Pencil vs. Camera" creations have also been related to optical illusions. Ben Heine’s “Pencil vs. Camera” is a relatively new idea that is certain to grow and catch the eye of other artist/photographers. I think Heine is an amazing contemporary photographer because he came up with his own type of photography instead of taking traditional pictures like other photographers in this day and age. I look forward to his method of photographer to become more popular and I hope he receives the acclaim he deserves for his creativity. His “Pencil vs. Camera” has got me very interested, and I might try and make my project a series of “Pencil vs. Camera” photos.

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2012-05-14T22:49:21Z

on the move

2012-04-13T12:09:10Z