Inspirational photographer

http://www.leetowndrow.com/

Lee Towndrow is a Canadian commercial and portrait photographer based in New York. His photographs branch out to having many ideas and being able to be questioned for hours without an answer.

The reason why i chose Lee Towndrow as my inspirational photographer is because i can stare at his photograph's for hours and still find hidden meanings and reasons to why he captured these image's.
this first one shows two men in the foreground smoking (most probally cannabis) and another old man in the background sitting on what appears to be a door step.
One idea i had to why he took this photo is that he captured this moment in time to show conflict between the media's perception, on how the media portray's teenagers, to being bad and doing drugs. Where as they portray old people, as being good and they do no drugs and no smoking. Another idea i have is to show culture, the three characters are wearing plain weared down clothes witch could be seen as poor clothing or cheap. This image is like a pause in there daily life routine. he also shows form very well usimg shadows creating a diagonal line slicing through the first two characters, the strange thing is that there heads are in the shadow but there body's are in the light. this is unorthodox as when someone capturing an image of someone would preferbally have there faces in the light and not so much there bodies.
theses are some other photographs that lee towndrow has captured.

Henri Cartier Bresson

Henri Bresson is a well known photographer around the world, he was born in france and is considered to be the father of modern photojournalism. He has produced many famous photographs, but the one i have chosen to analyse is Behind the Gare St. Lazare in Paris. i think this photograph is his most interesting one he has taken, because of the way he has used subject content and form and converged the three to create this spectacular image.

• Content: in this photograph you can see that a man has propelled himself from a ladder that lies in the water. The figure of a leaping dancer on a pair of posters on a wall behind the man, mirrors him and his reflection in the water. The rippling circles made by the ladder echo circular bands of discarded metal debris. Beside the fencing there is a poster which appears to say "Railowsky" which i think is advertising a performer named Railowsky. the name "Railowsky" puns with the railway station and the ladder, which resembles a railroad track. Behind the character in mid air is a fence with sharp points at the tips, there is also three buildings one with what appears to have a clock on the top, also there is a man leaning against the fence (sillhouette).
• Subject: i think this photograph is trying to show conflict between working men that can also have fun, as the man leaping off the ladder is resembling
• Form: The lines of the of railings form an eye catching effect, also drawing your attention to the background of the photograph. In the background there is lines of the buildings which look like factories. Insinuating that the photograph is showing working class life. In the foreground of the photograph the man is blurred and out of focus wich creates a sense of mystery.