Starting some research today on Photographers that demonstrate depth of field. We were given a list of photographers to check out and share our views on.
The first one is Diane Arbus, who was an American photographer, known as 'the photographer of freaks'. Rather harsh, but she did like to focus on people who were on the edge of society's norms (freaks, loners, dwarfs, giants, nudists, circus, transgender people, 'ugly' people) in a direct and simple portrait style. She wanted people to see them how they are and not how they wanted people to see them.
I can safely say that I'm not a huge fan of Diane Arbus' work, simply because of the morbid feeling these images give me when i look at them!! I find them really disturbing and dark but that's just my opinion. I suppose she wanted to show different ways of life and expose people who are ''different''........ and maybe because she felt like an outsider herself.
Arbus even photographed people in institutes who were mentally ill. She apparently waited for the moment of fullest expression of disability which I just find a little bit immoral.
In portraiture, the subject is obviously the main focus so this is where aperture comes in and a shallow depth of field is often used. The person will be in sharp focus and the background blurred. If a small aperture is used, the background would also be in sharp focus which is distracting and takes the main focus away from the subject.
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