Vantage research

 Alexander Rodchenko 
was a Russian artsist, sculptor, graphic artist and photographer between the two World Wars and was one of the founders of the Russian Constructivist movement. His goal through his photography was to “transform reality through mass communication.” He called his photography “factography” due to the truth he thought it conveyed. In his photography he recorded the cultural and technical revolutions occurring during the Soviet Union. He was interested in odd camera angles, radical foreshortening, close-ups, in shadows and odd vantage points.
https://corinnedenn.wordpress.com/2012/08/07/alexander-rodchenko/

Pioneer

This photo is shot from a low angle vantage point right under the boys chin, the photo is looking up at the subject giving the image a powerful look.  he has positioned the subject in the middle of the screen and has used his face to fill the frame. i think the angle he took this photo on makes the photo seem happier as apposed to if he had taken it on a higher more vunrable angle also the low vantage point allows more shadows on the subjects bottm half of his face and more light on the top.

Fire escape

I love this photo, its shot at a low angle under a ladder with the subject standing above but the placement of this photo is amazing , it has leading lines with the ladder and the arcitechture in the background, and the vantange point shows the direction in which the man may be headed. Because the vantage point is low and the sky is behind the subject he becomes almost silloetted.

Herbert List 

(7 October 1903 – 4 April 1975) was a German photographer, who worked for magazines, including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Life, and was associated withMagnum Photos. His austere, classically posed black-and-white compositions, particularly of male nudes, taken in Italy and Greece have been highly formative for modern photography, with contemporary fashion photographers like Herb Ritts being clearly influenced by List's style. He is also noted for his erotic street photography.

                                                                       Herbert List, Arab Boy with Desert Candles, 1935

In this image List has used a lower vantagre point i think to level with the subjects bottom and have the plants in frame to compliment the subjects figure and all through the subject is naaaked the lower angle allows the plants to cover the subject more than if he had used a different angle.

This list image was shot at a low vantage point looking up towards the dog and his human , who both are hanging toes over the beach bed. there is shadow on the right of the image and negative space the low angle makes the dog look bigger and and protective of his human.

Refrences-
http://weimarart.blogspot.co.nz/2010/08/herbert-list.html

http://www.theartstory.org/artist-rodchenko-alexander.htm

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