Different Uses of Photography

Maya Madalina Maria Palasanu

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Portraits Portrait photography or portraiture is a photography of a person or group of people that displays the expression, personality, and mood of the subject.

Candid portrait of a little girl. Edward S. Curtis, Self-portrait.

Fashion Fashion photography is a genre of photography devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items.

The Countess in a photo by Pierre-Louise Pierson (c. 1863/66)

A modern fashion photograph by Inez van Lamsweerde.

Fine Art Fine art photography refers to photographs that are created in accordance with the creative vision of the photographer as artist.

Andreas Gursky, Shanghai, 2000, C-print mounted to plexiglass, 119 x 81 inches. The incredible smoke art photography

of Mehmet Ozgu.

Landscape Landscape photography is a genre intended to show different spaces within the world, sometimes vast and unending, but other times microscopic.

Landscape photo of the Snake River by Ansel Adams.

Landscape Photograph of Scotland by David W. Robertson

Forensic Science Forensic photography, sometimes referred to as forensic imaging or crime scene photography, is the art of producing an accurate reproduction of a crime scene or an accident scene using photography for the benefit of a court or to aid in an investigation.

Skid mark from faulty ladder.

Human blood droplets. An example of a forensics photograph of an imitation crime scene. A scale by a common object (United States Quarter) has been used.

Photojournalism

Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism (the collecting, editing, and presenting of news material for publication or broadcast) that creates images in order to tell a news story.

Military Photographer of the Year 1st Runner-Up: MC1 Shane T. McCoy

Into the Jaws of Death: Assault landing One of the first waves at Omaha Beach as photographed by Robert F. Sargent.  

Documentary Documentary photography usually refers to a popular form of photography used to chronicle significant and historical events.

Manuel Rivera-Ortiz: Tobacco Harvesting, Valle de Viñales, Cuba 2002 Migrant Mother, a famous photo

by Dorothea Lange, taken during the Great Depression.