Burt Glinn and Project Proposal

Burt Glinn, 1954, State traffic drive, Washington,

Genre: Documentary photography, realism, landscape, black and white film, .

Landscape, black and white film, the photo below uses fast shutter speed to capture the moving car. The photos look like they have been taken at night or just really fast shutter speed.

The photo below is in landscape, black and white, in the bottom left hand corner is the back of a policeman, the bottom right of the photo is a speed radar being held by the policeman. The top half of the photo is just purely black and a blurry white car is traveling through the middle of the photo from right to left.

Burt Glinn was the president of magnum photos for a time, he photographed revolutions, wars, photo essays etc, these photos below were taken from a political angle in Washington, America. From this documentary perspective I think that Glinn was documenting what was happening with traffic laws at that time. I tried to find out why taking these photos would be important and what exactly was happening around that time but I didn't turn up anything. At a guess it would be new laws that were being passed at that time.
 

The use of the speed camera, with the car in the background is really interesting and it shows something about society and what was going on in the time. I really like the lighting, the strong lines and it makes it look like someone is in trouble or someone is doing something wrong. I want to draw from Glinn's work the idea of showing the speed of the cars that I'm photographing, but I also like the composition of this photo and I may incorporate some of that into my photography. 
 

 

Project Proposal

 



Aim: My aim with this project is to put together a counsel proposal through photography that shows the state of the main road in Pukerua Bay, to show the speeding that occurs and the pedestrians that cross it.

The speed limit of the main road that passes through Pukerua Bay is 50km, but hardly anyone drives at that limit. The train station is across from the main road and so for many years myself, my family and most of the people who live on the side without the train station have to cross the dangerous main road to get to the train station.

Method: My project has a few parts to it.

Overall Data: I will take establishing shots of Pukerua Bay that show the main road, the train station ect and I will have the time it takes to walk to the overbridge. I will also include if I can how many accidents have occurred at this junction. I may use some of Trent parks techniques for this section of my projects to show speed with the cars.

Cars: I want to show that there is a significant percentage of cars that speed on that road. I will take photos of cars with the speed device associated with it.

I will then categorise those cars. I haven't decided if I want to categorise them according to car type but will decide to see if certain types of cars speed or if certain cars speed more at different times of the day.

People: I will count how many people walk across that road in a particular morning and include photos of that, at a particular time in the mornings.

Why: I'm doing this because crossing the main road every morning is extremely frustrating and dangerous, there have been occasions where there have been close calls. My little brothers and sisters cross that road, the community has complained about that road many times and I know that there has been meetings and such nothing practical has been done. I'm doing this because I want people to know the state of that road and I want something to be done about it.

Out Put: For this output I want this to be a submission to the counsel. I want my photos to be printed and to be put on white card about A3 size with each bored a different part of my project.