Styles Of Photography

Reportage Photography

Reportage photography is quite self explanatory within the name itself. Reportage sometimes refers to the total body of media coverage of a particular topic or event including news reporting and analysis. Reportage is also a term used for an eye witness genre of journalism. Reportage styles of photography can be applied outside of photojournalism. People who have worked in the journalistic profession sometimes move their skills acquired into other areas of photography such as weddings or portraits, pets and animals or event photography.

Below is an example of reportage photography.



Painterly Photography

An oil painting is painterly when their are visible brushstrokes, the result of applying paint in a less than completely controlled manner, generally without closely following carefully drawn lines. The impressionists and the abstract expressionists tended strongly to be painterly movements. Both pop art and photo realism, due to their dependence on photographic imagery, where characterized by an absence of apparent brushstrokes.

With the advent of photography it became possible to turn a painting into a photograph. Today, with new techniques and technology, it's possible to turn a photograph into a painting, almost. Fine art photographs can now be made to appear as fine art paintings and drawings.

Below in an example of painterly photography.



Surrealist Photography

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920's, and is best known for it's visual artworks and writings. Surrealist works feature the element of surprise. Surrealism developed out of the Dada activities  during World War 1 and the most important center of the movement was Paris.Onwards from then the movement spread around the globe, eventually affecting the visual arts, literature, film and music.

Even the most prosaic photograph, filtered through the prism of surrealist sensibility, might easily be dislodged from its usual context and irreverently assigned a new role. Ordinary snapshots, movie stills, medical and police photographs, all of these appeared in surrealist journals.

Below is an example of surrealist photography.