Definition-
Lifestyle photography is a kind of photography which mainly aims to capture portrait/people in situations, real-life events or milestones in an artistic manner and the art of the everyday. The primary goal is to tell stories about people's life or to inspire people in different times. Thus, it covers multidisciplinary types of photography together.
Photographers sometimes record everyday activities such as travelling, eating, shopping or just carrying out an everyday routine e.g morning routine. The activities can be done by others or by the photographer themselves. For example i could follow the everyday life of an office worker, so i could capture how they commute to work, the first thing they do, what they eat for lunch, ect. Or i could photograph the items of the everyday activities that i do, for instance i could photograph a cup of tea or a plate of food without a person being in the photo as i am just capturing the item of the activity i do.
Discussion-of exam paper
Robert Doisneau was born in 1922 in Gentilly, a suburb of Paris. Robert was fifteen when he learnt engraving and lithography at the Estienne School in Paris and started designing labels for drug packaging.He became a camera assistant at André Vigneau’s studio in 1931, where he discovered artistic outlets that encouraged him on. The four years he spent working for the advertising department of Renault car maker, from where he was fired for repeated lateness, led him to the position of independent photographer.When he died in April 1994, he left behind 450,000 negatives that tell an entertaining story of his time with a tender and observant eye
From researching Robert Doisneau i found that his photography is quite diverse, his photography ranges from politics of his time to children to shops and traders, he also travelled to foreign in in counties like the UK and the US and captured the difference in each of theses societies and their way of everyday life. He also observed social change mostly in France as thats where he was based so he captured the difference in life between paris and the suburbs like saint Denis. Even though the majority of his work feature people and civilisation some of the work that he has done could be linked to landscapes, as seen in suburbs:sceneries and in his paris:eiffel tower. So his work is very diverse but it still magnates to tell the same kind of story.
The photograph on the left is from Roberts shops and traders, which he took in paris 1955 and named it La veritable Reine Claude which translates to The real queen Claude. I chose to include this photo because it gave me inspiration for one of my shoots, as i want to do a shoot like Roberts own shops and traders but i want to do it in London, which will be different to Roberts because his shoot was in France and they have more markets, however if i went to Edmonton green market i could achieve similar photos to Roberts. I like how the photo is a candid of the lady serving a customer as this shows more of the documentary side to it and the actual life and what the market lady instead of just a photo of the fruit stall.
The photograph from the right is from his Young Ladies collection. This photograph was taken in Avril 1959 and is named Salon de coiffure-Hairdresser.
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