Modes of Production
If anyone wants to analyse the different fields of photography, he is going to be surprised at the modes of photographic productions he knew nothing much about. Everybody knows about fashion photography, and photojournalism. People also know about wildlife photography and portraiture. However, photography is not limited to these fields; commercial photography is a very important aspect of photography. Just imagine your advertisements without the attractive model, persuading you to buy the car, camera, or the drink. Commercial photography is slowly and steadily gaining more importance on the advertising business.
Once upon a time, in the 1930s, the advertising companies rode the text and professional artists in pen and ink and colour did the artwork. When people began to use real-life models in the shape of a mother, feeding her happy, healthy family delicious breakfast cornflakes commercial photography took a new turn. People could identify with the mother in the advertisement. Since then, commercial photography has not been limited to just advertisements, but is also essential for a brochure, marketing, advertising, press releases and any aspect in which poison wants to broadcast his business to the general public.
Photographic productions have also taken the form of art. The beautiful covers which you see on your favourite romantic novels of photographs taken of real models. Then with a little tweaking upon Illustrator and Photoshop, you have an artistic commercial book cover.
Any 1930s pulp fiction story would not be complete without the police photographer taking snaps of the murdered beautiful blonde-haired person, so that there was a record with a small clue, which the hero would focus upon, and get his man like the Mounties. Photographic productions in forensics are still being used in the same manner today.
