Choose a photographer's name from the list below or select a photographer you know whose work inspires and impresses you. Exploring online sources, look at enough work by your photographer that you get a good grasp of their personal vision. Find one website featuring the photographer's work and add it to the class Webliography on eCompanion.
Nan Goldin -- fine art/documentary
Sally Mann -- fine art
Alec Soth -- fine art/documentary
William Eggleston -- fine art/documentary
Lauren Greenfield -- documentary/editorial
Walker Evans -- documentary
Robert Frank -- street photography/fine art
Henri Cartier-Bresson -- street photography/photojournalism
Mary Ellen Mark -- documentary
Elinor Carucci -- fine art/editorial
Ryan McGinley -- fine art/editorial
Annie Leibovitz -- editorial/portraiture
Michael Kenna -- fine art/landscape
David LaChappelle -- fashion/commercial
Dan Winters -- editorial
Irving Penn -- fashion/editorial/portraiture
Richard Avedon -- fashion/editorial/portraiture
Diane Arbus -- documentary/portraiture
Add a comment to this blog post, answering the following questions:
What is the photographer's name?
Describe the photographer's primary subject matter.
What about his or her work do you find interesting?
How would you describe his or her visual style?
1)Jason Kenworthy
ReplyDelete2)He mostly shoots subjects that have to do with the surf culture.
3)His work interests me because he finds different perspectives on how waves are ridden.
4)He always is able to use natural light in very interesting ways.
1)Karrah Kobus.
ReplyDelete2)Creative/artistic portraits.
3)I found her work interesting because its very imaginative and creative.
4)Visual style is making things look like they're a dream.
5)Link to her work:http://karrahkobus.zenfolio.com/
l. Sally Mann- Hands down one of my top inspirations
ReplyDelete2. She is a Fine Arts photographer,
3. I Love the fact that there is always a 'twist' in her photography. If you see 'serene, calm or peaceful' your not looking close enough.
4. Landscapes, people, objects there is a dark quality to her imagery.
http://sallymann.com/selected-works/family-pictures
!.) Michael Kenna
ReplyDelete2.) Fine Arts and Landscape Photographer.
3.) The way he uses the natural contrast of light in his photos is amazing. The way he manipulates the light through the lens without a touch of color makes it seem effortless and inspiring.
4.) He shoots a lot of landscapes as well as other outdoor subjects.
5.) Here is a link to some of his work: http://www.michaelkenna.net/gallery2.php?id=11
1. Peter Lik
ReplyDelete2. Landscape Photographer
3. His use of color and panoramas. How he can expose his picture correctly, emphasize colors, and creates something that our human eye can't on its own.
4. His prints look like they are printed on metal and are backlit. His pictures have so much detail and has the most beautiful use of light. HIs motto is "Go big or go home." He goes to the edge and pushes the limits to find the most amazing places in the world and capture them. Everything just looks so surreal.
1. Bryce Kanights
ReplyDelete2. action, commercial, and portrait style photography
3. His ability to fine-tune every situation to ultimately come out with a proper photograph.
4. Bryce uses the chaotic lifestyle of skateboarding to paint a picture that people can understand and relate to; Skateboarder or not.
5. http://www.brycekanights.com/
1) Dan Zaslavsky
ReplyDelete2) He shoots the fast pace, spirited skate life.
3) Dan finds very unique perspectives to shoot from, which capture the energy behind skateboarding and uses lighting to effectively obtain vivid colors.
4) His visual style is raw yet he approaches his work with a simplicity the conveys a skaters "carefree" lifestyle.
1) Trey Ratcliff.
ReplyDelete2) Travel, landscape, and street.
3) His ability to capture the magic and beauty of a person or place.
4) Trey uses a technique called HDR in many of his photos to add a little extra "wow" factor that makes the viewer step back for a second and take note.
http://www.stuckincustoms.com/
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Delete1) David LaChapelle
ReplyDelete2) Editorial, Fashion and Commercial(Most recent work)
3) He is creative in the way that he shhots his pictures.
4) He is very detail oreinted. A lot of his images have minor details that bring the whole image together.
1)Dorothea Lange
ReplyDelete2)Photojournalist
3)The way she had portrayed the suffering in the onset of the Great Depression and the Interment of the Japanese-American citizens in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor said more than a thousand words with each photo. It told a story.
4)She not only showed the suffering of the people in her photographs, she showed conditions of their environment, as well.
1. Ansel Adams
ReplyDelete2. Landscape Photographer
3. HIs work is interesting and inspiring to me because of his distinguished style, and also because of his mission. He wanted to capture his subjects just as they were through his eyes so that as time went by and our lands changed, we would be able to look back at his photos and see the beauty and contrast between then and now. Also because of him and all of his work being black and white film, I've developed a love of taking black and white photographs with film myself.
4. Adams had a visual style that is different from any other photographer I've come across from that era. He was very passionate and active in conserving the environment, and he wanted to use his photos as a way to advertise the fragility of the environments we live in.
5.http://www.anseladams.com
1.Roberto Ojeda
ReplyDelete2.Event photographer, Portraits, Abstract,Fashion, Macro
3.What attracts me to his work is how he can capture a moment so perfectly. It's not just a picture, he can make a story out of it. He does really awesome action shots and uses light well.
4.Roberto doesn't just stick to one subject matter. But with each subject you can still see his passion. It's nice to see that photography can be so limitless.
http://robertophoto.viewbook.com/
1. Ashley Dimeo Buchan
ReplyDelete2. Event/Portraits/Glamour
3. Her work amazes me with how she can tell a story and make you feel like you are right in the middle of whatever moment she has captured. I also love how she uses natural light in majority of her pictures.
4. Ashley's visual style is to capture little and big moments during an amazing time in a family's or couple's life. It amazes me how she even gets some of the little details that most people forget about.
http://adbphotographix.com/
1.Jenny Lynn
ReplyDelete2. Abstract, Portraits
3. What I find interesting is that she seems to only shoot in black and white and that her subjects seem a little odd.
4. She captures beauty in the things that people might not find beautiful such as not the normal nudity and also seemingly random objects.
http://www.jenniferlynnphotography.com/
1. Nadav Kander
ReplyDelete2. Landscapes,Portrait
3. I find his portrait style and landscape style to be very interesting. Kander's iconic Portraits are a who's who of popular culture. He has shot everyone from Obama to Lily Allen. His approach to portraits is to distance himself from his subjects and to shot without preconceived ides about them. His use of deep shadows, simple backgrounds and long exposures capture the depth of their facial features and bring out the reality of their faces. He prefers to not Photoshop away their blemishes but leave them. He says removing flaws is a deception. I also like his landscapes. They are classically beautiful and grandiose, and at the same time he tries to bring a degree of relevancy. Such as his book 'Yangtze-The Long River' which portrays the rampant new construction and destruction of the old culture along the Yangtze river. It depict the fragility of humanity in the face of progress.
4. I would describe his style as raw, vivid, and non obvious. He brings a sense of novelty to the familiar and a familiarity to the exotic.
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Delete1. Lise Sarfati
ReplyDelete2. Portraits, mostly of women
3. She captures the new generation of women in a way I think is really unique to this time period. She shows us that the tattooed badass pierced chick from the early 2000s is a little older now, has children, maybe married. Things like this interest me because many of her photographs are able to stand alone without the grunge-like novelty, and instead are accented by the characters she shows.
4. Her style is more raw, grungy. Beautifully ugly. She isn't afraid to capture a sad, defeated young female. But at the same time, she doesn't neglect the more powerful Feminist type images that really make her stand out.
1. William Eggleston
ReplyDelete2. Ordinary people and places
3. I find it so interesting how he can photograph some of the most ordinary and mundane objects and places and make them seem beautiful. When you look at his images you feel like you are traveling. Each picture tells it's own story.
4. He uses vibrant color and clear focus to give the photos a very real and kind of novelty feel. He photographs such a wide variety of subject matter and it's always something new. Some are nostalgic and some are candid. Like I said, each picture tells a story and makes you wonder.