Jeff Curtos Camera Position » 2008 » March. Mar 12 2008 Is beauty enough in a photograph?
It’s an odd concept in photography, especially in today’s visual world where so many photographers seem to ignore it. Or… are they ignoring it? We take a look. Santo Stefano di Sessanio, Abruzzo, 2007 Photograph by Jeff Curto (click to enlarge) Links for this Episode: Art and Photography: The 1980s. Eileen cowin. Pahina 2 Pahina 3 Pahina 4.
New Topographics. Atget Photography / art Black & White Photographers History. Eugene Atget (French, 1857-1927) The life and the intention of Eugene Atget are fundamentally unknown to us.
A few documented facts and a handful of recollections and legends provide a scant outline of the man. Berenice Abbott (American, 1898-1991) In 1926 she opened her own portrait studio, and for the next three years photographed with honesty and grace the great and the famous of that Pari's intellectual world. Ansel Adams (American, 1902-1984) A landscape does not move in the conventional sense, but it changes constantly in other ways, most notably through the agency of light.
Diane Arbus (American, 1923-1971) In a working life less than a decade Diane Arbus effected a profound reconsideration of photography's intensions. Richard Avedon (American, 1923-2004) Even in the early years of his work as a fashion photographer, Richard Avedon was much interested in motion, or rather in the sense of motion, since his interest was not analytical but hortatory.
E. Bill Brandt (British, 1905-1983) Susan lipper. Andreas gursky. Thomas Joshua Cooper. I recently attended an inspiring talk by the unique artist Thomas Joshua Cooper, who is regarded as one of the world’s most important landscape artists.
The event was organised by the North East Photography Network Thomas only makes images outdoors, only ever makes one image in any one place, and uses an Agfa camera that was made in 1898. He is well known for the extraordinary lengths he goes to in order to make his images, and can spend months travelling to the remote parts of the globe to make a single image. Cooper has always emphasized that his images are made not taken or shot and the final stage in the process takes place in the dark room. “When I make a picture it is a considered event and a considered action, and through that consideration the act of construction occurs. “I see my photographs as meditations, it is as simple as that. I would recommend anyone checks out Thomas’ pictures and words, as they can help to illuminate the thought process behind making pictures.
Thomas Joshua Cooper - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Working solely with an 1898 Agfa field camera, Thomas Joshua Cooper has established himself as one of the foremost photographers of our time.
He photographs only outdoors, but his pictures are far from nature “shots”: they are images he makes, or finds, each unique, with each site captured in a single exposure, and then rendered as a selenium-toned silver gelatin print. He is perhaps best known for his Atlas Project. Inspired by reading about Magellan’s circumnavigation of the world in the sixteenth century and the lasting impact that has had on world history, Mr. Cooper set out about twenty years ago to “chart” the Atlantic Basin, capturing points of land he had picked out on a map. F 64 group. Ansel Adams-Inspired. Photo Collectives Demonstrate New Approaches at Look3 Festival. Photographic Review: Learning Packages - Exterior & Interior Spaces. By Jesse Alexander As well as the people and goings-on around them, photographers have turned to different spaces as subjects for their work.
Of course these are infinitely diverse, ranging from exterior spaces that we might identify as 'landscape' photographs, to much smaller interior spaces like bedrooms and even fabricated, model spaces. We will look at how practitioners have used different spaces both to document them and to explore different ideas, themes and concepts. John Davies is on of the UK's most important and celebrated landscape photographers, and has recorded the man-made landscape for decades.
Telling a story. John gossage. Patrick zacchman. Magnum Blog / Magnum Magnum: Eve Arnold by Elliott Erwitt - the photo blog of Magnum Photos. On the trail of Henri Cartier Bresson... About On the trail of Henri Cartier Bresson... A tribute to the great Master of Photography, Henri Cartier Bresson If it's impossible to be equal, at least we can try to follow his spirit... Thx! --------- from Wikipedia Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004) was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism, an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography.
He helped develop the "street photography" style that has influenced generations of photographers that followed. The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression... . From Photoquote.com What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm – the relationship between shapes and values. - Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photography Year 1980, LIFE Library of Photography Please remember to tag the photo OnthetrailofBresson. Mondrian.