Yousouf Karsh

Yousouf Karsh was a portrait photographer who was considered to be one of the greatest photographers of all time. What I found most interesting about Karsh was the famous figures and icons he shared experiences with and how he used theatrical and dramatic lighting set ups in his portraits. I consider his work to be a combination of cinematography, narrative genre, symbolism, iconography with a one of a kind aesthetic. His body of work can be found here  http://www.karsh.org/# 

This photographer captured my attention as well, enjoy -

http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_10_VForm&ERID=24KL53ZTH6

Robert Capa

     Robert Capa used photography as documentation. In his career as a war photographer, photojournalist and writer, he accomplished what only few have in history. Infamous for a set titled the "Magnificent Eleven" which occurred during the invasion of Normandy, Capa took risks to capture and document moments from 5 different wars and events in numerous countries. His involvement in photography later led him to the development of "Magnum Photos" in Paris which was an agency for photographers. Here is a short interview of Robert Capa where he shares a few stories from his career. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYe4ynXnqug 

Images can be found here

http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_10_VForm&ERID=24KL535353

 

                                           

Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter was born in 1932 in Dresden. While Richter is an established painter, he is also fascinated by the relationship between painting and photographic sources. Richer enjoys experimenting with abstraction. He paints over photographs of a wide variety of subjects such as self portraits, family, interiors, and landscapes. I like this idea of redefining what a photograph can be, and I think this work can be useful for our class exhibition if we chose the subject of redefining photography. 

https://www.gerhard-richter.com/en/

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Michael Flomen

 

Self-taught photographer Michael Flomen uses a camera-less technique. He photographs at night and uses light from outdoors to make his images. Like William Henry Fox Talbot, who invented the art of photogenic drawing by placing light-sensitive drawing paper outdoors, Flomen also allows nature and light to draw for themselves. His process takes place during the night and uses glass-plate negatives and light-sensitive sheets of black-and-white photographic paper. Placing the negatives in direct contact with the elements, such as ponds, streams, moonlight, firefly light, snowflakes, shadows, and snowfields, Flomen captures the activity of the light to create his photographs. (I really wish I knew  how to do that) I really enjoy how soft his photographs look and the nice gradation from dark to light.

Anna Atkins

 

Anna Atkins was an artist I found in one of Nate's books about abstract photography. Her images really interested me because I recognized the cyanotype blue coloring, since I have also experimented with this type of camera less photography last summer. Her work consists of cyanotype prints made from many species of plants. She was a trained botanist and was able to capture plants she was able to recognize and name. I really love the delicacy of her images and how simple they are. This type of camera less photography fits in with chapter 8 which we talked about for the exhibition. The cyanotype printing process would be really fun to experiment with if we decided to go with that chapter. 

Penelope Umbrico

Penelope Umbrico (born January 31, 1957 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an artist/photographer best known for appropriating  images found using search engines and picture sharing websites.

Her project "Suns from Flickr " started in 2006 when she found 541,795 pictures of Sunsets searching the word “sunset” on the photo-sharing web site Flickr while looking for the most photographed subject (which the sunset turned out to be). She took just the suns from these pictures and made Kodak Snapshots prints of them. I enjoyed this work because of the abstraction and the amount of color that was part of this installation after putting all the pictures side by side.

For more of her work this is her Website: http://www.penelopeumbrico.net/index.html

“Chlorophyll Prints”

I found this article to be very interesting because I enjoyed working in the dark room last semester and even though this wasn't done in a dark room its a a similar longer process. This also reminded me of something that could be possible for chapter 8. 

http://petapixel.com/2011/08/30/photographer-makes-chlorophyll-prints-using-leaves-and-sunlight/

Wolfgang Tillmans

 


       Wolfgang Tillman is a photographer from Germany. His work is unique and intriguing. He looks at everyday things and pulls the beauty out of them. His portraiture shows interest in fashion and culture. I personally enjoy his use of nature, and natural colors. His compositions appear to be effortless and it look like he does not alter much of his still life photographs. I think Tillman has a talent of capturing raw real moments. I would like to be able to shoot casually and capture the small beautiful moments that surround me everyday.

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By Vanessa Riojas