Research - Selected photographers.
1. Lauren E. Simonutt:
http://www.edelmangallery.com/simonutti/simonutti-main.htm
Lauren E. Simonutt suffered from many mental illnesses, these were rapid cycling, mixed state bipolar with schizoaffective disorder. Even though medicated for these mental issues, Lauren E. Simonutt decided to stay in her own home and turn the camera on herself and her confinements to confront everyone and herself of these illnesses but also understand.
Even though Lauren E. Simonutt work is dark and more horrifying to most of the audience, I find her work extremely interesting. The reason I chose this photographer to research is because she uses a lot of tones in her work with black and white images of darkness but also sepia work.
2. Daniel Kukla:
Daniel Kukla, is a native of Indianapolis, IN, currently resides in Brooklyn, NY where he works as a freelance and fine art photographer. For close to a month last spring, the Brooklyn-based photographer lived alone in a cabin in the northwest corner of the national park. Armed with a camera, a large mirror and a painter’s easel, he set out at dawn or dusk every day to document the forces — human, environmental and geologic — that give the park its variety and vitality. Each of the resulting tableaux feature one landscape mirrored onto the backdrop of another, creating two opposing scenes in a single visual pane.
I chose Daniel Kukla as my second photographer because he shown reflection photography in a new light. By using a mirror and easel to show the reflection of another background while based in an old surrounding, he manages to catch the focus and contrast of reflection.
3. Pete Turner:
Pete Turner's career began during the infancy of colour photography at a time when color was used almost exclusively for commercial purposes. Unlike many contemporaries, Turner embraced color, seizing opportunities that allowed him to master the process and to create the imagery he felt compelled to make.
I chose Pete Turner's as my third photographer because he embraces colours from everyday objects into more interesting photos. By embracing the colours of objects he has taken photos of, he shows how everyday objects can be made into more interesting and eye-catching photos from a simple movement of changing the contrast or levels.
4. Adrienne Adam:
Adrienne Adams creates intimate landscapes showing the subtle and unique patterns and textures found in nature. Her images are exposed using available light and each becomes a study of how this element shifts and dances on the surface of a tree, of the water, of our lives.
I chose Adrienne Adams as my fourth photographer because she embraces both colour and patterns in a natural way. These photos are also mostly in close up view which gives the audience a more unique view on what is usually never seen.
5. Norman Parkinson:
Norman Parkinson was one of the twentieth century's best-known fashion photographers. He was active for over 50 years and was instrumental in taking portrait and fashion photography beyond the stiff formality of his predecessors and injecting an easy and casual elegance into his images.
I chose Norman Parkinson as my fifth photographer because even though his work was based around an old but amazing fashion, I liked the fact that tones was also shown through the outfits and the background.
6. John Shaw:
John Shaw has been a professional nature photographer since the early 1970s. His work has been published in many publications and books, including National Geographic, Nature’s Best, National Wildlife, Audubon, Outdoor Photographer, and many others. In 1997 he received the first-ever Outstanding Photographer Award given by NANPA (North American Nature Photography Association).
I chose John Shaw as my sixth photographer because he bases his work on natural colours. The reason why I like this is because he creates nature to look more interesting and unique by focusing on the colours of the plants and animals. Most of his photos based on colour and nature also have contrasts.
7. Tim Rudman:
Tim Rudman began his involvement with Photography in the 1960’s whilst studying medicine in London. He taught himself to print in the darkroom and, with his distinctive style of Black and White printing, quickly gained some early recognition and publication. His work has been exhibited in over 50 countries around the world, gaining many top international awards. His four books on photographic printing and toning techniques are critically acclaimed and are widely used in teaching establishments. His work has been published extensively in many countries.
I chose Tim Rudman as my seventh photographer because he creates old styled pictures with tones from sepia and black and white techniques. He also creates simply yet breath taking photos that are based on one focus point.
8. Philipp Klinger:
Philipp Klinger is a landscape and Architecture photographer. He found his hobby in photography in May 2007 and continues this hobby till now.
I chose Philipp Klinger as my eighth photographer because he takes unique photos of man built objects which create shapes. These shapes also sometimes create depth in the photo. I can use his ideas of photos for my own.
9. Johan Lindqvist
Johan Lindqvist has been interested in images and photography for a great amount of his life. This lead him into creating his own company "Johan Lindqvist Photography" in 1999. He is also a freelance photographer and work ranges over a number of subjects. One being motion blur.
I chose Johan Lindqvist as my ninth photographer because he creates images which stand out with motion blur. The photo's he has taken with motion blur was over his belly dancing friend. By using motion blur but also keeping the dancer in focus, he creates an outstanding photo. I would copy these styles with different dancers and motion blur.
10. Tony Kuyper:
Tony Kuyper enjoys light photography but also taking photos of the desert landscape. He has also been hiking and photographing the Colorado Plateau for over twenty years. Even though Tony Kuyper focused on light for so many years, most of his desert landscape photos are based on colour and patterns.
I chose Tony Kuyper as my tenth photographer because he was inspirational. The reason for this is that he shows in his own bio, that even though he tried to follow specific lighting times for his photos, he realised that his work would not materialise. To top this off also, Tony's photos are outstanding in colour and patterns which are never the same as anything else, he creates original photos in which most people in the world do not see. I can copy this photo by using small rocks with patterns and colour.
11. Irving Penn
Penn worked for many years doing fashion photography for Vogue magazine, founding his own studio in 1953. He was among the first photographers to pose subjects against a simple grey or white backdrop and used this simplicity more effectively than other photographers. Expanding his austere studio surroundings, Penn constructed a set of upright angled backdrops, to form a stark, acute corner.
I chose Irving Penn as my eleventh photographer because I found his work with fashion but in tones extremely interesting. The reason for this is that as well as being able to range between old fashioned clothing to more modern fashion, he was able to use the tones in which would give the photo itself an effect.
12. Guy Bourdin
Guy Louis Banarès, was a French fashion photographer. Bourdin was one of the best known photographers of fashion and advertising of the second half of the 20th century. He shared Helmut Newton's taste for controversy and stylization, but Bourdin's formal daring and the narrative power of his images exceeded the bounds of conventional advertising photography. Shattering expectations and questioning boundaries, he set the stage for a new kind of fashion photography. Bourdin worked for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, and shot ad campaigns for Chanel, Issey Miyake, Emanuel Ungaro, Gianni Versace, Loewe, Pentax and Bloomingdale's.
I chose Guy Bourdin as my twelfth photographer because I found his work as outstanding and vibrant as many of his photos represented colour and brightness. Even though I do not find Guy's work very appealing with the way he prefers to represent his models as 'sex and fashion' objects, I find the way he has a consistency in the bright colours to create everything to stand out, excellent.
13. Ben Hall
Ben’s personal approach to wildlife photography lies in the creative art of ‘seeing’. His aim is to use his pictures to communicate his personal vision, to generate an emotional response and to excite the viewer’s aesthetic sensitivity. He often pre-visualises a particular image in his mind before setting out to photograph it. To realise this vision by turning it into a photographic image can take weeks or even months, and often sees him returning frequently to the same location to capture the perfect shot.
I chose Ben Hall as my thirteenth photographer because I found his choice of subject with motion blur more interesting and unique. The fact he chooses to use animals as his motion blur topic creates more natural photos to observe that also stand out unlike most motion blur photos. I could use his work to help my own choices of what subjects I could use that would balance out both the excitement of the motion blur and the naturalisation.
14. Lucy Shires
Urban abstract photographer from Manchester, living in Norfolk. Lucy does more than produce photographs. She creates art that brings such joy to viewers of her stream.
Beyond that, she has introduced so many of us to the wonders of her macro world and have been the key factor in the development of my own style. I chose Lucy Shires as my as my fourteenth photographer because I adore her work in macro shots. With these macro shots, she is able to show decaying or broken textures that everyone would simply pass by. Even though she has a twist with her work and prefers shooting dark areas or run-down places with texture, all her photo are simply different from most photographers. This makes her a fantastic role model. I would use her ideas with using run-down areas and macro shots to influence my texture work.
15. David Ward
http://www.into-the-light.com/
David Ward work has inspired people to believe that they are distinctive for their graphic simplicity and technical quality. David is particularly drawn to making abstract, intimate landscape images, his work is also informed and inspired by many of the great American landscape photographers of the last century. David has also wrote about the philosophical side of photography and has lead photographic workshops for Light & Land. Although he has specialised in large format photography for over twenty years, he emphasis in teaching is on the photographer’s vision, rather than on what format is being used, and he try to pass on his knowledge in an accessible and humorous manner.
I chose David Ward as my 15th photographer because his work is so influential in colour and lighting. The fact that he shows it in many different forms and ways, creates the photos to be different in an amazing way. I would use his method of using light against colourful objects in my work.
16. Paolo Roversi
Paolo was born in Ravenna in 1947. His interest in photography started as a teenager during a family vacation in Spain in 1964. This lead to him creating a darkroom with another keen amateur in a cellar. In 1970 he started joining with the Associated Press in which lead him to his first assignment. On his first assignment he went to cover Ezra Pound's funeral in Venice. After this, Paolo decided to go too Paris and has never left since. He then discovered the work of Avedon, Penn, Newton, Bourdin and many others in fashion photography and decided to base his work around this.
Even though Paolo is a fashion photographer, when I look at his work, I really see the way he focuses upon the tones of the outfits and the models but also the colours which are revealed. The fact his work ranges in all the different types of fashion makes his photography become like a fantasy story. Paolo's work has made me realise that I should focus on colour and the contrasts between tones upon a model whether in a studio or outside.
17. Peter Keetman
Peter Keetman is my seventeenth selected photographer, because his use of formal elements in shape are shown so much in his work that it makes his work more interesting and amazing to observe. He will influence my work into using rain drops in black and white photographs for my shape section in formal elements.
18. Giuseppe Bognanni
Giuseppe Bognanni was born in Mazzarion, Sicily in Italy. Even though it was extremely hard to find his biography due to him being an amateur photographer, he kept the following on his profile; "What the photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: it repeats mechanically what can never be repeated existentially. In it, the event is not never turns into something else: it always leads the corpus I need the body that I see it is the absolute Particular, the sovereign Contingency, dull and obtuse as the Tale, in short Tyché the Occasion, the Encounter, the Real tireless in his expression. "
(Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida).
Giuseppe Bognanni is my chosen eighteenth photographer, not for his wedding portraits but for his reflection work and colour. His reflection and colour work stands out greatly as they all give different interpretations to each member in the audience. Giuseppe can help my formal work on reflection as I can copy styles he uses such as the fork, flower and small puddle underneath.
19. Suzanne Lafont
Born in France in 1949, Suzanne Lafont studied literature and philosophy before turning to photography at the age of thirty-three. The artist lives and works in Paris and has participated in numerous single and group exhibitions in Europe. The artist's most recent work draws from a spectrum of sources from art history, philosophy, and contemporary culture.
Suzanne Lafont is my nineteenth chosen photographer because I find the way she uses faded movement in her work a little more original than other movement photography, this is because she seems to take a series of photos before fading them all into one, so the person moving seems more like a ghost than a real body. In my work, I will use her multiple photo collecting and bind them into one for my movement category in formal elements.
20. Galen and Barbra Rowen
Galen Rowen - Born in 1940 in Oakland and raised in Berkeley, California, to a college professor and a concert cellist, Galen was introduced to wilderness before he could walk. He began climbing mountains at the age of ten on Sierra Club outings, and at sixteen made his first roped climbs in Yosemite Valley. Over the next fifteen years he logged more than a hundred first ascents of new routes there and in the High Sierra backcountry. Taking photographs began as a way to share his high and wild world with friends and family. In 1972 he became a full-time photographer after selling his small automotive business. Less than a year later he did his first major magazine assignment–a cover story for National Geographic.
Barbra Rowen - arbara joined Galen on the majority of his travels to exotic locations, including hisNational Geographic assignment in Pakistan to cover the highest war in history where they were flown throughout the Himalaya as guests of President Zia. She also photographed many of her own foreign adventures. Her photographs have been published in National Geographic, as well as on book and magazine covers. If you asked Galen about Barbara’s photography, he openly admitted that she shot about one quarter of the film but had a higher shooting ratio than he did. If you asked Barbara, she said she shot ONLY when something strongly attracted her since she didn’t shoulder the responsibility of Galen’s assignments.
I chose Galen and Barbra as a joint twentieth photographer because they work together. But the real reason why I chose their work is because they focus closely on colour in sceneries and lighting, this is so inspirational as it shows that there is nothing stopping someone from doing what they do. I find the colours and lighting in their photographs of scenery breathtaking. They have influenced me to think carefully about what I do in what times as I cannot control the lighting but if I keep in check on time, I can also take breath taking photos.
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