He never sold a piece of his work during that time, never published a book and rarely did interviews. Until his son recovered some of his negatives and brought his career back to life.
By: Brain Duffy
Thursday, December 3, 2015
Brain Duffy Post 16
Duffy's images he captured during the 60's and 70's in Britain. After 30 years of taking pictures one day he went out back to the back yard and burned all his work.
By: Brain Duffy
He never sold a piece of his work during that time, never published a book and rarely did interviews. Until his son recovered some of his negatives and brought his career back to life.
He never sold a piece of his work during that time, never published a book and rarely did interviews. Until his son recovered some of his negatives and brought his career back to life.
Richard Avedon Post 15
Richard Avedon captured things that he was afraid of in a way and things he couldn't deal with at certain times in his life. He also enojyed captureing the way clothes looked on people that on moving. He would have his models jump, run and do whatever it took to capture the perfect action shot of the clothes.
He also liked animals and used then in his shots sometimes and he did this one photo shoot with a lady and this snake creeps me out there is no way I would/could do this.
By: Richard Avedon
He also liked animals and used then in his shots sometimes and he did this one photo shoot with a lady and this snake creeps me out there is no way I would/could do this.
William Klein Post 14
I came across Mr. William Klein and I recalled some of his images that he has shot and I can remeber seeing them at some point in my life rather it was in a school book or movie I have seen this guys work throughout my life. He did films as well
By: William Klein
He was from New York and shots on the streets. He would capture whats going on in the busy bustling city during this time. He is radical and unique and has influenced photographers to this day.
He was from New York and shots on the streets. He would capture whats going on in the busy bustling city during this time. He is radical and unique and has influenced photographers to this day.
Ciril Jazbec Post 13
I cam across Ciril Jazbec when looking for photographers and I really enjoyed his work it's something different and not what you see everyday. His work is taken place mainly in greenland where there are about 250 people to 500 dogs. Sign me up and when do I leave sounds like my type of town.
By: Ciril Jazbec
It's a total different world up north in the cold I can only imagine how people live up there. I don't know how I feel about all the polar bear fur I see but if it's to keep them warm and alive up there I guess it's okay.
It's a total different world up north in the cold I can only imagine how people live up there. I don't know how I feel about all the polar bear fur I see but if it's to keep them warm and alive up there I guess it's okay.
Patrick J. Adams Post 12
Patrick J. Adams is a actor on a show I watch called Suits. I had no idea he did photography on the side until they mentioned it during one of the commercial breaks. So I hopped on his website and took a look around his gallery and I was highly impressed.
By: Patrick J. Adams
I even cam across a multiple he did on a cool object in the dessert it looks like.
I even cam across a multiple he did on a cool object in the dessert it looks like.
Catherine Opie Post 11
Catherine Opie is an example of what happens when you mess around taking photos and it ends up to be an amazing pieces of work. She did a thing with mustaches that got a lot of attention and got the topic ball rolling on gender identity
Catherine was the ground breaking photographer for people who were struggling with gender identity. At that time it was not much up for topic like it is now a days but she helped make awareness about the topic.
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Catherine was the ground breaking photographer for people who were struggling with gender identity. At that time it was not much up for topic like it is now a days but she helped make awareness about the topic.
Nan Goldin Post 10
Nan Goldin was a very very real person and captured pretty much every moment of her life and everything they did. She was a very open person and love is love to her and lived an very different life for that time frame.
By: Nan Goldin
She was taking pictures in the 80's when she was in rehab of her self while she was sober. She lived 15 years of her life a night owl and taking pictures at night that she didn't know that light effected the film.
She was taking pictures in the 80's when she was in rehab of her self while she was sober. She lived 15 years of her life a night owl and taking pictures at night that she didn't know that light effected the film.
Annie Leibovitz Post 9
Annie Leibovitz is an amazing woman that saw people for who they are and wanted to catch them in the real act especially when she was working for the rolling stones. She captured artist on the road and during their intimate times they had not performing. She was super lucky to have enjoyed the 60 era and worked for rolling stones.
By: Annie Leibovitz
By Annie Leibovitz
She also has an eye and an imagition almost that she brings to life and then captures it for the world to see. She is a natural that's for sure I love all of her creative ideas they are always different and kinda pushes the limit.
She still continues to amaze the world with her amazing work!
Monday, October 5, 2015
Julia Margaret Cameron Post 8
Julia Margaret Cameron was a pioneer of her time she was a photographer. She was a portrait photographer and she loved to stage pictures to. She worked really well with portraits and getting the emotion she wanted to capture in them.
Shot by: Julia Margaret Cameron
Her pictures and prints had smudges and fingerprints not just on the print but sometimes on the negative as well. Artist in today's society would argue that these imperfections made her pictures what they are today.
Shot by: Julia Margaret Cameron
Cameron started photography in 1863 when her husband left on a trip. To cheer her up her daughter and son in law gave her a camera. She didn't know what she was doing just like any other photographer but she slowly worked it out and made some amazing shots. She was able to take what we now a days call head shots but then called portraits of famous people.
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W. Eugene Smith Post 7
Eugen Smith was pushing the boundaries during his time. Before there was world journalist that would produce things that you typically wouldn't shoot. Smith took the most heart wrenching pictures of things you wouldn't necessary consider art or poetic pieces.
Shot by: W. Eugene Smith
His work was very meaningful and told true stories of what was really happening that no one else could see at that time. Taking pictures of the blood,guts and tears of reality situations. He wanted to tell the truth and expose what was really going on.
Shot by: W. Eugene Smith
His photographers tell more than just a story it showed want actually was going on. He revealed a lot of things to the American public just through the living room TV. He as well was good in the dark room and spent a lot of time in there fixing photos burning, dodging and bleaching till the image was just right.
Shot by: W. Eugene Smith
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William Eggleston Post 6
Shot by: William Eggleston
William Eggleston was and interesting man you may say he was a natural. He can see good material out of something so basic. He would shot the simplest things and make them different and unusual. He would photograph "ugly" things that people would think of as just trash but when you put it in a still frame it could mean and look like so much more then just trash.
He would shot the littlest easiest things that was simply just life the normal things that we do everyday rather it's putting on your shoes or the grocery boy pushing carts. He was not a photo journalist and never had training or education on it. His shots that he took of simple things you could really analyze them and pick and pull different things almost out of all his images.
Shot by: William Eggleston
He had this brief case made with different sections so he can put his cannon cameras in. He collected screw mount bodies cameras that he would manipulate them to his liking and see what he could produce with them.
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Ansel Adams Post 5
Ansel Adams was an innovator of his time. The way he saw the world and knowledge of the camera and the dark room. Adams was a very well educated man when it came to the development of photography.
Shot by: Ansel Adams
This image was a beautiful mistake one may say. He didn't have his light meter when he was taking this shot and he was able to still capture such an wonderful shot. At this time you couldn't see what you were shooting so for him to get this and development the negative just right so that all the shadows and the lights show just enough perfect light for the picture to be just perfect.
Shot by: Ansel Adams
I love this image just beautiful. I love mountains and the snow caps that he captured here and the lovely river that runs through the image. You definitely can read the image from top left to bottom right it has a very nice flow to it. I just can't get over some of these shots that he has taken and to think that it's all about development as well. How long you let the image burn into the paper and how long you left it in certain chemicals that bring out the blacks and whites. He was a very talented man and I believe he was a very big impact on how photography is today.
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Harry Callahan Post 4
Harry Callahan seemed to be a simple man that simply just wanted to learn and expand his mind to new things. He was the thinker of outside the box. He loved shooting against dark backgrounds and people in the city. He like shooting his wife as well. People thought that he was about lines but he simply was about shooting things that no one has shot before or would want to shoot.
He likes going against the grain and not doing what everyone else is doing at that time. To go out a pick something different to shoot. He believed that the only way for one to know their camera and know what to shoot is to simply just do it and getting to know your camera in all lighting aspects. I love his shots of his wife not only is she beautiful but you can almost feel his love for his wife through all the different shots of her.
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Diane Arbus Post 3
Diane Arbus captured moments and people who at the time were freaks or outcast. She liked making you feel uncomfortable when looking at her images. She wanted to make you think about reality and not what everyone else thinks or wants you to think. She mentions "what you intend never comes out how you intended it" meaning it's impossible for you to get out of your own skin and into someone else's.
Shot by: Diane Arbus
The images that she shot during her era made people feel uncomfortable verse happy and warm like other pictures did then. They had a since of sadness and confusion. People back then couldn't wrap their heads around cross dressers and midgets and whatever else made you different in society then. Diane saw something else that she had to capture. She saw their lives, how they lived, who they loved, how they acted in society. She saw them as normal people.
http://diane-arbus-photography.com/
By: Diane Arbus
She didn't like photography the "norm" what everyone else was doing at her time. She wanted to photograph things that are completely different. She shot people who had already gone through a traumatic experiences in there life and are who they are. Versus the "normal" people wo have yet to go through something so traumatic.
The images that she shot during her era made people feel uncomfortable verse happy and warm like other pictures did then. They had a since of sadness and confusion. People back then couldn't wrap their heads around cross dressers and midgets and whatever else made you different in society then. Diane saw something else that she had to capture. She saw their lives, how they lived, who they loved, how they acted in society. She saw them as normal people.
http://diane-arbus-photography.com/
Sally Mann Post 2
Shot by: Sally Mann
Sally Mann was brought to my attention today due to an assignment for class. Her work left me thinking outside the norm for me. Growing up in a very open household myself were clothing was optional especially in the summer time when my parents were to cheap to turn the air on. Granted it was only at night time and in between bath and bed time but still it was something I feel like most families did. So when I saw the pictures Sally Mann took it was almost like my own childhood flashbacks kinda without the camera.
Her shots are pure and simple to me. This photo above reminds me of going to my aunts cabin on a private lake in Perryville, Mo most of my life growing up. No one would of thought to take picture of times like these just simply live in them verses capturing them. I like that she captures the real parts of life. The little corky things we all did as kids just exploring the "unknown" to us.
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Sunday, August 23, 2015
Rock Prophecies Post 1
The photographer I picked this week is Robert M Knight. He's a music artist photographer at the beginning of rock and roll. He has captured some great shots of artist that are no longer living.
His list of artist is long and if you want to watch this documentary on how he came to be. It's on Netflix I believe still called rock prophecies. It's amazing how being at the right place at the right time has everything to with his career.
He was actually the only photographer to capture Stevy Ray Vaughn's last concert.
Check out the trailer for Rock Prophecies
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Servey Says!!
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What is your personal definition of photography?
I would define photography as artwork made by a machine and operator. From abstract angles to lighting techniques to reflections whatever the operator visualizes and captures on the camera. Photography is still frames of life that you can hold on to forever.
What is the difference between a snapshot & a photograph?
Mary and Ms. June Carter Cash
I believe the difference between a snapshot and a photograph is timing. A snapshot is something you try to catch really quick and pray that you did verses a photograph is something well planed out and thoughtful. 
What is a cliche?
I lost track of time.... Brave as a lion... Though as nails... Opposites attract... What goes around comes around... They all lives happily ever after... we're not laughing at you we're laughing with you... Don't get your knickers in a twist...Dead as a door nail...Avoid it like the plague... Take the tiger by the tail... If walls could talk...The pot calling the kettle black...Like a kid in a candy store... Every dog has its day...Plenty of fish in the sea... Dropped the ball... 24/7... It is what it is...bottom line is... touch base...What is the most important thing in your life?
Started with the two in the middle!! 60 years later!!
The most important thing in my life would be my family and friends. I have a very big close family that I am very proud of being apart of. Probably the most important member would be my partner of 6 years Mary. Since we met it's been nothing but an amazing very busy social life together. Last but not least my first fur child June Carter Cash is a HUGE important mammal in my life. She's a white/yellow English lab that loves everyone!!
What is your greatest strength/weakness?What is your greatest strength/weakness as a photographer?
Well let's see I believe my greatest strength would be that I am a team player. I am always down for whatever very easy breezy person. One of my weaknesses would be I have a huge heart and wear it on my sleeve. Greatest strength as a photographer I believe I have is a good eye and try to look outside the box a lot. A weakness would be not fully understanding my camera and using it to its full potential.Where would you like to be as a photographer? What is keeping you from getting there?
As a photographer I would like to be able to use my camera to it's full capability and capture moments of my life that I can have forever. As well as see the opportunities that could come from being a photographer. What's keeping me from getting there is my lack of knowledge to operate my camera fully.Complete the following sentence until you run out of things to say: "If I could make a set of photographs, they would....
be of all the different baseball stadiums in the U.S. as well as the seven wonders of the world new and old. I would love to shoot tropical beaches as well as wildlife. I would love sets of winter shots with fresh snow on the ground. Under water pictures.
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