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.

CITED 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqnVLwRagbs 

 

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 

CITED 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aulz5efN2Pc

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.

                                                               Shot by: William Eggleston

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.

CITED 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jZ_HkaTXh8#t=17

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.

CITED

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvSXVFEFSfQ

Harry Callahan Post 4

                                                        Shot by: Harry Callahan

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.

                                                          Shot by: Harry Callahan

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.

                                                    Shot by: Harry Callahan

CITED

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D60P35HummI 

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.

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. 

                                                         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/

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.

                                                                Shot by: Sally Mann
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.

CITED

http://vdownload.eu/watch/5797848-blood-ties-1993-the-life-and-work-of-sally-mann.html

http://sallymann.com/