My two picks!

So obviously since I am doing all of these blogs at the last minute I didn't really have a whole lot of time to pick so I did the best job I could by random.

Lewis Hine


Hine's started out after college as a teacher and encouraged his students to use photography as a medium for education.  What I find most interesting is that he majored in sociology in college.  It makes me really think about the direction I'm heading in but I'm also alot older than most other college students.

Anyway back to Hine's...I loved the work he did when he photographed the American Red Cross relief work abroad.  Something about devastation moves me in images and I would have loved to be a photo j major prior to family.

Obviously Hine's was pre-digital.  His work dated from the late 1800's to middle 1900's.  Film is a medium I love and is now an "alternative" process.  I want more experience with the dark room.  I plan to start this after college because I love the grain.  I love hearing Chad say if you started out in film you would understand more of the tools in photoshop because that is so true.

Anyway back to Hine's again, LOL.  Look at this image....
Look at the DOF.  And the grain to the image.  Those are my most favorite things about his work besides the inspirational side of the feelings I get when looking at his work.

It's hard to imagine what that time period was like even though I hear about it from grandparents.  Through Hine's images it brings it all back.  The love and all that.  HAHA

Beautiful!


Tina Modotti


Tina was another early photographer from the 1900's.  She was a documentarian and did alot of portrait work.  What I find most impressive are her angles.  She seems to want to portray that somber manner in her photographs.


Alot of the images I have seen are with people not making eye contact.  Almost as if she is trying to catch an innocence or love lost or stolen.  I don't know but this is the way it makes me feel.

I also noticed that alot of her photographs were of women or women and children.  I'm sure there is more to it than just a coincidence.  The womens rights movement has been traced all the way back to 1848 so for a female photographer, in my opinion, to be kind of documenting women during this time is genius!


I love the se-metrics of this image.  She did alot of nude work with women as well and it's beautiful and portrays to me a sort of innocence and sadness.

Richard Misrach & Robert Glenn Ketchum

Richard Misrach


I am drawn to mono chromatic images.  The simplicity almost drives me nuts that I love it so much!

His composition rocks and every image is so amazing as a whole and individually.  How cool is it to be known as one of the photographers that pioneered the renaissance of color photography.  WHAT?!  Craziness and what an honor and I can most certainly see it in his plethora of work.

The images of water and the things he finds around bodies of water are very intriguing to me.  I want to go there in a sense find out the story.  It's like they are images of the "untold" stories.

Then there are the images that are planned to the T of things placed in an unordinary surrounding.  But in a peaceful and restful way.  Does that even make sense, LOL.

Robert Glenn Ketchum

I don't think I have ever really been into landscape photography.  Something about it has never really moved me until now.  I think I really just need to spend some time in the books and actually look at work.  I really think that is the reason.  Running across all of the photographers has opened my eyes.

Ketchum is known for his landscape work.  He has been recognized with several awards and notably so.  His use of composition and light sets me into a whole different view point.  I think he has a way of showing off what is good that is still here and then the other side of what is bad that is not shown but through his imagery.  Ya know?

I'm gonna pull over some of the images I found remarkable from what I was just talking about.




I have wanted to try landscape but it's difficult for me.  I continue to experiment but haven't quite got it down.

Annie Leibovitz & Chris Verene

Annie Leibovitz


The controversial american portrait photographer....

I can say going through her images was amazing.  I am going to look into purchasing a book of her work just because it gives me motivation.  Not to be exact but it makes me excited.  I love her work!  I love everything about what she does and the moods she tries to create.  The irony in everything and how something so beautiful is so argumentative.

She has a way of capturing a mood and I would love to be in the room while she is doing her sketching & pre work because the idea behind some of these images blows my mind.  I like the book themes she uses.  I think that would be cool to do.

I feel like I'm saying LIKE a million times but I have never really looked thru her images like I have now.

I love the ones of Miley and I didn't choose them because of it being some of her more recent work but because of the aesthetic of the collection.  Here are some of my favorites.....

I love the moments she captures.  The impromptu looks the celebrities give.  Amazing!

Chris Verene

So documentary, eh?!  I'm not sure how or what kind of feelings are invoked when I looked at Chris' work.  Candid shots that are simple or not.  The color is amazing but I can't tell what is thought out and what is candid.  Or is it all meant to look candid when it's not really.  I think the concept is cool & I love the rawness.  The unplanned things.

I don't have alot to say about it.  The work as a whole is interesting and the ideas behind it simple.  He uses the frame well.

Garry Winogrand & Ralph Eugene Meatyard

Winogrand

So this guy is most known for his "hip" photography.  Obviously very photojournalistic and I love that.  Not that we are supposed to say if we like it or not but what I will say is that when going through his images that made me feel a sense of vulnerability.  How the subjects are so raw but very composed in his frame.

Alot of his images are very controversial.  That takes guts but it's real and that's what I feel moves me the most looking through his work.

This one for instance...predominantly one of the most popular images.

Then you have the realistic sense with this next one.

I can't imagine what these people were thinking as they drove by and Winogrand shot the broke nose.  It makes me laugh but at the same time I choose to look at his technique with the slower shutter & pan.  Awesome!

Meatyard


So I remember looking at this guy a month back, LOL.  I really do go and look at these photographers because I think it's important to see other work too.  I just don't have alot of time and I know that sounds cliche.

Anyway so Ralph....wow.  So the masks creep me out and then the masks on kids even more so.  I think he means to envoke the sort of creepy sense in the images.  I, myself, have actually wanted to sort of take the "kids" images that I do to another level.  Not this way but something different that is going to set me apart.

I feel like the images are conceptual; very well thought out.

This image reminds me of my kids....just out in random playing with masks.  Kinda of a funny side of his images.