What to learn from Masters?
Comparison of photoghic styles of the best. What makes them unique?
Robert Adams
Quiet, silent observations
Gateway to recall places.
See exhibition how it was intended
Mundane became nostalgic.
Don't search for meaning, you either like it or not. When I take pick the camera, I already took the picture by eye.
Introduced color and was despised by Adams & Cartier-Bresson for it.
William Eggleston
Places
Situations
People
Objects
Ideas of utopia and dystopia.
Many things all at once. It’s such a complicated society.
Carefully selected sublte palettes to focus and not to distract
Joel Sternfeld
Old large format 8x10 camera
Oddity of misfit stereotypes of genuine complex human beings
1985-2000 across US with a large format shooting portraits of strangers
See light & colors
Slow…
Details / not just the street.
Simple composition as you see it.
Lonelyness, mystery, ambiguous pictures just suggesting who what why.
"We're born alone, we live alon, we die alone. Only through out love and friendship can we create the illustion for the moment, that we're not alon – O. Welles"
Todd Hido
Lonely places
Abandoned interiors
People
Color carries the photo – vivid by hiding in the darks
Pete Turner
Color
The Foundations.
Atmosphere through light. Balanced compositions.
Low light on slow films.