What to learn from Masters?
Comparison of photoghic styles of the best. What makes them unique?
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
American prospects
Eight-year-long journey across America.
Narrative of the place. Slices of real life.
Non-places. Surrounding of highlights.
Inspires questioning what's going on there.
Oddity of misfit stereotypes of genuine complex human beings
1985-2000 across US with a large format shooting portraits of strangers
Old large format 8x10 camera
Robert Adams
There are at least two kinds of silence that define us.
One is the eloquent silence of the world as we were given it - the silence of light and beauty, the silence that holds a promise.
There is also sometimes a dark silence within us, one that results from willful blindness and deafness.
We struggle against it. What will America be?
Quiet, silent observations
Precise and undramatic.
Adams's accumulative vision of the West stands as a document recognizing signs of human aspiration and elements of hope across a particular changing landscape,
A gateway to recall places.
See exhibition how it was intended
Modest size
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
Joel Meyerowitz
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
Dreamlike and impressionistic abstractions.
Gordon Parks
Horizons of imagination
Dreamlike and impressionistic landscapes.
Compelled to create his own hills, mountains, and valleys.
Combining elements of painting, sculpture, and photography,
Still lifes positioned before brightly colored and dramatically lit backgrounds.
Imogen Cunningham
Compressing shapes of details
Light, texture, sensuality.
As a woman working in a male dominated field, Cunningham was not afraid to stand apart from the crowd.
Two months before she died, Cunningham was asked what her favourite photograph was. She responded: ‘The one I’m going to take tomorrow’.
The Foundations.
Atmosphere through light. Balanced compositions.
Low light on slow films.
