Thursday, March 31, 2011

Web Work 7 Sandy Skoglund


Web Work 7 :: Sandy Skoglund • American photographer and installation artist • Born September 11, 1946 • She is a surrealist images by creating her own sets • She completes her sets with small children and furnishings which can take her months to complete • Usually her sets contain and overwhelming amount of one object and have either a bright, contrast, or monochromatic color scheme • Skoglund studied both art history and studio art at Smith College in North Hampton, Massachusetts. She graduated in 1968 • IN 1967 she studied in Paris France at Ecole Du Louvre • 1969 Skoglund graduated from University of Iowa where she studied filmmaking, multimedia art, and printmaking • 1971 she earned her master of Art and in ’72 her masters in fine art in painting • Also in ’72 she began working as a conceptual artist in New York • She began her interest in photographer when she wanted to document her artistic themes of experimenting with repetition • 1978 she released her collection of still life food images that contained repetition • Radioactive is one of her most known pieces which features repetitious green cats in a gray kitchen with a man sitting with his back to the camera and his wife looking in the refrigerator • Another widely known print of hers is Revenge of the Goldfish it is goldfish hovering over people on bed late at night • Skoglund was an art professor at the University of Hartford from ’73 to ‘76 • Currently she is teaching photography and installation/multimedia at Rutgers University in New Jersey • True Fiction Two is Skoglunds’ most recent completed series this is similar to her project True Fiction that she was working on in ’86, but Kodak discontinued the production of the particular die she was using • Here are a few museums that her art is shown in Museum of Contemporary Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Dayton Art Museum





Sandy's work has a good connection to the photographers we talked bout in class on 3/30 because she uses different sets for her pictures and she makes them


I was reading another photography blog I can't track down which one it is, but I ran across Wendy Bevan and her pictures to me are very light beautiful and airy they also have a timeless feel tothem

http://www.wendybevan.com/


Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Web Work 6 Graciela Iturbide


Graciela Iturbide • Born in 1942 in Mexico and was the oldest of thirteen children • 1962 Graciela married Manuel Diaz an architect • They had 3 children over 8 Years • There 6 year old daughter died in 1970 • Iturbide turned to photography after her daughters’ death • She studied at two institutions in Mexico • Her teacher was Manuel Bravo a cinematographer and photographer • Her photos are of everyday life and are mostly all black and white • Very into the photographing Mexico’s indigenous culture • Photographed in Mexico City, Juchitan, Oaxaca, and Mexican/American Front • 1979 she was asked by a man to photograph his village • This project was what she made her first collection with “Angel Woman” which was shot in the Sonoran Desert :: The picture above is from this collection • Her first photographing experience influenced Iturbide’s view on life to be strongly feminism • “Our Lady of Iguanas” was shot in Juchitan and Oaxaca which were cities that are powered by woman • “Magnolia” was a picture of a man wearing a dress, many photographers look at it and say that Iturbide also explored the sexuality among Mexicans in her work • 1987 she took pictures for a documentary “A Day in the Life of America” • Her last known work was shot right her in the U. S. in Texas which was an untitled collection • She was the founder of Mexican Council of Photography • Her work has been seen internationally in many museums like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art • She has also won many awards like the W. Eugene Smith prize for photography in 1987 and Hasselblad Foundation Photography Award to name a couple ________________________________________________________ http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/television/retrospectiva-graciela-iturbide-fundacion-mapfre-madrid/526601/ http://relationsmedia.photographie.com/index.php?evtid=118597 I decided to look up an arcitectural photographer because I was inspired by the photographers we covered in class today I found Mark Teskey, who basically photographs staged homes, I still really like his photos they are clean crisp and very angular. http://markteskeyarchitecture.com/about/

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Barbara Morgan (Web Work #5)

Barbara Morgan was an American Photographer throughout the 20th Century. She did a lot of photographer in dance, and was very well known for this. She also was the creator of the magazine Aperature.

Photography wasn't the only thing Barbara Morgan was interested in, as she also loved to paint. When her two children were born though, she didn't have enough time for a family, photography and painting. Therefore, Barbara Morgan was forced to give up painting a focus on photography.

She was inspired by energy of all sorts, but especially dance. She loved the flow and "vibe" dance had given off. She also did photographs of light, such as light drawings, which were also a source of energy.


(Above): Barbara Morgan must have used a high aperature such as 2000. This way she could have taken the photoraph with no motion blurr.


(Above): She also did pictures of light moving. she probaby did this in low light (Pretty much totally black), and moved the light fast to get this effect.

Joel Peter Witkin (Web Work 7)

Joel Peter Witkin was born in 1939 in New York, and is still living today in New Mexico. Joel Peter Wikin has very interesting photography dealing with death, dwarfs, transexuals, hermaphodites.

Witkin says his work ideas come from when he had seen a girl who had been decaputated in a car accident when he was a child. His family having problems and his parents divorcing he claims also have been a huge influence.

His work is very different, and some of it is extremely graphic. There has been debates on wheather or not his work is acceptable, or if its too upsetting and judgmental.


(Above): He had done a series of work including dwarfs. He feels his work is very expressive.


(Above): One of his most famous photographs, is a photograph of two men's heads kissing. Almost disturbing and indifferent, this photograph also caused much controvery.

W. Eugene Smith (Web work #6)

W. Eugene Smith has a very interesting work of photography, and was a great photo journalist. His work is very intriguing, and I've personally never seen anything like it.



Because W. Eugene Smith was a photorapher during the time of World War II (Which ended in 1944), his career had surrounded the happenings during the war. Being a photo journalist, he had to put himself in many dangerous situations taking photographs of the happenings in the war. Many of his photographs were of the dead.

Continuing his career, he took photos at hospitals, of doctors and other important things to the American people at the time.

He spend time photographing at a Mental hospital in in Haiti. There was much controversy over this at the time.

Towards the end of his career, he photographed the effects of Mercury poisioning in Minimata, Japan. He had photographed a severly deformed girl being held by her mother in a bathtub. Her parents had requested that it was removed though, which also created a great controversy.


Above: Severly deformed girl being held by her mother in a bathtub.

Blog # 4: Artificial Light ; Alice Boughton

Artificial light: Artificial light is any light other than sunlight.
Examples of artificial light are lamps, neon lights, strobe lights and head lights.
Fun fact: The first type of arificial light was fire.

Alice Boughton was an American Photographer born in New York. She was a photographer in the early 20th century. She studied photography in Rome, where she advanced her career and even won awards. Her pictures seem very elegant. Many of them are of women, but some are portraits of men.
Above is one of Alice Broughton's most famous photographs.

Web Work #8

I started my search through our photographer ( and other related items) list, for an interesting topic/person to review. I kept coming across photographers who are members of Magnum Photos. Well I did see it on the list and did search the net and find it - looked through it - thought it was worth more review ( i was more focused on finding a photographer to review) So I put a note next to it to remind me to check it out when I had more time...... But... when yet another photographer popped up as being a member of Magnum Photos - I just took that as a sign and therefore threw out any notion of actually doing a review of just a photographer and switch to doing my review on Magnum Photos :)

History:
Magnum Photos was created in 1947 - two years after WWII by : Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David "Chim" Seymour. All these men were very traumatized by the war, yet happy that world had somehow survived it. Magnum was created for their desire to be both reporter and photographer - chronicling the lives of peoples, events, and life after the war.

Within 5 years more photographers joined Magnum and they always adding photographers every year. Now its not like you or I could just click on a link and hit "Join" like we so much today on Facebook and other sites. With Magnum you need submit your portfolio, and be accepted/voted in by it's members/photographers - it is a cooperative. In the last five years - each year they have added 0-5 new members. So it's not easy - you need to be very good at what you do to get accepted. Check out following video and images from just 2 of the member photographers that I found on our list.
Photographer: Bruce Gilden

Photographer: Eve Arnold


















Magnum Photo is also a place for Photogs to sell their images to companies looking for great "life" photos. There is a bunch of war and famine pics on the site as well as people, famous and not. Color and black and white are both there. They seem to really appreciate all styles of photography - it is well diversified, I appreciate that - and it is a great source for us (students) to look for photographers to study and to just plain appreciate/acknowledge their work.

Great Video of images from Photo/Members of Magnum

***Bernice Abbott - - WebWork 6***



  • Bernice Abbott was born on Springford, Ohio, in 1898.
  • She had an exceptionally productive career and is best-known for her photographic portraits and documentary style photographs showing American life and society.
  • She is also known as an inventor, an archivist(curator), historian, writer, and teacher.
  • Bernice experimented with sculpture and painting after studying journalism and graduating from Ohio State University.
  • Before opening her own studio in Paris, she worked with the surrealist photographer, Man Ray.  She also photographed many popular literary and artistic characters in her studio.
  • Bernice Abbott totally advocated "straight" photography (using no special effects).  She contended that photography was documentary, because of the nature of its realistic images, and that its best expression was found in clearly focused images.
  • In the 1930's she documented New York City in a way that was inspired by the French photographer Jean-Eugene-Auguste Atget.  Her decision to document "the present jostling with the past" eventually resulted in the publication Changing New York (1939), that was funded by the Federal Art Project.
  • In the 1940's and 1950's Bernice created a commissioned series of photographs to illustrate physics textbooks.  They were really neat close-up images of things like soap bubbles, light beams, bouncing balls, wave patterns, and twirling wrenches.
  • During that work, she also created new photographic techniques, and built and patented new cameras. What a go-getter!!!
 

WebWork #5

Group f/64

Group f/64 was a group from the 20th centruy of seven photographers from San Francisco. They all had the same thing in common with there photos which were sharp-focused and carefully framed images. The goal was to promote a new Modernist aesthetic that showed exact exposed images of natural forms and found objects.

Ansel Adams which you may remember from learning about him in class was part of the f/64 group...

The Group of seven in the f/64 inculded
-Ansel Adams
-Imogen Cunningham
-John Paul Edwards
-Sonya Noskowiak
-Henry Swift
-Willard Van Dyke
-Edward Weston
time to time other photographers would be asked to show there work with the group f/64 included:

-Preston Holder
-Conseuella [sic] Kanaga
-Alma Lavenson
-Brett Weston

the very first exhibition had 80 photographs, 10 by adams, 9 each by Cunningham, Edwards, Noskowiak, swift, Van Dyke and Edward Weston, and 4 each by Holder, Kanaga, Lavenson and Brett Weston.

The show ran for a total of 6 weeks and Edward Weston's photos were priced at $15 each where all the others were priced at $10.

Group f/64 displayed this manifesto at their exhibit in 1932:

"The name of this Group is derived from a diaphragm number of the photographic lens. It signifies to a large extent the qualities of clearness and definition of the photographic image which is an important element in the work of members of this Group.
The chief object of the Group is to present in frequent shows what it considers the best contemporary photography of the West; in addition to the showing of the work of its members, it will include prints from other photographers who evidence tendencies in their work similar to that of the Group.
Group f/64 is not pretending to cover the entire spectrum of photography or to indicate through its selection of members any deprecating opinion of the photographers who are not included in its shows. There are great number of serious workers in photography whose style and technique does not relate to the metier of the Group.
Group f/64 limits its members and invitational names to those workers who are striving to define photography as an art form by simple and direct presentation through purely photographic methods. The Group will show no work at any time that does not conform to its standards of pure photography. Pure photography is defined as possessing no qualities of technique, composition or idea, derivative of any other art form. The production of the "Pictorialist," on the other hand, indicates a devotion to principles of art which are directly related to painting and the graphic arts.
The members of Group f/64 believe that photography, as an art form, must develop along lines defined by the actualities and limitations of the photographic medium, and must always remain independent of ideological conventions of art and aesthetics that are reminiscent of a period and culture antedating the growth of the medium itself.
The Group will appreciate information regarding any serious work in photography that has escaped its attention, and is favorable towards establishing itself as a Forum of Modern Photography."

In 1933 Ansel Adams wrote this in the Camera Craft magazine:

"My conception of Group f/64 is this: it is an organization of serious photographers without formal ritual of procedure, incorporation, or any of the restrictions of artistic secret societies, Salons, clubs or cliques…The Group was formed as an expression of our desire to define the trend of photography as we conceive it…Our motive is not to impose aschool with rigid limitations, or to present our work with belligerent scorn of other view-points, but to indicate what we consider to be reasonable statements of straight photography. Our individual tendencies are encouraged; the Group Exhibits suggest distinctive individual view-points, technical and emotional, achieved without departure from the simplest aspects of straight photographic procedure."




W.W. 8 Gille Peress




I chose to do Gille Peress because I am very much into war and i love how photos can tell a story without actually reading it in a book, even though I don't mid reading history books at all. Peress is a French photojournalist known for is documentation works of war and strife especially the Northern Ireland war with the IRA and Rwanda.
The first photo is of a young mutilated child in Rwanda in 1994. Even though it is a disturbing image I think it is necessary for people to capture these types of photos to show us how worse of the rest of the world is then we are. A famous quote that I like from Peress is "I don't so much anymore about good photography; I am gathering evidence for history." I couldn't agree more with that statement. Although for not caring about good photography it sure seems Peress is doing just fine in that department. To be able to have the stomach and courage to go over to a different country in a time of disparity not knowing what could happen to his own well-being just shows his dedication, and the type of person he is.
The second photo is taken in Northern Ireland when the IRA was hell bent on taking over Ireland with their brutal tactics and very one-minded government control. This was a very brutal time for Ireland and I give props to Peress for even going over there during this time because there is no way in hell I would've been caught in Northern Ireland during that.
I think it's a captivating photo showing the fear of families who are scared to even go outside in fear of being captured or killed on the spot.
Peress is a very meticulous man taking years upon years to document the correct history of what he is doing. That's another reason why I like Peress because he is not in a hurry to just tell a story he actually takes his time checking and making sure his facts are correct. His Northern Ireland project took over 20 years and it is an amazing story I recommend it to anyone interested in the history of Ireland.

W.W. 7 Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol is best known for his famous paintings and film making. He was a pioneer in the visual art movement better known as pop art. He was also a record producer, author and he hung out with very famous people a long with very rich people. Warhol was the catalyst who invented the very famous phrase "15 minutes of fame" which has been a staple in today's society, and it seem everyone is after just that. The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is $100 million for a painting he did in 1963 entitled Eight Elvises, which puts him in the likes of Pollack, van Gogh and Picasso. Warhol was a very important figure in the 20th Century and did a lot to bring visual art back to its pinnacle of true art form and showed off his talents in many ways. He was very well-liked by everyone he came in contact with. I don't believe he had to many enemies, but I am sure he had a lot of admirers and he obviously brought jealously upon himself because he was so successful.
Warhol got into the arts because he had a case of the Scarlet Fever causing him to develop a severe case of hypochondriac, which for him was being afraid of hospitals and doctors. So as a kid he was bed ridden and that's where he drew and collected pictures of famous people. Warhol would later claim this time to be very important to who he grew up to be.
During the feminist movement of the late 1960's a women tried to kill Warhol because of his use of provocativeness women in his paintings and movies. She actually had a marginal role in one of Warhols' studios. But the attempted murder was overshadowed by the assassination of JFK, which happened 2 or 3 days later.
There is literally so much more about Warhol's life to talk about I don't want to spoil it for anyone. If you don't know much about him then I suggest you look him up because he is a very fascinating man who did a lot for whatever endeavor he did; especially the art movement.

W.W. 6 W. Eugene Smith




W. Eugene Smith was an American Photojournalist who would take countless hours, days, to get the perfect photo. No matter if he had a deadline or something he refused to comprise his work just to satisfy anyone but himself. He is most known for his vivid WWII photos.

So I decided to to show you a softer side to Smith than the more rough a rugged photos he has out there. I find the photo on the left very stunning and beautiful. This photo reveals love and care of two small children. I think it is kind out of Smith's comfort zone to capture a photo like this, but still he makes it look so effortless no matter what he is shooting.
I especially like the contrast of this photo and how it is dark around the edges then light in the middle. To me this represents hardships and that there is light at the end of the tunnel in no matter a person is going through in life.

Perhaps Smiths most notable work is Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath. This was taken in Japan at the time where many youngsters were suffering from Minamata Disease caused by the discharge of heavy metals from the Chiso Factory. A year after Smith and his wife were there he was attacked by factory workers in order to stop taking such damning photos.

Drugs and alcohol led Smith to a massive stroke and he died in 1978. Another interesting fact about Smith is his Manhattan loft where he took photos and made recordings of Jazz musicians.

Know the photo on the top right is what Smith is most known for, which is photos of WWII. Although this photo isn't to graphic I like the stillness to it. The shades of gray and black are on point and I am sure it took him a while to get this photo how he wanted. To be able to capture the dog in that position is amazing and shows the patience it takes to get a great photo.

Monday, March 28, 2011

Web Work #5- Minor White








Minor White-

I decided to research Minor White for many reasons. First, he is from Minneapolis Minnesota. Minor was born in Minneapolis on July 9th, 1908. He attended the one and only University of Minnesota. While at the U of M he earned a degree in botany and a major in English. Secondly, in a way I feel like I started out a lot like him. He thought that he was going to be a big poetry writer, but that failed while he was a bartender and waiter at the University Club. It was in 1938 that he discovered he liked photography. He had moved out of Minnesota and had gone to Organ. During his time in Oregon he was in a club called The Oregon Camera club. This is when he started taking assignments from the Works Progress Administration and also started showing art at the Portland Art Museum.
He did not stay in Oregon for long. After he served in World War II he moved to New York City in 1945. This is where he spent a few years studying art and creating his own distinctive style. This is also where he met some wonderful photographers for example Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and Alfred Stieglitz.
Thirdly, I really liked most of Minor Whites photography. He liked to photograph the simple things that you wouldn’t think would be so interesting. When looking at his work they become interesting, because of how the lighting is in the picture. He would photograph barns, doorways, water, sky, or even simple paint peeling from the wall. Most of his work is just touching for me to look at and that’s what he wanted. They say he creates symbols to represent emotions; he accompanies his images with text or places them in sequence.
He then moved out went because Ansel Adams invited him. He worked more with Ansel in a magazine in 1952 and he edited the magazine until 1975.
He then moved again in 1952 to Rochester NY. There he worked as a curator for four years at George Eastman House. It is a museum dedicated to photography. He was also editing their magazine as well. Minor also taught at the Rochester Institute of Technology from 1956 to 1964. Then he spent the last 10 years of his life teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Minor White was in pain for much of his life because back then it was unruly to have feelings for males. He felt trapped for the feelings he had for men. He had a series of young male photographs and they were considered to be the masterworks of the genre, and they were only published in 1989.
Minor White is still known to be one of the best American photographers. He will always be remembered for his ways and ideas to see the spiritual in photographs.

Barbara Morgan Web Work #5




I love dance and every aspect of it so I chose to do this blog on Barbara Morgan is who is best known for her work in dance.

*She was born in 1900 and passes away in 1992. *She did photographic studies of American Modern Dancers. Ex-Doris Humphrey, Erick Hawkins, Jose Limon, Merce Cunningham & Martha Graham

* She didn't just do photography, she also experimented in drawings, prints, watercolors and paintings.

* At the age of 35 she became a photographer. This allowed her more time to raise her kids.

* In 1929 Arthur Miller from the Los Angeles times stated that she has one of the finest sets of prints in the show

* She also painted, and continued to paint, feeling that photography was "useful only as a record"

*Every summer her and her husband Willard would load up their car and head out to the desert with their photography and painting equiptment.

*Barabara attended a show at the Martha Graham Dance Company. She was hooked on the movement. For 4 years she took photos of more then 40 dancers and choreographers. She produced a book project called Sixteen Dances of Photographs in 1941.

Web Work #6- William Klein






I found William Klein interesting and extremely funny. His friends also thought that of him as they were growing up. He was born to a poor Jewish family on April 19, 1928. He was the poor family living in an Irish neighborhood. His other family members were wealthy. Most of them were lawyers. His father had a clothing business, but that did not get them much and it ended up failing in 1928. As a Jewish boy living in an Irish neighborhood, William always felt alienated from the mass culture. Apparently he was very sarcastic as a kid and from what I have found William is still very sarcastic. William is known for his ironic approach to both media and his use of unusual photography. In his career he started out as a painter and had wide success with that. William then turned to photography. His pictures were often blurred or out of focus. Williams’s negatives were usually over exposed as well. I like Williams take on photography. He uses wide angles and back then it shocked the established order of the photography world. This is what made him earn his reputation as an anti-photographer’s photographer. Inspired by Moholy-Nagy and Kepes, he began to put paintings and photos side by side and abstracting them. This is when William Klein met the painter and director, Alexander Liberman, of Vogue at one of William’s Parisian sculpture shows. The sculptures were kinetic light panels on photosensitive glass. Alexander told William to come to New York to discuss a job. That is how William began his career as a model photographer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4wieOa_Kog

William also left photography for awhile and made film. He made his first film in 1966. Klein directed his first feature film, Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? He was a director, writer and actress in some of his films. Here is a list of some of the films he has made: • Messiah • Muhammad Ali: The Greatest • The Little Richard Story • Mr. Freedom • The Model Couple


Web Work #4- The Linked Ring





















The Linked Ring-


The Linked ring started in the late 19th early 20th century. It was also called the “Brotherhood of the Linked Ring.” The Linked Ring was formed by Henry Peach Robinson in May of 1892. The Brotherhood had a logo and it was three interlinked rings, which were meant to represent the Masonic belief of Good, True, and Beautiful. I love their art work. The pictures amazed me. I find them all very interesting. The whole reason for stating this was because Henry wanted to have a means of bringing together artist who were interested in the development of the highest form of art in which photography is capable of. Here are the names of the few famous artists that were in the Brotherhood of the Linked Ring from the beginning.






• William Smedley-Aston

• Frank Sutcliffe

• Frederick H. Evans

• Paul Martin

• Alvin Langdon Coburn

• Frederick Hollyer

• J.B.B Wellington

• Richard Keene

Those were the few people that were in this at the beginning, but later, Americans:

• Alfred Stieglitz

• Clarence H. White

They became members of the Brotherhood of the Linked Ring also. There were two female photographers that were joined with the Brotherhood of the Linked Ring at some point. Zaida Ben-Yusuf was a part of the group in the 1890s. She exhibited at the annual shows during the 1890s. Although, it was not until the 1900, that two other female photographers became the first elected female members of the Brotherhood of the Linked Ring.

• Gertrude Kasebier

• Carine Cadby

The Brotherhood of the Linked Ring started publishing The Linked Ring Papers, in 1896. They were circulated annually to members until 1909. The paper was to promote and talk about the practice of fine art. A Photographic Salon was held annually in which members work was shown. Then in 1910 photography was accepted as a fine art, and the Brotherhood was left with little display.




Web Work 7 - Emmet Gowin

Emmet Gowin was born in 1941 in the city of Danville, VA. When he first started taking pictures, he enjoyed photographing evocative pictures of his wife and family. In 1980, Gowin was asked to go photograph the massive eruption of Mount Saint Helens. The pictures were not able to be taken from the ground, so Gowin recieved permission to fly and take aerial view pictures. After that, Gowin was fascinated by aerial view. He continued to take these sort of pictures, and flew around the world photographing military test sights, farmlands, battlefields, mining areas, and missile silos. Gowin was quoted saying that he likes the view of "what the gods see".

Jan Estep. web 9






Jan Estep has an expanded creative practice that comprises critical writing, creative writing, and a range of visual media including sculpture, photography, video, and independent publishing. She was trained as a philosopher-PhD, at Washington university, St Louis, She is also an Artist-MFA, at University of Illinois, Chicago. She has been awarded a McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship, a Jerome Foundation NY Artist Residency, a Jerome Foundation Travel and Research Grant, and a Research Commission from Breaking Ground, Ireland.

Friday, March 25, 2011

Web Work 6- Robert Frank





I like Robert Franks photography, because they have a profound purpose. He is telling a message through his photographs, and showing the American life or perhaps the American dream from the view of a camera. This seems to show us things that we would not normally take notice of. His images make a bold and this caused some controversy.

Robert was born in Switzerland in 1924, and moved to New York in 1947. He started working a s a commercial photographer, but he did not enjoy this type of work. He then spent his time wandering around New York photographing anything that appeased him. When his noncommercial work started to get noticed he got a grant, bought a ford and in 1955 began traveling. He went places like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Arkansas. After a year and a half of work, he choose 83 final images. His book The American was published in 1959, so his photographs from this book were taken in the 1950's. His book of photos was different then other images of it's time in the fact that they weren't exactly showing or promoting the American dream. He didn't get much support from the art world early on, Frank himself stated " The museum of Modern Art wouldn't even sell the book, but the younger people caught on (NRP)." Although his Americans collection began to gain relevance, the year the book came out, he stopped photographing and began making his first film.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Web Work 6 - Bill Brandt



*Bill Brandt*

-Bill Brandt was born in London in 1904.

-Bill's family moved to Germany, and Bill went to Switzerland to a sanitarium because he suffered from tuberculosis.

-The first photos Brandt took were published in Paris Magazine.

-During the depression, Brandt went to Britain and published his pictures in the Daily Chronicle.

-Brandt also published a few books.





Erwitt's family emigrated to the United States in 1939, when he was 10 years old. Erwitt studied at the Los Angeles City College and the New School of Social Research, fo photorgaphy and filmmaking, he finished his education on 1950. Erwitt has been devoting much of his energy toward movies since the 1970's.