Web Work 6 Margaret Bourke White

Margaret Bourke White was an American photographer who made many break throughs in photography for women.  She was the first woman to be a war correspondent, first woman to work in combat zones, first person to be permitted to photograph the Soviet industry and the first woman to photograph for Life magazine, having her picture on the cover.  

She graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. in 1927 and moved to Cleveland Ohio and started her commercial photography.  She started photographing the production of steel but got lots of criticism for being a woman in a steel factory.  They said her and her camera were to delicate in be in the factory.  But she proved them wrong when she used magnesium flares to light up the scenes she photographed and took some of the best steel industry photographs ever taken.

Also in 1941 she was the only foreign photographer to be in Moscow when Germany invaded it.  She was the first woman to work in the war field as a photographer.

Web Work 5 Eastman

George Eastman was someone who put a lot into the development of camera and camera film.  Eastman was the first to invent roll film and he also start Eastman Kodak Company.  The company that would be the modern Kodak we know today.  In 1888 he perfected the Kodak camera which was the first camera that was especially made to use roll film.  Eastman's Kodak company was made in 1892 and was one of he first company's to mass produce photography equipment.

His invention of roll film served as a vital step towards the invention of a motion picture film.  Eastman has many US patents including a patent for "Photographic Film" and a "Roll Holder" for the film as well as one for the Kodak camera he invented.

Web Work 9- Douglas Beasley

Danielle


Horse in Badlands

Douglas Beasley's work has a peacfulness and serenity that is absolutley apealing! He some how manages to turn photographs that could just be any ordinary picture and turns them into something truly inpspiring. You can sense his passion in his work, and the message he is trying to bring forth. I beleive that his is trying to give people a sense of hope, faith, and belief through his picutres and he does it with great success.

His work has been published internationally, and featured in multiple magazines. Beasley is the founder, as well as, director of Vision Quest Photo Workshops which are held in various places around the world. At these workshops, he focuses on personal expression and creative thinking of the mechanic of the camera. He has one book published, and another to be published in the fall of 2011. He does not stop there, he also does work for fine art based commericals and editorial assignments througout the world. He currently is resided in a seculded home in St. Paul, Minnesota. He uses his images as the starting point for his viewers own spiritual journey.

VII Photo Agnency- Web Work 8

I love the VII Photo Agency photo's becuase they make extremely bold statement with each photo having a strong message behind it. Some I feel are making a political statement, will others make an ethical statment. Some are possible just trying to show the way of life in a particular culture.

I was trying to think of the best way to describe the agency, but i feel that they themsleves have done it better then i ever could, so i will quote directly from their website viiphoto.com. " VII is an innovative online project that gives readers unprecedented intimte access and insight to the work of the world's leading photojounalist, accompianed by intimate commentaries of the photographers themselves". The VII Agency was founded collectivley by photo-journalist in September 2001. Together, the current photo- journalists document conflicts of all kinds, such as, environmental, social, political, violent and non-violent. I believe that what these jounalist do it amazing, they are bringing awarness to the injustices, problems, and diverse cultures of the world. They do this respectfully, tastefully and artistical and should commended for the efforts to make other aware of the world around them.

Sally Mann Web Work 7

Candy Cigarette

Jessie and the Deer




One of the reason I like Sally Mann's work, its because she is so bold. Some may consider her images to be inappropriate, but I strongly disagree. I think she looked at her children in an extremely artisitic way as they go about thier daily lives. This artistic view shines strong in her images.

Sally Mann still lives and works in the hometown she was born in, Lexington, Virginia. She has taught throughout the nation, and her work is in the collection of numerous musuems nationwide. She has produced series on portraiture, architecture, landscape, and still life. My favortie of her work is her portraits of her children. Although she has done some color images, most of her work remains in the black and white, or antique technology. In 2011, Mann was named by Time magazine as America's Best Photographer. She has had two documentaries done about her. Sally Mann, shows diverse artistic ability and has had many accomplishes. She gives inspirtation to others through her extremely unique images.

Edouard Baldus (webwork #3)

Edouard Denis Baldus was born on June 5 1813 in Gruenbach, Prussia. Originally an aspiring painter, in 1849 he took a commission from the French government to photgraph historical buildings. Edouard's high quality of work won him great approval in the french government where he was again commissioned to photograph architecture in Paris in hopes of reviving interest in Roman architecture. In 1855 Edouard was commissioned by Baron James de Rothschild the president of the Chemin de fer du Nord (which was a prestigeous railway company) to do a series of photographs that were to be a part of an album that was to be given to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as a souvenier. Edouard was famous for putting multiple negatives together to form one massive 8foot image. Edouard used salt paper prints and Albumin prints for most of his works which now sell for anywhere from $2,000 to $10,000.

Marilyn Bridges

PART A
Maryilyn Bridges was most famous for her aerial photography. She photographed both modern and ancient landscapes most of the time they held religious value. She was born in 1948 and graduated from college in the early 1980's, however she started photographing landscapes in early 1970's in brazil and then gained interest in aerial photography when she took pictures of the Nazca Plain, in Peru.

Part B

PDN is an incredible source for all your photography and design needs. I found this article interesting because it specifically addresses the dangers of war photography and it interviews a photographer who had done work in Baghdad.

Samuel Bourne

PART 1

Samuel Bourne was born in the early 1800's in britain and he was most famous for his work that he did in india when he lived there for seven years. He set up a company there that still exists today called Bourne & Shepard. I think that his work in india was extremely well done and it especially impacted me because i was in india for 2weeks this summer. It was cool seeing that the taj mahal in the 1800's after seeing it last summer.

Part 2

I recently bought a lens adapter that lets me use my k mount lenses on my eos mount canon 550D, so i thought i'd share it with all of you. Its only 3o dollars so for those of you that have some older lenses and would like to use it with your DSLR this will be a great purchase for you. If your lenses are AF lenses this adapter has a microchip on it so that it will communicate with your camera and AF will still work, otherwise you just have to set your camera to Av and manually focus.

Loomis Dean

Part A

Loomis Dean is a photographer that started out in the 1930's photographing circus's and other various forms of entertainment. He was a photographer for life magazine and also did a lot of work for Hollywood. The image on the left is a picture that he took at a nuclear testing site after the blast. He eventually moved more into fashion photography.

Part B

Some people in our class will probably never touch another roll of film ever again after this class, but say you just can't get away from the idea of having your

pictures on a roll of film here's a solution for you.

James Casabere

Part A

James Casabere is a photographer that started out as an architect and then decided that photography was more his thing. So he combined the two and would build models of buildings then photograph them. I really enjoy his work and find it interesting how he can make something so small feel so big. I decided to do my final project with him in mind i liked it so much. I especially like how he filled his models with water etc.

Part B

i thought that this was kind of cool. i've always been a big fan of chase jarvis and his work. this spring he decided to provide an opportunity for people to submit there favorite winter pictures and then he'd sort through them and pick his favorite 35 images. THIS is the compilation. It's cool seeing other peoples work in one pile of images.

Alfred Addis

PART A

Alfred Addis was a pre-civil war photographer who photographed mostly southern American and Mexico. I really couldn't find too many of his photographs online because his pictures are so old. He was born in 1832 in Philadelphia then he moved to texas and was a photographers assistant. He documented the civil war and the daily life of southerners. I really like his style and i think that for as extremely new photography was for that time he did incredible work.

PART B

This is a project done by a Croix Gagnon. That i thougt was extremely interesting and kind of creepy. He took cross sections of an old executed criminals body and looped them in a video and then created long exposure images in some of the places the that the criminal lived. There's more info about it on the website.

Web Work 9 Beth Dow

Beth Dow

Beth Dow is a Minnesotan photographer who uses traditional and historical references to address some of the issues we are dealing with the landscape and our experience of time. Most of her work has been exhibited in America, Britain Japan and China. Dow has also received many awards in her past years, such as the Grand Prize in the inaugural photography, the top-six finalist in the 2007 Critical Mass Book Award, and fellowships from the McKnight Foundation, and lastly the Minnesota State Board. Interestingly Beth Dow now lives in Minneapolis MN. There isn't very much more information about Beth Dow other than that she has one of the most amazing images in the world.

If you would like to learn more about Beth Dow and view some more images just click here or here too!

Here some photographs by Beth Dow, Enjoy!







By Beth Dow
































Coaster. By Beth Dow

Bags. By Beth Dow

Web Work 5 Florence Henri

Florence Henri was born in New York in 1893. She was an important member of the "New Vision" movement. In 1929 she moved to Paris and opened a studio and worked for "Vouge", "Art et Decoration", and "The New York Herald". Henri specialzed in portrait photography. in 1963 She gave up photography and took up abstract painting. Henri died in 1982.

Here is a web site with information about Florence henri as well as her art work which if wanted can be auctioned on this site.
http://www.artfact.com/artist/henri-florence-jqu6q2kd6t

Blog #9: Gary Ness

Gary Ness works at a commercial photography studio in Minneapolis, MN. His pictures called, "Cabin Fever" are very elegant and precisely done. He often photographs women who are portrayed as very innocent and elegant.

The following website shows some of his works:

http://www.8streetstudio.com/

He also did a collection called, "Hard things," which is a group of images that are of inadiment objects. His pictures of water in glasses is very interesting and the clarity is remarkable.

The following website shows some of his works:

http://www.8streetstudio.com/

He works at 8th Street Photography studio. He is well known for his fantastic commercial photography.



He was featured in the 2009 Art show in Houston, Texas. His world is admired throughout the world and he keeps becoming even more well known.