Gregory who grew up in Brooklyn is also one of them , even though he never staged his photographs in New York.. While growing up his parents had a cabin on Lake Buel in Western Massachusetts where his family would spend the holidays. He would always go back there not only for photography, but it wasn’t until at one part earlier in his life while he was going through a crisis, that he started taking photographs like he does today. Just as Viviane Sassen, the photographer he is today goes back to when he was a child and the relationship to his father. His father worked a psychoanalyst and used to have his office in the basement of their house in Brooklyn.…
James Van der Zee was a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance; whom was born on June 29th, 1886, and died on May 15, 1983. Available evidence suggests that he was exposed to the topic of photography at a young age since he was living in Massachusetts. Corresponding with his outstanding academic performances, he began to develop his photography skills and techniques in high school; consequently, gaining a passion for it. During his early adulthood life, he worked as a waiter, elevator operator, and other jobs relating to photography. He, however, was famous for his photographs of African Americans, more specifically middle-classed, during the Harlem Renaissance, which boomed during inter-war period i.e. 1920s-1930s when after World War I ended and before the spark of the Second World War.…
Anthony Weston is an American Philosopher, teacher, and writer. He has written a book titled “Practical Companion to Ethics” that does discus Ethics, Religion, and Creative Problem-Solving in Ethics. Weston also discusses constructive moral dialogue. Constructive moral dialogue is concepts and ideas that makes our relationship with others easier. It allows us to get along with others that have different beliefs and concepts.…
Roy Stryker, was an American economist, government official, and photographer. His most well known for "heading the information division of the Farm Secuirty Administration(FSA) during the Great Depression and launching the documentary photography movement of the FSA". He was not a photographer, but he knew great photography's. He had worked on photography projects before, so he hired photographers like Dorothea Lange and other great photographers during the…
He gave up his family, his possessions, and his way of living to go and explore this whole huge world that was waiting for him out there. He left all his money and donated $24,000 to…
Stieglitz believed that the movement Pictorial Photography evolved to give a voice to those who loved art and sought other that pencil or a brush medium to give expression to their ideas. He understood that the earlier attempts at pictorial photography hurt its image, and it was looked upon " as the bastard of science and art, hampered and held back by the one, denied and ridiculed by the other. " As he believed it was not because of the lack of photographic images deserving to be called art, but rather because there was no organized movement to recognize them as such, and to promote it. Stieglitz, during his years working with the Camera Work, became associated with many photographers experimenting with the pictorial tradition.…
Walker Evans I was assigned to write about Walker Evans, born in the USA (1903-1975) who is considered a noticeable American photographer during his time, his art is considered influential during the twentieth century because he is considered a creator in the documentary style in the American photography. His photographs documented American life and culture during 30’s/70’s. I believe his journey through photography is a journey through concept, belief, and art history. At the beginning of his practice Evans admired and reflected the American history as his work documents the actual lifestyle of poor common people, it also described some of their agony and misery, this is why his art became a record that describes the important lifestyle during that time. This was all during the black and white photography technique at his early starts.…
Elliot Erwitt is a famous photographer today with many well known pictures, some of war times, beaches, children, hands, and dogs. He was born in France with Russian émigré parents in 1928, where he spent a good portion of his childhood in Italy. His family started getting closer and closer to move to the United States in 1939, where he eventually settled in New York for two years and then moved again to Los Angeles. Erwitt got to New York City with the help of the United States Army in the 50’s; he was drafted and spent a few years in the Army where he still kept taking photos. He took these photos apart from his military duties while in New Jersey, Germany, and France.…
Ansel Adams (1902-1984) http://www.anseladams.com/ansel-adams-information/ansel-adams-biography/ http://vault.sierraclub.org/history/ansel-adams/ Ansel Adams was born in San Francisco, California on February 20, 1902. His parents were Charles Hitchcock Adams and Olive Bray. Ansel was an only child and was born when his mother was about forty years old. Growing up, Adams had a pretty hard time fitting in at school. He grew up naturally shy and did not do very well in his classes.…
Photography did become more than a passion for him and he even was featured in art galleries for his work. Throughout…
The photographers Cecil Beaton and Annie Leibonvitz are both photographers that do portraits of others and do amazing work. They do portraits of famous people who were famous during there time or famous even now. Annie Leibonvitz was born October 2, 1949 in Waterbury Connecticut. She had six other siblings and her parents are Sam Leibovitz, an air force lieutenant and Marilyn Leibovitz, a modern dance instructor. In 1967, Leibovitz enrolled at the San Francisco Art Institute, where she was originally going to study painting she started to fall in love with photography.…
Timothy H. O'Sullivan was an American photographer, well-known for his Civil War pictures and his photographs of the western lands. His photographs of the war were relevant because he took a step forward from traditional war photography and innovated with heartrending pictures that show battlefields’ cruelty and reality ("The Harvest of Death" is a perfect example of this). After the war, he took part in Clarence King's Geological Exploration of the 40th Parallel, as official photographer.…
(SCAD) Jonathan Becker for photography was sparked young. During the artist talk Becker discussed his first commissioned piece coming into fruition…
In 1927 he published the book “WE” 1. The book was about him in the spirit of St. Louis and his famous trans Atlantic flight B. Lindbergh then went on what was going as the Guggenheim tour 1. A millionaire named Harry Guggenheim told Charles to contact him after his flight i. He said later that he did not think Charles Lindbergh would survive the fight ii. He funded Lindbergh on a three month nationwide tour in which he touchdown in 49 states iii.…
In this day and age, mass media itself comes in many different forms. From traditional media comprising newspapers, radio and television programmes, to new media, such as blogging, forums and social medias. With various forms of media being so readily accessible to us, it is inevitable that we hear all about the discord, disputes and dilemmas in both our society and internationally. When media can sow the seeds of discord in society and/or propagate existing societal dilemmas, can we really blame it for the problems we see in today's world? I believe that mass media can only take partial blame as it is but a tool in the hands of people, used to create both discord and harmony.…