Photographers

Here are photographers I found that I like the style of. I've analyzed their photographs to explain why I like the style or photo.

Henri Cartier- Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004) was a French photographer considered to be the father of photojournalism. He was an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the street photography or life reportage style that was coined The Decisive Moment that has influenced generations of photographers who followed. I like this photo because to me it tells a story about orphan children living in the streets, struggling to stay alive with nobody to assist or help them. This photo somehow has extreme personality and power to it. 

Paul Strand 

Paul Strand (October 16, 1890 – March 31, 1976) was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century. His diverse body of work, spanning six decades, covers numerous genres and subjects throughout the Americas, Europe, and Africa.

The dark, green colors and contrasts really make this photo. I love how everything slowly disappearing as you look into the distance, and the reflections of light on the ground. It gives the illusion that this world goes on forever. The color gives it a ghostly, haunting feeling. Even isolation.  However, this isn't a consistent style of Paul. He doesn't have much of a style, but this one photo has much character to it. 

Karl Hugo Sclmotz

Karl Hugo Schmölz ( born October 6, 1917 in White Horn , † October 22, 1986 in Lahnstein ) was a German photographer. After previous photographers apprenticeship with his father Hugo Schmölz in Cologne, he led after his death in 1938 continued the photo workshop.

I like the composition. The arch frames the old building which is in the light and distance, where as the foreground is almost covered in a blanket of shadows. The architecture itself is interesting, and the dull sepia gives a sort of Mother Earth romance. This photographer has pretty strong a romantic nature to his work

Andre Kertesz

André Kertész (2 July 1894 – 28 September 1985), born Kertész Andor, was a Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition and the photo essay. In the early years of his career, his then-unorthodox camera angles and style prevented his work from gaining wider recognition. Kertész never felt that he had gained the worldwide recognition he deserved. Today he is considered one of the seminal figures of photojournalism.

The gates shadows reminds me of prison bars. I love the silhouette at the bottom of the stairs, and the old woman walking into the shadow. Personally I feel that the black and white gives an old, peaceful feeling to it. Yet some reason the stairs and the shadows threaten me with danger, despite it's blissful mask.

Susan Bowen

I love the colors here and the composition. All of the bars at the top comes to a point, leaving diagonal shadows across the whole land. This gives a big sense that the world here is huge. The colours also provides the power of this photo. The strong blue really works with the pale yellow ground. The fade in and out feature also gives it the feeling that time passes by, even though it seems to be the same time of day. I think it's because of the second photo, in-between these two buildings, is the outside. Making the whole world seem wider and natural. She has a very colorful and exciting style. 

Harry Callaghan

Harry Morey Callahan (October 22, 1912 – March 15, 1999) was an influential twentieth century American photographer. Harry Morey Callahan was born in Detroit, Michigan. Now this is quite a lonely picture, with is accompanied by the black and white of this photo. What are the two waiting for? This creates a creepy, and mysterious feel. The walls bring our eyes to the pole and people with the help of the bag straying over in the corner for what ever reason. Why did they leave the bag over in the corner? Is it even theres? A lot of his photographs raise questions, such as the story or the location. 

Lee Friedlander

Lee Friedlander (born July 14, 1934) is an American photographer and artist. In the 1960s and 70s, working primarily with 35mm cameras and black and white film, Friedlander evolved an influential and often imitated visual language of urban "social landscape," with many of his photographs including fragments of store-front reflections, structures framed by fences, posters and street signs.

This photo actually really creeps me out, in a thriller sort of way. The black and white makes it all feel so grim, and the shadow that looms over the unaware woman. It reminds me of stalkers, sexual abuse. It's a terrifying image. Does the woman even know that he's there? His style is somewhat wide spread in different traits, no particular style in my opinion. 

Idris Khan

Idris Khan (born 1978, Birmingham, England) is an artist based in London.

Khan's work draws from a diverse range of cultural sources including literature, history, art, music and religion to create densely layered imagery that is both abstract and figurative and addresses narratives of history, cumulative experience and the metaphysical collapse of time into single moments.

Personally I love this style of work, because they always look surreal and gothic. It's like looking at it, but through photographs. He's taken photos of the same buildings from different angles, overlapping each and every one together. This reminds me of the analytic cubism, which involved drawing the object(s) from different angles.