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Richard Avedon

He was an American Photographer. He capitalized on his early success in fashion photography and expanded the realm of fine art. He also photographed patients of mental hospitals, the civil rights movement, protesters to the Vietnam war and the fall of the Berlin wall. He also created two famous portraits of The Beatles. His portraits are distinguished by their minimalist style where the person is looking squarely in the camera, posed in front of a sheer white background. He is also distinguished by his large prints, sometimes over three feet tall. He did large format portraits of drifters, miners, cowboys and others from W. US, and made it a best selling book and exhibit called, In the American West. he became a staff photographer for the New Yorker and has won many photography awards including the international center of photography master of photography award, the prix nadar and the royal photographic society 150th anniversary medal in 2003.

Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks was a groundbreaking American photographer, musician, poet, journalist, activist and film director. He is remembered for his photo essays in Life magazine as the director of the 1971 film shaft. He is drawn to pictures of migrant workers and those in strife. He likes to double expose frames. He also enjoyed taking portrait pictures for society women. He also wanted to photograph in the fashion world, and was hired by vogue editor to do shoots for evening gowns, and did that for the next few years. He published two books, Flash Photography and Camera Portraits: Techniques and principles of Documentary Portraiture.

Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus was an American photographer who was known for her portraits of people on the fringes of society- transvestites, dwarfs, giants, prostitues and working class citizens. She used the 35mm cameras but by the 1960's Arbus adopted the rolleiflex medium format twins lens reflex. This format provided a square aspect ratio high image resolution and a waist level view finder that allowed her to connect with subjects in ways that a standard eye level viewfinder did not.

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photocubism

Annie Leibovitz

Annie is an American portrait photographer who uses a close collaboration between the photographer and the subject. She worked for the rolling stone magazine and in 1973 was named chief photographer. She took very intimate pictures of celebrities which helped define the rolling stone magazine look.She worked as a featured portrait photographer for vanity fair. She sued paramount pictures for copyright infringement on her picture of a pregnant Demi Moore. She photographed for the American Express charge cards and launched an exhibition at the national portrait gallery. She was asked in 2007 by Queen Elizabeth II to take the queens official picture. In 2007 she was hired by the Walt Disney company to do photographs of celebrities with various roles and scene in the Disney Parks year of a million dreams campaign.

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Lois Greenfield is a photographer who takes pictures of people frozen in motion. She studied filmmaking at Brandeis in the late 1960's. She is famous for her ability to capture the human form in motion and use it as a compositional element in art.
This photo is interesting because it looks like one girl holding up everyone else, when really they are all just floating, except the one with her hand on the ground. It also looks like one person morphing into others when its really four different people. i really like the picture and think that this kind of photography is really intriguing.

EXTRA CREDIT: She used a Hasselblad 500c/m camera body with no motor drive or image reverser. She used Broncolor strobes and a Leaf valeo 22i digital back on her hasselblad.

Sabastio Salgado

These photos are all moving and intriguing. I think that the black and white add to the effect of the picture which is part of what makes it interesting. The scenery/mountains in two of the pictures are very cool and interesting as well. There is not much contrast between the people and the background which is also cool.

Edward Weston

Edward Weston was born march 24 1886 in Illinois. He began photographing at age sixteen. He began photographing parks and his aunts farm. He took a we month course in six months at the Illinois college of photography. He had four children and opened his own studio in california. He became successful in soft focus pictorial style pictures and won many awards.
He began photographing at age 16 and did shot his last one in 1948 of point lobos when he got symptons of parkinsons.
The photo is a little creepy, it does not look like a real pepper, but more like a bean bag or a sculpture. Its intriguing because at a first look it does not seem like a pepper since it does not have the normal "pepper" look, but if you look closer you can see lines and marks that are similar to other normal peppers. The top also looks like a heart, or two peoples heads coming together, it also kind of looks like a dinosour.
He used a medium format camera, a three inch by three inch negative.

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Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams was an American photographer and enviornmentalist. He was best known for his black and white photos of the American West. He developed the zone system, which was a way to determine proper exposure and adjust the contrast of the final print.

Adams took the picture, The Tetons and the Snake River in 1942 , but finished his first ever photo portfolio in 1927.

The photo is intriguing because of the contrast in colors and land, the water, the greens, the trees, the mountains, the clouds and the sun. The river goes around in a "snake" like way giving this picture an almost "eerie" feeling, but yet the sun is shining through the clouds giving it a warmer appeal. The two are very contrasting feelings and effects but they work together in a good way in this picture.

Ansels used a large format view camera which was difficult to use because of their size, weight, setup time, and cost of film. But their high resolution ensured the sharpness in his images.

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