Iconic Photographers

This area is REALLY important and will directly affect the standard and quality of your Higher. By understanding the subject and working methods of iconic photographers who are either historically important or have a more contemporary approach will help you to explore and develop your project.

Photographer selection Areas/Genres of Photography

• Macro • Architecture • Abstract • Fashion • Conceptual • Photo Journalism • Landscape • Urban • Nature • Sports • Portraiture • Food • Still Life • Travel • Fine Art • Conceptual • Narrative • Street • Reportage • Wildlife Elements of Photography Photographic Attributes Composition Content Style & Genre • Light • Shape • Subject Genre usually refers to • Background subjects e.g. Food / • Focus • Line Wildlife • Foreground • Time • Angle Style refers to your • People approach eg lighting • Motion • Colour & Tone • Story /compostion • Viewpoint • Pattern • Mood/Atmosphere • Framing • Depth • Symbol/Metaphor • Cropping • Composition Overall • Technique Meaning- artist’s Intention/Purpose Meaning LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Bernice Abbott ARCHITECTURE STREET Eugene Atget FASHION PORTRAIT David Bailey CONCEPTUAL Bernd and Hilla Becher LANDSCAPE STILL LIFE NATURE John Blakemore NATURE Karl Blossfeldt Alex Boyd

LANDSCAPE Alex Boyd Alex Boyd Photo Journalism Bill Brandt PORTRAIT Clarence Sinclair Bull NATURE ABSTRACT Paul Caponigro Thomas Joshua Cooper LANDSCAPE Thomas Joshua Cooper ABSTRACT PORTRAIT John Coplans LANDSCAPE Joe Cornish NATURE LANDSCAPE MACRO Imogen Cunningham NARRATIVE STREET URBAN Elliot Erwitt There is an excellent interview with Daivid Fokos by Nathan Wirth David Fokos SOCIAL LANDSCAPE STREET FINE ART SOCIAL LANDSCAPE FINE ART STREET David Gillanders David Gillanders LANDSCAPE SOCIAL LANDSCAPE Andy Hughes FINE ART Andy Hughes PORTRAIT Yousuf Karsh CONCEPTUAL NARRATIVE PORTRAIT FINE ART Man Ray SOCIAL LANDSCAPE FINE ART PHOTO JOURNALISM Steve McCurry CONCEPTUAL FINE ART ABSTRACT NARRATIVE Jay Maisel PORTRAIT Duane Michals CONCEPTUAL FINE ART ABSTRACT Lazlo Moholy-Nagy NATURE CONCEPTUAL SPORTS Eadweard Muybridge PHOTO JOURNALISM Martin Parr LANDSCAPE TRAVEL Colin Prior CONCEPTUAL FINE ART ABSTRACT Walter Peterhans PORTRAIT NATURE Eliot Porter PORTRAIT Platon CONCEPTUAL FINE ART ABSTRACT STILL LIFE Albert Renger-Patzsch PORTRAIT CONCEPTUAL FINE ART SOCIAL LANDSCAPE Alexander Rodchenko PORTRAIT PHOTO JOURNALISM STREET URBAN W Eugene Smith Emmanuel Sougez

PORTRAIT In 1926 he founded the photo service of FINE ART L'llustration directed until 1945, working in STILL LIFE parallel in the illustration of art books. With twenty years, began to make artistic photographs, the majority of , in which are observed, fundamentally, the techniques of still life and nudes. In this way, Sougez began to emerge as a creative photographer with a closely related own line with the German power "New objectivity". His work is universally known for his still lifes made with camera format 30 x 40, which chooses everyday items whose beauty is notable for a very refined lighting. Also his series of nudes made with the legendary model Assia, are very representative of their production. Emmanuel Sougez PORTRAIT STILL LIFE Edward Steichen WILDLIFE TRAVEL (AVIATION) Andy Rouse LANDSCAPE WILDERNESS TRAVEL Galen Rowell ABSTRACTY CONCEPTUAL FINE ART Alberto Seveso ABSTRACTY CONCEPTUAL FINE ART ARCHITECTURE Karl Hugo Schmolz ABSTRACTY CONCEPTUAL FINE ART Jerry Uelsmann ABSTRACTY CONCEPTUAL NARRATIVE

Edward Weston Motion Harold Edgerton Motion Reportage William Klein Reportage Dorthea Lange War W.Eugene Smith Macro Shikhei SPORTS Chris Burkard SPORTS Kirill Umrikhin FOOD Francesco Tonelli FOOD DAVID GRIFFEN “ Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times…I just shoot at what interests me at that moment. – Elliott Erwitt “ Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst. – Henri Cartier-Bresson Read more: http://digital-photography- school.com/photography- Read more: http://digital-photography- quotes#ixzz1vS3cAfYQ school.com/photography-quotes#ixzz1vS4Jmxil

“ Which of my photographs is my favourite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow. – Imogen Cunningham

Read more: http://digital-photography- school.com/photography- quotes#ixzz1vS3j3Gdz “ Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. – Ansel Adams

Read more: http://digital-photography- school.com/photography- quotes#ixzz1vS3wBiMo Ansel Adams David Gillanders W Eugene Smith Bernice Abbott Andreas Gursky Emmanuel Sougez David Bailey Andy Hughes Edward Steichen Bernd and Hilla Becher Yousuf Karsh Andy Rouse John Blakemore Man Ray Karl Blossfeldt Galen Rowell Steve McCurry Alberto Seveso Alex Boyd Jay Maisel Bill Brandt Wolfgang Tillmans Duane Michals Clarence Sinclair Bull Karl Hugo Schmolz Lazlo Moholy-Nagy Jerry Uelsmann Paul Caponigro Eadweard Muybridge Edward Weston Thomas Joshua Cooper Colin Prior Albert Renger-Patzsch John Coplans Martin Parr Alexander Rodchenko Joe Cornish Walter Peterhans Cindy Sherman Imogen Cunningham Irving Penn DAVID GRIFFEN Elliot Erwitt Eliot Porter Francesco Tonelli David Fokos Platon Kirill Umrikhin Shikhei Lee Friedlander Chris Burkard Dorthea Lange W.Eugene Smith Ernst Haas Harold Edgerton William Klein