Edward Weston: A Brief Biography

Eadward Muybridge and Cornelius Jabez Hughes, two photographers of the 19th century, introduced revolutionary ideas impacting the way photographs could be taken, categorized, and used. Muybridge, better known as the ‘father of the motion picture,’ studied landscape photos and invented a device that drastically improved their quality. In addition, he helped to pioneer work in the studies of motion and motion-picture projection. Hughes developed new technology related to photography and helped to guide many other amateur photographers into producing better forms of photography. The two had lasting impacts on the growth and importance of photography in the art, science, and everyday realms.

For this essay the works of Robert Draper, author of “Why Photos Matter,” and Fred Ritchen, author of “Photography Changes the Way News is Reported,” will be analyzed. Though both deal with the topic of photography, their take on the matter is very different. While Ritchen is a photographer who writes on “what professional photographers will be doing in the future,” Draper is a writer for the National Geographic writing on how the photographers of the magazine share “a hunger for the unknown.” Both writers, however, write on the topic of photographers having a deeper understanding of their subjects, Ritchen due to research and practice, and Draper because the photographers “sit [with] their subjects, just listening to them.” In both essays the need for a deeper understanding of the

While emotions were extremely high in the sense of angst for a better life, photography provided a new sense of reality to Americans and for others around the World. Photography all around the World is unlike anything else of its kind. People are able to tell stories and elicit emotions that bring the audience to that desired response. Throughout the 1930’s, photography from governmental institutions or advancements alone brought a new beginning to the end of a terrible time that Americans all around the nation

Ansel Adams was a photographer who was also an environmentalist who specialised in fully focused photos. Ansel Adams is one of the most respected and well known photographers in the world, known for his breathtaking land scape photos of the west of America, like the Utah mountains ect. Throughout his long 70 year old career he made a lot of work. He had over 500 gallery shows in his time which is amazing! His style included sharp and even focus, extensive tonal range, clarity of detail, straight or pure photography, close-up images or expansive sweeping landscapes and majestic, heroic images, full of national pride. His themes and interests in art and photography is the earth and all its features. He focussed the whole photo which I think is amazing because the detail is amazing and it’s all amazing because its black and white as well. It has greys which is good but everyone of his photos but he always has a true black and true white. The quality of light in

Among all of the great Hollywood portrait photographers, George Hurrell is arguably the most famous and is considered by collectors and historians to be the best in the business. It was his photos that actually inspired the term “glamour photography.” In 1936, Esquire magazine claimed, “A Hurrell portrait is to the ordinary publicity still what a Rolls Royce is to a roller skate.” George Hurrell said, “As long as I can remember I wanted to be an artist. As a boy, I was drawing all the time, in school and out.” As an art student in Chicago he started to work with a camera, as it was common for art students to photograph inspirational locations as well as their finished work. While at school he held a series of jobs, including acting as a colorist for Chicago portrait photographer Eugene Hutchinson who taught him valuable tricks of the trade, including negative retouching, darkroom developing and airbrushing. He moved to Laguna Beach, California where there was a thriving fine arts community. His many connections led him to meeting the famed photographer Edward Steichen, who saw in his work a natural talent for photography. Our childhood desire to create is nurtured into a talent by those who possess the gift. Following Steichen advice and encouraged by his friend and patron, aviatrix Pancho Barnes, Hurrell opened a photography studio in Laguna Beach. George’s first celebrity client came from Pancho’s referral of her best friend, silent film star Ramon Novarro. Ramon felt his Latin

Edgerton’s interest in photography was sparked when his uncle taught him how to process photos. He went to college to become an electrical

At age 14, Abelardo Morell realizes that he discovers his passion of photography through the photography books or magazines at his uncle 's house. According to the National Geographic

Born in 1934, Jerry Uelsmann grew up an inner city kid of Detroit. In high school, Uelsmann worked as an assistant for a photography studio; he eventually photographed weddings. Uelsmann went to Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) where he met Minor White, who “introduced [him] to the concept that photography could be used for self-expression” (Berman). While at RIT, he studied with Bruce Davidson, Peter Turner and Car Chiaraenza, with whom he held frequent discussions on how photography could be different. After RIT, Uelsmann went to Indiana University where he changed his degree to a Master of Fine Arts degree. He graduated with an M.S. and an M.F.A at Indiana University in 1960, where he studied with Henry Holmes Smith, who had

Ansel Adams was a talented individual, but his main passion was photography. He was a naturalist artist taking many photos of many elegant landscapes, and other environmental settings. He was born in San Francisco, California. As a boy he enjoyed the environment very much and took many walks near beautiful landscapes. He had a great aspiration for music as a child but photography excited him. He published his first photos by the club of San Francisco's headquarters. Adams later pursued straight photography in which the clarity of the lens is emphasized, and the final product of the photo does not look manipulated at all. Through the years Adams became the champion of straight photography perfecting his techniques. Adams works have received

Adams cherished the times he spent on vacation in Yosemite with his family. He spent part of his life teaching others how to capture the panoramic beauty of our national parks. In 1940 he taught his first of many workshops “The U.S. Camera Photographic Forum” in Yosemite with Edward Weston (Capa, 1986).

In year 2060 a small town in girl from Ennis, Montana had a big dream to become president for the democratic party. The girl’s name was Aubrey Wright and all of her life she had dreamed about being president. Sadly, nobody had believed in her not but her mother and grandmother. When she got to age 16 lost her mom to a severe case of ovarian cancer. So, when it came to school she worked extremely hard to make her mother proud while she watched over her. She was living with her grandmother till she had graduated high school they were less fortunate but worked with what they had. When she graduated she almost able to go to college due to money issues but she stood out to her teacher the worked together and she got a full ride scholarship

This essay will investigate the work of contemporary photographer Tim Walker, and historical photographer Ansel Adams. This essay will examine the many changes of how photography has evolved through the decades from the photographer’s style, use of equipment, techniques and what photography is used for. These changes will be seen by looking at the contemporary photographer and comparing them to the historical photographer.

Ansel Adams (Feb. 20, 1902- Apr. 22, 1984) found his way to photography through the black and white keys of the piano. Through music he established structure, discipline and purpose to his rather unpredictable childhood, but through photography Adams found passion, mastery, and his true passion. Though his interests were in wilderness and the environment: photography was his calling. His love for nature and his eye for perfection would lead him to have an extremely successful career, and lead him to be adored by many. Personally, Ansel Adams is one of the best photographers of all time because of the way he approaches his photographs, his particular style, and what sets him apart from other photographers

By presenting the subjects as human beings with personality rather than objects of desire. For example, the work of Edward Weston in the early nineteen twenties. He has been called the “quintessential American photographer of his time”. He I considered a pioneer in his photography which included portraits, nudes, and still life Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2016). In his early work, he produced a collection of nude photos which consisted of close-up details of his subjects. The images were the results of his attempts to combine photographic realism and abstract art. As a way of protecting the privacy of his subjects, Weston had intentionally cropped their faces which added to the aesthetic value of the photographs. However, due to the fact that there is no hint of personality of his subjects, merely body parts, makes his work quite objectifying. Even though Weston made male nudes which considered classic for figure studies, his female nudes portrays the female body as display for the pleasure of the male gaze (Warren,2006)

Henry Peach Robinson, born on July 9th, 1830, was a British photographer and prominent author on photography. Known as “the King of Photographic Picture Making,” he began his life’s work as a painter but would become one of the most influential photographers of the late 19th century. He was a prolific advocate for photography as an art form and is well known for his role in “pictorialism,” which, according to Encyclopedia Britannica, is “an approach to photography that emphasizes beauty of subject matter, tonality, and composition rather than the documentation of reality.”