Summary Of Untitled By William Eggleston

The 1930’s were filled an enormous sense of vulnerability and angst because of the horrifying events of the Great Depression and its impact that it had on the society and economy of the United States of America. People of all classes, races, genders, and heritages were struck by the tragedies of the Great Depression. However, with new advancements in the technology of photography came a new hope and outlook for the future of Americans. The introduction of colored photography along with organized photographic groups and their impact took the World by storm as the realization of normal citizens being impacted by the Great Depression set in.

I have decided to do my essay on one of Ansel Adams most famous photographs from his long and successful career titled Half Dome. The photograph of Half Dome medium of the photograph is black and white. Ansel Adams in my opinion is one of the greatest photographers of all time. I believe his photographs are a work of art. Ansel Adams was a true visual genius with a camera, he went to a location set up his camera and the end result was always perfect. When I look at a photograph that was taken by Ansel Adams I feel at ease. It is almost like taking a short vacation in front of a photograph. The way Ansel Adams uses black and white in his photographs is amazing to me. The one thing that amazes me the most about Ansel Adams is even

Uelsmann’s work was not well received in the photography community. His creations were not considered photography; however, he was well received in the art community. John Szarkowski hosted a solo exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in 1967. Uelsmann was considered “iconoclastic” and “set out to convince critics that photography offered alternatives to the conventional “purist” sensibility…” Uelsmann debated that photos could “evoke elusive states of feeling and thinking triggered by irrational and imaginative juxtaposition” (Kay). Uelsmann has succeeded in finding a following among photographers and artist alike. In the past forty years, Uelsmann’s work has been exhibited in over 100 solo shows throughout the US and overseas. He has permanent instillations in museums worldwide (Taylor). Uelsmann’s photos are now revered for their original technical form as well as their surreal matter (Johnson).

Before starting this project, I knew very little about photography, photographers, or exactly how much impact photographical images have had on our society. I have never taken a photography class, or researched too in depth about specific pictures or photographers. This project has allowed me to delve deeper into the world of photography in order to understand just how much influence pictures can have over society’s beliefs, emotions, and understandings’. I have have chosen two highly influential photographers, Diane Arbus and Dorothea Lange, who I have found to both resonate with me and perfectly capture human emotions in way that moves others.

The photograph is a very powerful medium. The French painter Paul Delaroche exclaimed upon seeing an early photograph “from now on, painting is dead!” (Sayre, 2000). Many critics did not take photography seriously as a legitimate art form until the 20th century. With the

Clarence Hudson White was born a son of a grocery salesman in 1871. Later becoming a bookkeeper for the same company his father worked for, White spent his early life in Newark, Ohio. White had many hobbies from a young ae including reading, painting, and music. It was not until the age of 23 that he began to take up photography as a hobby much to his parent’s disapproval. Later on in his career, Clarence Hudson White would be described as “the one who may be considered the archetypal Pictorialist photographer of the United States” by photo historian Naomi Rosenblum.

Born in 1961 in rural London and raised in Australia Adam Fuss is a prolific photographer with a keen eye for nature. His interest first begun through the documentation of the natural environment using photography as his medium. However, it wasn’t long until Fuss began using less contemporary photographic methods to document his unique view on the world. Leaving the camera behind entirely he takes a contemporary approach on the earliest techniques known to photography – from daguerreotype to the photogram. The photogram “Love” is a life-sized colour contact print using light sensitive photographic paper with the “contents” acting as a barrier between the light source and the paper. In this image the “contents” are two slaughtered rabbits which

For my chosen photographer, I have based my project for ‘In the style’ on Berenice Abbott’s. Abbott work was mainly based in the 1930’s of the urban designs of America, she was best known for her black and white photography as well as her documentation of New York City. She had a great approach to photography in a variety of ways, through her own style of work and through her introduction of other artists including Eugene Atget’s, for his unique photographic techniques. Abbott’s work has not always been based on photography as she focused on Journalism, but soon became interested in theatre and sculpture. She began her career in photography in 1923 as an apprentice to Man Ray. In 1925, she set up her own photography studio in Paris and made several well-known portraits of artists and writers who were popular in this time. Berenice returned to New York City in the time of the Wall Street Crash, which was the largest stock market crash in American history in

This article from the New York Times, published in 1862, criticizes Alexander Gardner’s photographs that were displayed in Mathew Brady’s New York exhibit. It includes insight from the publisher that depicts the effects Gardner gave the public through his photos. This article was written at the time that his pieces were actually displayed, therefore it presents the real-time feedback that Gardner's photographs received. This article is found in the official archives of The New York Times, making it a reliable source.

His attempt was not to define the world, but to reveal it slowly through patient

In the beginning Mr. Adams contends to find a suitable word to describe what a photograph is and what are the qualities to it. Throughout the “Beauty in Photography” essay, Adams concern is to define how there is beauty in art. In this essay when using ‘beauty’ Adams does not mean it is a pretty looking art but feels that it is more complicated and difficult to define. However, for him he stated that, “Beauty, the Beauty that concerns me is that of Form.

In this project ‘In the style of’ I began to research a variety of photographers based from 1850’s onwards, I wanted to mainly focus my project on an earlier genre of photography to present different techniques and styles of photography at this time. For this body of work I researched photographers from the early 1930’s as I was interested in the edgy and contextual background of the work and photographer produced throughout this era. For this project I wanted to look at something different that is taken away from typical photography that I focus on now, and to set my work like the year I have focused on. I was inspired by photographer from the 1930’s, Berenice Abbott, I was intrigued by her images as she based her work on different genres

The photograph is a very powerful medium. The French painter Paul Delaroche exclaimed upon seeing an early photograph "from now on, painting is dead!" (Sayre, 2000). Many critics did not take photography seriously as a legitimate art form until the 20th century. With

William Eggleston is a contemporary American photographer recognized for his contribution to color photography and for having had his works present in a series of significant art galleries. One of the characteristic concepts about Eggleston is that he managed to focus on relatively common concepts and provided the world with a new and intriguing view by showing them from a whole new perspective. Eggleston does not attempt to photograph exceptional concepts, as he actually turns ordinary objects into exceptional photographs. His work practically makes it possible for viewers to see the importance of objects and people that are not actually important.

Careful visual observations are key when distinguishing masterpieces of photography. The attention to the slightest details and uses of many various techniques are what distance Gregory Crewdson and William Eggleston from the norm. Though it is simple to discuss the contents of a photograph, it takes a trained eye to analyze the true visual art that the picture portrays. Every image by both of these photographs contains a hidden meaning, a variety of thousands of possible interpretations made by the viewers. Composition and content are both considered and involved when the photographers make the final decisions of the arrangement. Thus, the artist’s intensions of the the subject of the image are also essential to consider. All in all, the