Usher Fellig: A Career As A Photographer

The artist that I will be focusing on is Ori Gersht, an Israeli photographer. He is a modern photographer and the names of his work are Blow Up #1; and Black Soil: White Light Red City 01. His works often reference violence, beauty, life and death. The medium vary from different printing methods. Blow Up #1 is light jet print, mounted on aluminum and size 96 x 72 in. (as the rest of the Blow Up series). Black Soil: White Light Red City 01 is a chromogenic print and size 47 1/4″ x 59 1/16.

The paper will explore Abelardo Morell’s life, photographic career, and discusses how the Camera falls into his career. Also, this paper will include an art critic review of his artworks. Abelardo Morell is a renowned Cuban-born photographer in the field of Contemporary photography, known for his invention working methods, including the use of a Camera Obscura that represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York City. He took the Camera Obscura out of the past and bring it toward the future. This paper hopes to give a reader an understanding of Abelardo Morell and Camera Obscura.

Alex Kotlowitz met Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers in 1985 while working as a journalist. He was interviewing them for a photo essay in Chicago magazine on children living in poverty. The violence that occurred every day where the brothers lived in Governor Henry Horner Homes, or Horner, disturbed Kotlowitz. Lafeyette and Pharoah are 12 and 9 years old at the start of the book but have experienced more than many kids their age. The boys did not seem sure of what life held for them. Lafeyette told Kotlowitz, “If I grow up, I’d like to be a bus driver,” Lafeyette was not sure that he would grow up at just 10 years old (x). Kotlowitz wanted to show what it is like for children growing up in urban poverty after seeing the brothers’

He loved photography and this made him to quit music. Fortunately, his ideal career was realized when he became a darkroom assistant in Newark in 1915. In 1916 he opened his own studio where he took many indoor portraits of the blacks in Harlem. He became the first noted photographer in Harlem for many years. However, he lost recognition for some time and his photographic art faded away. In 1969 Van Der Zee was back on stage when the Metropolitan Museum Art discovered some of his photographs in an exhibition called Harlem on My Mind. As a result, his photographic work was restored and Van Der Zee concentrated on photography again until his death in 1983[4].

Ike Altgens (April 28, 1919 – December 12, 1995) was an American photojournalist, photo editor and field reporter for the Associated Press (AP) who took two photographs that circulated worldwide after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK). Altgens was 19 when he began his AP career, which was interrupted by military service during World War II. When his service time ended, he returned to Dallas, Texas, got married, and went back to work for the local AP bureau, eventually earning a position as a senior editor. He was on assignment for the AP when he captured two historic images on November 22, 1963. The second photo, showing First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy toward the rear of the presidential limousine and Secret Service agent Clint

Edward Benguiat was born in Brooklyn, New York, and began experimenting with design and typography at the early age of nine years old. His father worked as a display director at Bloomingdale’s, and this allowed Edward access to all of the drawing tools possible to foster his growing talent. Growing up in Brooklyn, he attended Canarsie High school, and had the typical style of education of the children born in his era. During WWII he joined the army after forging his birth certificate. After the Air Force, he played percussion and established a career as a talented progressive Jazz musician under the pseudonym Eddie Benart, and played with a plethora of bands, with such notable musicians as Stan Kenton, Claude Thornhill and Woody Herman. He

Breaking away from the established conventions of art at the time, the Impressionist work of Édouard Manet and Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe was rejected for its controversial subject matter of a woman in the nude amongst clothed men as the central focus. As such, a reproduction of artwork for the band Bow Wow Wow and their album ‘See Jungle...’ by Andy Earl in the 1980s would cause similar controversy, for the underaged lead female singer being pictured in the nude. Earl has created over one hundred memorable covers and album sleeves, working with many famous artists.

The work of art selected by the Artist David Wojnarowicz is a series of twenty-four black-and-white gelatin silver prints known as “Arthur Rimbaud in New York”. David Wojnarowicz was a New York City artist and AIDS activist. He identified himself closely with the French Poet Rimbaud. They led similar lives and lifestyles in that they both came from broken homes and found solace and at times anger through their art. Both Rimbaud and Wojnarowicz had feelings of being denied freedom; they both ran away from their harsh reality and both were homosexuals. Their lives spanned over a hundred years apart but Wojnarowicz identified himself closely with the angst that was Rimbaud. The black and white prints have a grimy appearance to them showing a bit of antiestablishment and alternative lifestyles in hard New York. Wojnarowicz style used collage imagery. His method was similar to the artistic process assemblage. This process brought together two or three-dimensional compositions using other objects. In these series of work, this method is subtle and used in print. The prints themselves are of a friend of Wojnarowicz’s wearing a mask that showed the face of the French Poet Rimbaud. These prints were photographed in many different areas of New York. In the example of one of the prints in the series (3/6), the image is of a friend wearing the mask of Rimbaud and showing themselves as lovers. The image fused the French poet’s identity with modern New York urban

William Wegman went to the Massachusetts College of Art, and came into the scene of photography in the late 1960’s. He moved to Los Angeles in the early 70’s and picked up a Weimaraner puppy for $25. This puppy was his first dog, Man Ray (named after the ssturearli photographer). He saw the comical and unique photographs that his dog could create and released a video of himself reading his dog a school card, and some surrealist photos of Man Ray dusted with flour. Man Ray was the dog that made Wegman famous for his dog photography.

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)

In 1994, she published Tokyo Love, a series of images of Tokyo youth, in collaboration with Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki. In this collection of portraits Goldin found that the eastern community was greatly alike her portraits of the western community. In 1995 she worked along with a British filmmaker named Edmund Coulthard to make a movie about her life and work in I’ll Be Your Mirror. Then in 1996, her reputation was even further increased by a influential retrospective, centered around one of her slideshows at the Whitney Museum in New York. Goldin’s work is most often presented in a slideshow format and are sometimes shown at film festivals; her most famous being 40 minutes long consisting of 800 photographs. She has fondly documented women looking in mirrors, girls in barrooms and bathrooms, drag queens, sexual activity, and the culture of obsession and dependency. Her photos are often described as a way to “learn the stories and intimate details of those closest to her.” It references one of her most famous photographs ‘Nan One Month After Being Battered, 1984” as an iconic photo she used to reclaim her identity and

The name "Photography" comes from the Greek words for light and writing. Sir John Herschel, was the first to use the term photography in 1839, when he managed to fix images using hyposulphite of soda. He described photography as "The application of the chemical rays to the purpose of pictorial representation". Herschel also coined the terms "negative", "positive" and "snapshot".

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.”

Photography is a very interesting career choice. It can take people to places they only ever dreamt of going. Although it is a lot of fun, it is also a lot of work. There is many different types of equipment, lighting, cameras, and photographers. You must learn about it all in order to choose the perfect type of photography you want to do. Photography, is not just about capturing photos of objects, it is about how photographers see the world. Being a photographer, there are many responsibilities you must have. For starters, photographers have to be able to market and/or advertis. This will help them to attract customers or clients. On top of being able to market and advertise, they must also be able to analyze and plan compositions of

Set against the backdrop of World War II and its aftermath, the episode examines how photographers dealt with dramatic and tragic events like D-Day, the Holocaust and Hiroshima, and the questions their often extraordinary pictures raise about history as seen