Paul Strand Research

Paul Strand.

Paul Strand was born in New York in 1890. When he was 17 he began taking a photography course studying under famed photographer Lewis Hine. During his training strand also became acquainted with Alfred Stieglitz, whose 291 Gallery in New York provided inspiration for stand and other aspiring modernist photographers and artists. A turning point in his career cam in 1915 when he began to discover what the large format camera could do. his photographs moved from soft focus scenes of modern New York. Strands images gained power from their integration of reality and abstraction within the composition. In 1920 another shift occurred in strands career his socal consciousness led him to explore the relationship between art and politics and to devote his career to progressive causes In the early 1950s, due to the conservative political climate in the United States, Strand moved to Europe, spending six weeks in the northern Italian agrarian community of Luzzara and later traveling to the Outer Hebrides, islands off the northwest coast of Scotland, where he documented impoverished communities there. In the 1960s he also traveled to photograph the people of North and West Africa. Strand’s work was renowned, showing him to be a pioneer in 20th century avant-garde photography who was able to demonstrate to the world the effectiveness of art in promoting social change.

Edward Weston Research

Edward Weston.


Weston was born in march 1886, in Highland park Illinois Edward Weston's father gave him his camera aged 16. much of his photography in the earl 1920's can be identified as Pictorialize style, meaning they imitated paintings. In 1923 he travelled to Mexico where he opened a photographic studio with his lover, Tina Modotti during this time Weston took a number of the portraits and nudes for which he's known today. several Mexican artists of the time including Diego Rivera, David Siqueiros and Jose Orozco, called Weston a pioneer of 20th century art. In 1926 Weston returned to the united states, settling in California where he continued to create nudes, close ups and natural forms and landscapes, among several other works, In the 1940's he took several portraits of his family members that are now considered among his best work. In 1946 New York City's Museum of Modern Art Featured retrospective exhibits of Weston's work that included 300 prints.

                                                                         

                                                               

Nobuyoshi Araki Research

Nobouyoshi Araki


In 1940 Araki was born He studied photography and film making at Chiba university, then graduated from the Engineering at Chiba university, Majored in photography and film making.
In 1964 Araki first got his Taiyo prize for 'Satchin'. He then worked at Dentsu inc.
He helped find the workshop school of photography and then opened the Nobouyoshi Araki school where he then moved on and opened the Araki limited stock company. He then opened Aat Room and in 1990 Shashin-no-kai prize from the photographic society of Japan.

1991 7th Higashikawa prize, then in  1994 Japan inter-Design forum Grand Prix.

2008 Austrian decoration of Honor for science and Arts then presents and orks in Tokyo

 

 

 

 

 
 







 

Daido Moriyama Research

Daido Moriyama Research

Daido, one of the most revered living in Japanese photographers, Daido Moriyama's work is saturated with pure beauty of life at its most ordinary. His photographs epitomize Wabi-Sabi, the Japanese aesthetic of finding beauty in imperfection. Moriyama focuses in on the lost and the discarded and finds echoes of living through the break down of the traditional value in the post-war Japan.

Daido draws influences from Atget and Weegee as well as William Klein and Warhol, comparing himself to a machine gun, Moriyama fires off his camera in rapid bursts of instinctive shooting.
Moriyama's output since 1968 is legendary. He was produced over 150 books of his photographs. He had over 100 solo exhibitions. In the U.S he was a central figure in MoMa's ground breaking 1974 new Japanese photograph and in 1999 SFMoMA organized and exhibited the retrospective Daido Moriyama stray dog which was also shown at the metropolitan Museum of Art and Japan Society in NEW YORK.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Henri Cartier-Bresson research

Henri Cartier-Bresson


Henri Cartier-Bresson was widely considered one of the leading artistic forces in the 20th century, Henri Cartier-Bresson was born in 1908 in Chanteloup, France. He began a 2 year stint studying painting under noted early cubist, Andre Lhote, where he then moved to Cambridge university to immerse himself further in art and Literature courses.
 He went to Africa to hunt boar but didn't enjoy to eat what he tracked down so he later gave it up, but Africa did fuel another interest in him: Photography, he experimented with a simple brownie he'd received as a gift, taking pictures of the new world around him, Cartier-Bresson there were direct parallels between his old passion and new one. Later Cartier-Bresson preferred taking shots rather than making prints and showing his work upon returning to France later that year, Cartier-Bresson purchased a 35mm camera whose simple style and stunning results would help define the photographer's work. Cartier-Bresson approach to photography would remain much the same. he made clear his disdain for the augmented image, one that had been enhanced by artificial light, darkroom effects, even cropping. The naturalist in Cartier-Bresson believed that all edits should be done when the image was made. His equipment loads was often a light, 50mm Lens and if he needed it a longer 90mm Lens.
Cartier-Bresson's rise as a photographer proved rapid. By mid 1930's he'd shown his work in major exhibits in Mexico, New York and Madrid.

 

 

This image is made up of a lot of shapes as you can see the within the steps and the road, and the slow shutter on the man on the bike makes it really stand out and draws your eye to the subject of the photograph.

 

 

 

 

This photograph shows passion and love, you can read into this image without knowing the actual subject or story behind the photographs meanings. I think this Is very unique photograph that Henri Cartier-Bresson has put together really aesthetically.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This image is an intresting photograph, In my opinion there is to much going on in this image and just doesn't have the same effect as the other two photographs have by catching my eye for the eye pleasing quality as the other two did.  

 

 

 

 

 

Michael Kenna Research

Michael Kenna Research


Michael  Kenna was born Widnes, England, where his arty passion led him to go and study at Banbury school of art where he studied painting and photography later he attended London college of printing and began working as a photographer and artist.
Kenna's work has often been described as enigmatic, graceful and hauntingly beautiful much like the Japanese landscape. Over the years he has travelled throughout almost the entire country constantly taking photographs. from these many treks the book Japan, featuring 95 of these photographs, was conceived.
Michael Kenna prints have been shown in numerous exhibitions throughout the world with permanent collections in the Bibliotheque, Paris the Museum of Decorative arts, and many more.
Japan is one of 18 books of Kenna's photography to have been published to date.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diane Arbus Research

Diane Arbus


Diane Arbus was born in New York City in 1923, an artistic youth She learnt photography from her husband actor Allan Arbus. Together they found success with fashion work, but shortly after Diane branched out on her own. Her raw unusual images of the people living in New York created a unique and interesting portrayal of the city.

working with her husband, Diane Arbus started out in advertising and fashion photography. her and Allan became quite a successful team with photographs appearing in such magazines as vogue. in the late 1950's she began to focus on her own photography. to further her art, Arbus studied with photographer Lisette Model around this time.
During her wanderings around New York City Arbus began to pursue taking photographs of people she found she visited seedy hotels and public parks, morgues and other various locales, these unusual images had a raw quality and several of them fond their way into the July 1960 issue of Esquire magazine. These photographs proved to be a spring board for future work.