Research Assignment 1
Simcha G. van Leeuwen
André Kertész was Hungarian born photographer but has done work all over the world notably Paris where he lived for a time, he also did work in Hungary and American. Andres work is almost exclusively black and white very little of his pictures were in colour, he only briefly experimented with colour photography. Andres subject matter varied somewhat throughout his career it was broken up into 4 periods. Hungarian, French, American and international period. During his Hungarian period, he photographed local peasants, gypsies, and landscapes in Hungary, he also took photos when he was in the army of the trenches etc. During this time, he also used his wife, or soon to be wife and brother for pictures and continued to do so throughout his career. During his French period, he got fascinated with cubism and created photo portraits of artist. Later, he did a lot of work for commission and worked with house of garden during his American period and international period. Just by looking at his work he takes many candid pictures of people that aren't posing for the picture and are just living their daily lives. Like someone walking on the street for example but with interesting angles, where the individual might not be the focus but adds to the visual appeal of the pictures. As I said he takes more irregular photos then centered and doesn’t necessarily focus on a single person but has people as elements. Andre did a combination of photojournalistic with an interest in movement and gesture coupled with a liking for abstract shapes. He is also known for his groundbreaking work in composition and photo essay.
Vivan Maier was an American photographer who sadly only got discovered after her death. Her work is mostly in black in white with some colour photography. Her subject matter was mainly architecture and people on the streets in New York and Chicago, but she has some international work. She also liked taking pictures of her reflection in store front windows or mirrors. She would take many pictures of kids playing or doing there day to day lives and people walking in the streets this included kids, the black maids, the bums flaked out on shop stoops. Her work is said to have shown an interesting lens on the life of children and women during that time period. I would say she had a mix of centered picture and some more irregular aspects in terms of composition such as using reflections of window and mirrors. She has a lot of photos with cool lighting and nice shadows from building that create these lines that split the picture up and create interesting photos. She enjoyed taking photos of people in there day to day lives as I said and liked to be inconspicuous with her camera such as when she would take picture in reflections of herself and what would be happening around. She enjoyed American cities and society and liked taking casual shots of passers-by caught in transient moments, she like taking pictures of people in there day to day lives.
Reference Page
André Kertész
Vivian Maier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Maier
http://www.vivianmaier.com/
http://www.vivianmaier.com/about-vivian-maier/
Comments
Post a Comment