Researching Photographers

Robert Adams, May 8th, 1937

Orange, New Jersey

Attended University of Colorado - transferred- University of Redlands in California

Photographed Western landscapes of North America

Human influence, neutrality, neutral position

For 5 years (1974) experimented. Photographed at night  for opposite of high altitude daylight

"element of risk"

In Robert Adams pictures I find a connection amongst all of them in a focused reality that freeze frames the image to observe the life happening at the specific time. What i found interesting was his experiment that he started taking photos in colorist tones then went off taking photos only at night to catch natures nocturnal lifestyle and to show us the side of patterns and colors that create whole different feelings of darkness.

 "Venetian Canal" 1894

 

"Winter- Fifth Avenue" 1893

"The Terminal"  1893

Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1890)

Hoboken, New Jersey

Charlie Institute (Private School in New York)

Wrote regularity for the The American Amateur Photographer magazine 

Joint exhibition of the Boston Camera Club, Photographic Society of Philadelphia and the Society of Amateur Photographers of New York

Two of his best known images, "Winter, Fifth Avenue" and "The Terminal".

In Aldfred Stieglitz photographs I feel a reality in witch conveys his use of the serpia color element. At one  time it can sofen an event or structure, a calm canal in a city, or while in others captures the cold and brittle feel of the snowy blizzard.

 

Helen Levitt 

(August 31, 1913 – March 29, 2009)

Brooklyn

Dropped out of High School, taught herself Photography

American photographer, 70 years

"Street photography" New York City 

..."the most celebrated and least known photographer of her time."

Children street culture: Chalk drawings

Still photography

The feelings I get from Helen Levitt photographs is the unlimited reality of city life and all the aspects that make it so impacting to us as civilians. In a few photo's I posted the color stands out stating that physical exsitance of the objects and their connection to what is actually happening in the picture. The pattern I see most after observing Levitts photos is the repetitive image day to day encounters.