Alfred Steiglitz and Alfred Eisenstaedt

The two photographers I have been looking at this week are Alfred Steiglitz and Alfred Eisenstaedt.  Alfred Steiglitz was an American photographer, and Eisenstaedt was a German-American photographer.

Steiglitz is known primarily for the art gallery he ran in New York and his photographs of Georgia O'Keeffe.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Stieglitz

Alfred Eisenstaedt is considered the father of photojournalism.  Some of his photographs are extremely famous, and you would probably recognize them.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Eisenstaedt
I hope you enjoy looking at their work. 
Alfred Steiglitz

 Alfred Eisenstaedt

The Start of My Final Project

This weekend I started on my final project.  At first, I was planning on building on my tree series from last week.  However, as I continued to shoot, my idea changed.  I decided to switch to using the zoom-lens technique to create photographs that are more abstract.  My goal for my project is to create photographs that are awash in color.  These photographs look more like paintings than photographs. 

The following photographs are the best from my shoot.  Enjoy!

Others' Nelson Mandela

The following photos are a sample of my classmates' response to Nelson Mandela's words.  Everybody did an excellent job, but these are the ones that stuck out to me.

Enjoy!

Nelson Mandela

This assignment was to figuratively communicate the following quote by Nelson Mandela.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves,

who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking

so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It is not just in some of us:

it's in everyone.

And when we let our own light shine,

we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear,

our presence automatically liberates others. ~ Nelson Mandela

The following photographs are how I solved the assignment. Enjoy!

Werner Bischof

Werner Bischof was a photographer who was a part of Magnum, the Paris-based photojournalists collective.  This meant he worked with famous photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa.  Sadly, Bischof died at the age of 38 in a car accident.  However, his work survives.  Recently Minnesota Public Radio did a story on him. http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2003/10/03_combsm_bischoff/

Here is some of his work.

 

Vivian Maier

Vivian Maier was a street photographer who lived from 1926-2009.  She lived relatively unknown.  However, her photography is exquisite.  This blog is dedicated to her work. http://vivianmaier.blogspot.com/

Here are some of her images.  Enjoy!

Fellow Classmates- For the Artist at the Start of the Day

The following photos are a sample of my classmates work from the poem For the Artist at the Start of the Day.  Everyone did a good job.  Enjoy the photos!

An Hour of Books

Today in class we spent an hour reading books dealing with art, photography, and design.  I'd like to share some of the things that stood out to me during my readings.

Guide to Photojournalism by Brian Horton
The section that I read in this book was on features and portraits.  One of the person's quoted was Amy Sancetta.  She photographs a variety of different subjects from children laborers to yo-yo factories.  Often she most switch quickly from a serious work to a humorous subject.  She described what is like to have to switch so quickly.  "You are moving from one situation where you show your humanity to another situation where you do".

The following photographs are a sample of Sancetta's work.

Landscape Photography by John Shaws
Bad Weather is good weather
The point that stood out to me was where it talked about weather.  "Good weather is often the worst weather possible" (84).  This was funny because I prefer to shoot in nice, sunny weather.  However, I think that I need to stretch myself and shoot in good photography weather, even if it isn't "nice" weather. 

These books were a lot of fun to read and were very informative. 

Don't Quit and Choices

The following photographs are from my fellow classmates interpretation of the poems Don't Quit and Choices.  It's interesting and fun to see the different approaches we have taken.

Choices 

Don't Quit

I enjoyed looking at the others' photographs and seeing the other solutions people took.  I hope you enjoy looking at them.