Bill Brandt
This photographer focuses on people and landscape photography, amongst other subjects. Brandt's work shows depth, reflection and form. I like his work and think that he will be a good inspiration for my project.
Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams focuses on nature and close-up photography, and works mostly with black-and-white images. His work represents the formal elements of pattern, depth, shape and texture. I like Adams work because it makes ordinary objects and aspects of life, seem extraordinary. This photographer would be a great source of inspiration for this topic.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson focuses on street and people photography. He captures movement, form and depth within his photographs. Cartier-Bresson also works in black and white. I like his work because he shows people naturally within his images. I also like the idea of taking an image of a moving object, where it is blurred so we can see that it is moving. This work will be beneficial to my project, particularly if i shoot photographs of movement.
Vivian Maier
Vivian Maier uses street photography as a focal point, which shows people in their natural setting, but she has also worked with the concept of colour. She has also created photos for form and reflection. I like this work because the colour which she has emphasised still appears as the subject, even though there is colour throughout the entire image. This work would help develop my ideas on the topic of colour.
Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge uses a series of multiple photographs within his work, to portray movement. He takes images over a certain amount of time, each with a difference from the last, to show that an object has hanged or moved. He does by using both animals and people. I like this work because it doesn't use just one single photograph, but a series of them. I also like the idea of change and movement over time. Muybridge's work would influence my work of movement.
John Baldessari
John Baldessari's work definitely represents colour. Baldessari uses bold and bright colours to block out parts of his images, making them strange, but interesting. He will usually use either a black-and-white image or a plain black background, to emphasis the colours even further. I like this style of work because it is so questionable and unique, which could influence my work in the future.
Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Louise Dahl-Wolfe was an American based, famous fashion photographer in the 30s, 40s and 50s. However, in some of her images I am able to see form and reflection. I like Dahl-Wolfe's photography but I don't think the majority of her work will help with producing my photos for the formal elements.
Michael Kenna
Michael Kenna is best known for his black-and-white landscapes. However, I can see that his work displays both line and depth. I like his work of photography and would like to use it as an influence for my own photography in the future.
Richard Misrach
Richard Misrach is an American photographer and is known for introducing colour into fine 'art' photography. However, in these images I have selected, I can clearly identify texture. I like Misrach's work because they are so simple, yet interesting. I also think this style of photography will help me take better photos later on.
Nicholas Samaras
Nicholas Samaras is a new photographer, who specializes in underwater photography. I thought his work would be interesting to look at because it's a completely different format and concept, which makes it so much more interesting. Also, I found that some of his work showed some of the formal elements like shape, reflection and colour, and I would may be like to try and use his techniques (although i'm not too sure if i'll be able to take photos underwater).
Garry Winogrand
Garry Winogrand was a street photographer, and was known for the way he portrayed the US in the 20th century. I chose Winogrand because I saw various formal elements throughout his work, such as, form, movement and tone. Immediately I thought that his work would be an influence on my own work.
Robert Frank
Robert Frank is well known for his importance in both photography and film. I liked his work because it looked modern, yet because the majority of his photographs were black and white, it looks old-fashioned too. I chose Frank in particular for his use of tone and movement in his photography.
Zuzana D
Zuzana D has a wide range and variety throughout her photography, such as, portrait, street, flowers etc. I liked her work because of this. I chose Zuzana D because of her use of colour throughout her images, but also the movement that she has produced in some of her street photography, where she has used transparency to create the effect and illusion of movement. Due to this, I think Zuzana D would be a great example to base my work on.
Rich Legg
Rich Legg is a commercial photographer. However, in this particular photograph of his, I can see the element of line; hence why I have included him. However, due to the majority of Legg's photographs being portraits etc, I don't think his work as a whole would influence my work, even though this photo does.
William Eggleston
William Eggleston is an American photographer, and is known for his colour photography. As soon as I came across Eggleston, I wanted to use his work as an influence for my own, as they were all bright, vibrant and full of colour, which is exactly what he intended.
Jay Maisel
Jay Maisel is also an American photographer, but is best known for capturing light and colour which is found in every day life. These are already two of the formal elements, however, I wanted to focus on his use of reflection throughout his images. Maisel would be an inspiration for all these elements included.
Karl Hugo Schmolz
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Karl Hugo Schmolz is well known for his photography of architecture. When I first saw Schmolz's work, the complexity of his images is what appealed to me. They are all so busy and detailed, which I think makes them so interesting and enjoyable to look at. I like how he has captured buildings at an angle in which we are able to see them differently, to how we usually would, by showing us the shapes, lines and configurations of them.
Duane Michals
Duane Michals is another American photographer, he is known for adding text to his photographs to examine emotion and philosophy. I chose this photographer in particular because of the concept of the photograph above. When researching Michals I saw a few of these images, where he has used different angles and people. I liked that they are original and unusual, as each reflection shown in the mirror is either distorted, stretched, blurry etc., and I found the idea of making something look unusual on purpose, quite interesting.
Sam Taylor-Wood
Sam Taylor-Wood is an English filmmaker, photographer and visual artist. I chose to use her work because it develops the concept of form, as in some of her photographs, she displays an object forming it's shadow - which shows that it is a 3D object. This is evident in the photo included. I like Taylor-Wood's work because it is adventurous and extraordinary.
Sarah Jones
Sarah Jones is a visual artist who works with photography. Her work often includes adolescent girls, which is apparent in the photos above. Some of her work also displays fashion. I like Jones' work because I can see texture throughout the images, particularly in the ones above, from the girls' hair. Despite that Jones' is a portrait/fashion photographer, some of her photography could be valued into the inspiration of my own work.
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