Category Archives: Photographers

In researching Rineke Dijkstra I came across an interesting article on the Hyperallergic web site by Alissa Guzman reviewing the retrospective at the Guggenheim. Link: Rineke Dijkstra: Contemporary Photographer or Old Master? The article compares some of her portraits to … Continue reading →

Go online and research the work of Eadweard Muybridge, Duane Michals, Keith Arnatt, John Hilliard and Ed Ruscha’s Every Building on Sunset Strip.  An interesting group of photographers to see the variety and diversity of subject matter , interpretation and … Continue reading →

Research point Take a look at Gerhard Richter’s Atlas: http://www.gerhard-richter.com/art/atlas/ You’ll see that Richter has placed together multiple images of a similar subject – a particular colour in the sky, similar types of buildings, trees and types of portrait. I … Continue reading →

My tutor suggested I look at the work of two photographers Jane Bown and Yosef Karsh. Both have produced great portraits but from very different disciplines and for different purpose. Yousef Karsh (1908 – 2002) Yousef Karsh was born in … Continue reading →

As part of my research for the Near and far exercise I have looked at the work of Kevin Carter and in particular his Pullizer award picture “Sudan 1993”. It is a most disturbing picture showing a starving African girl in … Continue reading →

Karl Blossfeldt produced his botanical images as part of his teaching aids and not as pieces of artwork in its own right. Before the advent of photography botanical art was practiced either by botanists themselves to faithfully reproduce the details … Continue reading →

Look online at the cityscapes of Gabriele Basilico. Notice the smooth quality of light, the sense of space and the way architecture is sometimes turned into sculpture, with its shape and form emphasised. A trained architect Gabriele Bassilico has a … Continue reading →