Wednesday, November 24, 2010

5 points about 5 photographers

Lewis BaltzAmerican, born 1945
-Baltz graduated from San Francisco Art Institute in 1969 and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Claremont Graduate School.
- He received several scholarships and awards
-His entire work is focused on searching beauty in desolation and destruction.
-Baltz images describe the architecture of the human landscape, offices, factories, and parking lots.
- His pictures are the reflection of control, power, and influenced by and over human beings.






Gabriele Basilico
-Italian, born 1944
-best known documentary photographers in Europe
- cities and industrial landscapes are his fields of research.
- Originally an architect, he works as a photographer of architecture for publishing firms, industry, public and private institutions.
-he was awarded the first prize by I.N.U., National town-planning Institute, for his contribution to giving documents about contemporary cities through photography. 





David Burdeny
-(1968) Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada,
- David Burdeny has degrees in both Interior design and a Masters in Architecture.
-At the age of 12, David started to photograph the prairie landscape
-make his own black and white prints in a makeshift darkroom that also served as his bedroom closet.
- He uses unusually long exposures to see that which our eyes can not.
- Influenced by notable photographers such Michael Kenna,




Bruce Davidson

- born September 5, 1933 an American photographer
- At ten, Bruce Davidson began taking pictures, as he was given the freedom to wander the streets of Oak Park alone.
- he approached a local photographer who taught him technical nuances of photography, in addition to lighting and printing skills
-At sixteen, Davidson won his first major photography award, the Kodak National High School snapshot contest
-Bruce Davidson photographs people on an eye-to-eye level, portraying and inducing powerful emotion




Jongchul LEE



- born and raised in South Korea
-He studied  Photography at the New England School of Photography (2007).
-  Jongchul explores the interplay between self and surrounding
- He currently lives in New York City.
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