Friday 9 January 2009
Stepping back, people using the photographic space
Photographers who are often inspired by painters from the 1700's are often have a tendency to take those extra five steps away from their subjects, without losing any of the intimacy with them. Most famously is perhaps David Lachapelle, who with the exception of maybe two of his images always show the entire person and in most cases several people in one shot to make it what it is.
Today we'd like to bring you two other artists who work in a somewhat similar fashion. Jeff Wall and Gregory Crewdson.
First up is Gregory Crewdson:
And secondly Jeff Wall:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Wall
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Crewdson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_lachapelle
Thursday 8 January 2009
Film photographers
Painted Land
Gutpintér Tamás
All photograpes are Copyright © their respective photographers and are used without permission.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_film
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holga
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_camera
Monday 5 January 2009
Rebekka of Iceland
Icelandic photography is often recognized by open, cold landscapes, often set next to horses, abandoned buildings (or eyðibýli), waterfalls or Coke machines in the middle of the harsh land.
Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir is no different, infact she is the leading web based resource for this type of photography for the last few years. Her mix of self portraits, landscape photography, animal photography and other portraits show what you could excpect from someone from a country such as Iceland. The skin tones in her portraits cold like the landscape, yet the feeling of warmth vibrating from her pictures like the hot springs found around Iceland.
All images Copyright © Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir, and used without permission.
http://www.facebook.com/s.php?k=100000080&id=570871914&sid=8b141de36fd420a49eeab1592cd40450
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rebba
http://www.myspace.com/rebekka78
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebekka_Gu%C3%B0leifsd%C3%B3ttir