Stepping back, people using the photographic space

A lot of photographers fill their entire frame with just a persons face or eyes and tell us the eyes says everything about the person. This is wrong. The eyes tell us NOTHING about the person. Charles Manson has beautiful eyes, Osama Bin Laden has huge puppy eyes, ever noticed that? Does that tell you something about him? No, he's the leader of a huge terrorist network.

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

Film photographers

Although everyone might not be aware of the magnitude of which film is still alive to day the fact is that it is very much still alive. We have the playful photographers donning simple Holga Cameras, Diana Cameras and other cheap film-based models. We have the film enthusiast, who's just not given up on film just yet and stick with their old compact camera with 35mm film in it, them and the elderly people who's just not made the change. We have the art photographer who wants to make huge prints with no grain. We have the people who's given digital photography a try and not liked it, who's discovered that even with the newest and most expensive Hasselblad cameras you still cant get the three-dimensional feeling you get with film. Now wether this is due to the fact that ... film is made up from silver particles and particles usually are round, making edges more soft yet hard, or wether its just elitist film propaganda, is uncertain. What is certain tho is film is still very much alive and kicking.


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