Author: lindamayoux
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John Schott
John Schott website The New Topographics His 20 images of motels show the buildings – mostly one-story with adjacent parking lots – located in comfortable surroundings, showing the relationship between the buildings and natural environment. They do not have the harsh angularity of many of the other images from the exhibition. Although the images suggest…
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Nicholas Nixon
Nicholas Nixon, born in 1947, is known for the ease and intimacy of his black and white large format photography. As well as being one of the photographers exhibiting in New Topographics, Nicholas Nixon’s subjects include schoolchildren and schools in and around Boston, people living along the Charles River near Boston and Cambridge as well as…
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Joe Deal
Joseph Maurice “Joe” Deal (August 12, 1947 – June 18, 2010) was an American photographer who specialized in depicting how the landscape was transformed by people. Google images Square format landscapes on the Great Plains. Biography Wikipedia Deal was born in Topeka, Kansas on August 12, 1947, and was raised in Albany, Missouri and St.…
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Lewis Baltz
Lewis Baltz (September 12, 1945 – November 22, 2014) was a visual artist and photographer who became an important figure in the New Topographics movement of the late 1970s. His work is focused on searching for beauty in desolation and destruction. Baltz’s images describe the architecture of the human landscape: offices, factories and parking lots. His pictures…
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Henry Wessel
Importance of acting on instinct. The first photographs are often the most interesting because they are new. The next ones become more laboured, and more like everyone else’s. Taking images from the vantage point of the car. Then stop and explore it more. ‘Think of the process as being receptive’ Photograph anything that takes…
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Patrick Shanahan
Patrick Shanahan examines the transition from one post-industrial space into a new kind of industry in his series Paradeisos (2005), which explores the creation of the Eden Project in Cornwall. Commencing in 1998, Shanahan’s photographs document the transformation of a redundant china quarry into one of the UK’s most celebrated tourist attractions. See the work at: http://www.ffotogallery.org/patrick-shanahan-–-paradeisos And more…
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Frank Gohlke
Google images Frank Gohlke’s website http://terrain.org/2011/interviews/interview-with-frank-gohlke/ Measure of Emptiness: Grain Elevators in the American Landscape ‘ I was frustrated by the discrepancy between the facts surrounding the grain elevators and the intensity of my emotional responses to the objects themselves…To me, the photographs I was making argued that there are deeper impulses lurking somewhere in…
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Joel Meyerowitz
Google Images for Aftermath Reflections on Ground Zero : BBC Documentary Compare with the way another photographer – a policeman John Bott whose health was seriously damaged by the photography work he did. Unlike Meyerowitz he did not profit from the photos he took. Discussion Exercise 3.3 ‘Late Photography Biography Wikipedia Joel Meyerowitz (born March 6,…
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Local History Cambridge
TASK This project is designed to develop your research skills. If you haven’t yet begun to generate some ideas for possible approaches to Assignment Three, then this exercise could be a good starting point. Using the internet, local library, museum or any other resources at your disposal, conduct a short investigation into a historical aspect of the area…
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Digital Printing
THE PIXEL: A FUNDAMENTAL UNIT OF DIGITAL IMAGES Every digital image consists of a fundamental small-scale descriptor: THE PIXEL, invented by combining the words “PICture ELement.” Each pixel contains a series of numbers which describe its color or intensity. The precision to which a pixel can specify color is called its bit or color depth.…