Category: United States
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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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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,…