Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Martin Schoeller Master Photographer

Martin Schoeller Is My FAVORITE Portrait Photographer. Portrait Is Definatly My Favorite Style Of Photography!








Martin Schoeller is a New York photographer whose style is similar of all subjects whether they are celebrities or unknown. His most recognizable work are his portraits, shot with similar lighting, backdrop, and tone. His work appears in The New Yorker, Outside Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, GQ, Esquire, and Vogue. He was born in Munich Germany on March 12, 1968. Married to a women named Helen Rutman Schoeller, who is a graphic designer. Schoeller studied photography at Lette Verein in Berlin. He came to New York in 1993 and worked as an assistant for Annie Leibovitz from 1993 to 1996. He left in 1996 to pursue his freelancing career. Schoeller has been a contributing photographer to New Yorker since 1999. A book of his portraits was published by teNeues in 2005: "Close Up: Portraits 1998-2005". Another, "Female Bodybuilders," was published by Pond Press in 2008. Stern published a portfolio of his work, "Fotographie Portfolio #54", also in 2008. Schoeller's influences include photographers August Sander, Bernd Becher, and Hilla Becher. His work is in the Permanent Collection of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.

http://martinschoeller.com/

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Artwork.-Jesse Ray









My Theme For This Blog Post Is Art. Some Of These Peices I Did And Some Of Them Other People Did. What Makes This Different Is I Took Pictures With My Camera Than I Uploaded Them To My iPhone And Than Used Instagram To Edit Them. It Gives Them A Different Look Than My Other Photos.

Thursday, March 29, 2012

André Kertész -- Master Photographer

André Kertész


André Kertész was born on July 2nd, 1894 and died the 28th of september, 1985. Kertész was a Hungarian-born photographer known for his photographic composition and his photo essay. In the early years of his career his techniques and camera angles were preventing him from being recognized. Kertész never felt that he had gained the worldwide recognition he deserved. Today he is considered one of the seminal figures of photojournalism. Kertész pursued photography independently, his early work was published primarily in magazines; which was a huge market back than. This continued until much later in his life, when Kertész stopped accepting commissions. He served briefly in World War I and moved to Paris in 1925. In Paris he worked for France's first illustrated magazine called VU. Involved with many young immigrant artists he became a huge commercial success. Due to German persecution of the Jews and the threat of World War II, Kertész decided to emigrate to the United States in 1936, where he had to rebuild his reputation through commissioned work. In the 1940s and 1950s, he stopped working for magazines and began to achieve greater international success. His career is generally divided into four periods, based on where he was working and his work was most prominently known. They are called the Hungarian period, the French period, the American period and, toward the end of his life, the International period.


This is A SX-70 ( A VERY Similar Camera Kertesz Used )

Tender Touch


Wandering Violinist

Feeding the Ducks



Over all his photography seems very "in the moment" none of them are staged. He catches people in the act of their everyday lives.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Ohlhauser.





I Wanted A Modern A Black & White Portrait Look. In My Head I Had A Vision Of Her With The Heart On Her Back, So I Painted It On Her And Did Kind Of A No Face Picture. The Diamonds On Her Eye Were To Give The Pictures A Wonder About The Picture. They Make You Want To Know A Story.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Irving Penn Photographer # 1




Irving Penn was born on June 16th, 1917 in Plainfield, New Jersey. His parents Harry and Sonia Penn. From 1934 to 1938 he attended the Philadelphia Museum and School of Industrial Art. He studied drawing, painting and industrial arts. He died at age 92 on October 7th, 2009 at his home in Manhattan. In 1950, he married his favorite model, Lisa Fonssagrives. They met at a photo shoot in 1947 and had one son together. Penn photographed still life objects and found objects in unusual arrangements and great quality. His photographs were so "futuristic" they would not be released to the public until months later. For example, he did a series of posed nudes whose physical shapes range from thin to plump and were shot in 1949-1950, but were not exhibited until 1980. His still lifes are skillfully arranged of food or objects; at once spare and highly organized, the objects articulate the abstract interplay of line and volume.
His portrait photographs are my favorite because thats the kind of photography i like to shoot. these are some of my favorites.