This is my second part of research and time is now my enemy...is nearly Christmas...and I have still 5 artists left, which is a lot considering that in the mean time, children is out of school and all this festive holidays...no time left at all....so I will be writing this all as a draft and hopefully will post it before I return to collage...
But enough about me and my time limit...beck to research...
But enough about me and my time limit...beck to research...
Looking through Google I sadly realized that no more women are in this profession. Like always all fame goes to a man kind...so I wanted to find some female artist, which wasn't easy.....finally I get help from list of famous photographers, what I get in college. Going through all female names...only one really stand out for me and that's why I decided to outline her name in my research.
HELEN SEAR
Helen Sear was born in 1955 in the UK and studied Fine Art at Reading University and the Slade School of Art London. She has exhibited extensively both in the UK and abroad using video, photography and digital media.
H.Sear explore ideas of vision, touch, and the re-presentation of the nature of experience, combining drawing, lens based media and digital technologies. Her photographic practice has developed from a Fine Art background of performance, film and installation work made in the 1980’s and than became widely known in the 1991 British Council exhibition, De-Composition: Constructed Photography in Britain, which toured Latin America and Eastern Europe.
H.Sear explore ideas of vision, touch, and the re-presentation of the nature of experience, combining drawing, lens based media and digital technologies. Her photographic practice has developed from a Fine Art background of performance, film and installation work made in the 1980’s and than became widely known in the 1991 British Council exhibition, De-Composition: Constructed Photography in Britain, which toured Latin America and Eastern Europe.
Is something about her work what draw my attention immediately ..as a person who loves art I cant help my self notice how close H.Sear`s images is to a paintings...well for me anyway. She constructs and manipulates different visual perspectives... The majority of her works are large-scale prints which seduce the viewer with their intense colours and the lush materiality of the surface of the photographic image. The two main themes I liked the most...."Hidden Women or (Beyond The View)" and "Inside The View".
"Hidden Women"
"Hidden Women"
"Inside The View"
"Inside The View"
I personally find these pictures magic...there is something what make me think about unreal, and how its even possible to create that. As I read relationships between nature and culture, mythology and technology have been at the forefront of Helen’s art practice over the last 25 years, so I not surprised that her work is truly represents it.
"Inside The View"
"...landscapes and figures, two separate photographs are superimposed, the image behind appearing to float as a net or veil on the surface by a process of hand drawing/erasing in the computer. One photograph depicts the back of a head, the other a landscape both taken in different locations and reconstructed within a single image...."
"Beyond The View"
As she constructs and manipulates different visual perspectives, H.Sear intervenes in the process of looking. She presents layers of different viewing distances with dynamic perspectives combined as if by magic into a single field of vision. She is given me some ideas about my own work as well, what will help me with my image manipulation assessment. Anyone who wants take a closer look of H.Sears works, can go to a link below or visit some of her work collection places:
Ernst & Young, Victoria & Albert Museum, Arts Council of Great Britain, British Telecom, Unilever, Manfred Heiting (Germany), Bupa, Tetrapak, Department of Trade & Industry, British Council (Rome), Virgin Communications Collection, Texaco Collection, Paul Wilson Collection, Reader's Digest Collection, British Council (London), south Glamorgan County Council.
I am not sure are any of the works is for sale...I would like to buy one...or at least create something similar my own...
SUE BISHOP
Sue Bishop is a photographer specializing in flower and landscape photography. She sells prints and greetings cards, and is a author of various books about flower photography. Once spending some my time in library I came across one of her books:
- great work, with lots of beautiful colour images an useful information. Covering all the practical skills and aesthetic considerations involved in photographing flowers, this book explores: technical matters, colour theory and artistic considerations. Like all women I adore flowers any kind and any season....and present them like S.Bishop does is one of my dreams from know...
Sue Bishop has been taking photographs for more than 20 years. Her work has sold round the world and has been exhibitions including the Mall Galleries and the Royal Horticultural Society in London.
S.Bishop has always found flowers to be the subject she returns to with a passion. Her sumptuous images blur the boundaries between photography and art, with an emphasis on colour and form that often creates and abstract composition.
I feel very bad because of winter...I would like to go out and try to make something like this....of course I have to buy some macro lens first, like I read - it is the main tool of S.Bishop... to get one to one magnification. Luckily I have telephoto lens which I can set on macro and my photo camera Nikon D3000 has ability to customize images with different filter tools, so as a beginner I hope to get out in spring to realize some S.Bishops tips in practice.
When I start to write my research about photographers, I can get a point of this, now I know...to became I fine photographer you have to know and consider other photographer works, to take the best from it and create your own as a never seen original.
There below is one of my images created inspired by S.Bishop work.
/Manual,F 5.6, 1/5 sec, ISO 100, 300mm lens/
/I used a soft filter tool in my camera/
More from S.Bishop:http://www.suebishop.co.uk/
JOHN SHAW
As I continued my research in library I thought I should explore some close up photographers - (close up is my main theme of assessment -to pass this course) - so I came a cross with a one book what straight away catch my eye with a beautiful images. That was a " Closeups in Nature" by John Shaw.
Success in closeup photography, J.Shaw maintains, depends on control, and he advocates meticulous experimenting and testing of equipment and supplies before one attempts to photograph in the quickly changing, unpredictable conditions of the field.
I know, how hard is it to shoot something in, for example cloudy conditions, when light is changing every second....and your equipment is more basic than professional. I would say Shaw is an excellent teacher, - most of the available material on closeup photography concentrates on studio techniques, which can't be used effectively in the field. Discussing the basic technical considerations as they apply to outdoor closeup photography, Shaw covers exposure, equipment, and composition. Specific techniques and equipment applications include: extension tubes and bellows; macro lenses; internal focusing lenses; zoom lenses; supplementary lenses; flash; and lighting... The book is illustrated throughout with Shaw's fine, full-color images.
The last one...just leaf, but how simple but same time impressive image is that...it remains me one of my favorite image of a single feather which I took when I just start getting my head around all aperture and shutter speed stuff....
...and some other close ups, from autumn when outside was sunny and bright and was lots to capture ....
Of course I not compering my work to J.Shaw`s ...I have so much to learn, but still I think my images even if is not professional is not looking bad and considering all advice in this book they can get even better:).
John Shaw work is not only about closeups, he is a professional nature photographer since 1970, has been published in just about every place that uses natural history photos: Audubon, National Geographic, Smithsonian, National Wildlife, Nature's Best, etc. His photos have been used in many books. Advertising clients ,include Nikon, Fuji and Kodak from the film days, Epson, and a number of outdoor clothing/equipment companies.
J.Shaw has written/photographed six books plus his eBook on Photoshop (John Shaw'sPhotoshop Field Guide). He has been conducting seminars and workshops for many years and has lead tours worldwide for Joseph Van Os Photo Safaris.
J.Shaw has written/photographed six books plus his eBook on Photoshop (John Shaw'sPhotoshop Field Guide). He has been conducting seminars and workshops for many years and has lead tours worldwide for Joseph Van Os Photo Safaris.
The best from his work you can find on this website, www.johnshawphoto.com what is full of information and advise also with gorges, colorful images from around the world. This below probably is one of my favorite....I wish I can go places and capture something like this....
DAVID WARD
As always to find someone to write about I have to see actual work of that person...and that usually for me is a book...of course internet thees days is full of great material ...any kind you want, but for me is not enough ... I use it just as assistant...
Before Christmas holidays I went to the library and get same books for time out of college...not that I will have time to read them all, but still...what harm it can do...so one of them was full of outstanding landscape photographs by David Ward and I new it straight away this person should be in my research....
Before Christmas holidays I went to the library and get same books for time out of college...not that I will have time to read them all, but still...what harm it can do...so one of them was full of outstanding landscape photographs by David Ward and I new it straight away this person should be in my research....
I like landscape photography a lot....if I will make it till level II probably I will choose that as my theme for next assessment....and D.Ward is a perfect example how landscape photography should be.
David Ward is one of Britain's most notable landscape photographers..he has worked as a commercial photographer in advertising, design and publishing, but landscape remains his first love. He has traveled and photographed throughout the UK, in the Canadian Rockies, the Colorado Plateau, Iceland, France and many other locations....in search of that special moment to immortalize it.
David Ward's camera looks deep into the landscape; revealing texture, detail, rhythm and subtleties that most of us miss.
/Joe Cornish/
/Joe Cornish/
...and it so truth...he has this special way to capture landscape around him....lots of the images is taken very close to show the best bits of scenery....
Last one is probably my favorite...just look how simple it is...nothing much, just rusty fence and grass....most of us will just pass by don't even notice, but D.Ward make most of it ...I adore this man, he have this special way of seeing things and everyone who is interested in landscape photography have lots to learn from him. More from D.Ward you can find on -
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I finally came to the end of my research....I proud of myself...even if its not the best ...is certainly my first that kind of work, so forgive me me if information wasn't so complete or other spelling errors appear. I am glad I did this...it help me to get to know so many interesting people, and lots of information what I gain from this will help improve my photographer skills for future.........The last part of my research I wanted to dedicate one of the old masters of photography, who touched my hart with incredible Paris photographs....
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Brassaï
Like all girl I love Paris...I never been there, but I will....and I will make most of my trip that's for sure...I seen lots of Paris photographs in the past, but way like Brassai presents them is out of any contest....maybe it is the feeling of that time...or his talent ...I don't know, but all the images, specially from the night series is stunning (for me anyway).
Brassai (9.September 1899 – 8.July 1984) was a Hungarian photographer, sculptor, and filmmaker who rose to international fame in France in the 20th century. He was one of the numerous Hungarian artists who flourished in Paris beginning between the World Wars.
As a young man, he studied painting and sculpture in the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. Later he became a journalist, coming to Paris in 1918, where he fell in love with the city and with the camera....who can blame him....
Brassai sees Paris as a subject of infinite grandeur, his photographs providing a sensitive and often extremely dramatic exploration of its people, its resplendent avenues, and endlessly intriguing byways. Brassai’s reputation was established with the publication of his first book, Paris at Night, now a modern classic, and one of my favorites. Some of the pictures in this book are sharply defined, while others capture the mistiness of rainy nights and shadowy life of the underworld.
As a young man, he studied painting and sculpture in the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. Later he became a journalist, coming to Paris in 1918, where he fell in love with the city and with the camera....who can blame him....
Brassai sees Paris as a subject of infinite grandeur, his photographs providing a sensitive and often extremely dramatic exploration of its people, its resplendent avenues, and endlessly intriguing byways. Brassai’s reputation was established with the publication of his first book, Paris at Night, now a modern classic, and one of my favorites. Some of the pictures in this book are sharply defined, while others capture the mistiness of rainy nights and shadowy life of the underworld.
From old masters he is definitely my favorite....sometimes I think how it was possible in that time...when even photo film wasn't the best quality make something like this -beyond description -nice...I am always struggling with light, but don't forget that I am using digital camera...and I can always see what I am doing....what about Brassai, he captured all by instinct relay only on his talent and inspiration....Many of his works is still for sale, you can easily buy them online at:
He was really one of the greatest and I feel a bit sad knowing that darkroom printing is not so popular anymore, all thees days is done by computer, which is the easiest way...but does it really makes you a great photographer...I don't think so....
