Stephen Shore

Stephen Shore is an American Photographer that was born in 1947. He is renowned for his work with color. He is best known for his documentation of America by road. Many of his photographs show a stark and shocking america because of the often times simple oddness of the images he uses. 

Shore begin taking pictures with a 35mm camera when he was 9 years old. Shore was the second living photographer to has a show in the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art he was 24 years old. The quality of color in his works is striking and has a surreal feel. He also frames his photographs in a way that is not common. His perspective is very unique. Here are a few pictures of his that stand out to me.

Interstate carnage

I saw this coming back from SF. I always like seeing things burning but its kind of fucked up because some people probably died.

The heat was scalding even from like 50 yards away, it hurt my face to tke this picture with the window rolled down.

Accidents are always interesting because as a photographer its largely chance when you happen upon them and then its challenging to be able to capture them.

Edward Burtynsky- Is one of the more famous canadian photographers. He was born in 1955 in ontario and is Ukrainian in heritage. Through his photography he captures the connection between industry and nature. Most of his photographs are large in scale and have a message that is open ended yet at the same time very present. He shows what most people in western culture don't see yet contribute to, both success  and affluence of material things and the the bio products of creating these things. He main uses large format 4x5 camera to capture his images.

"AMARC #5, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tuscon Arizona, USA, 2006"

"Oil Spill #5"

His images are spacious, empty, and have an extra terrestrial quality to them.  He shows us what we have created and yet never seen- the bi-product of consumption. Even though many of his photographs show environmental disasters they bring out a certian melancholy beauty. 

Colors and contrast are always very noticeable in his images weather they are subtle or bold they are present and very precise.

Jerry Uelsmann was born in 1934. He begin doing photography at age 14. He Is known for his surreal and abstract photographs. He mainly works with film creating photo montages which he was one of the innovators in this form of photography. He likes to combine nature and human elements together in one image. He has been creating photography for the past fifty years.

His work is like a weaving of the human and nature and through images neither seems opposing one another they seem to blend and organic even when they image is strange.

His work is almost solely black and white. So of his images give the feeling of entering another world maybe as though taking images from dreams. Although his photographs are black and white they neither seem to be futuristic or old fashion they instead have a timeless quality to them.

Uelsmann uses the female body a lot and seems that he is expressing the link between nature and feminine and the beauty that exist in the natural world as well as in the female body.