Tanya Ho 301081195 CMNS 325_Image-Making Ecology A. Richard Avedon was born in New York on May 12, 1923 of Russian –Jewish immigrant parents. He started his career in 1944 as an advertising photographer for Merchant Marines. After being discovered by Alexey Brodovitch, the art director of Harper’s Bazaar, Avedon began taking photographs for the magazine in 1947. What makes his fashion photography different from other photographers is that he showed the models with emotions, laughing and sometimes in action. Although he first earned his reputation as a fashion photographer, his greatest achievement was his reinvention of the genre of photographic portraiture; his ability to capture and express the essence of his subject. The portraits are often well lit and in front of white backdrops, with no props to show the essential specificity of face, gaze, dress and gesture. When printed, the images always contain the dark contour of the film in which the images were framed. Apart from framing the great and the celebrities, Avedon reminds the world with the photographs of miners, unemployed people, drifters, farmers, cowboys, and convicts in In the American West (1985). Avedon shows the harshness of their everyday lives, their struggle for survival through his camera (“Richard Avedon”, n.d.). When looking into his work, I think he indeed shows the characteristics of the subjects in his mind but not what the subject trying to reveal in front of the camera. It is hard to demonstrate Avedon ‘s photography through Photoshop. Nevertheless, I
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Tanya Ho 301081195 CMNS 325_Image-Making Ecology
A. Richard Avedon
was born in New York on May 12, 1923 of
Russian –Jewish immigrant parents. He started his career
in 1944 as an advertising photographer for Merchant
Marines. After being discovered by Alexey Brodovitch,
the art director of Harper’s Bazaar, Avedon began taking photographs for the
magazine in 1947. What makes his fashion photography different from other
photographers is that he showed the models with emotions, laughing and sometimes
in action.
Although he first earned his reputation as a fashion photographer, his greatest
achievement was his reinvention of the genre of photographic portraiture; his ability
to capture and express the essence of his subject. The portraits are often well lit and in
front of white backdrops, with no props to show the essential specificity of face, gaze,
dress and gesture. When printed, the images always contain the dark contour of the
film in which the images were framed. Apart from framing the great and the
celebrities, Avedon reminds the world with the photographs of miners, unemployed
people, drifters, farmers, cowboys, and convicts in In the American West (1985).
Avedon shows the harshness of their everyday lives, their struggle for survival
through his camera (“Richard Avedon”, n.d.).
When looking into his work, I think he indeed shows the characteristics of the
subjects in his mind but not what the subject trying to reveal in front of the camera. It
is hard to demonstrate Avedon ‘s photography through Photoshop. Nevertheless, I
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choose to use my friend’s portrait without any props because I believe the picture
capture his real character with his well-known gaze amongst friends and as well as his
self-confident. I used photoshop to stand out the light contrast.
Photoshop tools used:
• Hue Saturation • Shadow/ Highlight
Robert Doisneau
was a French photographer born on the 14 April,
1912. He was one of France’s most popular and prolific
reportage photographers. He was known for his modest,
playful, and ironic images of amusing juxtapositions,
mingling social classes depicting the life in Paris. He takes photos of common people
in common situation. His most famous photograph Kiss by the Hotel de Ville (1950)
gives a good example of how he likes to practice photography with intuition. Many of
his photos taken from the end of World War II through the 1950’s have been turned
into calendars and postcards and have become icons of French life. Doisneau has been
the subject of major retrospective at the Bibliotecque Nationale in Paris, the Art
Institute of Chicago, George Eastman Hose and the Witkin Gallery, New York City
(“Robert Doisneau”, n.d.).
Since Doisneau loves to capture the unique moment he ever encounters in life.
I believe there is always a story behind the photos he took. Therefore I picked the
photos I took when I was in Whistler wandering. The little boy just learned how to
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walk can not resist the temptation of photochips. Again I do not think Doisneau’s
work can be mimic through Photoshop because his work is all about feeling and
intuition. Personally I do not think photoshop can do a great job in creating such
sensational photos without a good original film. The only thing they could do is to
embellish the subject and add effects to make the photos look nicer and strength the