Source: http://www.anseladams.com
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From what I have seen from and learned about Ansel Adams work, his most famous pictures are that of landscape pictures, of which capture the environment. A lot of his work is inclusive of depth as well, for they show images that appear ongoing, getting smaller and smaller, such as the example photograph above. I like Adams' work due to the fact that it is very creative and quite unlike any other photographer I have come across, especially in terms of the locations of his shoots and the many formal elements that can be found within his work.
Name: Annie Liebovitz
Source: http://www.biography.com/people/annie-leibovitz-9542372
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Annie Liebovitz is famous for her portraits of celebrities, particularly those that have a place in the Vanity Fair magazine. Her most famous work may be argued to be that of Yoko Ono with her husband, John Lennon on the day of his death. Many of her portraits include people wearing a significantly small amount of clothing. Form could be linked to the style of work that she has created, due to the positioning of some of the celebrities to make them look three dimensional on the photograph.
Name: Yousef Karsh
Source: http://www.karsh.org
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Yousef Karsh is also famous for his portraits of celebrities, or well known people such as Queen Elizabeth III. I am not particularly fond of these photos, for I think they are uninteresting and lack excitement. However, many are fond of his work due to the use of tone. For example, dark and light colours are evident within this black and white photo. Portraiture is not my favourite topic, meaning that I don't take an interest in the majority of Yousef Karsh's work unfortunately, but I could understand why other people like it.
Name: Henri Cartier-Bresson
Source: http://www.biography.com/people/henri-cartier-bresson-9240139
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I can see from the photo above that Henri Cartier-Bresson is interested in different styles of photography, including blurred photography. Henri has taken many photos that portray movement, however, some of his work includes still images of people/locations. I like this style of photography, for movement is difficult to capture in a photo, and he has managed to do it many times.
Name: Brian Duffy
Source: http://www.duffyphotographer.com
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Brian Duffy has used colour effects in much of his work, and as seen by the photo above, uses vibrant colours to allow something to be focused on in a photo. I like this type of work because it is evident that some effort goes into it to make it both vibrantly coloured and noticeably plain. Shapes can also be seen in the photo above, also to draw the attention of the viewer of the photo.
Name: Dorothea Lange
Source: http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/lange/
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Dorothea Lange is famous for taking memorable photographs of the Great Depression. The one shown above is possibly her most famous photo. It is evident that tone has been used to grasp the emotions shown within the picture, for everything looks dull and pale with no sign of any vibrancy or bright colours. I like this style of photo because I think it's fascinating that, with skill, emotions are able to become evident in photographs.
Name: Brassai (Gyula Halasz)
Source: http://www.atgetphotography.com/The-Photographers/BRASSAI.html
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Gyula Halasz, commonly known by his nickname 'Brassai', is famous for his work on portraits of people and photographs of empty streets, such as the one above. Many of his photos portraying streets include lines, curved or straight. This seems to be a regular theme of his, judging by his other photographs. I actually like these photographs to a great extent due to their simplicity, which in my opinion has worked very much in his favour.
Name: Robert Capa
Source: http://www.pbs.org/weta/reportingamericaatwar/reporters/capa/photo1.html
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Robert Capa is known for his photographs of war, especially World War II. Many of his photos are blurred which is effective, because it shows action and movement. He said 'If your picture isn't good enough, you’re not close enough', meaning he thought photographs were at their best when they're able to capture action close up. I can see why many people are fond of his work, but I am not particularly partial to it, due to the lack of colour.
Name: Jay Maisel
Source: http://www.jaymaisel.com/recent-work/
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Jay Maisel is a modern photographer, unlike the majority of photographers in this research log, so many of his pictures have been taken with colour. There are photographs, like the one above, that consist of many shapes. Maisel has used shapes in his work to create his desired effect. I like this work, because there are many aspects of each photograph that are unique, and even after looking at them for a while, you begin to notice new things within them.
Name: Jerry Uelsman
Source: http://www.uelsmann.net/
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Jerry Uelsman is famous for his surreal forms of photography. A lot of his photographs include patterns and reflection, such as the one above. Unlike the other photographers in my research log, Jerry Uelsman uses special effects to the extent that they're noticeable on his photographs. I like this style of photography, due to it's uniqueness and the aspects of it that make it differ from many other styles of photography from various other photographers.
Name: Man Ray
Source: http://indiandigitalartists.com/portrait-photography/most-famous-portrait-photographers/
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Man Ray is famous for his work on portraying form and movement, such as in the photograph of the woman shown above. I particularly like this artist and photograph due to the fact that they've managed to portray movement using no colour whatsoever, which can be difficult. I also like that the images are somewhat frightening or creepy, adding to the emotions emitted from this style of photography.
Name: Diane Arbus
Source: http://famous-photographers.com/
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Diane Arbus is actually famous for taking photographs of "freaks". The picture above can be described as slightly freaky, for there are two identical people dressed in exactly the same way, with the same mannerisms. I would describe her work as both surreal and normal, due to the fact that the people that she has taken pictures of aren't the stereotypical normal person, but the ways in which she has taken them would suggest otherwise, for they have not been taken in any other specific way to change how they should be portrayed.
Name: Imogen Cunningham
Source: http://www.imogencunningham.com
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Form is the formal element evident within most of Imogen Cunningham's work, which has been described on her official website as 'botanical photography, nudes and industrial landscapes.' Shapes are also evident within a lot of Cunningham's photographs, and they all tend to be rather close up to an object or individual.
Name: Andreas Gursky
Source: http://whitecube.com/artists/andreas_gursky/
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Comments: Andreas Gursky has the formal element of colour present in a large variety of photographs that he has taken, such as the one above. Also, depth can be an example of another formal element that has been used by Gursky not only in the photograph I have provided, but also in many specific photographs by him as well.
Name: David Bailey
Source: http://www.vogue.co.uk/person/david-bailey
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Comments: David Bailey uses formal elements such as form and lines in his photography and he commonly uses black and white effects in his photography. I am partial to the style of photograph that Bailey has decided to take in his career, so I do appreciate why many other people may enjoy this particular style.
Name: William de Wiveleslie Abney.
Source: http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/photographer/William_de_Wiveleslie_Abney/A/
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Comments: The majority of William de Wiveleslie Abney photographs were in sepia and the main subject of which his photographers were of was architecture. I like his work as he mainly focused on he lines and the depth of the photograph.
Name: Edward Weston
Source: http://www.edward-weston.com
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Comments: Edward Weston's work would be useful when looking at the formal elements of tone and form as it is apparent from all of his photographs that he takes these formal elements into great consideration. It has been described as unusual by many people, and even somewhat unnerving. I personally dislike this type of work, for I simply do not understand the message it is trying to give across.
Name: Sam Taylor-Johnson
Source: http://samtaylorjohnson.com/
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Comments: Sam Taylor-Johnson seems to use the formal element of form a lot in their work, which has worked out quite successfully, evidently, due to the fact that Taylor-Johnson has benefited largely in terms of money. Colour can also be a formal element that describes what she appears to be interested in in photography. I think that this photographer is an example of someone I would like to be influenced by in future work.
Name: Luigi Bussolati
Source: http://www.luigibussolati.com/
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Again, colour is the evident formal element used within a large variety of Luigi Bussolati's photography. In the photo example above, I can see that Luigi Bussolati also uses the effect of lighting very seriously within his work, for the room that the sculpture has had a picture taken in has darkened significantly, yet the sculpture itself is quite light. Colour features heavily in the example photograph above, specifically a dark shade of blue.
Name: Erik Johansson
Source: http://erikjohanssonphoto.com/
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Comments: Erik Johannson is one of many photographers that use surreal editing to their advantage. Obviously pictures like the one shown above cannot be taken in actuality, so Johannson is not being discreet in editing the photographs he takes, which, again, is not an unpopular style of photography to choose to undertake. I also really like the fact that reflection features in this photograph, for you can see that the subject of this photograph is taking a picture of themselves within the reflection of the orb they are wearing.-
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