Jan Groover
Jan Groover was born April 24th 1943 and passed away on January 1st 2012. During her life, the American photographer won many awards. She was noted for her use of emerging colour technologies. In 1979, she began to use platinum prints for portraits and to transform everyday items into formal still lifes. Her art was shown in many museums. She later moved to France in 1991 and shifted her work from still life photographs of everyday objects to including landscapes, churches and graveyards
magnified fruit-Suzanne Saroff
the glasses of water are used to magnify the fruits
Andres Kertez
Andres Kertez was born into a middle class family in Hungary 1894. Andres Kertez developed a passion for photography during his military service within the Austro-Hungarian army. Simple in subject matter, a fork rests against a bowl placed on a table, while Kertez focuses on the formal composition of the photograph
Edward Weston
Ink in water (2nd response)
This was my second attempt which I feel was much better than my first. I used ink instead of food colouring and I poured a lot of ink which allowed the colours to come out really well and look very strong and vibrant. I also used shutter speed.
Chad Pitman
Lockdown sculpture
Luke Stephenson
Luke Stephenson specialises in photographing birds, beards, ice cream vans and clown eggs.
David Hockney
David Hockney is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century and has been voted as the greatest artist before.In the early 1980s, Hockney began to produce photo collages—which in his early explorations within his personal photo albums he referred to as "joiners" first using Polaroid prints and subsequently 35mm, commercially processed colour prints.
Creation of the "joiners" occurred accidentally. He noticed in the late sixties that photographers were using cameras with wide-angle lenses. He did not like these photographs because they looked somewhat distorted. While working on a painting of a living room and terrace in Los Angeles, he took Polaroid shots of the living room and glued them together, not intending for them to be a composition on their own.
Creation of the "joiners" occurred accidentally. He noticed in the late sixties that photographers were using cameras with wide-angle lenses. He did not like these photographs because they looked somewhat distorted. While working on a painting of a living room and terrace in Los Angeles, he took Polaroid shots of the living room and glued them together, not intending for them to be a composition on their own.
reflection of a person
Sharon Radisch is a fashion, still life and interiors photographer. Over lockdown, she created sculptures.
Ordinary to extraordinary ( Edward Weston, Andre Kertesz and Luke Stephenson)
Andresz Kertesz born 1894 was a Hungarian photographer, recognised for his ground breaking contributions to photographic coposition. In the early years of his career, he used unorthodox camera angles which unfortunately prevented him from being a popular photographer. It was only after he died, that he gained the recognition he wanted and deserved.
My plans: For this task i am going to photograph objects (with a shadow), preferably old. I will then convert them to black and white. There will be 7 of these pictures
I believe that the use of black and white really shapes these images. They becomes something completely different from what they once were.
Distorted images ( Andre Kertesz)
Camera settings: 100 ISO, F5.0, AV