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The Night Continues

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Had A Wee Shot of Clean White.

This is Brian he’s usually so serious (as accountants usually are). I told him a really bad joke and he liked it. The difference a “nearly"smile makes.

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Lost and Found Final Image

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final 10 graded unit

The Lewis Dresser

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Exhibition Review - Part II

Linda McCartney

Somewhat eclipsed by the fame of her husband, Paul, and the Beatles, Linda McCartney (formerly Eastman) was a successful photographer, musician and entrepreneur in her own right. In 1967 she was named US Female Photographer of the Year, and in 1968 her portrait of Eric Clapton was the first cover of Rolling Stone magazine that was shot by a woman.  

'Retrospective' is a selection of Linda's images, spanning three decades, curated by Paul, Stella and Mary McCartney. The collection was showcased in the UK for the first time at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, here in Glasgow, displaying Linda's photographs of iconic stars and moments in music throughout the 1960s, alongside intimate, candid shots of her young family in and around their home in Argyll.

Sir Paul balancing on a fence, while his son leaps through the air. Mull of Kintyre, 1982 

In a gallery featuring over 250 iconic images by this prolific photographer, choosing just one was quite a challenge. The photograph above is compositionally really intriguing; it reminds me of that famous photograph of a man jumping over a puddle in Paris, by Henri Cartier-Bresson. It also reminds me of Philippe Halsman’s surreal portrait of Salvador Dali. The combination of light and shadow creates depth, and contrasting the pale grey sky with the deep black of the side of the building adds tension as well as leading the eye across the image. The fence that runs perpendicular to the building draws the eye into the centre, keeping the focus on the three main subjects.

Paul with his Daughter Mary. Scotland, 1970.

The tones in this image are what drew me to it initially; there's a warm, soft light illuminating Paul and Mary, most likely coming from the sun as it set. This theme of warmth is consistent in the fur on Paul's coat, as well as the deep browns of his jacket, hair and eyes. The intimate framing highlights the connection between the photographer and her subjects. It's a charming portrait that emits cosy, comforting vibes.

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Passport Photos

Tuesday the 27th of August, 2019

Today in our double studio class, we focused on passport portraits. This consisted of constructing a perfect passport approved portrait, which follows all the rules and regulations. Including: no glare from glasses, no smiling and no hair to be covering the face. 

This was not an easy task as laughing was obviously going to happen. Following every rule also posed a struggle as our dimensions were off and the camera was constantly being re-adjusted.

When I said I wanted to capture portraiture - this was not what I had in mind.

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Stanley Kubrick

Born on the 26th of July 1928 in Manhattan, New York, Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, screenwriter and producer who was often referred to as one of the most influential filmmakers in cinematic history. 

Kubrick attended William Howard Taft High School from 1941-1945. During that time he joined the school’s photographic club, which allowed him to photograph the school’s events in their magazine, and was then chosen to be the official school photographer.

While wandering the streets of the Bronx on April 12, 1945, he snapped a picture of a disheartened newsstand dealer who was surrounded by headlines reporting the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He then printed the picture in the home darkroom his dad built for him, to encourage his budding interest in photography, and made a sale the same afternoon to Look magazine who purchased the photograph for roughly $30.

Not able to gain admission to day classes at colleges in the mid-1940′s due to his poor academic record in high school, he briefly attended evening classes at the City College of New York before becoming an apprentice photographer for Look magazine in 1946. “A Short Story from a Movie Balcony” was his first published photo series, published on April 16, 1946. He later became a full-time staff photographer for Look magazine.

While working for Look, Kubrick completed more than 300 assignments and took over 27,000 photographs. His photographic essay “Prizefighter”, which was described by Kubrick biographer Vincent LoBrutto as the moment he came of age as a photojournalist, was published by Look on Jan 18, 1949. He later decided to translate this essay to the big screen resulting in his first directed film “Day at the Fight” released in 1951.

Kubrick produced at least eighteen films and directed sixteen before his death in his England home on March 7, 1999.

From photographic essay “Prizefighter”, 1948.

Life and Love on the New York City Subway, “Couple Sleeping in a Subway Car”, 1946.

“Dogs in a Convertible”, 1949.

“Shoe Shine Boy”, 1947.

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Seeing the light

5 current and Historical Portrait Photographers 

Historical

Richard Avedon 

Born in 1923, Photographer Richard Avedon was best known for his work in the fashion industry and for his clean and simple portraits. He worked for the Merchant Marines as a photographer, taking photos for identification. He then moved to fashion, working for Harper's Bazaar as well as Vogue, speaking up about how the models need to convey emotion and movement, a complete contrast from the normal stiff subjects the fashion industry are used to. One of his more ground breaking portraits of the model Twiggy boosted his career as well as his own showing the fashion industry that it doesn't always need to be the same boring old poses.

Annie Leibovitz

Leibovitz is a portrait photographer who in 1970 secured a job at Rolling Stone and went on to create a brand and distinct look for the company living up to the title of chief photographer. She began working for vanity fair in the early eighties, producing images that would be known as iconic and provocative in the future. Having also worked on high-profile advertising campaigns, Leibovitz's images have been showcased in several books and major exhibitions around the world. She is seen as one of the most innovative and iconic female photographers of her time. 

Phillipe Halsman

Dali’s Mustache

Dali Atomicus

Born in 1906 and died 1979, Halsman was ‘one of the top 10 greatest photographers of all time’ titled by his colleagues from the American Society of Magazine Photographers (ASMP), he started his career in Paris where he opened his own studio photographing famous artists such as André Gide, Marc Chagall, Le Corbusier and André Malraux shooting them using his own design of a twin-lens camera. In 1940 he moved to America for a intervention of Albert Einstein creating an iconic photo of the scientist. One of his main collections that he has created was over a thirty-seven year period with Salvador Dali which produced interesting images including ‘Dali’ s Atomicus’ and ‘Dali Mustache’. 

Diane Arbus

New York born photographer Diane Arbus is known for compelling often disturbing images of the not so normal population of that era. She started photography by taking advertisement photos with her husband for her parents business, however soon transitioned into commercial fashion photography for Harper’ s Bazarr, show Esquire, Glamour, The New York Times and Vogue. Although she loved the fashion industry it wasn't her passion so she stopped shooting commercial fashion and decided to concentrate on fine art fashion photography, through this Esquire published her first photo-essay and from there she started free-lancing and instructing making a living off the art she made, focusing more on the peculiar side of portraiture she shot more interesting people such as transvestites, nudists, ‘dwarfs’ and mentally and physically handicapped people.

Edward Steichen

Steichen is famous for his fashion photography within the 20s, He was approached to be chief photographer for Conde Nast which he then pursued for 15 years, however he had been an artist and photographer for a multitude of year before, within that period of time he met many people such as Clarence White and Alfred Stieglitz who have helped him through his career. During the early 1900 he directed aerial photography for the Army Expeditionary Forces, continuing with the forces after his leave from Conde Nast as he became a Lieutenant commander in 1942 and led a successful photographic institute.

Current

Steve McCurry

McCurry born in Philadelphia, after graduating he joined a newspaper for two years before venturing to India to do free lance sparking a interest for international countries and the conflict that stems between countries. After his images from the conflict going on inside Afghanistan (before the Russians invaded) came out he received a Robert Capa Gold Medal for Best Photographic reporting from abroad to congratulate him on his bravery. Steve McCurry has received numerous amounts of awards such as Magazine Photographer of the Year, awarded by the National Press Photographers Association and he has also won the Olivier Rebbot Award twice. McCurry focuses a lot on the human consequences of war as well as covering many civil conflicts around the world. His most famous image is of an Afghanistan girl which has been titled the most recognized photograph in the world today.

Jimmy Nelson

Nelson was born in  Kent in 1967, he goes by a photojournalist and photographer and is known for his tribal portraits and indigenous peoples. He started doing photography in 1987 and after spending a decade in a boarding school he decided he wanted to challenge himself, so he decided to travel across Tibet by foot, which lasted a year, and by his return the diary and photographs he produced showed part of Tibet that no one would of seen before, these were also published to international acclaims. After this break through he was commissioned to do a multitude of different controversial topics such as the Russian involvement in Afghanistan. Since 1997 Jimmy began to successfully take commercial advertising assignments with top brands, as well as accumulating unique cultures with his traditional 50-year-old plate camera. Jimmy decided he wanted to travel the world and show us what kind of cultures we’ve pushed to the side and ignored, he has seen so many cultures and tribes such as Goroka and Kalam in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, Tsaatan in the remote subarctic taiga of Mongolia and Mursi in Ethiopia these are only a small amount of where he has been.

Lisa Kristine

Lisa Kristine is an internationally recognized fine-art photographer, humanitarian, activist, and speaker. For more than 30 years she has documented indigenous cultures and social causes in more than 150 countries, meeting people and treating them like they've known each other for years even though they've never met. Lisa’s work has been shown in exhibitions and purchased for permanent collections in museums throughout the United States and other nations. The symbolism that flows through her work defines Lisa's beliefs that all human begins are equal and worth the same. Kristine uses the subjects emotions and enviroment to map out the image and spread awareness about serious subjects such as human trafficking. 

Jingna Zhang 

Zhang was born in Beijing and rasied in Singapore, she is a Fashion, Fine art photographer as well as director based in New York. She is influenced with love for the Pre-Raphaelites and Japanese anime, she also mixes Asian asthetics with western art styles and creates a beautiful mix that compliments each other. Jingna’s works have appeared on multiple editions of Vogue, Elle, and Harper’s Bazaar. Her clients include Mercedes Benz, Montblanc, and Lancome. Jingna’s fine art works have exhibited at Leica Gallery Milan, Tsinghua University, and Japan Creative Centre in Singapore, and she has spoken at Laguna College of Art and Design, Monterrey Institute of Technology, and Square Enix. 

Manny Librodo

Manny was Born in 1964 in Lambunao, Iloilo, Philippines, he graduated and became a high school teacher before becoming a photographer. However, now he is a extremely popular portrait photographer know for being highly decorated and very popular within the photographer community. His work has been seen in Asian geographic and calendars for UNICEF, apart from actually taking the photos he is a high-sought photography mentor as he has amazing technical skills and is so well adapt to photography as he has been all over the world collecting information that he can then pass on to other to give them knowledge.