Frederick H. Evans

about him

Frederick H. Evans was a British photographer1853 – 1943  he was most known for his architectural subjects. He is best known for his images of English and French cathedrals. Evans began his career as a bookseller, but retired from that to become a full-time photographer in 1898, when he adopted the platinotype technique for his photography. He explored these stone monuments with a particular interest in spirituality and symbolism. Evans was a member of the Linked Ring, an association of photographers formed in England in 1892 to promote photography as a fine art.

why did he do photography?

Seeking respite from the health problems that he seems to have struggled with all his life, he traveled often to the Lake District in the north of England. The fresh air, stunning landscape, and breathtaking views were a tonic for mind and body. Numerous trips to local woodland areas in Surrey resulted in photographs of majestic trees that recalled the soaring columns of cathedrals

In 1911 Evans was commissioned byCountry Life magazine to document the abbey for the upcoming coronation of King George V. He did not record the actual ceremony, which took place June 22, but he was able to photograph the interior in the spring and again in late summer, after the event. I

 

how is his work relevant to my project?

why do i like his work?

 

Daniel Hewitt

Photograph of Robin Hood Gardens, London; part of my Geometry + Geology series of large format photographs exploring the formal and expressive affinities between Brutalist architecture and rock formations in Northern England.

About Hewitt

British born photographer, his career started in academic world studying philosophy, architecture and law. The interest in architectural design and aesthetics can be seen as still holding his interest in his photography work.

Why do I like his work?

I like his work because if the way that he manages to capture the sculptural shapes, light and shadow created by building structures, with his photographs are stripped to the minimum, flat grey pale skies, objects that are not part of the buildings excluded from the frame so that you focus on the buildings, the surroundings are empty spaces.   He captures the patterns, textures of the walls, windows, balconies and beams of buildings, the geometric shapes, shadows and reflections, this makes the viewer focus on the building subject, the abstract shapes they sometimes create. You are not be distracted by any other elements such as people or nature. The photograph of the South Bank theatre the angle he has taken makes the building look like a large ship coming straight at you.

The overall emptiness of living people adds to the mystery, it is as if there has been a disaster and mankind has been eradicated and only the buildings remain.

I also like his work because Hewitt takes many photographs in B&W which gives a timeless quality. The use of B&W also helps to remove any potential distractions that colour would introduce in the picture.

How is his work relevant to my project?

I believe that his work relates to my project of transport because I can use some of his techniques and ideas in my own work when photographing buildings associated with transport like stations, shelters or garages. The use of B&W making the picture look enduring and drawing in the eye helping the viewer to contemplate their own stories they see when looking at the photographs.

The urban cityscape contains buildings, in the city space many buildings are designed to have striking or impressive shapes. I need to try and ensure I capture the impression of these shapes within my photographs. Hewitt has a documentary style of photography, elements of this recording the facts is a style of approach I want to include in my photographs. I can try and use some of his framing techniques making sure that my pictures are not overfilled and complicated with distracting elements that could take your attention from the main focus.

 

http://creativepool.com/danielhewitt/projects

http://danielhewitt.com/

http://www.photofusion.org/member-daniel-hewitt/

Rut Blees Luxemburg

About Blees Luxemburg

Rut Blees Luxemburg was born in 1967 she is a German photographer. Blees Luxemburg studied photography at the London College of Communication, she then studied at the University of Westminster in London. Luxemburg is most known for taking photos of urban landscapes at night using a large format camera taking long exposures, exposing the film for several minutes at a time. The only light she uses in her pictures are from the street lights and the surrounding buildings.

What do I like about here work?

I like her work because of the way she captures strong and unnatural lighting within photographs creating an element of mystery within the photographss. I also like her work because of the different unique and interesting angles such as looking directly down from the tops of buildings, creating unusual perspective and views, making effective pictures that draw you in to find out more.

I particularly like the photograph of Cockfosters tube station caught in a reflection of a puddle. The quality of light and clarity of the reflection.

How is she relevant to my project?

I believe that Blees Luxemburg relates to my project because of the subject matter, the streets of London, she has managed to capture many aspects of transport. The quality of light that she has captured. I would like to try and emulate the colours. In her photographs the greens of fluorescent street lights and glow form the lamps is evident when photographing using colour film or digital camera that has not been balanced for strip lighting. Photographs of neglected places such as old underpasses, stair ways and passages which are commonly associated with transport.

Blees Luxemburg was commissioned by Transport for London in 2007 to produce a series of photographs Piccadilly’s Peccadilloes to celebrate 100 years of the Piccadilly line. The images in the series include details of the front of twelve London Underground stations on the Piccadilly line

References and web sites with interviews and more examples of Luxemburg’s work

https://www.theguardian.com/society/gallery/2009/mar/09/rut-blees-luxemburg-photography

http://www.mintmagazine.co.uk/art/an-interview-with-photographer-rut-blees-luxemburg/

http://www.photoforager.com/archives/rut-blees-luxemburg

https://art.tfl.gov.uk/projects/piccadillys-peccadilloes/

http://www.rutbleesluxemburg.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rut_Blees_Luxemburg

https://www.rca.ac.uk/more/staff/rut-blees-luxemburg/

 

photographers to investigate

Photographers to investigate, view their works and consider if they are an inflence in my FMP.

Simona Panzironi

I use only ambient light, with a large-format camera and an exposure of about 10 minutes. So once I’d set up the tripod, the camera did all the work of recording the scene.

Daniel Hewitt

Rut Blees Luxemburg

Albert Lévy

Albert Levy was a French photographer active in Europe and the United States. Most active in the 1880s and 1890s, he was a pioneer of architectural photography. Wikipedia

how dose he relate to my work?

 Frederick H. Evans

Died: June 24, 1943, London

Idris Khan – Photographer

Idris Khan was Born in Birmingham in 1978, Khan lives and works in London. Since completing his Master’s Degree at the Royal College of Art in London in 2004 he has shown internationally.

Khan’s works – in media including sculpture, painting and photography – rely on a continuous process of creating and erasing, or adding new layers whilst retaining traces of what has gone before. He is well known for his large-scale works in which techniques of layering are used to arrive at what might be considered the essence of an image, and to create something entirely new through repetition and superimposition.

Idris Khan   – Initial thoughts photos the B&W multi layered photographs are similar to Turner’s later swirling patterns of light paintings such as the Fighting Temeraire or Rain, Steam and Speed.

  

how dose his work relate to my project?

i believe that this photographer i relevant to my work of transport. this is because he has captured different ways in which to display movement. the idea and techniques used could also be used in some of my own work.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Idris+Khan&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjm5KG52-HPAhXhLMAKHaHcChsQ_AUICCgB&biw=1432&bih=767

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idris_Khan
• http://www.skny.com/artists/idris-khan
• https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/may/04/idris-khan-artist-interview-blurred-lines-photographs-sculpture
• http://www.victoria-miro.com/artists/14-idris-khan/
• http://www.saatchigallery.com/artists/idris_khan.htm
• https://www.artsy.net/artist/idris-khan
• https://fraenkelgallery.com/artists/idris-khan

Madame Peripetie fashion photographer

Madame Peripetie or Sylwana Zybura

Madam Peripetie, there is not much known about this phtotgrapher, she is a Polish photographer based in Germany

An unusual fashion photographer that has an unusual surreal approach to fashion and style photography. The models faces are often obscured by sculptured objects, the model is dressed in dramatic clothing and make-up. The model’s face and body is often hidden or disguised with the heavy use of make-up, wigs, body paint sculptures or prosthetics. The models also wear high conceptual fashion clothing.  Some of the models break with convention. they do not have the typical tall thin model body shape, but some models are larger

Madame Peripetie uses colour as part of the theme, combined with strong lighting. Often models are shot against a dark or black background.to provide stunning effects.

Click on these links to see more of Madame Peripetie’s works.

https://www.yatzer.com/if-it-can-be-imagined-it-exists-surreal-photography-madame-peripetie

http://ekstrakt.me/2013/06/madame-peripetie/

The surreal images make the viewer question what they are looking at, is the model, the clothes, a piece of conceptual art or a photographic composition.  I like the work becuase I believe it has all these elements.  The one thing that these photographs are not is predicable clothes fashion photographs.

 

Henri Cartier-Bresson

French born, a pioneer of photojournalism and the narrative photograph. Cartier-Bresson believed that a photograph should be a capture of the event, not altered in any way with photographic lamps, or dark room effects. Cartier-Bresson camera of choice was a Leica, which he used to capture the raw life of street photography.

The images of people are his major subject matter candid spontaneous photographs, some photographs the people look to be aware of the camera and some where the subjects are totally unaware of the camera and photographer is present.

The photographs of people doing things that makes the viewer wonder what or why are they doing what they are doing.  The viewer can make their own story around the photographic images.

SPAIN. Valencia Province. Alicante. 1933.

 

GB. London. Coronation of George VI. 12th May, 1937.

 

FRANCE. Marseille. 1932.

These photographs above raises questions:

What are the ladies doing, are they trying to do their nails or hair, and if so are they getting ready for a night out?  The houses in the background look slight run down, are the ladies from the houses, are they prostitutes?

The people holding the periscopes in the hope to see the King pass by.  The large number of people standing looking at the perisocpe has a familair look similar to the modern day selfie photographs that people take when something of significance happens.

why is the man liying down? Has he fallen asleep, is he drunk, was he attacked and knocked down.  His clothes are not as well tailored as the gentleman in the background.  Why is the well dressed man there?  There are many possible stories that the viewer can think are behind the photograph.

Web sites that contain his biography plus many examples of his work.

https://pro.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_10_VForm&ERID=24KL53ZMYN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Cartier-Bresson

http://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/967?locale=en

http://www.biography.com/people/henri-cartier-bresson-9240139

 

Robert Doisneau

Robert Doisneau was a French photographer born 1912, died 1994.  In the 1930s he used a Leica on the streets of Paris. He was a champion of humanist photography and with Henri Cartier-Bresson a pioneer of photojournalism.

Vitrine londonienne

The photograph shows a man in the water with a double base floating next to him.  The story has elements of curiosity, why is the man smiling back at the photograph, more curious is why is the man has a musical instruement floating next to him.  The viewer can invent many reasons why this might have happened.

Le Plongeur du Pont d’Iena . Paris. 1945

In the photograph you can see a man jumping into space. The viewer does not know why they are jumping, or if it’s safe. You assume they are jumping in to the water and the landing will be safe into deep water.  The story tells a s tory and lets the viewer decide on the possible outcome.

Web sites with biography and many examples of his work.

https://www.photographersgallery.com/by_artist.asp?id=201

http://www.robert-doisneau.com/en/portfolios/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Doisneau

https://www.photographersgallery.com/by_artist.asp?id=201

http://theartofphotography.tv/episodes/robert-doisneau/ (Video)

potrait photographers

 

Example of portraits in settings that form part of the overall composition.

Henrik Knudsen

Alexander Khokhlov – Photographer

Russian photographer.  His imagery is focused on creating and photographing optical illusions that trick the eye to confuse the 2D and the 3D.  Khokhlov collaborates with make-up artists that create works of art, and he takes carefully lit photographs that adds to the optical illusions.

The trickery can be seen in the series of very precise portraits.  The combination of make-up, lighting and portraiture has produced very strong graphic and transforming photographs.

The image on the left is similar shows the quality of the work I was trying to create in my final piece.

Examples where he has recreated famous artistic creations with people, and used portraits to create 2D cartoon characters.

More examples of his work can be seen

http://itcolossal.com/photographer-alexander-khokhlov/
http://www.alexanderkhokhlov.com/
http://www.demilked.com/weird-beauty-alexander-khokhlov/