Critical Inquiry
Introduction
Edward Burtynsky is landscape photographer who focuses on finding unique locations that are barren with environmental degradation. He is concerned with the current state of our world and wants to change it by using photography as a medium. Burtynsky 's photolistic style often shows incredible scale and detail within his photos by using multiple vantage points. Burtynsky approaches his subject in a very urgent manner, each and every photo is taken to create a deep impression from its viewer. His work is housed in more than 50 museums including the Guggenheim Museum, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
Petar Gassar is famous for his ability to capture amazing landscape photos,
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In most of his projects Burtynsky shies away from taking black and white photographs, he frequently chooses high contrast photos with deep saturated colors, this interestingly changes the photo to show amazing shapes and patterns. While only utilizing the natural light in photos, he is able to time his shot to capture the best aesthetically pleasing light for the photo. On the contrary Gassar stays true to low color scale, high contrast, black and white photography. This specific style sets the mood for most of his work, creating a dark and sad undertone. Being a landscape photographer Gassar also utilizes natural light for all of his photographs. The work from both artists are commonly framed to focus solely on the main subject, and are scaled into tremendous form in part to provide greater range of detail and …show more content…
Persuading viewers to think about their actions as to how they can improve this dilemma. Burtynsky 's projects have completely flipped my perspective of how humans consume the resources around them, slowly collapsing from our own demise. It made me want to change my lifestyle choices to help better and slow environmental change.
Summary
Edward Burtynsky is an incredibly talented photographer who is able to create pieces of art from a troubling and sensitive subject. All the photos show his expertise in his equipment, as well as his knowledge of how to take monumental, awe inspiring photographs. He is able to express the delicate mix and balance between mankind and nature. It is refreshing to see a photographer who has a clear and specific subject that matters to them.
Peter Gasar one of the great Swiss photographers demonstrates a photolytic style that sits amongst the leagues of the best landscape photographers in history, such as Galen Rowell and Ansel Adams. He has an ability to create amazing intricate photos out of nothing. The only thing I wish he had was a firmer grip on the subjects he
For my museum selection I decided to attend Texas State University’s Wittliff Collection. When I arrived, there was no one else there besides me and the librarian. To be honest, I probably would have never gone to an art museum if my teacher didn’t require me to. This was my first time attending the Wittliff Collection, thus I asked the librarian, “Is there any other artwork besides Southwestern and Mexican photography?” She answered, “No, the Wittliff is known only for Southwestern and Mexican photography.” I smiled with a sense of embarrassment and continued to view the different photos. As I walked through Wittliff, I became overwhelmed with all of the different types of photography. There were so many amazing pieces that it became difficult to select which one to write about. However, I finally managed to choose three unique photography pieces by Alinka Echeverria, Geoff Winningham, and Keith Carter.
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Johnson, Brooks. Photography Speaks: 150 Photographers on their Art.” New York: Aperture Foundation Inc., 2004. Print.
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Inspiration The world has many photographers that anyone can look at. You can call me an amateur or say I don’t really understand the art, but when I look at most of the pictures available, and I have looked at thousands lately, I don’t see anything different in the style of photography. I just saw the pictures. I see pictures of beautiful subjects and pictures of ugly subjects. I never really thought about the difference between being the photographer instead of the subject, until I saw Elliott Erwitt.
She starts by bringing a pessimistic view to photographs of nature, by describing what may or may not lie just outside the boundaries of the picture. Mockingly she leads the reader to assume that there are no real nature photos left in the world, but rather only digitaly enhanced photos of nature wit...
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Although most of the things Stewart Brand talked about in the first seven minutes are just introductions that lead towards the environmental problems, there are things that conflict with my ideas.
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W. Eugene Smith: Shadow and Substance : The Life and Work of an American Photographer by Jim Hughes