Inspirational Images - PSC Visual Diary - People, Place, Object

People

I have chosen to focus on several portrait photographers including Herb Ritts, Annie Leibovitz, Richard Avedon.

The portaits that I lean to in similarity for these are the stripped down, banal version. The connection of plainness that we have to all these figures, be they migrant workers, Old, young, famous, beauty. Their character is revealed, and we see the authentic self. This to me communicates the oneness of us all. We see ourselves simply in these images. We are all at heart - beings with emotion and expression. These images tend to be on very simple backgrounds, the glamour and facade and context taken out of the person. Brings all people to an equitable level, where they are persons not characters that they portray in every day life.
I enjoy these images for thier simplicity, raw emotion, expression(less). What you see is what you get. Averageness and equality. There is nothing special. IT IS and THEY ARE just.





Place

I heartily lean towards architectural photography. Ezra stoller who popularized Architecture for the mainstream in the 21st Century. Most major architects including, Frank Llyod Wright, Louis Khan and Kenzo Tange called up on him to immortalize thier structures.
"Stoller’s own strengths as a working photographer, devoting himself for half a century with fervor and vigor, to the achievements of others and thereby, through the very rejection of self importance, to our surprise an indebtedness, the chief enabler of our experiences of Modern architecture.” (William S Saunders)
He was able to see the formal and spatial ambitions these architects were conveying and capture them in perfect union.
Personally I enjoy the balance that he strikes with space and design. The angle of his photography would be perfectly centered to portray the geometrical and aspect designs. Impressive spaces seem calm and tranquil. I enjoy the clean, contrived, conservative, lean aesthetics and they have definitely influenced my choice of images, for all of the sections of this blog.



Object
Barbies by Muriel Clayton. I love elaborate sets and dioramas and Miniatures that are meticulously created for the purpose of the message.  Loretta Lux and Tom CHambers with thier washed out lyrical photomontage images or Lori Nix with her incredible diaramas and sets. The creative work that goes into these images is hundreds of hours and an intense expensive creative process. These have greatly influenced my thematic section on our final folio of this term.

  The second pervasive theme I have enjoyed in Object is partial-abstractions of objects including Edward Weston, Noah Wilson, and RamonaG. They are generally geometrically based and most a quite colorful (another concentration in my blog) and have great texture.

These items are representative of my preference for clean commercial object photography. Light boxes, or overhead lights, great reflections or not...simple clean images.