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Weegee – born Arthur Felling was born in Austrailia, emigrated with his family to Manhattens lower east side in 1909.
Weegee was forced to leave school at an early age to support his family, he made a living for a while being a street photographer in the east side ghetto.
Looking into Weegee’s documentary work of New York, taken between the 1930′s and 1960′s. I was really drawn inby the we he too the images of New York. The composition and the way he really gets in there with his camera is amazing.
Weege was anamazing street photographer all his images are amazing and make you feel like you are there. The lighting and composition again are amazing. I hope to be able to capture the people of Korea in a similar way that Weegee did in New York.
I really do think that the composition on Weegees images are amazing, I hope that I can create some images that are just as amazing and as captivating as Weegee.
August Sander was boring in 1876 in Herdof, near Cologne. As a youther he worked as an aprentice in the local coalmine, where he was one day chosen as a guide to a photographer commissioned by the mine owneres. This was his first introduction to the camer.
From 1918, he travelled through the Westerwold countryside, systematically taking portraits of the different ‘types’, tradespeople, classes and individuals he came accross. Moving in ‘progressive art’ circles, from 1920 began to the formulate his great project, ‘People of the Twenttieth Centuary’.
His first exhibition was held in the Cologne and was well known and respected, as the 30′s progressed, sander fell faul of the arising power of the Nazis, who aproved neither of the style of photography, nor his inclusive approach to his subjects. In the late 30′s, the Gestapo destroyed some of his work and Sander retreated into landscape photography during the Second World War.
More negatives were destroyed in 1944, his his Cologne studio was hit by a bomb. After the war, helfped by his son, Gunther, August Sander salvaged the remains of his archive. The work was ‘rediscovered’ in the early 50′s.
Looking at Sander’s series of images i am really amazed and find the images very strong. In each image you see so much about the person and backgrounds, the details are amazing.
From looking at the images you can tell the class of the people, the images have great compoisition and the use of light on the subject is used incredibly well to compliment the person.
I think all the images above are very strong images, and are of people in their environment and surroundings they are comfortable in. I hope that When I get to Korea I can get some decent portraiture of the people there like this.
Born in North Yorkshire, Ian Macdonald documented the industrial River Tees, it is said his work is ‘rich and extensive’. His documentart work from the 1970′s and 80′s have appeared in the popular Side Gallery in Newcastle. These works include; ‘Greatham Creek’, ‘ The Tees Estuary’ amd ‘Quoits’.
Ian also lived as part of the Eton College Community in 200-2007, as part of Ian being there, he was a teacher whilst making a documentart of his expering in that environment.
Ian had visited the college on two occasion and has given us a lecture on his work and his documentary projects throughout the years. The first time he came to the college I remember him talking about his visit to Eton as he had just finished his year there.
I really like Ian’s work from Eton, it had a mixture of portraits and details of the college. Fromw hat i remember Ian saying he has over 3,000 images to edit into a book. The book that he has published contained 48 images, I cannot imagine having to edit such a best amount of images into such a small amount.
What I like about Ian’s work is that he really does connect with the places he photographs. It may help that the documentaries he has done are all on his home teritory, but I feel that you can really connect with his images, some of them seeming almost romantic.
From looking at Ian’s work I would liketo get a similar connection with my images. I want to take in my surrounds, taking in the great detail and also the people living in the area.
I would like my project to have great depth and meaning also.
Heres some images of Ian’s that I really like of Ian’s;
Tees Estuary
I really like the composition fo these images above. I really like the way that Ian uses light, and the quality and detail in the images.
