Harry Callahan
in this photograph taken by Harry Callahan you can see two clear and dark figures standing at the top of a stairwell. This is a very gloomy stairwell with light pouring in from the top and around the two people, you can see some of the light along the left wall although much of the image is very dark not containing too much detail. In the one wall you can see, from the light you can see a rough texture spreading all over the longconcrete wall. This black and white image ha been taken on a very bright day whicj Harry Callahan photographed his wife, Eleanor, and daughter, Barbara, and the streets, scenes and buildings of cities where he lived and is in a rough stairwell in his area for this photo.
The subject matter of this image is the silhouette at the top of the stairs as it catches the eye and is very clear.This image shows a strong sense of form as well as well as direction and line. The direction is shown with the light being thrown in a downwards direction down the stairs in this image, the line is also shown with the light as well as the harsh opening at the top of the stairs letting the light in.To create this image the photographer would have used a film camera facing upwards towards the light and towards the people at the top. Once he took this picture he would have got it developed in a darkroom.
I think Harry is trying to show the light at the end of the tunnel in this image also showing that bad places can bring good things.If i could ask harry a question i would ask him what inspired him to take this set of images?
Most of his images include silhouettes and are in black and white (because of the era he took these images in) and are shot in similar styles. although some are taken in studios and some outside. Some people may view the stairs as being the subject matter although i feel they are just one part of the image and do not pull the eye in as much as some other parts of the image.
in response you could creat an image in the same style, taking silhouettes in an outside environment.
The subject matter of this image is the silhouette at the top of the stairs as it catches the eye and is very clear.This image shows a strong sense of form as well as well as direction and line. The direction is shown with the light being thrown in a downwards direction down the stairs in this image, the line is also shown with the light as well as the harsh opening at the top of the stairs letting the light in.To create this image the photographer would have used a film camera facing upwards towards the light and towards the people at the top. Once he took this picture he would have got it developed in a darkroom.
I think Harry is trying to show the light at the end of the tunnel in this image also showing that bad places can bring good things.If i could ask harry a question i would ask him what inspired him to take this set of images?
Most of his images include silhouettes and are in black and white (because of the era he took these images in) and are shot in similar styles. although some are taken in studios and some outside. Some people may view the stairs as being the subject matter although i feel they are just one part of the image and do not pull the eye in as much as some other parts of the image.
in response you could creat an image in the same style, taking silhouettes in an outside environment.
Keld Helmer Peterson
Keld Helmer-Petersen, born in 20 August 1920 – 6 March 2013 was a Danish photographer who achieved his international breakthrough in 1948 when he published 122 Farvefotografier/122 Colour Photographs, a collection of experiments with shapes inspired by Albert Renger-Patzch and the poetic realism of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement. The book brought modernism to Danish photography and earned Helmer-Petersen a grant for a year's study at the Art institute Art institute of chicago in 1950. As a result, photography became his profession. In his chicago series published in Fragments of a City, Helmer-Petersen became form's uncompromising proponent. He later developed interest in hidden figurative expression as in his series Deformationer (1976–84) and Frihavnen (1989).
In this photograph I can see what looks like a construction site. Their are many pillars covering the page creating lots of texture in this image, some darker and more contrasting against the background than others. The only two colours in this image are black and white which create a very contrasting image with lots of dimension. This image includes lots of harsh straight lines and geometric shapes. A large portion of this shape is completely blocked out in the middle/right side. Towards the bottom left side of this image is what looks like a big boat which looks like it carries big loads. surrounding the boat is a machine that takes off all of the material the boat is delivering.
The subject matter of this is the big metal structure covering a large amount of this page. The first formal element notice is line as most of this image is made up of a metal structure which uses the technique line. The other technique I can see is shape as this image is made of mainly squares and triangles. To create this image Keld Helmer Peterson has taken a picture of what he wanted to show in the image showing strong lines. next he used Photoshop to remove the background, or anything he didn't want to be showing in his final image, leaving just what he wanted to stand out when he finishes his image, then he makes everything left black as well as upping the contrast. Another was he creates images is using a copier/scanner and placing shapes cut out of paper/card in black or white and placing it in and printing it out. I think this photograph is trying to show the construction site in a different way and making it very eye-catching by editing it to an extreme. I also like it because it takes a while to work out what the original was of. one question I would ask him is how long it took him to create this image and how he was inspired to work in this style. |