KELD HELMER-PETERSEN
Petersen is a Danish Modernist photographer (1920-2013), he is internationally acclaimed for his images of structures, patterns and details found in industrial areas, cityscapes and nature. He become well known for his book "122 COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS" (published in 1948) which is especially well known due to its innovative use of colour in thoroughly composed photographs of patterns in landscapes and buildings. He then later on, went on doing a similar thing but experimenting with black&white images, which he then published in a photo-booked called "BLACK NOISE". His work is also similar to Albert Renger-Patzsch's work as he also focus's on patterns, black and white and also up close photographs which are all incorporated in Petersen's work.
HARRY CALLAHAN
"A highly influential artist and teacher, Harry Callahan produced photographs that combined elegant precision, sensuality, and restless experimentalism. He used the camera as a tool of personal expression, once proclaiming, “photography is an adventure just as life is an adventure.” He often turned his camera onto his own life, his wife serving as one of his most beloved and frequent subjects, her importance to his practice such that she was once called “an additional f-stop on his lens.” Constantly testing the limits of his medium, Callahan created photographs that surpassed factual representation, revealing the graphic beauty in the everyday."
(taken from https://www.artsy.net/artist/harry-callahan).
His work also links the Renger-patzsch, as Callahan mostly focus's on his subject (his wife).
(taken from https://www.artsy.net/artist/harry-callahan).
His work also links the Renger-patzsch, as Callahan mostly focus's on his subject (his wife).
AARON SISKIND
Although he began his career as a documentary photographer, Aaron Siskind turned away from representation and towards abstraction in the 1940s, using his camera to capture the graphic patterns, shapes, and forms he observed around him, similar to Renger-Patzsch and also Stephen Shore (using space). He also takes photographs close up to his subjects which also allows us viewers to get a sense of the texture of some of the things Siskins photographs, such as feeling wallpaper/paper or pealing tree trunks.
MY RESPONSE:
After researching these photographers and looking through there work and black light, I took a series of my own images using the same objectives as Helmer-Petersen.
EVALUATION
I took my pictures around school. In and outside. When I was taking my photographs i took into count how much detail and also how many lines there were in all three of the above photographers works. I wanted my images to contain lots of detail and also many lines, as to me that makes an image intriguing to look at (makes you want to know what it is, the subject). I enjoyed taking my response images as i went into empty classrooms and actually looked and noticed all the detail there was which i would see every day and barely notice the significance of. I edited my images of photoshop by inverting them and filtering them black, taking away alot of highlights too to create a much more black image. I feel like i created the right balance between black and white (my goal was to make the image darker than lighter).
One thing i would change would be the location where i took my images, although it was interesting i still felt like there wasn't enough for me to photograph and because it was the location where i am posted at most days of the week so i did feel a little bored.
I would also like to (in my spare time), try to do this response too, to see what i come up with if i were in a different location and also if i would change the way i would edit the photographs.
I took my pictures around school. In and outside. When I was taking my photographs i took into count how much detail and also how many lines there were in all three of the above photographers works. I wanted my images to contain lots of detail and also many lines, as to me that makes an image intriguing to look at (makes you want to know what it is, the subject). I enjoyed taking my response images as i went into empty classrooms and actually looked and noticed all the detail there was which i would see every day and barely notice the significance of. I edited my images of photoshop by inverting them and filtering them black, taking away alot of highlights too to create a much more black image. I feel like i created the right balance between black and white (my goal was to make the image darker than lighter).
One thing i would change would be the location where i took my images, although it was interesting i still felt like there wasn't enough for me to photograph and because it was the location where i am posted at most days of the week so i did feel a little bored.
I would also like to (in my spare time), try to do this response too, to see what i come up with if i were in a different location and also if i would change the way i would edit the photographs.