3 Photographers.

Erin Mushalla-
Was recommended by a friend and apparently graduated from AIB. I enjoy that her work feels very simple however you can tell a lot of thought and work went into it. I also really like her color pallet. Two is my favorite of the series posted on her site.
http://web.mac.com/mushalla/iWeb/Erin%20Mushalla/collection.html

Laura Letinsky-
Betsy recommended her to me during one of our crits and I absolutely love her stuff. Her color pallet is also something I find intriguing. Very neutral, bland colors with flashes of vibrancy and boldness. I am not sure what her work is really about but I can see some similiarities in what I am trying to express and what she has expressed, or atleast the way I interpret it.
http://www.houkgallery.com/letinsky03/letinsky1.html

Simon Hogberg-
A photographer I found stumbling the internet. I think for me some of his ideas are more interesting then the actual photographs. Faces of New York for example, is a series of street photography. They are photographs of people he found unique and interesting and then interviewed them all by asking them the same few questions. The Thought Project is probably my favorite of his. He once again, photographs strangers on the streets, and asks them to tell him what they were thinking right before he appraoched them. I think its interesting to see the faces and what random things they have to say.
http://www.simonhoegsberg.com/

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3 Artists - Julia Barlow

Now that I've switched formats from photography to video -- I want to look up video artists in addition to photographers. So this assignment is on hold for me right now, but I will be looking into documentary videographers.

Photographers I'm looking at

1) David Hilliard

~Each panorama being, three-four photos with moderately thin borders, separately contain a composition that could be used as a singular photo. I see that he puts more thought into each as a singular to create a collective panorama. His few vertical pano's are far more interesting with the perspective. Instead of just shooting three or four up and down in a basic area, he stays within the vertical, but moves around more.

2) Jesse Goff

~Also a pano photographer, he takes urban and landscape. He fill's the seamless frames with seductive lighting and a sense of place, being submersed in the view.

3) Daniel Hellerman

~Shoots HDR images with tweaked color saturation. HDR-High Dynamic Range/Multiple Exposures. Some of his composition involve oddly exposed lights and darks. I feel this works some of the time, but also detracts from the meaning.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielhellerman/sets/72157600928041783/

~D Holecheck

Three artists: Jessica Barsom

Three artists whom I feel a connection with and am inspired by are:

Nan Goldin--

What I admire about her work is how she was said to compulsively photograph her friends and her encounters. This is something I greatly admire. Her photographs are "the diary I let people read."

Minor White--

His beautiful black and white aesthetic.

Susan Meiselas--

her very interesting documentary work with strippers.

3 Photographers: by Kyle Mullane

David La Chapelle:

La Chapelle is one photographer I love looking at. The color in his photographs is always over the top and pops out at you like his subject matter. The quirky way in which he photographs people for example the last supper with Jesus being surrounded by rappers or Courtney Love holding a dead Kurt Cobain made to look like Jesus. He captures how we look at pop culture in a bizarre way.

Larry Clark:

The way Larry Clark photographed 'Tulsa' was great. He was with his friends in his hometown shooting his drugs and just photographed it. The pictures are sad yet no one in the pictures looks miserable, everyone just seems to be stuck in their hometown lost in their habits. Larry Clark is a photographer I do not always look at to inspire my work but I'm always looking at either way.

Gregory Crewdson:

I am a big fan of staged dramatic lighting and Crewdson is a master at this. He creates photographs of surreal American homes and neighborhoods. I really like creating lighting in my pictures and look at his work for inspiration when photographing.

Three artists I am looking at

The three artists I am looking at:

by Heather Saide

1) Gregory Crewdson

Crewdson's work really touches upon the little details and moments, which makes the narrative in his photographs. This is what I am trying to focus on in my work and it really inspires me to look at his photographs. Yes, a lot of work and thought go into just one photograph of his, but just that one facial expression, one motion, object, lighting; makes the one photograph a whole story. I also really like the way he uses lighting to signify different aspects of the environment of the photograph. I really want to try this but by using natural lighting.

2) David Hilliard

I just started to look at Hilliard's work and I became a huge fan. I love the way he uses color and the way he places his images. The panoramic are really beautiful. They bring up a question of narrative and time. I like how he puts spaces between the images that are supposed to go together. The gap becomes part of the story and makes it less obvious. It leaves the viewer more interested.

3) David LaChapelle

Lastly, I have always loved LaChapelle's work. I love how he makes stories and such strong, controversial statements. His colors are so vibrant. I always look at his work for inspiration because he is one of the first photographers I ever looked at.