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                    Photo Essay: Eugene Richards      This book was a big inspiration for me since for my final I wanted to tell a story with my photos. Though my pictures and story are nowhere near as complex and deep as this book, it gave me some understanding on how to tell a story through photography. The photos in this book required a lot of trust to make them happen and its the trust part that really makes this book stand out. The photos in this book are really dark and grim and to be able to take these photos and make a book out of them is really respectable.       The trust part is what I want to focus on since my friend needed to trust me to take his photos and not make him look bad. He needed to trust me to make a story based on the photos that I took. And I also needed to trust myself to make a story with no prior experience; the only thing that I was going off of was this book. That's w...
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                               Steve McCurry Steve McCurry is a world-renowned American photographer who takes stunning photos. Photos that just make you want to learn more about the people in the image. They are just incredibly intriguing photos that are amazing to look at.                                                                                   "Flower Seller"       This photo is just a masterpiece, everything about this photo is just beautiful. The colors, the scenery, it all works so well to create a beautiful photo that just leaves me in awe. This photo tells a story of commitment and dedication this man has to selling his f...
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                                  Annie Leibovitz Annie Leibovitz is one of the most famous modern-day photographers, known for her very dramatic photos that make the people in her photos seem outer worldly.      I didn't realize that she was the one who took this legendary photo of two of the best football players in history. Her work is amazing and being able to take a photo like this just shows how much influence she has as an artist. I remember seeing this photo and being in awe at the sheer brilliance behind the meaning of this photo.      Annie Leibovitz's photography is phenomenal, she shows a very dramatic side of the people in her photos. But it's that dramatic side that makes her photos really stand out, it feels like her photos can be in fantasy books or fantasy shows. Its really amazing to look at the amount of detail in her photos. This photo sho...
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                               Carrie Mae Weems                                                                           The Kitchen Table Series, 1990      This photo was the photo that I used as a reference for my portrait assignment. The simplicity yet surrealism really stood out to me. It made me think about how I could use something as simple as a table and make it a meaningful part of my photograph. The Kitchen Table Series tells a story of the life of a woman experiencing the biggest moments of her life on a kitchen table. So when I was talking my portrait photos I tried to tell a story with them, though not as complex as hers but a simple story to make peopl...
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                                  Edward Honaker        Edward Honaker is a world-renowned photographer most known for his self-portraits that depict his mental health struggles.       I chose this photo because I feel like a lot of people relate to a photo like this. Though its simple when looking at this photo, it feels like Edward was trying to say that even though he was there physically, he wasn't there mentally and I know that many people that deal with mental health issues feel exactly like that most of the time. So to me this simple photo had much more of an impact than first glance.      This is one of my more favorite photos from his self-portraits because although the balloon is when its reflection on the water is black and to me that has a deeper meaning than first thought. To me this means that no matter how happy someone...
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           Fred Ritchin's, "After Photography"       While reading this article the section "Photography the Future so a Version of it Does Not Happen" really stuck out to me. I believe it stuck out to me because it said you can use digital photography to show a bad future that can happen if we continue to do the things we normally do. It talked about a photo of an iceberg and using Photoshop to show how the iceberg will completely melt and raise sea levels if we continue with this level of global warming. I believe that a simple photo being altered like that could change a few people's decisions, which is what the world needs.     Also in that same part of the article, it said that the police used digital photos to help find children that have been lost. I think that's amazing, that ability to take a photo of someone and then change the way they look and then using that new photo to find a lost person is amazing. I'm pretty su...
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                                        Saul Leiter Saul Leiter was an very famous American photographer and painter, born in Pittsburgh on December 3rd, 1923, and passed away on November 26, 2013. Leiter was one of the first individuals to start using color photography in the 1940's. In 2006 he released his monograph, Early Color, which really changed the way people saw color photography and allowed the photography industry to have both black and white photos and colored photos to be equally respected and appreciated.                                                                      Saul Leiter, Footprints, c 1950 I love this photo, it is the main reason why I'm d...
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