Assignment 2

Sally Mann

I have chosen to emulate for this assignment, Sally Mann. I admire her work very much. This photographer is best known for her black and white work which include her children. Her photography has this kind of dreamy, soft and rustic look to it, which makes it very appealing to the eye. She tends to focus on a main subject and have it brighter than the other subjects and the rest of the image. Her images very well compliment shallow

depth of field through in-focus and out-of-focus subjects. The people in her images, normally children, have a similar attitude. One of innocence, naiveness and carelessness. Although I used one image with a child in it to emulate one of her photographs, I used my mother for the other 4. The reason for that being I wanted to use her idea and technique of photographing with similar attitudes, but have it be an older person who you know has lived and passed that innocent, naive and careless faze. It portrays a bit of the innocence, naiveness and carelessness that normal children have through a more "experienced in life" person.

Workshop

Assignment 1

Assignment 1

Sally Mann

Sally Mann’s portrait work is one to be recognized and appreciated. She often photographed her daughters in everyday life. In most of her photos, there is one person who is the main subject and that person is always in focus and relatively light. The background subjects in the images are either out of focus or very dark compared to the main subject. Everyone in her photos have attitudes of not caring or just not smiling.

Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen’s work is more of a simple and comfortable posing style. Very elegant and soft. The lighting is soft and this images have sort of a dreamy effect to them. He composes his images very well with nice leading lines and beautiful soft curves.

Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon’s work is very “in your face” simple. Simple white background with a subject placed differently in every image. The people in the shots have serious attitude, kind of dirty looking and most of the time wearing overalls. Nothing special with the lighting, pretty frontal.

Arnold Newman

Arnold Newman’s work is also very simple but with an interesting feeling in tones of blacks and whites. His subjects interestingly have their hands somewhere around their faces.