Close suffered a catastrophic spinal artery collapse in 1988 which left him paralysed, however he has continued to produce work that is bought by collectors and museums. Early Life A majority of his early work are very large portraits based on photographs of his family and friends. At the age of 11 he visited the Seattle Art
Thomas Cole, a painter who founded of the Hudson River School, traveled to the Catskills in search of scenic views. One of Cole’s paintings caught John Trumbull, the president of the American Academy of the Fine Arts, eye and bought the painting. Trumbull quickly spread the word about the new young painter. More upper-class people of the art world started buying Cole’s paintings and within a few years Cole became the leader of an accomplished circle of landscape painters. Over the next 80 years, the Hudson River School grew to include about 100 painters!
Steve McCurry Steve McCurry has been one of the most iconic voices in contemporary photography for more than thirty years, with scores of magazine and book covers, over a dozen books, and countless exhibitions around the world to his name. Born in a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; McCurry studied film at Pennsylvania State University, before going on to work for a local newspaper. After several years of freelance work, McCurry made his first of what would become many trips to India. Travelling with little more than a bag of clothes and another of film, he made his way across the subcontinent, exploring the country with his camera. His career was launched when, disguised in native garb, he crossed the Pakistan border into rebel-controlled Afghanistan just before the Russian invasion.
Karl Blossfeldt was born in 1865 and was a German photographer, sculptor, teacher and artist that worked in Berlin, Germany. He was best known for his series of homemade cameras ranging from a zoom of up to 30 times the actual size of the subject. As his cameras were created in such an early period of time, his work amazed thousands and his photographs published as Unformen der Kunst was an instant bestseller, making Blossfeldt famous overnight. He photographed magnified images of plants, showing the architectural and artistic nature of the abstract shapes and structures of how plants grow; which both him and his father were inspired by. Blossfeldt was also a professor of Applied Art at Berlin Arts and Crafts School and used his photographs with his students, showing them too of the different forms of plants up close for their study.
Frederic Remington was born in Canton, New York in 1861. He attended Yale School of Arts, and the Art Students League of New York. Frederic traveled to the west repeatedly; he admired the rough and heroic cowboys and soldiers he met there. Among other things Frederic admired about these cowboys and soldiers was the fact that they seemed so unaffected by the elements of the “frontier” life they had to endure. While on these trips to the west, Remington would collect materials to use as props to create illustrations, paintings, and bronzes in his studio back in New York.
Selected valid flats and biases. Averaged the flats and biases to produce a master bias and flat. Subtracted the bias and divided the flat out of each image. Inverted the images vertically. Employed the use of Visual PinPoint in order to astrometrically reduce the images and to embed World Coordinate System data into the FITS header.
Personal study Personal study Why Ansel Adams is considered one of the greatest why Contents Page 1) Introduction – Page 1 2) Lighting – Pages 2 and 3 3) Patterns – Pages 4 and 5 4) Landscape – Pages 6 and 7 5) Nature – Pages 8 and 9 6) Great Photographers Work Inspired by him – Pages 10 and 11 7) Conclusion – Page 12 8) Bibliography – Page 13 Why is Ansel Adams considered one of the greatest photographers of all time? Introduction Ansel Adams (1902-1984) was born in San Francisco. When he was four years old, an aftershock of an earthquake
Serena Kuhns Mr. Berry 071712 Photography For centuries, photography has become one of the most popular forms of art. Photography has improved drastically; such as the way pictures are developed, type and size of the camera, and the quality of pictures. Many people aren’t aware that photography has been around for centuries and was first thought of by ancient Greeks. The Greeks discovered that pictures can be formed by a small hole in the wall of a dark room. The decade of 1830–1840 is most often believed to be the birth period of photography which was the period when photography became public.
In 1950, his work hit a turning point; his style changed from figuration to abstraction due to inspirational influence. The year 1951 was pivotal for Edmondson because he made his first etching during a course taught by Ernest Freed, and his first solo exhibition was held at the Felix Landau Gallery in Los Angeles. His artwork is valued highly because they express a form of feelings and spaces. The artwork that I liked was titled, “Decorated for Bravery.” I personally loved this art piece because it screams out fearless and dauntless. I believe the painting depicts a historic story that dates back to our ancestors who fought for a better life.
The texts use a variety of literary and cinematic techniques to offer a fresh perspective on the implications of scientific disregard. The dangerous connection science has , and how we can affect that fragile link, shapes who we are, since nature is a core part of a human’s identity. There must be symmetry between science and nature and when nature is thrown out of balance, destruction follows until brought back into line. Shelley uses her text to influence her society, bringing to light that they must not take their environment for granted, due to the advances in polluting industries at the time . We see this emphasis on nature when Victor ascends the mountain ‘and the solemn silence of this glorious presence-chamber of imperial Nature was broken only by the brawling waves’ the use of descriptive imagery and alliteration shows how nature is sublime to humans, which ties in with the romanticism of the text.