Photo4Us would like to FOCUS on some Legendary Photographers. They have contributed inspiring photographs that have been taken and shared around the world. Some photos you may recognize or have seen in history books or in a lobby somewhere. Read on and see, be motivated! We are!!!
Our first FOCUS is on:
Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz (January 1, 1864 – July 13, 1946) was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an accepted art form. In addition to his photography, Stieglitz is known for the New York art galleries that he ran in the early part of the 20th century, where he introduced many avant-garde European artists to the U.S. He was married to painter Georgia O’Keeffe. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Stieglitz)
Below is an example with his obsession of body parts and hands contorted, he was interested in shape, form, and composition, this made him an “art photographer” and an advocate for photography to be an accepted art form just like painting and sculpture.
Here is another example of hands on a cattle skull on the left. Married to Georgia O’Keeffe, I think they were interested in the same subjects and bounced ideas off each other. On the right is one of Georgia O’Keeffe’s New Mexico period paintings, here you can see the cattle skull in her composition.
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Below are portraits of his wife Georgia O’Keeffe. He makes us voyeurs by capturing some intimate moments.
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In this photo he was interested in daily life. Also, achieving rich, subtle varied tonal scale. The foreground rich in black and you start to see different shades in the distance.
I hope this motivates you to take some photos of your own, now go and shoot something!