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Final Free Choice

 The first artist that influenced my final free choice project is photographer Richard Misrach; he has influenced me with his work because in most of his pictures, his subjects are almost hidden within the bigger background picture. I would like to use this idea to demonstrate how the world is an immense place to be in, and there is so much to explore and find in it. His photos are mostly of landscapes however, having a person or a definite object somewhere in the picture makes these landscapes have more of a mystery to them. Another artist that I would like to follow is Lee Friedlander. I admire black and white works because is not something seen created often anymore. When seeing something in black and white I like to imagine the colors and how people saw it at the time it was taken, so this will be my goal when creating the image, making the viewer imagine and create more from what is being seen. Lee Friedlander worked with black and white film, so if the photographs I'm taking call for this format I will most certainly use it. The series of pictures I will try to create will include the principles of design of unity, movement, and contrast. Unity would be demonstrated by keeping some sort of normality in the picture; with the landscapes and subjects I will have, I will try for the picture to not look obstructed in any way so the picture looks as if it can be found in "normal" situations. For movement, I will try to use leading lines and framing so that the pictures can either be taken in as a whole, or looked at going from subject to subject, space to space. Contrast will be present with the use of different subjects and backgrounds, varying the size and proximity from each other, also, if the pictures call for it I would use monochromatic pictures instead of black and white, but it all depends on how I think it looks like at the end.

Richard Misrach [] [] Lee Friedlander []