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Artist: Shirin Neshat- use of digital photography @http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/photographs/shirin-neshat-faith-5407244-details.aspx Shiritn Neshat have based her photography life off of what she had experienced when she went back to Iran and how much it had changed since she left there many years ago. Even though the photo I have here are hands, many of her photos contrast like men or woman, which if you look at she does contrast here with the large or symbolic adult hands with a small baby/child's hand. She also uses techniques like lighting with the faded darker background and then the hands being very bright and the writing on the hands dark, contrasting with the white hands. The writing on the hands are very powerful Iranian phrases again going back to the change she saw.I enjoy the photo because I admire how she used her background with Iranian culture to make work out of her pictures. I think I might try to do something like this, as in use writings somewhere in my photos.

Artist: Austin Mann-digital photography [|http://wheresthelid.com/2011/01/the-monday-mindset-26/#more-1610] [|http://www.austinmann.com/#/7215761336607948372157613429950379/3380279296] []

Austin Mann uses digital photography to take his pictures; he travels greatly and takes different cameras with him all the time and sometime even his own lighting, but mostly takes photos of nature with natural light. Austin Mann uses light to really make his photos pop and have a center to them or the point that our eyes are drawn to. He doesn't choose what colors things are, but simply takes notice of the color of nature around him and decides when to the photos, depending on the time of day, like the photo above. He has many pictures from all around the world and has albums for each country and he really traps the life that they live in his camera. He can tell stories through some of his pictures and viewers can feel or see the type of story the picture has behind it. I quite enjoy looking at these photo's, they show the delicacy of life and the simplicity of nature but the true beauty that lays behind the average everyday things. I think I might want to try something like this in my photos, the way he finds such distinct colors to make the picture really pop

. Artist-Martin Parr- Uses digital photography but changes types of cameras used and lenses for certain lighting. []

Martin Parr is a British photographer who started his love of taking photos when he watched his grandpa take photos of many different things. He is a photographer that has used many different types of photography and now has gotten quite used to the use of digital photography. Even though the picture above is just a cake, he finds a great way to really make your eye draw to certain things. Like, for example when I look at this picture at the first glance my eye finds the brightest spot of the picture which is the orange, red and white frosting that is near the top of the cake. Mr.Parr uses the lighting the type of lenses to do that to his pictures and show the contrast with the dark background and very bright cake. I like the way he finds such bright things and contrasts them and really makes your eye draw to certain areas. I think, I have found a trend that all the pictures I like modern day are like this and I would like to try this in my own photography.

@http://www.masters-of-photography.com/S/stieglitz/stieglitz_icy_night.html Artist: Alfred Stieglitz- Used black and white film

Alfred Stieglitz always loved to take pictures but never once thought or even wanted to take them places for people to look at or even buy/sell. After a few of his friends had suggested to put together a show that only other photographers would look at he decided to take his photos public and then was loved and many wanted to view his other pieces. He was one of the older photographers so he only had used black and white film but soon enough his photos were being published in magazines. I think he has a cool technique that even though his photos are very common scenes he finds ways to photograph them very well that makes people want to keep looking at this simple scene. Like the photo above, he found an angle and use the right lighting to make the first few trees pop very well and the other kinds of blend into the background. He also uses his lighting to make it noticeable that there was snow surrounding him and it even looks like it was snowing when he took the picture because you can see the lights in the background and they look at bit blurry like snow was covering/blowing around them. I like the way he photographs to really make little, simple of few things pop out of the entire picture.

[] @http://www.photocollect.com/bios/hine.html Artist: Lewis Hine- Used Black and White photography

Lewis Hine lived through many struggling times in the United States. One of the major times in his life was the Great Depression--while this picture does not show something of the great depression, something he did a lot of was take photos of the city around him and document the times that were happening. Other pictures of his show how girls had to work in factories for hours on end and how they were forced to be there and show the fake smiles they are trying to put on. While his other pictures are the like the one shown above, where as he would like I said, take pictures of the things going on around him in the city like this photo is the building of the Empire State Building. I like what he does in his photos, he uses a lot of fading, where as the background isn't exactly there yet the main point of the photo is very bold and noticeable like the boys and workers that were building this large structure. Another cool thing he does though, is that he takes pictures of everyday life, it is nothing special, just things going on around him. Even though, he did have to get taken to the top of this building to take the photo, it was a casual thing at the time. I really would like to try something like this in my photos, to first off take black and whites because I love photos like that, but also to have the background faded and the main point very bold and noticeable!

@http://www.nicephotomag.com/playing-favorites/the-curious-world-of-andre-kertesz Artist: Andre Kertesz-Used Black and White Photography and black room

Andre Kertesz was an artist that put his negatives directly onto printed paper most of the time but would also use black and white photography and many of his photographs were not intentional for anything special. His pictures always end up being something that is an everyday thing, but there happens to be something in the photo that your eye is always draw to, like for example the broken glass in the photo. His pictures are a little different than others because even though the are supposed to be everyday things, they never end up being what you expect. Like his others, they are people but pulled out a bit and stretched to look like they are morphed. Like this photo above, you would think it is just like a window looking over the city but it ends up being a mirror of the city and once broken you can see there is nothing really behind the mirror. I think this would be a cool technique to try and like fool the audience a bit with what they are looking at. I especially like it because it is not bold and your eye is not drawn to it right away, it is just snuck in there nonchalantly.