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[|Alec Soth Biography] Alec Soth, he was born in Minneapolis, MN in 1969. He is best known for photographing the Midwestern United States and he also makes “large-scale American projects.” He started photographing people after being influenced by the work of portrait photographer Diane Arbus. He has said in interviews that he feels awkward approaching people and asking to take their photographs and that he feels drawn to loners, hermits, and travelers as the subjects of his work. Soth's work is included in a number of permanent collections, including those at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. I wanted to be inspired by this artist because he uses a unique style and concept in his potraits.

[|Henri Cartier-Bresson] Biography

Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35 mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography and viewed photography as capturing a decisive moment. Henri Cartier-Bresson was born on August 22, 1908, in Chanteloup, France. A pioneer in photojournalism, Cartier-Bresson wandered around the world with his camera, becoming totally immersed in his current environment. Considered one of the major artists of the 20th century, he covered many of the world biggest events from the Spanish Civil War to the French uprisings in 1968. This artist also works with the unique style picture, but mostly in his potraits he makes people think about the story behind the photos.

[|Jeff Wall Biography]

Jeffrey Wall, OC, RSA is a Canadian artist best known for his large-scale back-lit Cibachrome photographs and art history writing. Wall has been a key figure in Vancouver's art scene since the early-1970s. He is mainly known for contemporary art. He studied art history at the University of British Colombia in Vancouver (1964–1970) and undertook postgraduate studies at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London (1970–1973). I wanted to be inspired by this photographer because he also works with the unique style but he doesn't use a lot of models in his potraits, he mostly works with the objects.



For this final project in photography, I wanted to be inspired by the unique style photography. To meet the unique style criteria I’m going to make my objects in the photography look unique and make the pictures feel like there a huge story or any deep meaning hidden inside them. The three artist I chose to research have different style to represent their uniqueness, one photographer uses a model in his portrait to represent his style, the other photographers use door’s and the normal objects to represent three unique work. One thing that made me to love this concept is the way they all show the uniqueness to the picture because each photographer have different photography style but they all have same concept but projecting in different way. I am going to use dodge tool in photoshop to brighten the unique looking object so that it would grab the audience attention. Some element of principles and art I want to include are balance, value and texture.

Photos links: [|Jeff Wall] [|Alec Soth] [|Henri Cartier Bresson]