Assignment 2

              Walker Evans is a post-depression photographer ( 1930's) who tried to be objective and show reality the way it was. He took pictures of every-day life and the familiar, and for this reason many of his photographs are considered historical evidence, like facts, and not interpretations. He used a big camera (8x10 inches) compared to what we have today, and this slowed him down and of course the photographs were not very sharp. Almost all of his pictures are black and white because at that time there was no color photography, and he has both horizontal and vertical photographs depending on his subject.

 

Sources: 

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug97/fsa/welcome.html  
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/E/evans/evans_articles3.html



Lee Friendlander

Lee Friedlander was another photographer that dealt with the familiar but he was a generation later than Walker Evans, and in fact Friedlander was influenced by Evans work. In general his work reflected the society in which he lived and he photographed the modern life in big cities. Besides this Friedlander photographed many other things like nudes, jazz singers, and landscapes. He used a Leica 35mm camera and even though there used to be colored photography he preferred to keep his work in black and white (mostly horizontal).

Sources:
http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/friedlander_lee.php
http://www.profotos.com/education/referencedesk/masters/masters/leefriedlander/leefriedlander.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Friedlander




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