cLm photo blog

I was originally going to just choose a couple of photographers from National Geographic but, It was just way to hard to narrow down to just two. There are so many amazing, outstanding, and absolutely stunning photographs to choose from. There are photographers, photojournalist, scientist, a whole TV network, producers, all kinds of editors, the list just goes on and on. So, as you can see it is very hard to just pinpoint just one. Here are some of the photographs that I have enjoyed.  PHOTOGRAPH BY MILAN RADISICS, WILD WONDERS OF EUR   OPE Victrica Falls Photograph by J. Phillip Nix pHOTOGRAPH BY MAGNUS LUNDGREN PHOTOGRAPH BY ANNIE GRIFFITHS, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE I HAVE CHOSEN TWO PHOTOGRAPHS FROM VICTORIA FALLS MAINLY BECAUSE IT IS JUST ABSOLUTELY STUNNING! I HAVE HAD THE GREATEST HONOR OF BE ABLE TO SEE THIS STUNNING WATERFALL IN PERSON A FEW YEARS AGO, IT MAY POSSIBLY BE MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE PLACE I'VE BEEN TO SO FAR. 

Duane Michals is one of the greatest photographers of century.  He is widely known for his work with series, multiple exposures, and text. In most of his work he has text as key component in his work. Its kinda like little notes on his photographs .  source:http://www.dcmooregallery.com/artists/duane-michals/series/featured-works?view=slider

Dortha Lange is most known for the Migrant Mother  (first photo) at only 23 years old Dortha took a huge risk and opened her own photo studio after that she met her husband a painter. Dortha has made some of the best work in today.     source:http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/dorothea-lange-biography-with-photo-gallery/3097/

Kelli Connell is known for her work of multiplies of herself in one photograph. After doing a multiples project I admire an have so much respect for her work of art. She must have so much patience while doing this kind of photography. Honestly, I am at a loss for words.      source:  http://kelliconnell.com/

Rebecca Bathory finds beauty in darkness, poetry, and meaning in forgotten and surreal imagery among the decay. She travels to abandoned places which cought my eye in her series Orphans of Time.  Source:  https://www.rebeccabathory.com/

Joe Rosenthal was a photographer, reporter, and honorary marine.  His photograph is one of the most iconic photograph's ever. It is the Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima . In doing research about Joe he was rejected by the U.S. Army as a photographer because he had poor eyesight. So, he attend the University of San Francisco  later he joined Associated Press and fallowed the United States Army and U.S. Marine Corps. When Joe took this ionic photo it was in the middle of chaos. The first rising of the flag he did not get but he was so focused of getting the right shutter speed on his Speed Graphic he ended up getting the second shot.  Speed Graphic Camera source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Rosenthal

Sam Abell learned about photography from his father in his hometown in Ohio. After graduating from the University of Kentucky. Sam worked for National Geographic as a contract and staff photographer for thirty-three years. Here is some of his work.  Source: http://samabell.com/

Anna Atkins is recognized as one of the first women photographers. Anna made use of drawings, etchings, and paintings to depict her intrest  plant life.  Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Atkins#Photography

Frans Lanting Frans Lanting is considered one of the greatest photographers of our time. His amazing works appears in books, magazines, and exhibitions around the world. Frans was born in the Netherlands and earned his master's degree in economics and moved to the US. He then began photographing the natural world and never turned back. Penguin - Frans Lanting  Frans Lanting. Eroded limestone pinnacles Giant tortoises in pond, Galapagos Islands Sorce:  http://lanting.com/

Sally Mann Sally Mann photographs portray beauty and individuality of her three children Jessie, Emmett, and Virginia. Sally has many published books that include At Twelve (1988), Immediate Family (1992), Still Time (1994), What Remains (2003), Deep South (2005), Proud Flesh (2009), The Flesh and the Spirit (2010) and Remembered Light (2016). In 2001 she was named “America’s Best Photographer” by Time magazine. A 1994 documentary about her work, Blood Ties, was nominated for an Academy Award and the 2006 feature film What Remains was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2008. Her bestselling memoir, Hold Still (Little, Brown, 2015), received universal critical acclaim and was named a finalist for the National Book Award. In 2016 Hold Still won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. Here are some of her photos that I like because they are so unique.  

Robin Schwarts began a sereis of primate portraits in 1987. While Robin was working on this project she wanted to capture the individual personalities of her subject: however, by photographing the animals in their adopted homes, she ends up also showing the characteristics of their human owners. 

David Graves Looking at Bayswater London, November 1982 David Hockney worked with his first Polaroid images, then with borderless 35mm prints in the early 1980's. Internationally he is recognized as a painter, printmaker and stage designer, he first made photographs as sketches for his work. I particularly like the color scheme the contrast to this photograph there is so much going on but yet it's so simple. source:  https://www.scholarsresource.com/browse/work/2144714339

Ansel Adams   Ansel Adams had the  power to take such amazing timeless landscape photographs. Ansel has been a  visionary in his efforts to preserve this country's wild and scenic areas both on film and on Earth. I am drawn to the beauty of nature that he has captured.  source: http://anseladams.com/

Henry Peach Robinson was the widely-known photographer of the latter half of the 19th century. His method of working required many negatives to create a seamless image that could be viewed and regarded using the same criterion as was used for academic painting. Fading Away, a composite photograph made from five negatives by Henry Peach Robinson, 1858; in the George Eastman Collection, Rochester, New York. When The Days Work Is Done 1890 from Sun Artista January 1890 Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Peach-Robinson

Edward Steichen J.P. Morgan 1903 I came across one of Edward Steichen photos of J.P. Morgan 1903. The first thing I saw was the glare in his eyes then his mustache the more you look you can see his pocket watch then HE IS HOLDING A KNIFE. Why is this man just standing there holding a knife? In doing more research I found in the book Photography Speakes 150 Photographers on Their Art the photo is not of Mr. Morgan "Over the years people have referred to the insight into Morgan's real character that I shoed by photographing him with a dagger in his hand. But this was their own fanciful interpretation of Morgan's hand firmly grasping the arm of the chair. It is not only photographers who read meaning into their photographs." ( pg. 92 Photography Speakes 150 Photographers on Their Art ) source: https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/objects/jp-morgan-new-york

Anna-Lou "Annie" Leibovitz  was born in 1949 in Waterbury, Connecticut. Annie was enrolled in the San Francisco Art Insitute intending to study painting. I was not until she traveled with her mother to Japan she discovered an interest in taking photographs. When she returned Annie started taking night photography classes. In the 1970's Annie started working for Rolling Stone her first cover was with John Lennon. Ten years later Annie took more photos of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, who had recently release their album "Double Fantasy." For this portrait Annie wanted both Lennon and Ono to be nude but, Ono refused to be. The result showed Lennon nude and curled around a fully clothed Ono. Several hours later John Lennon was shot dead out in front of his apartment. This photograph ran on the cover of Rolling Stone with no other words than the logo.