cLm photo blog

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