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  Carleton Watkins was a California photographer who was born in 1829. He was most famous for his photographs of California Mines and of Yosemite Valley. Since he was living in a time when photography was still in its infancy, Watkins experimented with many photo techniques and cameras, including the “Mammoth Camera” and stereoscopy. Much [...]

Robert Adams is an American photographer who was born in 1937. His work focuses on the changing landscape of the American West. Although his photographs seldom depict people and generally exhibit large empty spaces, they always contain subtle signs of human habitation and contamination. Adams is represented by the Fraenkel Gallery and the Matthew Marks [...]

  Edward Burtynsky is a Canada based photographer born in 1955. He is recognized for his large-format photos of landscapes contaminated by human activities. He explains that his photographs “are meant as metaphors to the dilemma of our modern existence; they search for a dialogue between attraction and repulsion, seduction and fear.” His artworks have [...]

  For this exercise, the class took color polaroids of an arrangement of objects. I personally chose a hammer and several nails, which turned out to be a relatively poor decision because all these objects were flat and created visually uninteresting compositions. So I decided to hold the hammer and the nails up using a [...]

For this project, I took two black&white film negatives of a paper sculpture using the 4×5 field camera. One photo was taken with a longer shutter speed than the other to produce a slightly darker image. After experimenting with different subjects and lighting conditions during the past few assignments, I have discovered that I was fascinated [...]

Danny Treacy is a English artist. He graduated from the University of Brighton with a BA in Editorial Photography and from the Royal College of Art with a MA in Fine Art Photography. He has won numerous awards, including the Photographer’s Gallery Graduate Award in 1998, the Portfolio Photography Award in 2002, and the Man Group Photography Prize [...]

Direct and diffused light–I have used neither before this exercise. However, the effects of lighting are immediate and impressive. Direct light creates high drama by increasing the contrast and darkening the shadows. Since I love horror movies and dramatic filmography in general, enjoying direct lighting situations is second nature. Diffused light, on the other hand, is [...]