Photographers

Byron Jorjorian

• Byron has been a photographer for over 30 years.
• His work has appeared on a range of projects and advertisement, such as: greeting cards, calenders, magazines, brochures and advertising.  
• Not all of Byron Jorjorian's work is abstract but the once that are, are mainly of nature. Looking at the 3rd image down has given me ideas for a shoot I could do with the magnifying lenses. I really like that the viewer has to look twice to know that its a part of a flower. 
• I really like the subtle changes in colour in the image and the different shades of pink and purple. 
• The petals of the flower looks like a silky fabric and if the steam of the flowers wasn't there that's what the viewer would think it is. 

Karl Blossfeldt 

Information from: https://learnodo-newtonic.com/karl-blossfeldt-facts 

• Karl Blossfeldt was born on June 13, 1865.
• Was born Germany 
• In 1881 to 1884 he studied sculpture.
• He also worked as an apprentice in an iron casting in Germany.
• He also studied painting and music
• At the Royal Arts Museum in Berlin, he taught drawing and modelling for more than 30 years
• Karl Blossfeldt was inspired by nature and wanted to capture how they grow
• Karl Blossfeldt never studied photography but he built a plate camera
• He took over 6000 images of plants with this camera
• In 1926 Karl's photography was dicovered by a gallery owner in Berlin
• In 1928 Karl had his first book published with 120 original photographs included. ('Urformen der Kunst', Art Forms in Nature)

Blossfeldt Nigella

Passionsblume Passion Flower

Pumpkin Tendrils

Edward Weston

• Edward Weston was born March 24, 1886, in Chicago. 
• Edward Weston was among a couple of people, including Alfred Stieglitz, "were arguing that photography should occupy a place among the fine arts of painting and sculpture."
• He attended the Illinois College of Photography where he completed the course in six mouths. 
• In 1909 he found employment in a photographic studio.
• In 1911 he set up a commercial portrait studio. 
• It is thought in 1912, Edward Weston "found an admiring audience for his well-crafted prints and for the reproductions of his work that appeared in photography journals."
• Margrethe Mather, was "one of the most influential people in Weston's life".
• "For him photography had become a process of seeing the real world than creating an imaginative world."
• Edward Weston ....... criticism from Alfred Stieglitz " a mixture of some praise and much condemnation for sloppy execution and failure of conception, seemed to confirm to Weston that he was headed in the right direction."
• "Group f/64 began as a friendly undertaking at a party one night at Willard Van Dyke's". The six photographers include:  Edward Weston, Sonya Noskowiak, Willard Van Dyke, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham and John Paul Edwards.  
• In 1937 Edward "Weston was awarded the first Guggenheim Fellowship ever given to a Photographer."
• "In 1947, after some resistance, Weston experimented with color photography for the first time."
• "His life and his art were one - direct, passionate, uncompromising, reflective, and in harmony with nature's rhythms."

Sunny Corner in an Attic
1920

Pepper No.30

1930

Dunes. Oceano
1936

Badwater, Death Valley

1938

Shell 

1927

Information from:
Edward Weston- Manfred Heiting- Taschen
Pitts.T. "Edward Weston"

Ansel Adams 

Information from: http://www.anseladams.com/ansel-adams-information/ansel-adams-biography/

• Ansel Adams was born in 1902 and died in 1984
• He was born in San Francisco
• He is known fro being a photographer and environmentalist
• In 1927 he made his first photograph of Monolith, the Face of Half Dome
• Also in 1927 he met Edward Weston ,another photographer, where they came close friends and colleagues
• Both Ansel Adams and Edward Weston are part of the renowned Group f/64
• Ansel Adams work was mainly done in black and white and I feel this adds to his images. I hope in one of my shoots the content works well in black and white because I feel black and white images have more of a abstract essence to them.  

Imogen Cunningham
Information from: 
http://www.imogencunningham.com/page.php?page=about

• She was born in Portland, Oregon in 1883
• In 1914, she held her first, stand alone, exhibition in Brooklyn Institute of Art and Sciences
• She made her first 'sharp focus plant photographs'
• In Germany, ten of Imogen's photos were displayed in the Film and Foto Exhibition
• She is an original member of of Group f.64

Daniel Sroka

• He graduated from Hampshire College in 1989.
• Daniel Sroka "became the original creative director for Yahoo!" where he "helped transform them from a quirky curiosity into a globally-recognized brand."
• "I have now spent over a decade carefully developing my unique and intensely personal style of nature art."

Information from: 
http://www.danielsroka.com/biography.php

Mark Raymond Mason

• He was born in British Columbia, Canada.
• Mark Raymond Mason discribes himself "As far as I go, I'm a jack-of-all-trades, a gypsy, a free thinker and a dreamer, a protagonist in my own life and an antagonist in many others"
• The second image down is my favorite because I like that its nature but you can't tell from first glance. I love the tones in the image and the blur aspect. 

Information from: http://www.markraymondmason.com/about.php