Artist Profile

Carlos Peralta

1950’s

Name: Robert Frank

Born/bio: November 9, 1924 (age 92 years). Robert Frank is an American photographer and documentary filmmaker. His most notable work, the 1958 book titled The Americans, earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and nuanced outsider's view of American society.

Why: I started my art gallery off with this image because it demonstrates something modern society has slowly lost, good work ethic. These men here have worked incredible hard, not only that but they are smiling. If you like your work it makes it much easier to work hard at. This image showed an important message and fit right into the 1950s theme. Technical wise I love the black point and use of contrast. Brings out the smug on there faces

Name: Erwin BlumenfeldBorn/Bio: (1897 – 1969) is regarded as one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century. In the 1940s and 1950s he became famous for his fashion photography, working for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, and also for artistic nude photography.

Why: I love the reflection and layering in this photo. It is a lot to look at so you have to spend an extra second looking at the entire image. It's almost like a broken mirror and through it you can see a women looking down, defeated. Through the layers you get a sense of feeling lost. The emotion is powerful, and that is why I picked it.

Name:Vivian Dorothy Maier

Born: February 1, 1926. She was an American street photographer. Maier worked for about forty years as a nanny, mostly in Chicago's North Shore, pursuing photography during her spare time.

Why: I love the casualness of this photo. It is a mirror selfie, an iconic trend in the early years of social media. I feel Vivian was an originator of the mirror selfie. Something she did 70 years ago is now ool today. Talk about early trendsetter.

Name:Diane Arbus

Born/bio:March 14, 1923, New York City, NY she was an American photographer and writer noted for photographs of marginalized people—dwarfs, giants, transgender people, nudists, circus performers—and others whose normality was perceived by the general populace as ugly or surreal.

Why: The rawness and expression Diane was able to capture in this moment. The pride she feels as she romes NY is something. I just like the moment and mood she conveys.

Name: Garry Winogrand

Born/bio: January 14, 1928. Garry Winogrand was a street photographer from the Bronx, New York, known for his portrayal of American life, and its social issues, in the mid-20th century.

Why: It’s heavy. This image showed a young boy looking at the darknesses of the world. To young to understand but still see it. People around don’t even seem to notice or care. Powerful shot.

Name:Robert Doisneau

Born/Bio: April 14, 1912. He was a French photographer. In the 1930s he used a Leica on the streets of Paris. He was a champion of humanist photography and with Henri Cartier-Bresson a pioneer of photojournalism.

Why: Reminds me of when I was younger hanging on the back of cars while riding a skateboard. It also reminds me of a friend helping you when you need it. I also love the location, a very different place in 1950 before it became so popular and filled with people under the tower 24/7.

Name: Fan Ho

Born/Bio: October 8, 1937 He was a celebrated Chinese photographer, film director, and actor. He won over 280 awards from international exhibitions and competitions worldwide since 1956 for his photography.

Why: I love the high contrast and silhouette effect. Tired, rested, motivated. Different energy levels. Very appealing image very bright brights and darks solid black.

Edward Weston- was born March 24, 1886 Edward Henry Weston was a 20th-century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers…" and "one of the masters of 20th century photography. He was a member of the f/64 group. This was a group founded by seven 20th-century San Francisco photographers who shared a common photographic style characterized by sharp-focused and carefully framed images seen through a particularly Western viewpoint

W. Eugene Smith- William Eugene Smith, was an American photojournalist, born December 30, 1918, Wichita Ks, renowned for the dedication he devoted to his projects and his uncompromising professional and ethical standards. Smith developed the photo essay into a sophisticated visual form. In December 1951, LIFE published one of the most extraordinary photo essays ever to appear in the magazine. Across a dozen pages, and featuring more than 20 of the great W. Eugene Smith’ pictures, the story of a tireless South Carolina nurse and midwife named Maude Callen opened a window on a world that, surely, countless LIFE readers had never seen — and, perhaps, had never even imagined.

Man Ray- was born in Philadelphia in 1890. spent most of his career in France. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. For Man Ray, photography often operated in the gap between art and life. It was a means of documenting sculptures that never had an independent life outside the photograph, and it was a means of capturing the activities of his avant-garde friends.

The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was created in the Department of Agriculture in 1937. The FSA and its predecessor, the Resettlement Administration (RA), created in 1935, were New Deal programs designed to assist poor farmers during the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression.

Dorothea Lange- was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration.

Arthur Rothstein- was an American photographer. Rothstein is recognized as one of America’s premier photojournalists. During a career that spanned five decades, he provoked, entertained and informed the American people.

Ian Ruhter is a contemporary wet plate artists that uses the silver & light technique. He decided to make his bus into a camera and travels the world capturing as many moments as he can. The photographs display they technique very well. They have a rustic feel with imperfections around the border that give it its own perfection.

Alvin Langdon Coburn was a key figure in the development of American pictorialism. He was from the 20th century born in 1882 dying in 1966.The photographs I chose from for this photographer demonstrates pictorialism because he is "creating" an image rather than simply recording it.

Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre was a French artist and photographer born in 1787 and died 1851. He was recognized for the creation of the daguerreotype process. He was known as one of the fathers of photography.

Henry Peach Robinson was an English pictorialist photographer born in 1830 and died in 1901. He is best known for his pioneering combination printing. This process of joining multiple negatives or prints to form a single image! This is considered an early process known as photomontage. A contemporary artists is Jerry Uelsmann. I find his work to be more interesting I like the modern more advanced photography he does(see example 3rd image)

Modern

Lewis Wickes Hine was an American sociologist and photographer born in 1874 and died in 1940. Hine used his photography for social reform. His photographs had a huge impact for changing child labor laws in the United States. I chose this photographer because he used his art to benefit the world in a positive way.