Monday, January 14, 2008

1st Nine Weeks Artists













1st Nine Weeks Artists



Sandy Skoglund
Born September 11, 1946. She is an American photographer and installation artist. She creates surrealist images by building elaborate sets or tableaux, furnishing them with carefully selected colored furniture and other objects, a process of which takes her months to complete. Finally, she photographs the set, complete with actors. The works are characterized by an overwhelming amount of one object and either bright, contrasting colors or a monochromatic color scheme









Cookies on a Plate- 1978




Margaret Bourke-White
(June 14, 1904- August 27, 1961) Grew up in the Bronx of New York. Margaret began to study photography as a hobby while a very young woman. She was most famous for her war pictures. Margaret Bourke-White is a woman of many firsts. She was a forerunner in the newly emerging field of photojournalism, and was the first female to be hired as such. She was the first photographer for Fortune magazine, in 1929. In 1930, she was the first Western photographer allowed into the Soviet Union. Henry Luce hired her as the first female photojournalist for Life magazine, soon after its creation in 1935, and one of her photographs adorned its first cover. She was the first female war correspondent and the first to be allowed to work in combat zones during World War II, and one of the first photographers to enter and document the death camps.. She wrote six books about her international travels. She was the premiere female industrial photographer, getting her start in Cleveland, Ohio, at the Otis Steel Company around 1927.








Fort Peck Dam

Duane Michals
(born February 18, 1932) is an American photographer. Largely self-taught, his work is noted for its innovation and artistry. Michals' style often features photo-sequences and the incorporation of text to examine emotion and philosophy, resulting in a unique body of work.







Madam Schroedinger's Cat in the Box

Arnold Newman
(March 3, 1918, New York, NY — June 6, 2006, New York, NY) was an American photographer of a Jewish decent, noted for his "environmental portraits" of artists and politicians. He was also known for his carefully composed abstract still life images.











Yasuo Kuniyoshi





Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz is a noted American portrait photographer whose style is marked by a close collaboration between the photographer and the subject. She is most famous for her portraits of celebrities such as John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, and many more.





Whoopi Goldberg


Guido Harari
Guido Harari is an Italian photographer and music critic who combines the two. He creates a slideshow of pictures and then plays music in the background to give it a theme. In 1983-1984 he started his first exhibition with ambient music specially provided by Peter Gabriel and David Sylvian in Turin, Milan, and Barcelona.








The High Priestess of Rock

Loretta Lux
Loretta Lux (born 1969) was born in Dresden, East Germany and is a German fine art photographer known for her surreal portraits of young children. She currently lives and works in Monaco.
Lux graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts in Munich in the 1990s, and debuted at the Yossi Milo gallery, New York in 2004. The show put both Yossi Milo and Loretta Lux on the map, selling out and setting prices never before seen from a new gallery.
In 2005, Lux received the Infinity Award for Art from the International Center of Photography. The artist executes her compositions using a combination of photography, painting and digital manipulation. Lux's work - at once alluring and disturbing - usually features young children and is influenced by a variety of sources.






The Drummer

Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz
Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz are known famously for their photographs of snow globes. They portray scenes inside them which can either be humorous or frightening. Some of the scenes contain old ladies in them which is the main character. These photographs are blown up immensely and turn out to be very large. Their most famous snow globe photographs are the “Travelers Series”




Telescope snow globe

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