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Hello all, I am currently attending cirencester college and doing their photography course.

I am struggling to get ideas on what to take as we are currently doing portraiture and I am more of a nature photographer.

The photographers we are studying are

  • Francesca Woodman
  • Thomas Hoepker
  • Jacques Henri Lartigue
  • Arnold Newman

If anyone could come up with any ideas it would help alot, also if anyone has ever taken any photo similar to the style of the above could they please post them so i can see what other peoples inspirations look like.

Thanks to all who lend a hand.
 
Hi James, just down the road from me. Nice college, my son and daughter went there.

Some interesting choices there.

Francesca Woodman took a lot of self portraits, mostly in black and white and nude
Some interesting reading here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca_Woodman

Thomas Hoepker was a member of Magnum agency, so I'm guessing reportage. I remember he took some great photo's of Mohamed Ali
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1632177_1383678,00.html

Some more useful info: http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,460426,00.html


Jacques Henri Lartigue took photo's in his youth but concentrated on his painting but was 'discovered' when he was 69. He got invited to take a photo of the french president:
http://lorraine5488.over-blog.com/article-jacques-henri-lartigue-la-quete-du-bonheur-51099522.html

Arnold Newman used to place his subjects into an environment to represent the subjects work. I think his signature images was Igor Stravinsky at his piano
http://www.deceptively-simple.com/2009/06/ode-for-king-igor/

Hope this helps
 
Check out Arnold Newman's photo of the German industialist Alfred Krupp and the story behind it...
newman.jpg

The camera never lies, but photographers sometimes have agendas their clients are unaware of...
 
Arkady said:
Check out Arnold Newman's photo of the German industialist Alfred Krupp and the story behind it...

The camera never lies, but photographers sometimes have agendas their clients are unaware of...
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Didn't the assistant leave the polaroid tearoff in the waste bin and Krupp found they and was annoyed?
 
Byker28i said:
Didn't the assistant leave the polaroid tearoff in the waste bin and Krupp found they and was annoyed?
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More to do with Newman portraying him in such a demonic light...

...not that losing his extended family in the Holocaust or Krupp's willing participation in the Nazi's Final Solution and comprehensive use of Jewish slave-labour had anything to do with it, natch...:thumbs:
 
...or the fact that Krupp didn't want him to be the photographer once he found out he was Jewish, but was persuaded based on Newman's other work.

A little more payback :D
 
Thanks everyone for the help, especially byker links were really useful.

And even the conversation about alfred krupp helped a lot

cheers again

any more help would be great, more on the technique of the photos posibly

this isnt cheating at all ;)
 
Arkady said:
More to do with Newman portraying him in such a demonic light...

...not that losing his extended family in the Holocaust or Krupp's willing participation in the Nazi's Final Solution and comprehensive use of Jewish slave-labour had anything to do with it, natch...:thumbs:
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Shhh don't mention the war.... ;)
 
jamesfletcher93 said:
Thanks everyone for the help, especially byker links were really useful.

And even the conversation about alfred krupp helped a lot

cheers again

any more help would be great, more on the technique of the photos posibly

this isnt cheating at all ;)
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Well, realistically you need to research the photographer, decide what their style was then shoot accordingly. I gave you the starters i.e. Francesca Woodman,self portraits, mostly in black and white and nude with a blurred style.

I'd probably skip the nude bit though...

One hour with google following links and you'll learn lots ;)
 
Well, yes, but then I'd never heard of Francesca so it was interesting for me to look her up.
Can't say I like her work though...

Signs of the times these days. The youth have grown to expect stuff instantly.

When I was a lad we had a 75 baud link to Middlesex Poly and thought we were lucky. It was all fields around here then as well....
 
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