visual communication

 

Visual communications

 

Martin Parr

From the age 14, Martin Parr wanted to become documentary photographer and he did.

He is popular for his project that critically analyse modern life especially in the provinces and suburbs of England.

At Manchester Polytechnic, he studied photography from 1970 to 1973.

From the mid 1970s, Parr began his career as professional photographer and he also taught the subject   .

He become recognised for two black and white photography projects, Bad Weather in 1982 and A fair day in 1984.

Then he switched to colour film-resulting in The last resort, a photography assignment praised by Gerry Badger.

It changed the basic mode of expression  in photography, developing a new tone in documentary photography.

Parr is an observer, he has showed ordinary people behaving in a different ways.

He has used humour in reflecting what he understand from his surroundings.

His pictures mirror people, culture and occasions of a society.

Some images represent many cultures and others point out specific ways of life

Robert Frank

One of the most acclaimed photographers of the 20th century, Robert Frank is best know for his seminal book the Americans, featuring photographs taken by the artist in the mid-1950s as he traveled across the U.S.

these photographs feature sight of highways, cars, parades, jukeboxes, and diners as iconic symbols of America while simultaneously suggesting an underlying sense of alienation and hardship.

In the 1950s, Frank was a regular contributor to Harper's Bazaar, but later turned his focus from still images to filmmaking, creating of American such as Pull My Daisy (1959)

William Klein

William Klein is a photographer best know for incorporating  unusual elements into his photographs and videos.

He studied at the City College of New York before enlisting in the Army.

In 1948 he left the United States and travelled to france, where he studies painting with Fernand Leger and later enrolled at Sorbonne.

In the 1950’s started working as a photographer. He experimented with new techniques , which crated unusual shading, odd angles, and other new elements on the finished images.

Klein met Alexander Liberman, and the two began partnership.

Klein shot a number of  fashion photographs for Vogue, the magazine  for which Liberman worked.

Klein created a series of image that showed New York as a dark and shocking place.

When no one would publish the photos, he tuned into the book New York

 

Joel Meyerowitz 

Joel Meyerowitz, born in 1938 in New York, he is famous for his photographs of landscape, street and portraits, his photographs are know all over the world and have been exhibited in more than 340 exhibitions in museums and galleries. He started off with photography in years 1962 and that too in colour at a time when was  resistance against its use in the field..

Cape Light was his first photo book containing classic colour images. 100.000 and more copies of the book were sold during 30 years.

After the 11 September attacks on the World Trade Center  brought in may theories and controversies , Meyerowitz began collecting material for an archive based on the devastation and recuperation of the immediate neighbourhood and Ground zero.

The archive has more than 8,000 photographs and was sponsored Museum of the City, New York.

Apart from this work, Joel Meyerowitz produced a travelling exhibition of 117modern and vintage prints called Out of the Ordinary, 1970-1980. It was premiered in Paris at the Jeu de Paume.

Inspired by the work of Robert Frank, Meyerowitz quit working for an advertising agency and embarked on a journey to rediscover the street of New York using a black and White film roll and a 35milimeter camera.

Tony Jones-Ray

The photographic career tony jones-ray has crossed a decade, this decade is able to define a new way of looking at society, with irony, nostalgia, compassion and humor.
His photographs are documentary-type, almost anthropological to the nature in, the photographer said that his goal was to capture the specific British gold.
Thanks to a period of studies lasted five years in the United States at the universities of Yale, he had the chance to meet and be inspired by street photographers such as Joel Meyerowitz and garry Winogrand. In their company and with his laica learned to capture, express different aspects of the multi-ethnic crowd of New York.