Paul Williams

Paul Williams

For over 25 years Paul Williams's studio in Camden London has been tacking professional Photos ranging from still life studio photography to location landscape photos.And specialiy food,all kinds of Food Photography. Paul Williams has been facinated by food photography from the beging Williams say's "Food photography has always been a very creative photo area, and perfect food photos has led to todays search by photographers for a more natural photos look to food photography. Food photographers have always searched for food photos that excite. This has led to a range of photographers taking different types of food photos. The idea of food photos photography is still to sell product and product photography is one of the most exacting forms of commercial photography and needs a professional food photographer to create food photos that work".

Paul Williams is an award winning London photographer.He has photographed for Birdseye to tesco and for many of the best well knowen food brands using high end digital cameras with fully balanced colour management and CMYK printers.The images above by  paul Williams are some of the photographs that were photographed for the  magazine article Content syndication. And the images he photgraphed for this article,tells the story and history of Coffee.I like the images of his coffee series i think they are very good would like to see more work like this from Paul williams .

http://www.funkyfood.dsl.pipex.com/
http://www.paulwilliamsstudio.com/photography-news-blog/photography-blog-news-articles-with-photos-pictures/page/2/

Boz Swope

Boz Swope

Boz Swope is a photographer from New York city.She has foucussed on dance photography for many years. Swope's works have featured dancers such as, Patrick Corbin from Paul Taylor Dance, Judi Gates of pennsyvania ballet. Australian ballerina Lee Anne Chernova and dancers from Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre. Her work with all forms of dance has led to engagement with companies such as American reper-tory ballet,the Russian ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, The kirov and The Joffey ballet.Swope has worked aboad and thoughout the United States. She has photographed a variety of subjects from movie sets to sports photography. Her work has been published in Dance magazine,Billboard and Bucks conunty Town. As resident photographer for Terpisichore sand nature and dance she photographed modern,tap,ballet,jazz and irish step. She has photographed for choreographer Margo Sappington and former Bolshoiand New York City Ballet the prima ballarina Valentina Kozlova. The above image is an photograph captured by Boz Swope, the colours in this image work well with the dress the dancer is wearing a red ballet dress, and the white piano compliments with the white window.Swope has made sure that the subjects and the props in match well together,to make the image sucessfull.I have look at many of Boz Swope's work and i think she has amazing work.I love the image of the ballarina which is wearing the red ballet dress, and the white piano that compliments with the white window.but i may have pushed the piano over a bit to the red wall and left the window out of the image but the image is good and works.

http://www.exploredance.com/article.htm?id=930

http://www.terpsichoresand.org/bozswope/

 http://www.bozswope.com/BOZ_SWOPE_PHOTOGRAPHY/My_Albums/My_Albums.html

Lois greenfield

Lois Greenfiled was born in 1949.She became a photographer through her ability to capture the human form in motion. Lois Greenfield had a dream in the late 60s, it was to be a photojournalist for National Geographic.Lois Greenfield studied anthropdgy and film making at Brandeis university. After graduating in 1970 she first worked as a freelance photographer in Bosten, photographing for small indendent publications.She covered everything from rock stars to riotst security prisons. She photographed dress rehearsals of dance performances in Boston and when she moved to New York in 1973.In 1980 she finally got her own studio. Lois Greenfield never studied photography. And She says" I learnt photography as i went along".She adds elements and props to her amazing images and explores the metaphoric potental of bodies in flight. Her work has been in many galleries and museums all around the world. Lois Greenfield's photographs are moments in time.She published her first book "Breaking Bounds" by Thamea and Hudsson and chronicle Books. The three photographs above are of ballet dancers.The images are by Lois Greenfield from 2005 and the models are from the New York City Ballet Dancers. They are beautiful,amazing photographs of ballet dancers in movement.I love the work from Lois Greenfield I would say she is one of my favorite photographers.

webpages

http://www.loisgreenfield.com/dance/723/new-york-city-ballet_1.html
http://www.loisgreenfield.com/index.html
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/greenfield/mainAbout.shtml

video's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggNYFmZlCs4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVz_ZVZrH04&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPH5Y3aJTlk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WujB6C5yd68&playnext=1&list=PL7076C0B6D962AEE8

Modernism And Postmodernism

Modernism And Postmodernism 

Cultural and historical great events of the modern era are things such as 

World War I (1914-1918) and World War II (1939-1945)

changes in industry and technology as compared to the 19th century.                  

The rise in power and influence of international corporations 

cultural exchanges, transportation, communication,

Modernism places hope in the ideas, values, beliefs, culture, and norms of the West.
The Postmodernism rejects Western values and beliefs,culture,and norms. Modernism attempts to reveal profound truths of experience and life, Postmodernism is suspicious of being "profound" because such ideas are based on one particular Western value system Modernism attempts to find depth and interior meaning the surface of objects and events.Modernism is focused on central themes.Postmodernism sees human experience as unstable, internally contradictory, ambiguous, inconclusive, indeterminate, unfinished, fragmented, discontinuous. 

Characteristics of Modernism in Literature
Images and symbols as typical and frequent literary techniques 
language which is used in a very self-conscious wayand language as a technique for crafting the piece of literature.
The intention of some of the writers is to change the way readers see the world and to change the understanding of what language is and what it does .

"Postmodern" is the term used to suggest contemporary literature of the last half of the 20^th century. 

http://vc.ws.edu/engl2265/unit4/Modernism/all.htm
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/modernism/modpostmod.html
http://english.illinoisstate.edu/strickland/495/modpomo.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism

Stephen Shore

Stephen Shore was born in 1947 in New York city .He was influenced by Walker Evan’s book, American Photographs,when he received a copy he at ten years old. At the age of fourteen his career began through showing his photographs to Edward Schreichen,who also bought three of his works. At the age of 24 he was one of the fisrt to have a solo exhibition. Stephen Shore then started a series cross-country trips.The photographs are from American and Canadian landscapes. Then in 1972 shore went on a journey from Manhattan to Amarillo, Texas. In stephen Shore's Artist statement he writes "Color film is wonderful because it shows not only the intensity but the color of light. There is so much variation in light between noon one day and the next, between ten in the morning and two in the afternoon. A picture happens when something inside connects".Stephen Shore started color photography in 1973. His work is included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Fine Art, Houston; Seattle Art Museum, Washington; and Yale University. In 1991 Shore started photographing in black-and-white again.he now has began to photograph with a digital camera and printing small books.  

http://www.bbc.co.uk/photography/genius/gallery/shore.shtml

http://www.afterimagegallery.com/shore.htm

http://www.phaidon.co.uk/agenda/photography/picture-galleries/2011/february/04/shifting-focus-the-decade-interview-stephen-shore/

http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/shore_stephen.php

 

Andreas Gursky

Andreas Gursky was born in 1955 in Germany. He is well known for his enormous architecture and landscape photographs. Gursky is also a well known printmaker. He did not manipulate his photographs before 1990. Around 1990 he started to use digital technology for retouching and then for altering his negatives. Gurskys panoramic colour prints are sometimes up to six feet high by ten feet long. He studied under Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie.He liked the style and method of Becher’s systematic approach to photography, creating small black and white prints. His focus is usually on unusual architecture or beautiful landscapes.

The image above is a C-print from 1997 of the Singapore stock exchange. The image is named "Singapore Börse I" and is one photograph from a set from six. This photograph is made up of people in a Singapore stock exchange. In the front of the image the people appear very large and they get smaller and smaller at the back of the image. They are so small it is as if we are looking out of an airoplane, from the sky above. For some of his works, such as architectural subjects, he moved the camera between the shots and then combined the negatives on the computer to make seamless, often panorama-like,photographs. He also uses Film cameras.
Andreeas Gursky won the the Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize in 1998.

Gursky's work has been widely exhibited in galleries around the world.

Video's

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWaIFOSKKgE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyBdfBIRAd0&feature=related 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKPHbvQXUbg&feature=related 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU11ZzcfLJU&feature=related 

Links 

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Gursky
        http://www.whitecube.com/artists/gursky/
        http://www.artnet.com/artwork/426117814/79513/andreas-gursky-singapore-borse-i.html
        http://metroartwork.com/andreas-gursky-biography-artwork-m-87.html
        http://www.123helpme.com/preview.asp?id=46442
        http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Photography-of-Andreas-Gursky

Feminism

The word feminism means many things to many people.

The view, articulated in the 19th century, that women are equal to men and deserve equal rights and opportunities. The movements and theoretical developments were historically led by middle-class white women from Western Europe and North America.Editors list 17 prominent kinds of feminism based on identity,including American Indian, Arab American,Asian American,Jewish,Latina,Lesbian,Marxist, Puerto Rican and Working Class.Definitions of feminism:The movement advocating equality of both belief and advocacy that women should have the same rights as men, men with men in all areas: social, political, familial, eclesiastically. 

Most women come to feminism through personal experience.Many movements of feminist have developed over the years.Feminism is intellectual commitment and a political movement.

Feminists disagree with many things such as about what sexism consists in ?

and what will be done about it.

They also do not agree with what it means to be a women or to be a man and social and political implications gender have or what they sould have.

In the mid-1800's they used feminism to refer to "the qualities of females" after the First International Women's Conference in Paris in 1892 they changed the word feminism to the French term féministe. This was used often in English for a belief in and advocacy of equal rights for women based on the idea of the equality of the sexes.

 

http://demo.moodle.net/mod/page/view.php?id=116
http://www.feminist.com/resources/artspeech/genwom/whatisfem.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feminists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism#Movements_and_ideologies