Emulation-Arnold Newman

Photoshop-old styles

(original image)

Assignment2-Arnold Newman

" The portrait is a form of biography"

"How we photograph that matters not what we photograph"

-Arnold Newman

-Composition***

-Combination of an abstract environment(abstraction+portraiture)

-pictorial environment that best represents his understanding of a person

-Create a visual tension between a moment and a psychological presence of a person

-Find a set of symbols

-eloquent light

-Graphic visual elements (showing person's profession and personality)

-Psychologically static position

-Usually, natural light (soft light from a window) or a single light source

-Seek ideas, visual concepts, the vague and preconceived images that have begun to form in mind

-Familiar surroundings

-4x5 negative

Art Kane

Art Kane(1925-1995)

Art Kane was a fashion and music photographer

active from the 1950s through early 1990s.

He used hash lights on subject's faces to create dramatic pictures,

and he composed frames in a decisive manner which are

vantage points. His composition seems like a storytelling

image rather than a stationary picture.

Cecil Beaton

Cecil Beaton(1904-1980)

His photo exhibition titled in BEAUTY OF THE CENTURY

was held in Seoul this summer, and I had lucky chance to see it.

He was an English fashion and portrait photographer, and

he used broad lighting.

His pictures were composed with many

combinations of elements, such as props, clothes and different lighting

to express noble sublime and graceful fluidity.

Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus(1923-1971)

She was an American photographer and writer

noted for black and white square photographs of

"deviant and marginal" people.

She used camera flash, and her subjects were posed in the middle of frames.

Her work makes me think about the reality of beauty.

Edward Stichen