deconstructing environmental photographers

Edward Stechen:

Alfred Stieglitz:

Alvin Langdon Coburn:

Walter Gropius:

Walker Evans:

Berenice Abbott:

"between frontier and the back-gerden" ... deconstructing environmental photographers

Joel Sternfeld

Joel Sternfeld made these pictures of the landscapes many times on different days and at different times; also different weather conditions were photographed. The picture taken is of a railway track on 30th, May 2000-2001.  He was also invited to select the other two artists to follow his project. As guest curator for the series, he selected with them the theme of Landscape with Path and invited Robert Adams and Darren Almond to exhibit their work following his own on old train track in the middle of buildings what was forgotten. It is a straight line, getting smaller. I think the image is more focused in the foreground. Here the two buildings in the front are clearer than the rest of the image.

the environment

THE ENVIRONMENT:

I chose robed Adams on Sigal hill overlooking long beach, California 1983 I did some research and find out:

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Materials: and techniques: gelatin silver print

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In this photograph, two forlorn, scraggly trees overlook a smog-choked landscape of urban sprawl. Perched on the hillside, the neglected trees are poignant reminders of what was once naturally beautiful but now is spoiled.

the picture was taken from high. trees looks bernd trees and behaind the city the focus is on the trees becaouse the city on the buck is very un sharp

the object and the body

THE OBJECT AND THE BODY: 


THE OBJECT

Today I researched still life paintings. I think the still life by Harmen Steenwyck, 1640, and the vanitas still life by Jan Jansz Treck, 1648, in the National Gallery, London, are interesting. Every object has a different meaning.

In the image I will make it will have a meaning using a skull, so long as you are alive you will have time to do the activities that are shown in the paintings. So I thought I would do something similar. I like diving and climbing, so I will take a fish tank and put some water and stones and small rocks in the tank. I am using the water to represent diving and rocks to represent climbing and I will put a skull and a watch next to the objects so they could mean that you only have a little amount of time left in your life.

The lighting shoot will be stronger on the tank and darker on the skull. The light will come from the left. The reason for this choice is to show that the objects on the left represent life and in the shadow the objects represent death.

Always hungry but don't know what to eat