Five - William Eggleston

Artist: William Eggleston
Date: 1974
Title: Greenwood, Mississippi

William Eggleston is a very influential American photographer. He is known for his color photos and is even credited for helping colored photos become legitimate forms of art in art galleries. I love this image because of the color and the lines. I really enjoy how the power lines all join at the single light in the upper left third.

Four - Roni Horn

Aritst: Roni Horn
Date: 1994
Title: You Are The Weather

This image is an image from her series titled "You Are The Weather". I think this series is very interesting because the multiple images of this woman in water, at first, seems boring and pointless. This however is far from what they are. When you look at the multiple images of the woman together a connection between the weather and woman becomes more apparent.

Ten - Henri Cartier-Bresson

Artist: Henri Cartier-Bresson
Date: 1932
Title: The Var department. Hyères.

Henri Cartier-Bresson is a very influential photographer. He coined the phrase "The Decisive Moment",  which he explains is the second in which a photo is captured. His images are a beautiful examples of "The Decisive Moment". This image The Var department. Hyères, is an image that is a true example of his phrase. The bike is caught with slight motion blur in the perfect place in the image. 

Nine - Walker Evans

Artist: Walker Evans
Date: 1936
Title: Fish Market Near Birmingham, Ala.

Walker Evans is one of the most influential photographers of all time. He is known for his documentary style photography. He worked for the FSA and documented the great depression. Walker Evans is one of my favorite photographers. I think his photos are amazing because of the ability to capture and document such a turbulent time in such an artistic way.

Eight - Terri Weifenbach

Artist: Terri Weifenbach
Date: 2012
Title: Between Maple and Chestnut

Terri Weifenbach is an amazing photographer who is known for her use of an tilt shift lens. I really enjoy the technique she uses because of the tilt shift lens, she is able to  create a surreal feeling within me. The image becomes in a way abstract because of the blur, but in turn we are able to focus on the color and shapes within the image

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Seven - David Hockney

Aritst: David Hockney
Date: 1986
Title: Pearblossom Highway

David Hockney is an amazing artist and painter. He is well known for his collages of images or "joiners" He used two main techniques to create his collages. He first would have the subjects move around and photograph them from the cameras perspective, but later on in his works he would move the camera around his subject.
 I chose his image pearblossom because I find it simple but beautiful. It is amazing how he collages multiple photos but still keeps the depth in the image.

Six - Chris Jordan

Artist: Chris Jordan
Date: 2009
Title: Packing Peanuts

I chose Packing peanuts by Chris Jordan because I really enjoy his technique. I think its interesting how he uses thousands of the same object collaged together in order to convey a certain message. When I first saw these images I was overwhelmed by the statistics these images were trying to convey. This image in particular depicts 166,000 packing peanuts which represents the number of overnight packages shipped by air in the US in one hour!

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Three - Loretta Lux

Artist: Loretta Lux
Date: 2001
Title: Isabella

Loretta Lux is an amazing fine art photographer, and is known for her surreal photos of children. She uses a combination of photography, digital manipulation, and painting in her works.

At first glance, in my opinion, the photos seemed boring and simple. This however is far from what I feel after studying her work more extensively. Even though these photos may look simple, it is amazing how they can evoke such a discomforting emotion in me. I think the reason these photos make me feel uncomfortable is that they are of children looking, in most of them, uneasy.

Two - Laurie Simmons

Artist : Laurie Simmons
Date : 2009-2011
Title : The Love Doll

Laurie Simmons is an American photographer born in New York in 1949. In mid 70's she began shooting staged photographs of dolls and dummies.

When I first looked at this series, I was shocked that the model was a doll! It is amazing how Laurie Simmons can create such lifelike portraits using a life size doll. I think the main thing that makes these portraits so life like is how she chooses to pose her model. She uses very natural poses and composition in order to create a realism within the viewer.

One - Larry Sultan

Artist: Larry Sultan
Date: 2004
Title: Photo from The Valley Series

The Valley is a series of documentary style photos taken by Larry Sultan depicting the downtime of pornographic film shoots in California. In 2004 the series was published in his book titled The Valley. I believe Sultans objective was to capture a less obvious but interesting side to the pornographic industry. The images show actors, actresses, and crew taking breaks in between filming, which exposes a realism we otherwise wouldn't see about this industry. The photo above is one of my favorites in this series because of the information captured. We are shown two different aspects of a pornographic film shoot: to the right of the image we are shown a glimpse of the crew during filming, while at the same time experiencing the casual nature of these shoots by the naked woman on a break to the left of the image. 

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