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Duane Michals
Duane Michals is a photographer widely known for integrating
hand written text into his photography. Michals began seriously photographing
in the 1960s, which was a time heavily influenced by photojournalism, thus
giving a reason of why most of his work is narrative.
Through bringing text into his photography Michals gives a
voice to his photographs and is able to enhance whatever feeling is trying to
be conveyed through the picture whether it be humor, tragedy, or even
heartbreak. Michals was quoted saying “I
use photography to help me explain my experience to myself, I believe in the
imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can
see.” When examining Michals’ photographs it’s clear to see that he mainly
creates black and white portrait photography. A majority of his photographs
have the subject centered, in a relatively plain and basic background, although
Michals’ work does include photographs that have the subjects in different environments
and also some photography of objects or only parts of the body. Michals photographs
entirely in film and doesn’t even own a digital camera. Michals creates his
images through using gelatin silver prints and prefers to have his pictures in
a book rather than an exhibit so that viewers have the ability and time to “feast”
on his images.
Toby Glanville
Toby
Glanville is another photographer who solely uses film to create his images. Glanville
was quoted saying that one of his favorite parts of photographing in film is
the suspense of not knowing how the photograph came out, and seeing if he has succeeded
in capturing what his goal was when taking the photograph. Glanville has a wide
range of subjects that he photographs. Some of his work includes portrait,
fashion, landscape, food, and random object photography. When examining Toby
Glanvilles’ work, a commonality between his photographs’ is that regardless of
the subject whether it be a tree in a landscape photograph, a portrait, or even
food, a majority of his work has the subject placed almost perfectly in the
center. Another commonality between his photographs is a golden hue and high saturation.
These characteristics are due to his use of cibachrome when producing his film
prints. Glanville started his photography career after leaving school early, by
passing college and then simply working in a black and white lab processing
film. After assisting in the black and white lab he slowly moved up through
different photography studios from there, where his wide array of types of
photographs was created.
Paolo Ventura
Paolo Ventura is both a set designer and a photographer based
in Milan. Ventura started off his photography career in fashion but after 10
successful years of that he switched to a photography field that was more artistically
satisfying for him. His work now is highly narrative and referenced largely to
World War II. His work now utilizes both of his skills as he creates sets out
of cardboard and flea market objects to create the settings of his narratives. Ventura’s
sets are a main component of what gives his photographs their individuality. Through
producing his own sets, he creates a setting that is almost child and dreamlike
for his narratives to take place on. For his narratives, he takes a series of
photographs of the same subjects (which are usually in costumes) working
through the story he is trying to tell about the subjects. The group of photos
are then put in sequential order for the viewer to see. His images are brightly
colored and often convey some type of humor. To create his images, Ventura
mostly uses Fuji film with similar settings consisting of a f/64 aperture and
10 second exposure for almost all his photographs.
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