David Na 3 Photographers
Excessive Exposure is a collection of a Bronx-born artist Lyle Ashton Harris, primarily documenting chocolate-colored portraits, made with a large-format Polaroid camera over ten years of time. In the book, there is no other other things being photographed other than approximately 200 paired front and back portraits. As a results, each photographs in the book is a human head either facing towards or backwards, in chocolate color. The portraits' subjects include Harris' family and friends, art-world personalities, noted cultural figures, celebrities and politicians. He strategically blurred the subjects’ identities by manipulating the light and tone of each image. Individually, the images feel ambiguous, but as a whole, Harris’ shadowed and nameless faces create a narrative about identity, ethnicity and gender in America.
I like his photographs because there is so many details going on every one of them. It is like facing those people endlessly and make observation of their faces. There can be a lot things to tell from their faces: mood, hairstyle, accessories, together they tell a story about the people. However, I don’t particularly like the quantity of photographs in the book. 200 is a lot, and makes viewers bored where something repeating happens.
China Megacity is a book of photographing work of Christian Höhn, a Nuremberg and Berlin-based photographer covering architecture, landscape, cars and people around the world. This publication displays Höhn’s images of Chinese megacities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Hongkong, Shenzhen and Qingdao. All of the photos in the book are made by aerial photographing. Each of them are taken from a very high altitude in a helicopter, showing the metropolises in China. Very wide angle lens are used and the result is that a lot of panorama-like photos are created. Thus, details are provided intensively in the photos. An interesting method he used in the book is that he place one picture of the city taken approximately 50 years ago before the modern time photos he took. A comparison is created to show how big the differences are in the 50 years of developing.
I like the work a lot because it depicts a modern and high-tech civilization of our time. The photos of different cities looks similar but different in many aspects, such as terrain, plantation, building style and weather, which make the cities distinguishable. I don’t like his photos’ simpleness sometimes. Some photos lack emphasis to show.
Robert Lebeck (21 March 1929 – 14 June 2014) was an award-winning German photojournalist.
When he was only fifteen, Lebeck was drafted into the Wehrmacht and sent to the Eastern Front where he was captured as a POW by the Soviet Army. Finally repatriated after World War II, he finished high school at the Donaueschingen Fürstenberg Gymnasium, and went on to study ethnology in Zurich and New York. He studied ethnonoly first, however, then he decided to be a full time photographer and the book Moscow is one part of his photographing collection Tokyo/ Moscow/ Leopoldville, which is a three-volume monograph gathering images from Moscow, Tokyo and Leopoldville (current-day Kinshasa). These pictures of Africa, Asia and the Soviet Union, mostly made in the early 1960s, show a world in a lot of conflicts. The most of the photos are portraits and they are all mono-graphic. The camera he used is a Leica camera and I found that out on Leica’s official website, having a photo in the other of three volume of the collection Leopoldville. His always use wide angle lens even when is doing portrait. Ithink this is because he wanted to show the status of the world behind the people in his photos. As a result, critics say that there is much more to digest and elaborate after viewing the photographs.
I like his photographs because there is so many details going on every one of them. It is like facing those people endlessly and make observation of their faces. There can be a lot things to tell from their faces: mood, hairstyle, accessories, together they tell a story about the people. However, I don’t particularly like the quantity of photographs in the book. 200 is a lot, and makes viewers bored where something repeating happens.
China Megacity is a book of photographing work of Christian Höhn, a Nuremberg and Berlin-based photographer covering architecture, landscape, cars and people around the world. This publication displays Höhn’s images of Chinese megacities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Hongkong, Shenzhen and Qingdao. All of the photos in the book are made by aerial photographing. Each of them are taken from a very high altitude in a helicopter, showing the metropolises in China. Very wide angle lens are used and the result is that a lot of panorama-like photos are created. Thus, details are provided intensively in the photos. An interesting method he used in the book is that he place one picture of the city taken approximately 50 years ago before the modern time photos he took. A comparison is created to show how big the differences are in the 50 years of developing.
I like the work a lot because it depicts a modern and high-tech civilization of our time. The photos of different cities looks similar but different in many aspects, such as terrain, plantation, building style and weather, which make the cities distinguishable. I don’t like his photos’ simpleness sometimes. Some photos lack emphasis to show.
Robert Lebeck (21 March 1929 – 14 June 2014) was an award-winning German photojournalist.
When he was only fifteen, Lebeck was drafted into the Wehrmacht and sent to the Eastern Front where he was captured as a POW by the Soviet Army. Finally repatriated after World War II, he finished high school at the Donaueschingen Fürstenberg Gymnasium, and went on to study ethnology in Zurich and New York. He studied ethnonoly first, however, then he decided to be a full time photographer and the book Moscow is one part of his photographing collection Tokyo/ Moscow/ Leopoldville, which is a three-volume monograph gathering images from Moscow, Tokyo and Leopoldville (current-day Kinshasa). These pictures of Africa, Asia and the Soviet Union, mostly made in the early 1960s, show a world in a lot of conflicts. The most of the photos are portraits and they are all mono-graphic. The camera he used is a Leica camera and I found that out on Leica’s official website, having a photo in the other of three volume of the collection Leopoldville. His always use wide angle lens even when is doing portrait. Ithink this is because he wanted to show the status of the world behind the people in his photos. As a result, critics say that there is much more to digest and elaborate after viewing the photographs.
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