Helena Adams 13c
Fine Art Photography
Photos taken by an artist with a creative vision for photography.
Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz helped make photography an acceptable art form. He grew up in New York in a wealthy family. In 1881 Stieglitz father sold his company in New York for 400,000 dollars (approximately 9.5 million today) and moved his family to Germany. In 1882 Stieglitz began studying mechanical engineering at university. Germany is the place where Stieglitz really got into photography. He then bought a camera and began photographing the world around him , he wrote an article – a word on amateur photography in Germany for a photography magazine and soon became a regular writer , he one several competitions in England and Germany . after returning to New York ,he began writing for a new magazine and bought his own photographic company. Stieglitz , now an influential member of the photographic world , used his influence to join the two major camera clubs in New York to form “The New York Camera Club” . Stieglitz style turned gradually more towards fine art.
Ernest Haas
Ernest Haas was born in Vienna in Austria; he always had an interest in art as his mother was an aspiring artist . He was a gifted artist at the school he attended and developed an excellent sense of composition. At the outbreak of the war Haas’ education was cut short and he was sent to a labour camp where he worked 6 hours in trade for 2 hours schooling. He then left this labour camp to attend medical school but was forced to leave in 1940 after only a year because he had Jewish ancestry. Haas only entered the darkroom upon the death of his father – an amateur photographer (Haas had previously shown no interest.) Haas was offered a position at both Life and Magnum – he chose magnum because of its lack of restrictions. Haas is perhaps best known for his innovations in colour photography – which was frowned upon at the time for not being serious enough. He also used shallow depth of field and slow shutterspeeds to make his photography unique. In 1959 Haas became the 4th president of magnum. He was included in the Family of Man exhibition by Robert Steichen .
Uta Barth
Uta Barth was born in 1958 in Berlin, Germany, she now lives and works in LA. She moved to america as a teenager and studied the Arts at the University of California . In the 1990s Barth egan to use the techniques in photography for which she is known today - namely creating blurry yet aethsteticly pleaing photographs. The blurryness has the effect of allowing the viewer to focus on the whole image and not just the focused aspect.
Harry Callahan
Harry Callahan was born in detroit in 1912; he studied engennering at michigan and did not pick up photography untill he joined the camera club as chrysler (where he worked after dropping out of University).He became more seriously involved in the art after attending talks with the well known landscape /straight photographer Ansel Adams. Callaghan took many photographs of his city - taken as he walked through it each morning , but I beleive the more interesting focus in is work is that on his wife, Eleanor. She features in both his minimalistic black and white photography and his experiments with double exposure . When he began taught photography , callahan encoraged students to take inspiration rom thier own lives in thier photography.
Uta Barth- Artist Inspired.
I chose to create Uta Barth style photographys with a yellow theme. The images were taken with a blurred lens but I also added a new layed and filtered it to have a guassian blur on photoshop to emphasize the blurring.
