Juergen Teller:
Juergen Teller (born January 28, 1964) is a German artist and fine-art and fashion photographer. Teller’s work, in books, magazines or exhibitions, is marked by his refusal to separate the commercial fashion pictures and his mostly autobiographical un-commissioned images. He employs a raw, overexposed style and he uses a Contax G2 camera with an onboard flash. He prefers to work in color, and regularly includes himself in his photographs. His fashion photographs have been featured in The Face, Vogue (US, France, England, Italy), Another Magazine, Index, W Magazine, Self Service, Details, Purple, i-D and 032c, among others. Courtesy: wikipedia.org
Nan Goldin:
Nancy "Nan" Goldin (born September 12, 1953) is an American photographer. She lives and works in New York City, Berlin, and Paris. She is known for her work, which usually features LGBT-related themes, images or public figures. Courtesy: wikpedia.org The book that I got out from the library "a double life" with her "husband" (as they have established a kind of marriage but, as Nan puts it "without the sex and conflict") - David Armstrong. The book doesn't discuss much about her work and instead goes on to talk about each others encounters with one another and drugs and how they were each impacted by each other throughout their lives through essays they both wrote in November 1993 in Berlin. However, there is a small insight as to how Goldin discovered the drag queen lifestyle; it was through Armstrong. "In his late teens, David started doing drag and it was through him that I first gained entry to the world of drag queens that was such an inspiration to me and became an integral part of my life".
With flash photography, I feel as though the "flash" addition to the photographs lighting adds a hint of realism in to the photograph. To me, it makes the subject look and feel more vulnerable and exposes an emotion they were trying to hide. It's as though the subject is in a spotlight, disclosing everything they have, even if it is just for a second when the flash hits them, but the photographer captures that raw emotion and feeling and I think that's what makes flash photography one of the more genuine and organic versions of photography and art as a whole.
This is what both Teller and Goldin produce thought their images and this photography really speaks to me on a deeper level than most other photography.
High Key Studio Lighting:
Tina Barney:
Tina Barney (born October 27, 1945) is an American photographer best known for her large-scale, color portraits of her family and close friends, many of whom are well-to-do denizens of New York and New England. She is a member of the Lehman family. Courtesy wikipedia.org
Barney is most well known for creating large format, colorful photographs of her wealthy, East Coast family. The images straddle the line between candid and tableau photography. Barney's work is in the collections of the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, New York; the Museum of Modern Art in New York City; the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas; the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection in New York City; and the Museum of Contemporary Photography. More recently her work has been shown at the New York State Theater in New York, in 2011; The Barbican Art Centre, London; Museum Folkwang in Essen, Museum der Art Moderne, Salzburg, and others.
Cindy Sherman:
Cynthia "Cindy" Morris Sherman (born January 19, 1954) is an American photographer and film director, best known for her conceptual portraits. Courtesy: wikipedia.org
When I reviewed the book "Untitled Film Stills" completely based Cindy Sherman and her photographs, the essay that takes up pages 5-14 reveals a lot about how Arthur C. Danto interprets Shermans work and process. "Sherman's art belongs at the cross-point between the artistic appropriation of the working photograph as one line, and the use by performance artists, especially women, as a document of the performance, as the other" Danto explains in his essay. Sherman works in series, typically photographing herself in a range of costumes. To create her photographs, Sherman shoots alone in her studio, assuming multiple roles as author, director, make-up artist, hairstylist, wardrobe mistress, and model.
The lighting used in both Sherman and Barney's work consists of a lot of shadows, both harsh and soft. It is also high key studio lighting and the colours are quite saturated but share warm tones simultaneously. There is always a lot of light hitting the subject and shadows in the background showing not only where the lights are positioned but the intended focus of each image. Sherman also uses the vignetting technique to also help draw the viewers attention to the centre of the image. However, it could be an unintentional effect caused by the camera lens limitations.
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