Architectural Photography

Copied from CNN.com, Style, 1/5/2016

 (Article written by T. Wrigley):

From Stonehenge and royal palaces to the skyscrapers that define a modern city's skyline, great buildings can encapsulate their eras. 

"Every great architect is -- necessarily -- a great poet", said legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright. "He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age." 

But unlike poetry, buildings struggle to travel. When the work is many stories high and forged from concrete and glass, disseminating its era-defining genius requires something a little more lightweight.

The annual Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Awards champion artists who "translate the sophistication of architecture into a readable and understandable two dimensions, to explain and extol the character, detail and environment of the project". 

The Portuguese photographer Fernando Guerra was this year's overall winner with his image of Richter Dahl Rocha & Associés' EPFL Quartier Nord in Ecublens, Switzerland. Shot at dusk, the picture is a mesmerizing collation of color, light and people -- portraying a structure alive and in motion. 

Fernando Guerra's award-winning shot 

"I was waiting all day," Guerra remembers. "Five minutes before I took it, the place was completely empty because everyone was inside their quarters watching the football and I was just cursing the silence. But then suddenly the match ended and everybody came out and I got it. I didn't think about the photo for some time, it was only after I edited the work that I saw I had something special." 

Over the years, important partnerships have sprung up between architect and photographer, such as that of Le Corbusier and Lucien Hervé. Inspired by avant-garde artists like Mondrian, Hervé rejected the tradition of taking wide shots of a building, instead fashioning flowing, yet abstracted, series that focused on the details. The results were cinematic: an emotional journey through a building, rather than simply a standpoint outside it. Le Corbusier was rapt -- he described Hervé as having the soul of an architect, and often changed his plans in response to his work.

California's Julius Schulman was undoubtedly one of the biggest names in the field. His images of houses by Frank Lloyd Wright, John Lautner, Richard Neutra and, perhaps most famously, Case Study House #22 by Pierre Koenig, not only helped forge those architect's careers, but became the visual language for the post-war resurgence of the American dream. His photograph of Koenig's house created an instant mythology that lasts to this day -- it was 1959 in Los Angeles, the city of angels, the future, opportunity, hope. But it was also a cause of conflict. Koenig believed the picture had transcended the architecture it portrayed, his reputation as an architect being subsumed by Shulman's as an artist.  

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To see some of Julius Schulman's photos of Case Study House #22, please follow this link:
Julius Shulman (1910-2009) http://www.archdaily.com/29457/julius-schulman-1910-2009
or consider watching the documentary, "Visual Acoustics" available from Netflix or for rent on YouTube.

Clark Little Photography

CREATORS: Clark Little on Staring Down Shorebreak for The Perfect Shot from The Inertia on Vimeo.

Weegee

Education

Uploaded on Jul 9, 2009

Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee, was a New York city freelance news photographer from the 1930s to the 1950s. Here he talks about his career and gives advice to those wanting to become news photographers.

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National Geographic's Photographers

Published on Oct 15, 2013

Who are National Geographic photographers? To honor 125 years of photography, we turn the (video) camera on our colleagues and get to know the people behind some of the most celebrated photographs in the world.

Visit http://proof.nationalgeographic.com for more interviews from this series, in which National Geographic photographers explore the power of photography and explain why this life of image-making suits them so well.

PHOTOGRAPHERS

Lynsey Addario
William Albert Allard
James Balog
Marcus Bleasdale
Jodi Cobb
David Doubilet
David Guttenfelder
David Alan Harvey
Aaron Huey
Lynn Johnson
Ed Kashi
Tim Laman
David Littschwager
Gerd Ludwig
Michael Nichols
Paul Nicklen
Randy Olson
Jim Richardson
Joel Sartore
Stephanie Sinclair
Brian Skerry
Brent Stirton
Amy Toensing
Michael Yamashita

PRODUCTION

PRODUCERS: Pamela Chen and Chad A. Stevens
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Elyse Lipman
PICTURE EDITOR: Ken Geiger
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Kathryn Carlson
CAMERA AND SOUND: Spencer Millsap and Shannon Sanders
MUSIC: Tyler Strickland

EDITORS, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL

Chad A. Stevens
Spencer Bakalar
Kathryn Carlson
Mika Chance
Erin Hull
Caitlin Kleiboer
G. Ligaiya Romero
Allison Russell
Julysa Sosa
Michelle Tessier
Carolyn Van Houten
Julia Wall
Ivan Weiss

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Active Dogs

Published on Jan 19, 2014

by Chandler Rudd

Just a quick video of some of the better pictures of the dogs having fun.

Music by Veiger Margeirsson, Magic

Chandler Rudd takes photos and makes videos of the goldens at Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue.  I love his work!

He seems to capture their spirits so well!

Philippe Halsman

Uploaded on Sep 16, 2011

Philippe Halsman, né le 2 mai 1906 à Riga, mort le 25 juin 1979 à New York, est un photographe américain d'origine lettonne, célèbre pour ses portraits de personnalités et ses photos de mode, qui fit partie de la célèbre agence Magnum.

Dans les années 1950, Philippe Halsman bouleverse les conventions du genre. A la fin de chaque séance, il exprime une dernière demande à celui qu'il vient de photographier : "jump !".
L'idée semble bien légère, cependant, elle abolit les règles et les refuges de la pose. Alors, le sujet, interprétant à sa façon l'étrange demande du photographe, bien plus attentif au saut qu'à l'image qu'il va donner de lui-même, se laisse aller au bonheur, enfantin et libérateur, du saut. Les photographies sont aussi surprenantes que révélatrices, et l'exercice s'avère être un exutoire pour les vedettes de cinéma, politiques, artistes, écrivains, architectes ou industriels. When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears. Les images débordent d'énergie, et par cette simple et joyeuse injonction, chacun est saisi, en lévitation, défiant dans l'instantané les lois implacables de la gravité. 

(Musique : Paul Anka - Jump & Frank Sinatra - Summer Wind)

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W. Eugene Smith

Published on Apr 16, 2012

Bio presentation on W. Eugene Smith I did for my photojournalism class.

Music:
Iwo Jima
Skies (Tree of Life Soundtrack)
Childhood (Tree of Life Soundtrack)

 Published on Sep 11, 2013

The war in the South Pacific, a country doctor in Colorado, victims of industrial pollution in a Japanese village--all were captured in unforgettable photographs by the legendary W. Eugene Smith. This program showcases over 600 of Smith's stunning photographs and includes a dramatic recreation in which actor Peter Riegert (Crossing Delancey, Local Hero) portrays the artist using dialogue taken from Smith's diaries and letters. Interwoven through the program are archival footage and interviews with family and friends of this brilliant, complicated man, whose work developed from twin themes of common humanity and social responsibility.

Harry Callahan

Henri Cartier Bresson & Sebastiao Salgado

Uploaded on Jun 6, 2007

Uploaded on Feb 13, 2009

Brazilian Photographer Sebastiao Salgado:
"It is not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed".

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Robert Capa

Published on Aug 22, 2013

Full length documentary about the war photographer, photojournalist and Magnum Photos co-founder, Robert Capa. Part of the PBS 'American Masters' series.

More info here at: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmaste...

"It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian." Robert Capa

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George Tice

Published on Feb 10, 2013

A documentary film on the life of legendary photographer George Tice by Peter Bosco, and Douglas Underdahl.
George Tice, American Photographer: Seeing Beyond the Moment

"It takes the passage of time before an image of a commonplace subject can be assessed. The great difficulty of what I attempt is seeing beyond the moment; the everydayness of life gets in the way of the eternal."

George Tice is a tenth-generation New Jerseyan, and proud of it. Raised by a single mother, he left school in the 10th grade to take a job as a darkroom assistant for a Newark portrait studio. Tice's commitment and perseverance to his photographic vision has become yet another symbol of the great American experiment. His photographs are an affirmation of humanity. George's images speak a quiet visual poetry, rendered in his unique monochromatic palette, gray.

George began taking photographs sixty years ago at the age of 14. By age 20 his photograph, Explosion Aboard the U.S.S. Wasp, 1959, was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art for their collection at the request of Edward Steichen, Director of the Department of Photography. George Tice has published 17 photography books and his work is in numerous art museums around the world. His documentation of the urban landscape of New Jersey has secured him a place among the pantheon of America's great photographers. He produces elegant and understated images that reflect the pursuit and realization of the American dream. His book Hometowns: An American Pilgrimage is one such example where he photographed the hometowns of James Dean, Ronald Reagan, and Mark Twain, three iconic figures from America's heartland. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, The National Media Museum (UK), and The New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

The George Tice film project has been two years in the making. We follow George from photographing in the field with his 8X10 view camera to making prints in his darkroom. He still creates photographs the "old-fashioned way" - with film and chemistry. A particularly exciting part of the project was listening to George talk about some of his signature images where the photographs were taken, in some cases nearly 40 years later. Tice takes the filmmakers on the road to photograph five new images for future publication. Tice is always working on one or two new book projects. In addition, there are interviews with knowledgeable people in the field of art and photography that provide insight into Tice's extraordinary photography.

Our intention is to produce a film worthy of the legacy that is George Tice. We have completed filming and most of the editing work. Your help with funding will be used to do final color correction, sound mixing and promotion.

In conjunction with the Newark Museum's George Tice 75th birthday show, "Seeing Beyond the Moment: The Photographic Legacy and Gifts of George Tice", open to the public September 18, 2013, the film will premiere at the Newark Museum on October 13, 2013. Following its premiere, our goal is to air the project on PBS and have it screened at major film festivals.
George Tice, On the Road in Illinois, 1983, by Karon Shaub

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