History of Photography
I chose for my term paper three extremely different photographers, who lived in the same era, yet they had contrary set of ideas. As I was analyzing which photographers I was going to write my term paper on, I ran into Robert Mapplethorpe. The reason why I wanted to analyze him was because I realized that such a talented photographer began experimenting his first photographs in the early 1970s with a Polaroid camera, by that time this camera was novelty and was being mass-marketed. I also realized how he becomes a product of his own time, ignoring what he called a photograph, yet becoming a well-known photographer. He did not feel a strong ideological commitment to photography; rather it simply became the medium that could best convey his statement. But he realized that photography had a history, and he set out to educate himself about it. Mapplethorpe began mastering his technique, which made him different from all of the other photographers. Mapplethorpe did not consider himself a photographer, and did not aspire in any way to become one. Ironically, he became well known, although his idea was to take his own pictures rather than use someone else's from magazines. The Polaroid was popular, unfussy and r
Avedon gave in his fashion photography cotton candy for the eye. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**Bibliography:ˇ "A World History of Photography" by Naomi Rosenblumˇ Britannica Online www. The reason why I think we would never consider photographing these subjects is because we view people with any physical disadvantage to be morbid and cruel. Mapplethorpe's next Self Portrait increased the size of the photograph and the prominence of the frame. It's essential to the effect of the current subjects that they are presented as unaware of his designs on them. Mapplethorpe's first Polaroid's were self-portraits. He could also suggest that the glamour of his models drew the attention of sports and news photographers, whose styles he sometimes laminated onto his own. What made her different is that she will not photograph beauty according to society. In addition, it had been embraced by a number of trendy people, such as Andy Warhol, and it had a contemporary edge. As I was analyzing her pictures, I felt that her concept of beauty is completely different from ours. The concept of beauty was not to photograph a perfectly coifed up woman wearing lots of makeup and barely any clothes. This also has to do with homophobia, men do not want to glimpse at men's bodies and say, "Wow, it is beautiful. Her photographic style had to do more with practice, than truly acquiring a technique. Avedon's portraiture of "ordinary" westerners is on the whole darker and more cutting than his earlier work.
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