Photo Presentation #6

Robert Flick
Born in 1939 in Amersfoot, The Netherlands. Flick is a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow. He lives in LA, where he developed one of the most interesting photography series of all time (in my opinion), Sequential Views. Here, he uses a video camera to capture stills, tons of them. He set up his camera on his car window and took a large series of stills at different times while he was driving through LA. He then takes all of the images and creates an ordered grid, showing all the images together as one long story. This is a really cool idea---I have always wanted to set my camera up in my car and take long exposures of the highway at night time...this is a little different than what he does, but somewhat similar subject matter. This idea is really cool and very well executed!!!!

Near Live Oak

Along Speedway

Long Beach Harbor

...This one is in Illinois

Jerry Uelsmann
One of my FAVORITE photographers of all time.
Born in Detroit in 1934 and received his BFA at the Rochester Institute of Technology and his MFA at Indiana University in 1960. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Nat'l Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He works mainly with film, and is known for his amazing layering work in the darkroom. He is an incredibly well-known photographer, and has the most awesome style of any photographer that I have ever come across.
The best attribute of his photography takes place in the darkroom; he is incredibly good at taking different objects and morphing them into one another and making them all connect to one another. He is good at making everything "one". I have always wanted to do a project relative to what he does...I still need to do this!!

Photo Presentation #5

Guy Bourdin
Actually named Guy Louis Banares, he was born in Paris in 1928 and died in Paris as well in 1991. He was a fashion photographer with a very pecuilar style. He got his start in photography while he aws a cadet in the French Air Force. The first fashion photographs he ever took were published in french Vogue in 1955, a magazine at which he worked until 1987.
Some of his photographs (on his website) are very different from anything I have ever seen. For example, the image of the nude woman in the studio where her figure is distorted is insane! I really want to know how he does this. It seems like either some sort of strange and bizzare glass figure in between the camera and the subject, but I cannot figure it out! His other photograph that is interesting to me, the image under Beauty of the girl looking through the goldfish bowl looks somewhat like a Surrealist, Dali-like painting, where the image of one thing, an eye, plays into and takes form with the glass.
His stuff is really different, and I really enjoy his perspective of photography.


Duane Michals
Born February 18, 1932, he is a photographer who is mainly self-taught. Michals received his BA from the University of Denver in 1953. He worked mainly with commercial photography for a long time. He tended to take photographs of people in their enviromments, mainly because he didn't have a studio. 
His sequenced photographs are his most interesting. One of my favorite things about his sequences is the stories within them. Some are more obvious than others, and some are more related to feeling than others. For example, the Chanced Meeting is interesting because it shows that moment that you tend to see in movies, where two people say goodbye and walk away, one looks back then the other does, both at different times, and neither knows. What is different about this one is that the two are strangers and both share a moment in which they connect, though they are not aware that the other has felt the same moment. His way of telling a story through multiple photograhs is what I like about him most.