Assignment Three Research

August Sander

http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/sander/

August Sander was a photographer in the twentieth century who captured portraits of the people of his time. The set, titled 'People of the Twentieth Century', was published in his book two years after their release titled 'The Face of Time' and became a controversial piece of photographic media. Despite Sander spending many years on this project, it remains unfinished, and the photographs were catalogued into sections of class and type. Women and Artists being two of those.

Farmer

Another of the 'types' of people Sander interpreted was the farmers, he took numerous headshots and portraits of farmers in the German society. This is my favourite, because of how simply you can tell that this man is a farmer, but the clothing he is wearing and the prop he is holding.

August Sander also tried and succeeded in showing societies classes through his photographs. Now, however, it would be much harder for me to do so, as there are no set classes in society. However, stereotypes are set in peoples minds, so it would be good to have a range of stereotypes in my final 5 photographs.

Diane Arbus

www.diane-arbus-photography.co.uk

I love this photograph by Diane Arbus, it is so simple in black and white and the subjects being identitical twins makes it even more interesting. When I go out and photograph for my Assignment Three, I am going to look out for interesting and unusual people who I can photograph, such as identical twins. I think this would make people more drawn to looking at my photography.

Scott Schuhman - The Sartorialist

Scott Schuhman has been working on a blog for the past few years, focussing on the people in different countries and how fashion influences them.

www.thesartorialist.com

The simplicity of all of Scott Schuhman's photographs makes the clothing or make up they are wearing become to centrepiece of the photograph, rather than the person themselves. He mainly does full body shots, but this headshot of a young woman caught my eye compositionally. I think avoiding full length photographs would be beneficial to me, as there would be less background to attempt to avoid getting passersby photographed in, and it makes the viewer concentrate on the face of the subject. I will experiment with a model I know, using a full length composition, above waist composition and headshot composition.