Unit 4: Blog Entry

Research and write a paragraph summary about four 20th century photographers of your choice. Each photographer needs to have a paragraph written about them each. You are to include two images of work from each of the four photographers (research online) with each summary. 
Here are some photographers from which you can choose.
Henri Cartier Bresson
Ansel Adams
Edward Weston
Jerry Uelsman
Minor White
Alfred Stieglitz
Eugene Atget
Man Ray
Walker Evans
Cindy Sherman

Ansel Adams

Ansel Easton Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist. He took photos that were black-and-white landscapes. They were photographs of the American West. Ansel Adams teamed up with Fred Archer and they developed the Zone System. This system was used for the proper exposure and adjust the contrast as the final print. Mr. Adams mainly used large format cameras. Reason for this was the fact that it had higher resolution. Concluding, that it helped ensure the sharpness of his images. Another things Ansel Adams contributed was finding Group f/64, a photography group. In his first portfolio in the 1920's, he earned nearly $3,900, a success. Ansel Adams died on April 22, 1984 in the ICU. Although he died, in 2010 his photograph, "CLEARING WINTER STORM, YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK", sold for $722,500. 

Man White

Man White was born on July 9, 1908 and was an American photographer, theoretician, critic and educator. Mr. White took photos of landscapes, people and abstract matter. In his photos he made created technical mastery of visual sense of light and shadows. His photography journey started when he bought a 35mm Argus camera and decided to move to Seattle in 1937. About one year later he was a photographer for the Oregon Art Project. He was to take shots of historic buildings in Portland. Moving on, in the mid 1940's he showed the importance of how his photographs are presented to the viewer. Sadly Man White died on June 24, 1976.

Edward Weston

Edward Weston was born on March 24, 1886. His journey began when his father gave him a camera at age 16. In the early 1920's Mr. Weston's photos imitated painting and was identified a pictorialist style. He did go down to Mexico and found his lover in 1923.

While doing that he did a lot of portraits and nudes, which he is mainly known for today. Returning to United States in 1926, he settled down in California. He then kept on capturing nudes, close-ups, natural forms of landscapes. He did die in California on January 1, 1958.

Walker Evans

Walker Evans was born on November 3, 1903. what Mr. Walker did in the photography was influence the second half of the 20th century. His work has shown American life during second half of the century.The work included outdoor advertising, the beginnings of the automobile culture and not to mention domestic interiors. He died on April 10, 1975.