Photography Changes Everything

Michael Kenna was a photographer best known for his unusual and unique white and black landscapes featuring light from dawn or even at night. These photos included long exposures to receive the best results within the image. Most of Kenna's images focused on human-made structures and/or sculptural masses and how they interacted with the atmospheric condition of the natural landscape. Michael Kenna was a successful photographer because of his unique images. He was so successful with the unique photos he created mostly because of his long exposure times. By utilizing long exposure times, Michael Kenna was able to capture an image that the eye cannot visually see by itself in real life. I think long exposure images are really interesting and cool as they capture and bring in light overtime and all of that light captured is all used in one image to sort of make the image look alive and active. The images posted below are both images created by Michael Kenna. The first image is a nigh

Adam Fuss was a very popular artist during the time of the 1970s-1990s. He had grew up in England. While in England he had started to document the natural environment around him through photography. Those documentations eventually let Fuss to creating unique and unusual photographic processes that eventually led to Fuss abandoning the Camera altogether. Because he abandoned the camera, Fuss became a particularly interesting artist because of his different methods of artistry. Next, Adam Fuss abandoned photography altogether and began creating daguerreotypes and photograms. Fuss was best know for his life size photograms that were not common at the time. Fuss's work are strictly pieces of light and shadow, making them very intriguing to look at and observe. I particularly admire Fuss's work as his life size photograms were truly incredible and really spoke to me. The pictures I included below are life size photograms that Fuss created. I really like his artwork as they are lif

To begin, Man Ray was a visual artist who spent most of his time in Paris. According to Wikipedia, " He produced major works in a variety of  media  but considered himself a painter above all. He was best known for his photography, and he was a renowned  fashion  and portrait photographer. Man Ray is also noted for his work with  photograms , which he called "rayographs" in reference to himself.  Following that, Man Ray was involved in various different types of art. His artwork spanned from painting, film, prints, sculpture, etc. " For Man Ray, photography often operated in the gap between art and life. It was a means of documenting sculptures that never had an independent life outside the photograph," according to The Art Story . Basically, this means that Man Ray tried to give his photographs there own meaning, so that they meant something to people who observed the photographs. Also, Man Ray was kind of described as a pre-surrealist because even before th