Jess Orndorff Photographer styles
NATURE’S CHAOS
Photographs by Elliot Porter
Elliot Porter, born in 1901 in Chicago, always had a love for photography. Elliot has photographed many aspects of nature, ranging from river channels photographed from above to close-ups of bark from a tree. I would say the style of his photographs include capturing the shapes, colors, and textures of nature. He has photographed several soft, edgeless clouds and then others are rigid mountains. He often only shows close ups of nature and chooses not to show anything else in the background. One photograph shows the flow of lava but only this. There is no volcano or sky included. Another photograph is of the bark on a tree. Again, this photo is very close up and only includes the way that the bark is shaped. You cannot see the tree as a whole or where exactly this close up of the bark came from on the tree. I believe this tool of highlighting the fine details of a bigger object is what makes his photographs “his”. Some of his photographs make you really have to look for what exactly it is, since some of them are so close up. There is also a lot of contrast between light and dark in many of his photographs which accentuates the details of the photos. In summary, all of his photographs consisted of different parts nature, all in color and all excluding anything artificial or man-made.
PORTRAITS
Photographs by Thomas Struth
Thomas Struth is a German man born in 1954. He photographed many people of different gender, ethnicities, and ages. Some portraits were of a single person, while others consisted of multiple people. Many of the photographs of people seemed to be taken in their homes or places that were familiar to the people. They all tell a story about the person/people. For example, in one of his photos, there are ten individuals of different ages sitting or standing around a table outside. There are kids, adults, grandparents, etc. all together (probably for a family dinner or gathering). One consistent thing in all of his portraits is that every person is looking at the camera. Even if there are multiple people in one photograph, they will all be looking at the observer. Thomas Struth has a mix of monochrome images and color images. Some are taken inside like around a table and some are taken outside. However in most of these images there is not a lot to distract you from the main subject. Some portraits are taken in front of white or solid colored back drops. I would say that Struth has a style of taking clear photographs of people who are engaged with the camera.
WOMEN ARE BEAUTIFUL
Photographs by Garry Winogradd
Garry Winogrand was born in 1928 in New York. He photographed women in the streets of New York in many of these photographs. All in black and white, you will see a single woman, multiple women, or a woman and a man in these different photos. They all tell a story of what each woman is doing in that moment; from laying out on a beach towel in a park to talking on the phone in a telephone booth. His style is taking photographs of people doing daily activities in the streets of around the city. Some of the women are looking at the camera but others are not. Many of the photographs look like they were taken in action and not staged. One image is of a women walking on a sidewalk with her hair blowing in the wind and another one is of a woman riding a bike. All of the images are also landscapes, not close ups. These landscapes tell a story of what is happening around the subject. I would say that Garry has a style of capturing moments out on the streets with different women. He wants to show day to day things that they do in their lives from reading a book in a park to walking on the streets to a destination. He has taken photographs of many women of different ethnicities. They all seem to be around the same age, however, maybe early 20’s to late 30’s. There are no children or older individuals as subjects.
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