Laura Bosak - Style Assignment

Bing Wright

Bing Wright was born in 1958 in Seattle, Washington. He received his BA in Art History from Columbia University. Wright photographs all kinds of things from dead flies, to windows, to broken glass. He exclusively worked in black and white until he recently introduced some color into his work. Most of his work uses a simple seamless grey/white background while placing his subject somewhere in the middle or off to the side using the rule of thirds. In his “Greyscapes,” he would place the landscape very close to the bottom of the photograph in a vertical orientation. By doing this, he “breaks” the rules about landscape photography. He makes it so the sky is just pure grey and blank and everything that is going on is at the bottom. I am mostly drawn to some of his more recent work, called “Broken Mirror/Evening Sky.” Here, he takes a broken, cracked mirror and places it in front of the camera and photographs a sunset/sky in the broken mirror. The broken mirror provides some texture and adds some more interesting details to the picture rather than it being just a plain, simple photograph of a sunset.