Among all the bold subjects, her famous works are Child with a Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park, Identical Twins, A Naked Man being a Woman and Triplets in their Bedroom.Īrbus had severe episodes of depression, and was also known to have extreme mood swings. Due to the way, her camera was placed, one could also spot the wrinkles on the subject’s skin. The dramatic light on his face enhances his ‘nothing to hide’, transparent expression. She took that picture with a lot of details. She used very dramatic lights on her portraits, and one such example of dramatic and other light effects can be the portrait of a transvestite with heavy makeup. Arbus was known to create a bold familiarity between illusion and reality vs. She changed her Nikon 35mm camera and started using a twin reflex Rolleiflex to get more square pictures, which was her specialty. He uses striking contrasts in his black and white images which is very much relevant to the sensitive subjects he caters to. Therefore, he is extremely graphic in his pictures. Nachtwey is popular for his sensitive documentation on certain subjects he feels for those causes quite strongly, which speaks through his photography. He is also known for covering and documenting tuberculosis and how it has taken its toll across countries like Cambodia, South Africa, Switzerland and Thailand. He has captured many major events around the world with his camera, such as the 9/11 attacks on WTC, the tsunami in 2004, the Sudan conflict, the US invasion of Iraq and many more. He got wounded while taking pictures, during the year 2003, in Baghdad. He is also famous for his film on photography and photojournalism. He has been honored with the record number of 5 awards, including the ‘Robert Capa Gold Medal’ by the Overseas Press Club of America. He is an American who is well-known for his war photography. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.” “I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony.
His use of double exposure made these pictures even more surreal.
#Black and white romantic photo series#
He did a series of photo shoot naming his work Wasteland Illusion wherein he used a male nude body as a foreground and juxtaposed with simple landscape in the background and created an illusion. Some of his surreal black and white photographs are also shot in European cities.Īrno Minkkinen’s famous works of abstraction are Fosters Pond, White Sands, Sandy and Self-portrait, Beach Pond, CT, 1974, to name a few. He does most of his photo shoots in the countryside and towns of the United States and his hometown, Finland. Minkkinen also incorporated female nudity in some of his abstract concepts. Through some of his works, he awed art lovers with a simple background, and an abstract but out of focus foreground.
Minkkinen has a unique quality of coming up with bizarre concepts of surrealism as well as balance, and equating his foreground and background. Keith Davis (the curator of Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art) writes, “As a whole, Minkkinen’s work represents a deeply personal dialogue with nature, an artistic meditation on the tensions between seeing and dreaming, union and alienation”. He plays with light and darkness, light and shadow, and also with settings and his subjects, which result in surreal and abstract pictures which are timeless. Being a student of design, he is best known for his black and white photographs, containing the bodies in juxtaposition alongside beautiful landscaping.
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