(practitioners research)(week 2)

laurence aberhart 

"Laurence Geoffrey Aberhart  (born 1949) is a new zealand photographer Aberhart was born in Nelson in 1949, along with three siblings, and was educated at Nelson College from 1963 to 1966.^[1] He moved to Lyttelton in the late 1960s, before finally moving to Russell where he still lives and works today. Aberhart travels often and has produced many collections of photographs taken around the world. Although he photographs numerous subjects, Aberhart is best known for his photography of buildings from around the world. His subject matter includes Masonic lodges, war memorials, houses and the occasional landscape. However, when he was typecast as a building photographer, Aberhart took a series of human portraits to debunk the stereotype.^[2][3]

Aberhart trained to become a primary teacher and it was around that time when he first became interested in photography by reading the photographic books on display and seeing a friend working in the darkroom. Aberhart taught himself photography. After finishing his teaching course, he was posted in Northland. This was his only posting as a teacher and soon after he took up photography seriously.^[4] Aberhart has three children, who were the subject of a series of photographs in the 1980s, but is unmarried.^[3]"h  

(off Wikipedia ) 

i really like aberharts style of photos i like how he can take something all ready impressive in its own right and make it even more impressive  i also like that he shots in  black and white his use of  aperture and leading lines in this photo  .of how the tiles on the floor lead your eye to every point at the same time and the curved line of the stair case dominates the picture also his use of narrow DOF in this picture really draws the eye to the staircase and the lights above .i think a medim to slow shutter speed would have been used for this photo so im gussing a tipod may have beeen used for this photo .

Staircase, State capitol, Baton Rouge,    

                                                   Loisiana, 1988. 

this photo  is a bit burry because iv made it bigger than the original image that i found on google .i think a wide DOF  was used in this photo with this photo the fore mid and background really tie in together this makes it feel like your standing right there seeing this with your own eyes . 

Alexandra , Central Otago, 1980. 

here are two  links if you would like to know more I also used  a book called aberhaart when I was researching 

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Aberhart 

richard mischard 

Richard Misrach (born in Los Angeles, California in 1949) is an American photographer "firmly identified with the introduction of color to 'fine' [art] photography in the 1970s, and with the use of large-format traditional cameras" 
 ( from Wikipedia )

 Cypress Tree, Alligator Bayou, 

the leading lines in this photo really draw your eye up and back firstly with the trees leading up then the land at the back that draws the eye acros the hole picture his use of a wide DOF really brings in a lot detail also how the fore and mid ground are basicaly mirror images of each other .



                                                         

              

                                           



Nottoway Plantation, Interior, Louisiana, 1998

the use of a narrow dof with the leading lines from make the items really stand out from the white space around them  

the column on the left of the screen mirrors the columm on the back wall  

these are two favourite pictures i have found of  richard misrach  i like how they look like your standing right there seeing the details for your self 

 

I used  petrochemical America by Richard misrach and kate orff  also for my research  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Misrach