week 3 research

paul Strand (October 16, 1890 – March 31, 1976) was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century. His diverse body of work, spanning six decades, covers numerous genres and subjects throughout the Americas, Europe, and Africa  

i really love how paul strands photos seem so simple at first glance then you really look at then and theres so much going on when i first looked at these photos i just scrolled  past them then i went back though .theses caught my eye and i really started to look at them now there some of my favourite pictures

Toward the Sugar House, Vermont, 1944  

the framing and and lines of this picture really make your eye go to the tree i can't tell if this is a window or a doorway but the use of its straight lines really makes this picture stand out 

Anna Attinga Frafra, Accra, Ghana, 1964 

with this photo the cropping is done so the girl is the main subject and she stands out but leaves enough space so the picture is not to full with her this makes it easier to see the details of the photo all at once  

Olive Cotton (11 July 1911 – 27 September 2003) was a pioneering Australian modernist female photographer of the 1930s and 40s working in Sydney. Cotton became a national "name" with a retrospective and touring exhibition 50 years later in 1985. A book of her life and work, published by the National Library of Australia, came out in 1995. Olive Cotton captured her childhood friend Max Dupain from the sidelines at photoshoots, e.g. "Fashion shot, Cronulla Sandhills, circa 1937" and made several portraits of him.[1] Dupain was Cotton's first husband.

the tight crop on both of these patterns really pulls your attention to the subject of these pictures with the first picture the lines of the trees really dominate this picture pulling your eye sky ward . in the second picture the pattern of the tea cups is broken with the single cup being in the foreground when you would expect it to be in the background with how the pattern goes

for this reasher i used a couple web sites i forgot to add links