What Does Photography Mean to Me?

 Micheal Keena is best known for working in black and white photography. He is very famous for his unusual photographs of landscapes and actually has a lot of work in museums. Keena also is known for taking his photographs at dawn or night, using more then 10 hours of exposure to get his photographs how he wants it to look. He even has a significant amount of books written about him and his work because of his photographs interaction with nature.  Surprisingly I really love his work. It all looks so sharp with a lot of symmetry, lines, and much more. Most of his images I am really curious how he was able to take it because of the different angles and heights of the subject of the photo. He believed that photographing in black and white would make his images mysterious and I completely agree, it gives off the vibes of something smooth yet scary to come.  I noticed that Keena doesn't photograph people and that is interesting. his main goal is to create calm, sooth...

       Man Ray, was man with many talents: photography, painting, film-making, and maybe more. It was said that he played a significant role in the evaluation of photography in an art form. Like Lee Friedlander, man Ray specifically works in black and white photographs.      Surprisingly, Ray has worked in photogram. To me photogram isn't hard but can be very interesting with the objects and pieces that can be used to make the photo. Because I have worked on a photo like this I kind of feel more closer to the photography because we have done similar work. Looking at the image below, it looks like he used his hand, an ash tray,  cigarettes, and maybe two eggs. That is just my guest but knowing that anything can be made into a photogram really makes me like this.      As previously mentioned in another  blog, I stated that I did not like the black and white work Friedlander photographed but looking at ray's work, specif...

        Lee Friedlander is an American photographer who photographs mostly store-front reflections, posters, street signs and so much more. He chose to produce photographs in black and white style. As I am looking through the photos he has taken, you can see that his reflection is in some of them. I feel as if to bring more significance to what he is taking a picture of. I personally don't hate the images he has taken over the years but I find some of them boring. Some of them are dimensional but others are really simple and bland. Because the images are black and white, sometimes color tells a story but in some instances of his photographs it looks like there te lling a story but I don't know specifically what.       Based on some research I have done, black and white suggests distancing the subject matter from reality. It is stated that "removing color from a picture helps the...