Photo 2 Research Projects
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Sebastião Salgado
Sebastião Salgado was a famous brazilian photographer from the 20th century. He was born in 1944. He attended college at Sao Paulo University, and grad school in France at the University of Paris in 1971. His initial career was in economics, which he had a PhD in. His inspiration came when he had to travel to several African countries for work. He began to capture his interactions with his camera, and soon after, he began working for a photography company called Gamma. While at Gamma, he worked as a photojournalist. His work captured the simplistic, everyday life of people in third world countries. Throughout his career, he has received many journalism and photography awards, his most notable awards being the Eugene Smith Award, and two ICP Infinity journalism awards. Salgado set a new standard for photojournalism photography. His work was one of a kind and well known for being so simple and capturing the emotion of the people he photographed.
Source: https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/sebasti%C3%A3o-salgado?all/all/all/all/0
2. Irving Penn
Irving Penn was born in New Jersey in 1917. He had talent in the field of arts all his life. He spent most of his educational life and early professional career drawing and painting, but later got into photography after buying a camera. He soon becomes a photographer for Vogue Magazine. While working for Vogue, he travels internationally to take photos, most relating to fashion. All the while he was experimenting a way to develop photos using what he called the platinum-palladium process.” After doing research in his New York lab, he began to utilize this method. He began to develop all of his photos using this method, and as result he received a lot of popularity for his pictures. Even today, some of his work can be found at the Smithsonian and The Museum of Modern Art. Irving Penn was a pioneer in the field of development and a legend in fashion photography.
3. Walker Evans
Walker Evans was born in 1903 in St. Louis, Missouri. He moved to New York after dropping out of college at Williams College. Although he started as a writer, he began to develop a passion for photography when he bought a camera. He specialized in realism, mainly in European and American settings. He added his own twist by taking shots of simple everyday settings and items. One of his major projects he did took place during the depression, where he got a job with the government to capture settings. Signs and letters were most meaningful to him, as he liked to capture their meaning and interpret them. Much of his work was show in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Fortune Magazine.
4. Michael Aw
Michael Aw is a nature photographer and author from Singapore. He currently resides in Sydney, Australia where he works on writing for wildlife agencies. He began photographing wildlife professionally in 1991, specializing in underwater photography. He has become a very prestigious photographer and has had his work displayed in BBC, National Geographic, and the Smithsonian. He has won awards such as the Palme D'Or Gold Award, Wyland Icon Award, International prize for best book of the year, and NOGI from the American Academy of Underwater Arts and Science. He still takes photos today and works as a scuba diving instructor.