Famous Photographers, pt. 2

Bill Owens
Owen did a particular series called Suburbia, which focused on endless paradox, monotony, and false impressions that are suburban life. He demonstrates how cropping can drastically change the content of an image.

Jim Goldberg
Jim Goldberg is a photographer that has been able to most successfully integrate photos and text. In his series Rich and Poor, he illustrates the similarities differences between people from varying levels of wealth, and in doing so, captures intensely personal portraits that reveal the depth of his subjects’ lives.

Lartigue
Lartigue got his first camera when he was very young and started photographing his family, mostly the younger members and usually at play. His work lends to the idea that some are born with natural talent and that trying to reproduce his shots only become that, reproductions.

Bourke-White
Bourke-White joins the ranks of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange during the 1930s and documented the strife of those suffering from the Dust Bowl. She also pioneered many fields for women, as the first female photographer for Life, the first female war correspondent, and the first woman allowed to work in combat zones during WWII. Many of her photos articulate the work of man on massive scale, from the work she did with Otis Steel Company and during the construction of the Fort Peck Dam.

Edward Burtynsky
Another photographer that work in very large scale, Burtynsky has recurrent theme of industrial spaces and how humans impact and change natural landscapes. He claims to not have any political motivations but it is near impossible to assume a objective and neutral position with that type of subject matter.

Bellocq
Another in a line of documentary photographers, Bellocq is best known for his work in Storyville, New Orleans's infamous legal red light district, and brings to the front a less notorious, but equally vibrant dialogue of people’s lives.