documentary portraits

 taking photo's of people around college - with or with out permission

Alex Sturrock

 Tends to use flash, or strong light when available, to make his subjects stand out against the background.

http://www.alexsturrock.com/

August Sander

street photography - attacking people

richard avedon, clay enos

Using Clay Enos as our inspiration, we took photos of people in the street against a white background (a bit of paper stuck to a wall). I, personally, did not enjoy this task - most people did not want their photograph taken, and when they did, the piece of paper behind them was too small, or not tall enough - the first man was 6'2", which was difficult to photograph at a foot shorter.

square mile - architecture

We went out to photograph the architecture around college, showing the juxtaposition and age of a whole little ecosystem, that mostly thrives around the hospital.

Robert Polidori is one of the world’s preeminent architectural photographers. As a photographer for The New Yorker, Polidori travels worldwide recording contemporary urban landscapes, as well as the remnants of the past. He is represented by several renowned New York galleries, and his dramatic large-scale color photographs have been prominently exhibited in solo shows at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
In Looking East, Polidori captures the contagious energy of New York. The beautifully saturated hues that define this photograph are the result of Polidori’s attention to natural light. The artist selected just the right time of day in which to make his image, when the sun was low and the light was rapidly transforming this scene. As a result, the viewer will feel that the scene was dramatically different just before and after Polidori’s exposure.
Look for Polidori’s spectacular photographs on the Museum’s first floor in the Otto and Marguerite Manley Gallery. These photographs are each approximately four feet tall, and their large scale is one of the distinguishing qualities of much contemporary photography. Photographers now have the technology to print their works on a grand scale that is comparable with that of traditional painting. When you visit the permanent collection galleries and stand before these magnificent photographs, be sure to turn around and glance back to the large painting of Colorado’s Mount Powell by Richard Tallant in the Loo Collection exhibition. In our galleries, Polidori’s majestic landscape photographs compellingly extend the language of landscape art from the frontier paintings of the 19th century to the urban photography of today.

http://www.csfineartscenter.org/Collection-Spotlight/polidori.asp

Considered one of the world’s leading architectural photographers Robert Polidori creates meticulously detailed, large-scale color photographs that transcend the limits of pure architectural photography.

http://arthurrogergallery.com/artists/robert-polidori/

Magazine stuffs

I like these front covers because I would like to put Bina on the front, wearing something she's made, so I looked at covers that have 1 person, fairly close to the camera.

http://www.fashionising.com/pictures/p--Fashion-Magazine-covers-for-April-2010-6234-90670.html

I really liked these layouts - they're interesting, vibrant, different. If I can, I would like to use all of them in my final magazine piece. I like the dark 2 page spread (6 Brands for summer) and the polaroid-esq spread the most (both further down)

http://www.topdesignmag.com/20-magazine-design-layouts-for-your-inspiration/

http://www.amylampdesign.com/2009/03/213/

http://www.touchey.com/post/15395830073/10-awesome-fashion-magazines-layouts