2015年3月15日星期日

Saul Leiter&Eve Arnold——Great Photographers



Photographer Saul Leiter, a rabbi and a painter who really make Hamlet fame is his New York street photography. In 1953, Edward Steichen his work in New York MoMA exhibition "Always the Young Strangers" in the exhibition, he began to emerge. That same year, his work in Saul Leiter: Early Color was launched in by the historian Martin Harrison wrote the foreword. Compared to other New York photographer, such as Virginia and Arbus, Everett did not known, although he had held in 2006 at Milwaukee Art Museum had an exhibition.


Overlooked color photographer

Photography started to gather some inspiration, he took a borrowed camera onto the streets of New York Lycra, with black and white photographs grab those fleeting poetic scenes, lines under the sun, dark shadow of silver and overlay images with surreal meaning of the window reflection. After that, he turned to black and white photos from color photos, and the establishment of a unique color street photography style.


His works describe the complex relationship between people, buildings, the weather, the picture is full of split, local, concealed or multi-space and shape. People in the picture are arranged in the glass, mirrors and other fragmented space. Their bodies may be placed in deep shadow, outline, some are hidden in the snow, and some were huge canopy cover. His work is the visual experience of the city - not street people, but people have seen.




Lift Eve Arnold, who are familiar with photography will not be unfamiliar, her Marilyn Monroe up to 10 years of shooting not only made her known in the world, but also let her become Marilyn Monroe girlfriends. In addition to Marilyn Monroe, she also filmed a number of Queen Elizabeth, Mrs. Kennedy and other influential women. She is also the first in the lens at the China Western photojournalists, in the 1970s, she had visited China several times, shooting a lot of precious photos literature, and published albums "in China." Eve Arnold life won numerous awards, including the Journal of the American Photographers Association awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award, and the British royal awarded Order of the British Empire in recognition of its contribution in the photography industry.

Eve Arnold, who writes: "I have destitute, so I will focus on poverty; I had lost a child, so I'm fascinated by the newborn; I am interested in politics, I want to know that it has brought to life what; I am a woman, I want to know whether they want to show what a woman, as long as they are willing to give, I will be shot. ".










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