Monday, March 31, 2014

7. Eve Arnold: Arnold was born in 1912 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1946 her love for photography sparked when photographing a plant in 1946 in New York. Arnold had photoed many famous moments throughout her long life and photoed different Celebrities like Malcolm X, Queen Elizabeth II and Joan Crawford. In the 1960s Arnold had moved to the United States. Other trips include Russia, China, South Africa, Afghanistan and Egypt. She took pictures of objects that reflected society like oil rigs, government officials, celebrities and musical icon.




Wednesday, March 19, 2014

8. Anne Geddes:One of the world's most renounced and well known photographers, Geddes creates images that are iconic. Her photos generally captures purity, innocence of human life generally babies. Babies are probably innocent things ever, because they don't know the world so they would generally have no opinion on anything, making them innocent. Geddes was born in Queensland, Australia. Geddes began her career in Hong Kong in 1983with a basic camera she began to photograph her children, neighbors and friends in Hong Kong. Her photos where mainly based on the innocence of life such as babies in odd scenarios each having a message behind it. Anne is now doing a project on the effects of  global warming and one about Meningococcal disease.


Wednesday, March 5, 2014

10.Andy Warhol The leading personality in the visual art movement, known as Pop Art. He lived from 1928 until 1987. Warhol after college, Warhol started to work in visual arts, becoming famous throughout the 1960s. His photography was based around pop culture. Warhol was also known as an artist in painting. In later years he promoted that he would be taking photos based around more gruesome or eerie subjects like nuclear war, car crashes, electric chairs and suicides. Since Warhol was a child he had been always interested in celebrities was known for his portrayal such as  Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and even Mao Zedong, the dictator of China of that time. Warhol then died in 1987 at the downfall of his career. Today he is known for being one of the biggest inspirations to pop and modern artists.