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Communicating with Images

Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

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Page 1: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

CommunicatingwithImages

Page 2: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

Magura Caves,Bulgaria,ca.5000yearsold

Page 3: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

HorseshoeCanyon,Utahca.8,000yearsold

Page 4: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”
Page 5: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

ChristianVogt,FrameSeries

Page 6: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”
Page 7: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”
Page 8: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

ChristianVogt,FrameSeries

Page 9: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

Transformationflatness,choiceofmedium,vantagepoint,

frame,time,focus,light,display

composition,signs&symbols,editing,cropping,technique,color,visualanalogies,

Page 10: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

ChristianLichtenberg

Page 11: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

GarySchneider,GeneticSelf-Portraits

Page 12: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

HelmutNewton

Page 13: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

FOCUS!

Page 14: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

RobertMapplethorpe,SelfPortrait

Page 15: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

NanGoldin,Self-PortraitwithMilagro,TheLodge,Belmont,MA

Page 16: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

Light

Page 17: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

”Embracelight.Admireit.Loveit.Butaboveall,knowlight.Knowitforallyouareworth,andyouwillknowthekeytophotography.”

- GeorgeEastman

Page 18: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

Gjon Mili,PabloPicasso

Page 19: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

RichardAvedon

Page 20: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

LouiePalu,fromthebookCageCall:LifeandDeathintheHardRockMiningBelt,2007

Page 21: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

Eugène Atget,ca.1920 EdAlcockforTheNewYorkTimes,2010

Page 22: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

Composition

Page 23: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

“Asnapshotstealslifethatitcannotreturn.Alongexposure[creates]aformthatneverexisted.”

- DieterAppelt

Page 24: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

ArnoldNewman,Alfried Krupp

Page 25: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

ElliotErwitt,SantaMonica

Page 26: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

AndreasRentsch,HighSecurityJail,LosAngeles

Page 27: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

SignsandSymbols

Page 28: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

“Theknowledgeofphotographyisjustasimportantasthatofthealphabet. Theilliterateofthefuturewillbethepersonignorantoftheuseofthecameraaswellasthepen.”

- László Moholy-Nagy

Page 29: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

AndreasRentsch,BerlinWall

Page 30: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

FromDavidCrow,VisibleSigns

Page 31: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”
Page 32: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

Context

Page 33: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

AndreasRentsch,BerlinWall

Page 34: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”
Page 35: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

JoeRosenthal,IwoJima,1945

Page 36: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

AlfredEisenstaedt,1945

Page 37: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”
Page 38: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

Editing/Cropping

Page 39: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

RichardLam(GettyImages)

Page 40: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

RichardLam(GettyImages)

Page 41: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

Cropping

Page 42: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

FromtheInternet

Page 43: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

AndreasRentsch

Page 44: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

Technique

Page 45: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

“Ofcourse,therewillalwaysbethosewholookonlyattechnique,whoask"how,"whileothersofamorecuriousnaturewillask"why."Personally,Ihavealwayspreferredinspirationtoinformation."

- ManRay

Page 46: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

BillJacobson,InterimPortrait#388

Page 47: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

RobertMapplethorpe,SelfPortrait

Page 48: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

Color

Page 49: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

“Whydotwocolors,putonenexttotheother,sing?Canonereallyexplainthis?No.Justasonecanneverlearnhowtopaint.”

- PabloPicasso

Page 50: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

ArnoldNewmanRobertMoses,1959

Page 51: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

NanGoldinNanandBrianinBed,NewYorkCity,1983

NanGoldinSelfPortraitinBlueBathroom,London,1980

Page 52: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

AnnevanHouwelingen

Page 53: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

Display

Page 54: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

RichardPrince,Untitled(Cowboy),1989

Page 55: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

VisualAnalogies

Page 56: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

Sebastiào SalgadoStarvedChildLookingforFoodintheRegionoftheFormerLakeFaguibine,Mali

Page 57: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

PeterMaurer,Self-Portrait

Page 58: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

InfluencefromotherMediums

Page 59: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

“Therearepuristsinallformsofexpression.Therearephotographerswhomaintainthattheirmediumhasnorelationtopainting.Therearepainterswhodespisephotography,althoughmanyinthelastcenturyhavebeeninspiredbyitandusedit.Therearearchitectswhorefusetohangapaintingintheirbuildingsmaintainingthattheirownworkisacompleteexpression”

- ManRay

Page 60: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

GregoryCrewdson,onlocation,fromhisseriesTwilight

Page 61: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

GregoryCrewdson,“Untitled”fromtheseriesTwilight

Page 62: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

AnaMendieta

Page 63: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

JeffWallSuddenGustofWind

KatsushikaHokusaiYejiri Station,ProvinceofSurugaca,1832

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Text

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Babara KrugerYourBodyisaBattlegroundUntitled(IshopthereforeIam)

Page 66: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”
Page 67: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

“Whenyouapproachsomethingtophotographit,firstbestillwithyourselfuntiltheobjectofyourattentionaffirmsyourpresence.Thendon'tleaveuntilyouhavecaptureditsessence.”

- MinorWhite

Page 68: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

AndreasRentsch

Page 69: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

AndreasRentsch

Page 70: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

AndreasRentsch

Page 71: Communicating with Images - THE SELF · ” Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.”

“Therearenorulesforgoodphotographs,thereareonlygoodphotographs.”

- AnselAdams