William Eggleston

Artist: William Eggleston
Date: 1980
Title: Troubled Waters series

I really appreciate Eggleston's ability to find extraordinary color schemes and composition from the mundane. For instance in the top picture the colors are somehow very close schematically and seem better than your average frozen goods. Then in the bottom picture there is this odd pink glow on a seemingly everyday gas station. I love the candid, yet mastered aspect to his photos. I could scroll through them for hours... haha

Patrick Craig Manning

Artist: Patrick Craig Manning

Date: 

Title: Delta series

I really like these images. The washed out qualities that many people criticize, I appreciate. Washing out the details of these pictures causese you to look for more in them. What does this blank white sky mirroring the white water represent? Possibly something different to everyone. That's where I find the glory in these photos. Although, I will say his land in water series looses it a bit for me. Shading of colors that you wouldn't even know were underwater unless told is a little too ambiguous for me and therefore looses some of the charm. I think the blown out landscapes in the delta represent just enough ambiguity. 

Tech 3 - studio lighting

                                           

Tech 2 - warped perception

warped beauty

progression

Nan Goldin

Artist: Nan Goldin
Date: 1999
Title: Joanna Lauging, Hotel Paris

I really find Goldin's raw quality to her photographs appealing. She doesn't shy away from anything. She doesn't glamorize anything. Her photographs are all raw representations of her experiences and the people she's met along the way. At least, that's how I look at them. I tend to like artists like this who try and eliminate society's filter. Showing these individuals with what has potentially isolated them from society almost elevates them as stronger beings, portraying them as the "elite."

PP1 - winter weather series

Keara

CJ

Jordan

Shoshana

Michael

Monica

Alex

Zuzu

Robert Heinecken

Artist: Robert Heinecken
Date:1989
Title: From the Recto-verso series

I find Heinecken's work very interesting. The layering of these beauty advertisements to create a controversial message about the view and sexualization on women is pretty astounding, not to mention extremely visually stimulating.  These images keep you rather entertained for a while. Staring at one image you find at least three or four different images overlapped, showing through clearly only where the brightest part of the image is. It's interesting to de-layer the images in your mind and try and see which individual women/advertisements have been layered. Overall the compilation of the images results in an ambiguous assortment of skin, eyes and lips. The fact that these three things are the only things you're able to decipher is quite a statement on society's "acceptable" view on women sexuality if you ask me.