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Jörg Sasse: d8207
Born in 1962 in Germany, Jörg Sasse began his career with an apprenticeship with Bernd Becher at the Art Academy Düsseldorf. Sasse is a visual artist that has a wide variety of subjects, but unlike most of the others I have studied, he rarely photographs people. This was interesting for me. A lot of his photos are landscape. The landscape usually has a tree, or a building in it to be the center of attention. A lot of his landscape pieces are sky at the top, with a defining object in the area, then with land underneath such as a hill, or a forest or the ocean. He also tends to do a lot of architectural photographs. These are interesting photos also because they are very different from his landscapes. All of his photos are very bright in color, also unlike other artists that I have studied. I noticed something about his photos where although there are rarely humans in them, there is always some sort of man made objects or reminance of humans. This made for an interesting touch on all of his photographs, especially the landscapes.
Domon Ken: The Master of Japanese Realism

Ken Domon is a Japanese photojournalist who was born in Japan in the early 1900’s. Ken is one of the most well known Japanese realist photographers whose work to this day is influencing young photographers around the world. Before passing away in 1990, Ken received many awards and honors in the photography world, even having an award named after him. Photorealism is “a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium.” One of Ken Domons staples was that his photos were in black and white. Not only does it show the mood in the photos, but it helps portray a story. Although not all of his photos were portraits, his portraits were the photos that really stuck out to me. He framed his photos in a way that we could see what else was going on behind the subject, but it would not take away from the subject. His photos were so real that you felt like you knew the person in them, and you could feel what they were feeling. His use of lighting was very impressive, and where he placed the shadows.
Gail Albert-Halaban: Paris Views

Gail is an American photographer born in the DC area in 1970. She attended Brown University for her BA of Art History in 1992 before continuing her education at Yale University to get her Master of Fine Arts in Photography. She was immediately recognized as a talented photography with selections in many exhibits and eventually publishing her first of five solo books. Gail captures really cool photographs. The book of hers that I selected from the library for this assignment was her 2014 book, Paris Views. This book features scenes from paris homes and apartments where we can see both in front of the building, inside the building, and in many of these photographs, behind the buildings. What stood out to me most was her use of lights and daylight. For you to be able to see what is happening inside the apartments, the inside of the building must be illuminated perfectly and the time outside must be a perfect lighting as well. That way there is enough light outside to show the outside of the building, but also not too much that it takes away from what is going on in the buildings. Often in her work, there are more than one windows that are shown, often on different floors of the apartment buildings. This goes to show multiple stories, similar to the 1954 Hitchcock film, Rear Window. She claims this as one of her inspirations, but also has her own creativity centered in each photo.

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