Style - Sican

Carl Johan De Geer:

Carl Johan De Geer is an artist but also do photography. De Geer captures the world with intimate informality, in black-and-white documentary photographs. He used Leica M4 to capture the monotone grit of everyday life. He photographed buildings, either interiors or facades, or mostly humans. De Geer gives us a glimpse of an unseen world - Sweden inhabited by people. His photos are hilarious and has artistic feeling. He used shallow depth of views a lot. Subjects were not put in random places to model for something, but the background and people are as a whole to tell a story. He photographed from various angles: close-up, extreme close-up, low-level, high level, long shoot... He captures the motions (even blurry in pictures), facial expressions, actions.  His He captured the real stuffs. He didn’t care about whether the background or the subject are complete or not, like a solider missing one tip of hat, a dog missing toes. But the incompleteness never made audience feel “weird”. There is madness, craziness, opinions, destructive power.... He captured the real stuffs.

Dayanita singh:

Her work is black and white. She photographed different scenes. Environment, people. She took pictures about life of upper-class Indians, like girls wearing sari, father patting on his son’s head. Her work in little ladies museum depict women from 1961- present.. She either very close to focus mainly on subjects’ emotions and actions or shoot from a far distance, with deep depth of field to show more environment, like woman’s closet, room decoration, people’s reaction towards main figures... She brought me to the daily life of middle to upper class India In last centure – the clothes, the style... it is an exotic eastern world. I see conversations in each pictures. She framed her work in different ways – usually not from the parallel levels as the sublects’ eye. She can either shoot from a lower angle to show the power difference – which some subjects appearing big and some are weaker. She had another collection drawing my attention, which is always have photography in the whole scenes – either hanging in the wall or someone holding it.

Paul Strand:
As a native new york photographer, Paul Strand started photographing pictures from his city and then traveled across the North America to shoot landscapes. Southwest included photos from 1930 to 1932 in New Mexico. His photos depict the nature (woods, mountains, sky...), the architecture (ghost town), the religion (Christian cross), the visage of his ex-wife (Rebecca Strand). He created the feeling of grandeur and isolation - a radically new landscape and foreign culture. He synthesized the realism and abstract. He produced in the negative size.