Week 1: Camera Use Artists Anna & Berhard Blume & Richard Avedon

Shutter: Blur and Frozen Movement

anna and bernhard blume:

Anna Blume and Bernhard (Johannes) Blume where born in 1937.  
Anna was born in, Westphalia and Bernhard Blume was born in Dortmund.

                      Reference: http://www.nrw-museum.de

stephensheffield.wordpress.com  1515 × 715    The artists live and work together in Cologne.

stephensheffield.wordpress.com   640 × 490      Kitchen Frenzy, 1986

It is amazing to see how much Anna and Bernhard Bluma, expanded the boundaries of photography.

They put lots of effort and thought into capturing the frozen movement, blurring  images. Both looked to be having a lot of fun doing their photos. The black and white images are amazing tones and contrasts. 

Doing photography for them took more than just composing a photo they were creating a piece of art and having fun expressing their feelings and joy.

www.photography-now.com  570 × 219       1977-78, Silver gelatine print

Selected Literature

Anna & Bernhard Blume, de-konstruktiv, Ausst.-Kat. Museum am Ostwall Dortmund, hg. v. K. Wettengl,
D. Strauß, Bielefeld / Leipzig 2006

Anna & Bernhard Blume, Das Glück ist ohne Pardon – Joy knows no mercy, Polaroids: Ausst.-Kat. Kunsthalle Göppingen, hg.v. W. Meyer, Göppingen 2003

Honnef, K. (Hg.): Transzendentaler Konstruktivismus, Ausst.-Kat. Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen 1995

// Honnef, K. (Hg.): Anna und Bernhard Blume, 3 Bde., Köln 1992 — 95

Wieland, A. (Hg.): Anna & Bernhard Blume, Großfotoserien 1985 — 1990, Ausst.-Kat., Rhein. Landesmuseum Bonn, Köln 1992 

Richard Avedon:

Richard Avedon was one of the most important and prolific photographers of the second half of the twentieth century, and in the eyes of many photography and fashion specialists, he was the most important fashion photographer of all time. In a career spanning sixty years he showed himself capable of almost constant stylistic reinvention, yet in retrospect his oeuvre also demonstrated a remarkable coherence and strength that far surpassed the narrow confines of fashion photography.

Reference: http://www.my-fashionbank.com/articles/article19.html

Reference: Encyclopedia of clothing gang fashion

Source: Fashion Bank 

Category: Photography

Tags to article Tags to article: Avedon, Photography, Famous photographers

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Picture 2: S+ART: Television

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Detail of orchids in a planter, from Portrait of Yinli, Prince Guo (1697-1738)

Picture 3: Drew Photo Jessica: Avedon Project

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These portraits are intended to bring a more real connection rather than posed and smiling. This is another draft of portraits to go into the final collection of my Richard Avedon segment.

Picture 4: Les Maitres de la photographie 

– Les plus grands photographes du Monde

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Louis Amstrong - Rhode Island - 1955 © 

Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon:
What amazing impression in portrait photography.  The clarity of the eyes and depth of the images.
Each image has a different pose and portrays different feelings.

Picture 1: Beauty and laughter.

Picture 2: Motherhood and absolute joy.

Picture 3: Sadness in the eyes no emotion.

Picture 4: Surprise and brilliance in reflection and mood of the
                moment.