Artist Research Week 6: Flash

Week 6 Flash

Artist 1

Juergen Teller

Juergen Teller, Keira Knightley, W, February 2013

Juergen Teller, Harry Styles, The Sunday Times, 2012

Juergen Teller, Amy Adams, W, February 2014

(Book Research From - Marchenstuberl Juergen Teller)

Teller is a German Photographer, Born in 1964. He is know for using Flash in a lot of his Photography work. Teller first gained wider recognition in 1996 with his front cover of Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazine featuring a nude Kirsten McMenamy with the word ‘Versace’ drawn in a heart across her chest.  He is now widely recognized as one of the most popular contemporary fashion photographers in spite of his "Bad Boy" reputation in the world of fashion. He has done work for Vogue, Face, and W Magazine.  Tellers photography has over the course of time increasingly resolved around such topics as the family, home, and personal origin. Tellers approach to his work is uprooting something from reality by retouching or by affected illumination.  Even in his work for magazine's such as Vogue and W, Teller avoids adapting their operatta like distortion of reality. Teller prioritizes as aesthetics of the imperfect, the moment, and the snapshot. Teller says "For me, the snapshot is one of the highest forms of capturing life, It's just the best thing. It can express everything from love to just capuring a moment" Teller studied at the Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Photographie in Munich, Germany (1984–1986). In 2003 Teller was awarded the Citibank Prize for his photography and has exhibited both nationally and Internationally. 

Top Image (Keira Knightley), I think the flash in this image is coming from the left side of the image due to the fact that it's brighter on the left side of the image than it is on the right. I also think a half moon may have been used in this image due to the fact the flash doesn't seem that bright, especially up against the harry styles image.

Middle Image (Harry Styles), I looked at the other boys Images from One Direction and they all had shadows behind them which to me shows the flash was pointed straight at them. Harry's Image doesn't have that shadowing like the others BUT I still think this image was either taken from above or from straight in front, as the lighting doesn't really get darker on either side of the image, it does a little at the bottom though which makes me think the flash could have been coming from above BUT I'm thinking it's more likely coming from straight on. No Half moon would have been used in this image.

Bottom Image (Amy Adams), I think the lighting in this image is coming from the left but a little more straight on, on the left cause her front and left side are lit up BUT you can still see shadowing on the right and up over her back which to me indicates it's not coming from above or from the right. A half moon may have been used in this image to keep the lighting from getting to bright being outside.  

Artist 2

Ernst Haas

Ernst Haas, New York City Bellet, 1960s

Ernst Haas, New York City Bellet, 1960's

Hass was an Austrian Photographer, Born in 1921. He was a Photojournalist and pioneering colour photographer in his 40yrs career. Haas started of as a medical student but the war and his own artistic nature were to overpowering. The war provided Haas with his first photographic break, an essay on the returning Austrian POW's. Homecoming was published in HEUTE, then throughout the world through magnum. He was later asked to join a newly formed cooperative picture agency. For many years Haas work with straight black and white Photography while covering the globe, BUT gradually Haas became drawn to the possibilities of colour Photography. Edward Steichen says, "Haas is a free spirit, untrammeled by tradition and theory, who has gone out and formed beauty unparalleled in Photography". Haas is acclaimed as one of the most celebrated and influential Photographers of the 20th Century. Haas has done around 70 solo exhibitions and around the same in group exhibiting both  nationally and internationally. 

In the top Image i think the lighting is coming from the right BUT there's also a light coming from behind her as well

In the bottom Image the lighting is again coming from the right side with both dancers legs being lit from the right side and the wall. 

I think both images were taken with stage lighting rather than flash BUT still interesting in seeing what direction the lighting is coming from and the images.