Historical and Contemporary Photographers

Historical:

William Henry Fox Talbot was a British inventor and photography pioneer who invented the calotype process, a precursor to photographic processes of the 19th and 20th centuries. Fox Talbot went on to develop the three primary elements of photography: developing, fixing, and printing. I find Fox Talbots work to be both powerful and simple; it is the simplicity that draws me into his photographs it gives them a clean, bold, classic finish. Talbots photographs give photographers and artists today the ground on which to produce their own work. 

Irving Penn was an American photographer, specialising in fashion, portrait and still life photography. At one point Penn had taken some imagery relating with glass. The photographs I found to be the most inspirational were the photograph that use both still life (glasses, bottles) and a model. Those images show different ways of perceiving the model through different, translucent objects; showing a range of different sizes and angles in which to view the model.  

Contemporary:

Abelardo Morell is a photographer in which I have previously looked, although when given the project glass I found a few projects of Morell' that feature glass as a main subject. I found the way that Morell used light as a contributing factor in his photographs work entirely well with the main subject glass. 




Kelly Gardener's work with using glass as photograms was very inspirational as it gave me an insight as how light can travel through a translucent object in order to create a final image. I thought the that the fact Gardner used glasses with different patterns/textures/depth worked well as it gives the viewer an idea of how light from the darkroom can create interesting depth in an image.

Wen Zhang

Other Photographers:

Christopher Leedham

Laya Gerlock is a Portrait and Product photographer based in the Philippines. His passion is teaching and sharing his knowledge in Photograpy and has been doing this for 6 years.