Practical Brief - Initial Research

For the practical side of our Context of Practice brief, we were assigned to investigate into photographer's style. We were then told to choose 4 photographers from a list, 2 historical and 2 contemporary and then try to capture a photograph using their individual styles and techniques.
I decided to for my contemporary photographers to use Rinko Kawauchi and Daido Moriyama. And for my historical photographers I decided on Alexander Rodchenko and Eugene Atget.
Here are some examples of their work that demonstrate their photographic style and techniques:

Rinko Kawauchi - 

Rinko Kawauchi uses a very muted colour pallet for her photography work, often focusing on her favourite colour blue. She uses 6x6 colour film, and is really interested in capturing life and death often through nature. I really like the calm and un-cluttered effect of her photographs, and think that each one is individual and aesthetically pleasing.


Daido Moriyama - 

Daido Moriyama uses 35mm black and white film usually with an extremely high contrast and under exposes his photographs. He usually just snaps and goes, not really planning out the composition of a photograph before taking it. He sometimes captures movement in the subjects of his photography, and often just goes about photographing street.


Alexander Rodchenko - 

One of Rodchenko's main traits in almost all his photographs is his peculiar use of strange angles. It is because of this that his photographs are all so different to similar ones from this time. I think that the angles really enhance the photographs and make them stand out. 


Eugene Atget - 

Eugene Atget often used 35mm film, and either black and white or sepia colouring, and the subjects of his photographs were usually either buildings or objects in the street, rarely if ever portraits. I really like his work and hope I can recreate his style accordingly.