Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams used large format cameras to create magnificent landscapes.
This photo is classed as the photo that made him famous. To achieve this Ansel Adams had a 40-pound pack containing his camera, filters and lenses, and 12 glass plate negatives. Adams was dedicated because of him being in the mountains, he spent ages out looking for the perfect location for a single photograph. On his way to the Diving Board, Adams made several exposures, and by the time the group reached Half Dome, he had just two plates left. He considered Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California (1927) his “first really fine photograph,” a career-changing image that marked his first success. Over a decade later he would institutionalize this idea with his Zone System, a photographic technique that is still taught in schools today.
Eugene Atget
Eugene Atget used a 30 pound 8x10 view camera, and captured urban life and architecture of the city he lived in. He captures things a little of centre and he did this because he said he was 'breaking the rules'. The focus also may have been off but he didn't mind because what he was photographing was beautiful.
Julia Margret Cameron
Juliet Magaret Cameron was criticised for her uncoventional techniques, but also celebrated for her compositions and conviction that photography was an art form. Cameron was 48 when she received a camera as a gift from her daughter. She once printed one of O.G Rejlanders negatives, surrounding it with ferns to form a photogram frame around the portrait. A hybrid work that combines an image made in a camera with a camera-less technique. This showed Cameron's experimental nature.
Christopher Burkett
Beckett is one of the greatest colour printers and has been since the 1980s. He creates Cibachrome colour prints of the dimension(40x50) for his 8x10 transpairencies. His work is very mystical and very modern for the medium he uses. The colours are very bright and the photos are very sharp.
