This post was inspired by photographer J.J. Bentley, who posts regularly to Google+.
JJ's work reminds me of that by Dorothea Lange, Robert Frank, and Elliott Erwitt. Many of Dorothea's most memorable photos come from work done during the Depression. Robert Frank traveled across America taking photos; his major work, a book titled The Americans, is said to have redefined photography and documented "the tensions between the optimism of the 1950s and the realities of class and racial differences. (Wikipedia, Robert Frank article) " Elliot Erwitt is one of my favorite photographers included in the exhibit, "The Family of Man" (which is also available in book form). This exhibit was shown worldwide and drew crowds wherever it was shown according to MoMA's blog, Inside/Out. Here is an Erwitt photo from The Family of Man exhibit that is featured in an article in the New York Times blog Lens:
All of these photographers work in a field called documentary photography.
JJ's work is augmented with interviews of his subjects and comments on what he sees. He has a website that's pretty cryptic; but his posts to Google+ are far more illuminating:
The Worthy Xavier:
The Unguarded:
Leave It on the Ground:
To me it's the substance of documentary photography that makes it beautiful.
-- Marge
JJ's work reminds me of that by Dorothea Lange, Robert Frank, and Elliott Erwitt. Many of Dorothea's most memorable photos come from work done during the Depression. Robert Frank traveled across America taking photos; his major work, a book titled The Americans, is said to have redefined photography and documented "the tensions between the optimism of the 1950s and the realities of class and racial differences. (Wikipedia, Robert Frank article) " Elliot Erwitt is one of my favorite photographers included in the exhibit, "The Family of Man" (which is also available in book form). This exhibit was shown worldwide and drew crowds wherever it was shown according to MoMA's blog, Inside/Out. Here is an Erwitt photo from The Family of Man exhibit that is featured in an article in the New York Times blog Lens:
All of these photographers work in a field called documentary photography.
JJ's work is augmented with interviews of his subjects and comments on what he sees. He has a website that's pretty cryptic; but his posts to Google+ are far more illuminating:
The Worthy Xavier:
The Unguarded:
Leave It on the Ground:
To me it's the substance of documentary photography that makes it beautiful.
-- Marge
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