Julia Margaret Cameron is by far my greatest inspiration. She got her first camera when she was almost 50 and spent the rest of her life obsessed with photography. She used wet plate (colloidon) process to develop her images. I'm fascinated by her subtle religious themes & symbolism. Her portraiture is so smooth and visceral but at the same time can be very guttural and bottomless. She photographed quite a few famous historical figures such as Charles Darwin, Robert Browning, and Lord Tennyson.
Francesca Woodman blows my mind into a separate reality. I look up to her immensely. She produced such shattering great work in her short career as a photographer as she died at the age of twenty two. She distorts the female nude in such an enticingly odd way, whilst using light and a backdrop of abandoned or empty rooms to create an obvious portrait of the phantasms of her mind. I firmly urge everyone in the class to view her talented work.
Misha de Ridder is a photographer I found off the photographic internet gallery called tinyvices.com. He is an excellent photographer who focuses mainly on the natural world but not in an obvious way at all. He selects the estranged parts of landscape and nature while containing the light for a shadow or glimpse, rather than to boast with contrast. I really appreciate his work because he takes landscape photography and morphs it into what he wants us to see, which is really what we should all be working towards.
I disagree with the idea that Misha de Ridder's photograph is a well thought representation of landscape photography because though the concept might be there, the execution is not. I feel as if it was haphazard, and that there isn't much visual interest. There is texture within the peace, but no place in which there is something to draw the eye.
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