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Anne McDonald is an American photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. McDonald started her artistry at the age of 15 by making portraits of herself up until she was 30. With her self-portraits she would build up installations and perform privately in front of a camera. Many of her installations were made in abandoned places and personally I think this speaks to her creativity. Art can be placed anywhere and being that these places were abandoned, I believe it adds to the meaning of the works she's produced over time and shows that although these places don't fit the aesthetic of what we think art is, it adds to the meaning of what her self-portraits stand for. With images she produced over time, McDonald was able to publish a book of it in 2004. Many of her images were produced using a Diana camera. Staying within analog photography, she expanded her horizon and started experimenting with chemicals and photo paper. With the work she's made over the years, she's been a ...

 Richard Avedon is an American photographer best known for his works with Vogue, Elle, and Harper's Bazaar. His work deals with capturing movement in a still image. He takes a lot of these pictures in fashion, theater, and dance. These are places and events that requires movement. The motion of the body, the clothes, the environment is what makes these pieces what it is and Avedon being able to capture each moment in a single shot is amazing.  Avedon started his career in the 1940s as an advertising photographer. Through networking with Lillian Bassman, he was endorsed and started working at Harper's and later on became chief photographer. Avedon said "My photographs don't go below the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues." This quote alone to me encompasses the work produced by Avedon and how we also perceive these works. Photos in general are meant to capture the exact moment from when the aperture opens to when it closes. Photos ...

 Hiroshi Sugimoto is a Japanese photographer and architect , born in 1948 in Tokyo, Japan, and spends his time between New York City and Tokyo. Sugimoto started his craft in the 70s and sense made a huge name for himself within the industry and beyond.  Sugimoto describes his work as an expression of "time exposed". I think he says this because photography captures a moment in time, and once it is gone, all that remains is that image. All that we see left behind is a trace of time that we once had. To me, this is a great way to view the medium of photography. We capture the moments that we tend to forget or would like to be reminded of. We capture moments that provoked emotion and response yet induces memories of a moment that was forgotten and has now been brought into the forefront of our mind. Specifically for Sugimoto, many of his famous works has to do with exposure and having the camera sitting for a while to capture every detail within the time it is set up for. Images...