Sunday, October 25, 2009

source book five: emulation artists

Alvin Langdon Coburn


Coburn used a soft focus lens and liked to shoot from high vantage points. The soft focus lens allowed him to blur edges in his pictures. This soft, romantic effect in his architectural photographs led the way to Pictorialism in photography, an attempt to mimic Impressionist paintings of the time.

Werner Mantz
Mantz was a relatively unknown in the sphere of artistic photography, finding his niche shooting photographs for architectural firms. He is noted for his dramatic use of shadows in his works.

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