FRIDAY, DAY OF THE FRI.

• “Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.”
  — Anonymous

THROUGH GLASS

MOSAIC

SELF DYPTYCH

HISTORY WORDS AND TERMS (ongoing)

EUG`ENE ATGET
1857-1927
French
Known for photographs of Paris streets, architecture, and people.
Long exposure times create a dreamlike sense of light in his images.
Most work was published post death.

ALFRED STIEGLITZ

1864-1946

US

Important figure in promoting photography as a viable medium

Publisher, patron, collected, gallery owner, promoter

Married to the painter Georgia O'Keeffe

"I have always been a great believer in today. Most people live either in the past or in the future, so that they really never live at all. So many people are busy worrying about the future of art or society, they have no time to preserve what is. Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.

EDWARD STEICHEN

Life years:1879-1973
Nationality:Luxembourgish American
A quote: "No photographer is as good as the simplest camera."
Four noteworthy 'things' about him:
1. Painter
2. Museum Curator
3.  First president of the Milwaukee Art Student's League
4.  In WWI he was in command of all aerial photography of the American Expeditionary Force
5.  Had 3 spouses over the course of his life

Three images that are considered a few of his most important/best: