Medhavi's Photography Blog

                                                       Herb Ritts was a famous photographer known for his nude and celebrity portraits work in Vogue and other iconic magazines. He was prominent in the late 70s and died in 2002. I would say that his work was very aesthetic and dramatic. The way his subjects posed had a great impact on his style of photography. In the second picture above, we can see the model being awkwardly contortioned to a giant metal chain. But the awkward pose gives off such strong emotions like the feeling of wanted to break through, or trying hard and just pain (and pleasure maybe) in general. I really like how he plays with the different shades and shadow and light to make an unconventional picture. I would qualify him as a post modern artist in his time but using the ideas of the Greek sculptures position. He was also very p...

Poached Eggs and Salt, 2001   Irvin Penn was born in the early 1920s in New Jersey. He was exposed to modern art and design during his time at Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art. Shortly after World War II, he was hired by Vogue to be the associate art director because he was already known in the industry for his still life and portrait pictures. He was also a painter but he was not satisfied of his works and decided to have a full life career being a photograph instead where he could capture life in his lens perspective. I find that he is a very interesting artist because even by being a travel photographer where he would capture sceneries and portraits of different persons, he would make very dynamic and textured still life projects. In the Poached Eggs and Salt piece, I really like how he arranged the different colors of salt and how he meticulously arranged the egg one over the other. He captures the moment in time but the picture does not lose its liveliness of the s...