Harold
Edgerton
Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton (April 6, 1903 –
January 4, 1990) was a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. He is largely credited with transforming the
stroboscope from an obscure laboratory instrument into a common device. Edgerton
was a pioneer in using short duration electronic flash in photographing fast
events photography, subsequently using the technique to capture images of
balloons at different stages of their bursting, a bullet during its impact with
an apple, or using multiflash to track the motion of a devil stick, for
example.
I really like Edgerton's technique and style because it aids discovery about how the world works and science. It feels like his own niche, to record how things move in slow motion, which is something no one in mankind can do with their own eyes alone. It's uncomplicated, fascinating and leaves you in awe about things that we would miss in the blink of an eye.
Yousuf Karsh
Yousuf Karsh (December 23, 1908 – July 13, 2002) was an Armenian-Canadian and one of the most famous and accomplished portrait photographers of all time. He was a master of studio lighting and aimed to bring out his subject's personality in his photographs, photographing the greatest people of the 20th century.
I like his style because he succeeds in his aim of bringing out something about his subject even in just one photograph, especially in the case of his famous portrait of Winston Churchill, for example. He captures how defiant he is in the time of war, reflecting Great Britain itself.
Peter Menzel (born 7 Feb 1948) is an American freelance photographer, best known for his work covering technological and scientific subjects.
These three photographs are from his book Hungry Planet, a book that uses his photography and essays to demonstrate many weekly diets of families around the world, and how much they spend on their food in US dollars.
I like his work because it is factual, and interesting to see what people from other countries eat in a week, and his pictures have this composition to them that makes it easy to compare them and to understand them.
I like his style because he succeeds in his aim of bringing out something about his subject even in just one photograph, especially in the case of his famous portrait of Winston Churchill, for example. He captures how defiant he is in the time of war, reflecting Great Britain itself.
Peter Menzel
These three photographs are from his book Hungry Planet, a book that uses his photography and essays to demonstrate many weekly diets of families around the world, and how much they spend on their food in US dollars.
I like his work because it is factual, and interesting to see what people from other countries eat in a week, and his pictures have this composition to them that makes it easy to compare them and to understand them.
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