Dorthea Lange

Dorthea Lange was born May 26 1985 in Hoboken New Jersey. She experienced two tragedies in her early life. At the age of 7 Dorthea contracted polio and at the age of 12 her father abandoned her family. As a result She took on her mother's maiden name, Lange.
Lange studied in New York in a class taught by Clarence White. She also apprenticed with Arnold Genthe. With the on set of the depression Dorthea to her camera to the streets. Between 1935-1938 Dorthea worked for the RA and FSA, photographing the poor, migrant workers, and share croppers. Bringing national attention of the reality of the great depression. Her most famously noted work being the "Migrant Mother".

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/lange/index.html

Georfe Steinmetz

george steinmetz Born in Beverly Hills in 1957, George graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Geophysics. He began his career in photography after hitchhiking through Africa for 28 months. His current passion is photographing the world's deserts. Most of the aerial photos you see of his were taken from the seat of the lightest powered aircraft in the world, a motorized paraglider aircraft. This enables him to capture unique images of the world. George lives in Glen Ridge, New Jersey.

( sorry I can't get the images to stay on post)

http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&rls=ig&tbs=isch:1&&sa=X&ei=MCGlTMHfCqCNnAfP0NWPAQ&ved=0CCUQBSgA&q=ge

Annie Leibovitz

Annie Leibovitz was born in 1949 in Waterbury, conneticut. She went to california to learn painting but changed to Photography her junior year after a trip to Japan. Her first job was given to her by the founder of Rolling Stone. Her first photo assignment was of John Lennon which graced the cover of the January 21, 1971 cover. Since then she has specialized in portraits and she has become known for evocative, spell binding, and controversial photos of celebrities and normal people alike. She was also named a living legend by congress and a Commandeur de Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the french government.

unfortunately she doesn't have an offical website. So this is the closest i could get:

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/leibovitz_annie.html

Ansel Adams

Born in San Francisco in 1902. Best known for his landscape photographs , Adams was an official photographer for the Sierra Club. In 1932 he was in the group f64, The name f64 is the smallest aperture setting on the camera's lens. Photos taken on this setting have the greatest depth of field , every object in the picture is in focus. Adams developed exposure and development control called the "zone system," . In 1935 he published his first book on how to master photographic technique. Later he punlished many more books. Adams died in 1984. In 2002, John Szarkowski put together a traveling exhibit of Adams's work commemorating the 100th Anniversary of his birth. In 1985, a year after Adams's death, an 11,760 foot mountain in Yosemite National Park was named Mt. Ansel Adams.

(sorry I’ve tried to post pics but I can’t get them to stay.)

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/adams/

Man Ray

Man Ray was born as Emmanuel Radintsky. He began as an artist but fell in love with the camera when he first started using it to document his artwork. He was considered a Dadist but his fellow dadists didn't see him as a true dadist. He focused his photography work in photograms and portraits. He also was a pioneer in the discovery and creation of photo special effects.

He specialized in pictographs, which he called rayographs, that was done by exposing photo paper to light while being covered by objects. This creates shadow pictures in reverse where the silhouette is white or shades of grey and all else is black. His portraits usually focused on one of two things, the female figure and celebrities in the literary and art world.

www.manraytrust.com

Troy Williams

Troy Williams born and raised in Brooking, South Dakota. He graduated from Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2002. He is the recipient of a 2003/04 MCAD/Jerome Fellowship. His first solo show opened in 2006 at MUDIMAdrie in Antwerp, Belgium.

His series is called I Want to Know What Love Is, I Want You to Show Me. His series showed above is influenced by adolescence. His images make references to tv shows in the '70s and '80s with expressions of teenage romance. His images also proclaim that adolescence is powerful. The illusions of heroics and romance are shown through out his work.

http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/williams_troy.php

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Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams was an American photographer born February 20, 1902. He was known for his black and white images of western landscapes. Ansel liked using a large format camera because of it producing high resolution images. He had considered being a musician. He had taught himself how to use the piano at the age of 12. Along with a few few other well known photographers, Ansel formed the elite f/64 club. The members preferred straight photography of pictorialism, which was the popular thing of the time. Ansel Adams passed away in April of 1984.
http://www.anseladams.com/

Slide Film

Well,
I have good news and I have bad news...
The bad news is that I called Calumet and they do not have enough film in stock for everyone (2 rolls of each).
The good news is that PJ's Camera in Glynn Ellyn has plenty of slide film.
BUT, they charge a little more than calumet.

Keep in mind that PJ says they give a 10% student discount and Calumet gives no discount on film or paper, so Its about $1 more per roll after the discount.

SEE the attached fuji film chart for some guidelines of what type of film is best for your particular subject/color reproduction/grain needs. I suggest Provia 400 for its fine grain faster speed and gentle boost in color saturation.
I wrote PJ's price on the attached sheet for each film.


I have you all listed as following:
Katie D - 2 rolls of 400 speed Provia
Jen D - 2 rolls 400 speed Provia
Erin S - 2 rolls 100 speed Provia
Jake A - 2 rolls of 400 speed Provia
Missy - 2 rolls of 400 speed Provia
Doug 3 rolls of 100 speed Provia

THEY ARE OUT OF STOCK OF PROVIA 100

ERIN and DOUG
- Are you a portrait type of person? - I would recommend Astia 100
- Landscapes? - I would try Velvia 100
- Maybe you like a lot of saturation and all sorts of subjects? - try Velvia 100 F


I plan to go to PJ's Sunday morning to get all this. If I don't hear from the 100 speed shooters I will get you the Velvia 100 F instead.

If you want to switch to a different type of film or get it yourself let me know TODAY (saturday).
If I don't hear from you I will get you want what is listed above.
Best,
Nate

Robert Mapplethorpe

Born in 1946 in Floral Park, Queens. Robert studied art painting,sculpture and drawing at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn New York. He started out using a Polaroid and than moving on to a medium format camera. Mapplethorpe photographed friends and acquaintances and did some commercial work. He enjoyed photographing flowers, beautiful nudes. Some of his work was homo erotic that caused controversy. He died of AIDS in 1989.
http://www.mapplethorpe.org/biography/

Larry Sultan

Larry Sultan was born in New York in 1946. He got his BA in political science from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1968. And went on to get his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1973.
His main project was a series of photographs he called Pictures From Home. He worked on them for nearly a decade. He wanted to show the true going ons in suburbia, not all of the susie home-maker stuff. So he documented his mother and father's daily lives as well as their relationship, all their fights, stern words, and all their happy moments as well.
I like his work because it is raw, not posed for or prepared for, it is in the moment.

Sally Mann

Born in Lexington Virginia in 1951, Sally Mann is best known for taking portraits of her young children. In her early career Sally worked as a staff photographer at Washington and Lee Universities. She studied at several schools such as Putney, Bennington and Friends World College and a B.A. at Hollins University. Sally Mann used a 100-year old 8 x 10 bellows view camera to photograph her work. There was much controversy about her series on her children stating it was on the border of being child pornography. She photographed many natural aspects of her childrens innocence and play. I feel i can relate to her images since they remind me of my childhood.
http://www.strotherfineart.com/gallery/sally_mann/

Buddy Scalera

Buddy Scalera is an avid comic book fan. He was an amateur photographer until 10 years ago, when he figured out that comic book artists were in deep need of references for their work. So he made three cd-roms called "Photographic Reference for comic book artists." This led him to a book deal with Impact publishing which came up with three volumes: Men and Boys, Women and Girls, finally People and Poses. Many highly paid Comic Artists use his photos to draw their comics. He is also my Enabler when it comes to comic books. To see more or buy his books, go to www.buddyscalera.com

Loretta Lux

Loretta Lux is a German-born photographer who is known for pictures in a surreal form of children.

She's currently living in Monaco.

She graduated in the 1990s from the Academy of Visual Arts in Munich. Her work has been featured in several shows across the U.S and abroad. Some of her portfolio has been featured in magazines. She makes her work by using digital photography as well as painting.

http://www.lorettalux.de/

Joel Peter Witkin

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Oscar Palacio

Oscar Palacio was born in Medellin, Colombia. He acquired his BA in Architecture from the University of Miami, Florida and also acquired his MFA in photography from Massachusetts College of Art.
He currently has two art exhibits called History Re-visited and Unfamiliar Territory
http://www.oscarpalacio.net/index.html

Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison

The husband and wife team of Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison (b. 1968 & 1964) creatively use fabricated landscapes in their photography work to challenge the viewer to think about the human impact on the environment. Their work is recognized worldwide through 18 solo exhibitions, 30 group shows and a published book 'The Architect's Brother' which was named one of the 'Ten Best Photography Books' 2000' by the New York Times.

http://photography-now.net/robert_and_shana_parkeharrison/portfolio1.html